Weekley at career high in world rankings

American Boo Weekley is up to a career-high 23rd in the world after his successful defence of the Verizon Heritage tournament on the US Tour.

Ireland’s Damien McGrane is now 148th after his maiden European Tour victory - by a massive nine strokes – at the Volvo China Open.

Latest leading positions:

1 Tiger Woods 22.02pts, 2 Phil Mickelson 9.63, 3 Ernie Els 6.14, 4 Steve Stricker 5.98, 5 Geoff Ogilvy 5.73, 6 Jim Furyk 5.61, 7 KJ Choi 5.59, 8 Vijay Singh 5.55, 9 Justin Rose 5.37, 10 Adam Scott 5.35

11 Padraig Harrington 5.25, 12 Rory Sabbatini 5.13, 13 Henrik Stenson 4.93, 14 Stewart Cink 4.87, 15 Trevor Immelman 4.61, 16 Aaron Baddeley 3.98, 17 Sergio Garcia 3.98, 18 Luke Donald 3.97, 19 Angel Cabrera 3.81, 20 Lee Westwood 3.71

Other leading Europeans:

24 Niclas Fasth, 26 Ian Poulter, 31 Martin Kaymer, 34 Paul Casey, 41 Miguel Angel Jimenez, 48 Robert Karlsson, 49 Soren Hansen, 50 Nick Dougherty, 57 Anders Hansen, 59 Graeme McDowell, 69 Daniel Chopra, 72 Colin Montgomerie, 74 Soren Kjeldsen, 75 Bradley Dredge, 77 Peter Hanson, 80 Fredrik Jacobson, 82 Simon Dyson, 86 Carl Pettersen, 89 Alastair Forsyth, 91 Steve Webster, 92 Peter Hedblom, 94 Ross Fisher, 99 Oliver Wilson