IRELAND’S Shane Lowry has surged up the Official World Golf Rankings.
The Offaly ace finished second to Rory McIlroy at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am ‘Signature’ tournament on Sunday evening.
The Clara star pocketed a cool $2,160,000 for his runner-up position behind Ryder Cup pal McIlroy.
Signature events offer a massive $20m purse, along with huge FedEx Cup and OWGR points.
Holywood hotshot McIlroy finished on a total of -21, two strokes clear of Lowry in second place, taking home a whopping $3.4m.
Lowry, whose best-ever world ranking came after he won the 2019 Open Championship, surged to number 16 that year.
Going into last week’s event in California at the iconic Pebble Beach, he was ranked number 28, but now he’s jumped ten places to 18 in the official world rankings.
He’s also leapt up to ninth on the FedEx Cup ladder after missing the cut two weeks ago at the Farmers Insurance Open.
He also gained vital Ryder Cup points as he shot up to fourth on the European qualifying table.
McIlroy leads the way ahead of Tyrrell Hatton, Rasmus Højgaard, and Shane Lowry.
The iconic team event gets underway in September at Bethpage Black GC in New York.
Rory McIlroy remains in third place in the world rankings but is hot on the heels of Xander Schauffele after his first PGA Tour win of the season.
Scottie Scheffler remains way out in front at the top of the rankings.
And, like McIlroy, the event was the American’s first PGA Tour start of the 2025 season.
The two-time major winner returned after a cooking accident that left him requiring surgery.
Scheffler finished T9 at the event, six shots behind McIlroy’s winning score.
The PGA Tour heads to Phoenix this week for the WM Open.
