Ramsay moves into DP World Tour rankings top 20 after win
Richie Ramsay delivered on a daddy-daughter promise to win the Cazoo Classic and surge into the top 20 of the DP World Tour Rankings in partnership with Rolex.
The 39-year-old Scotsman ended a seven-year title drought with a clutch 12-foot par put to snare the €1.75 million Cazoo Classic by a stroke from hometown favourite Paul Waring at Hillside Golf Club on Sunday.
A fourth DP World Tour title earned Ramsay 460 DP World Tour Rankings points which saw the 2006 U.S. Amateur champion rise 37th spots into 20th position in the season Rankings, comfortably inside the top 50 who earn starts in the DP World Tour Championship at Jumeirah Golf Estates in November.
When Ramsay’s put on Hillside’s 18th green disappeared beneath ground, he celebrated with a series of fist-pumps.
“The biggest thing for me was I made a promise to my daughter and I don’t break promises to her,” said Ramsay who signed for a closing 69 to finish 14 under par to Waring’s 70 for 13 under.
“Obviously I got a bit emotional there at the end. But I haven’t won since my daughter was born and that’s six years. That one’s for Olivia. Hopefully she’s watching.
“I’ve got the US Amateur trophy and the Omega European Masters in the living room and she likes those trophies. I said I would get her a trophy and this one’s for her.”
Waring’s runner-up finish saw the Englishman move up 88 places to 63rd and now on the cusp of a place in the field at Jumeirah Golf Estates. Swede Marcus Kinhult, who finished tied third, is now inside the top 100, up 22 places to 86th, while Dutchman Daan Huizing has made what is
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potentially an even more significant jump ater also sharing of third place at the 12 under par.
Huizing is up 36th spots to 122nd - one place inside the provisional cut for retention of DP World Tour membership for 2023.
Denmark’s Thorbjorn Olesen moved up two places in the Rankings from 19th to 17th on the back of his tied 11th place finish while also making eye-catching moves were Englishman Callum Shinkwin and Scotland’s Grant Forrest, up to 100th and 116th respectively on the back of tied 16th and tied third placings in Southport.
The DP World Tour rolls on to the €1.75 million Hero Open at the Fairmont St Andrews this week ahead of the Cazoo Open supported by Gareth Bale at Celtic Manor from Aug.4-7.
The DP World Tour is the main men’s professional golf Tour of the European Tour group, with a global schedule featuring a minimum of 44 tournaments in 25 different countries across the 2022 season.
Formerly known as the European Tour, which was established in 1972, the 2022 DP World Tour schedule includes five Rolex Series events, along with four Major Championships, two World Golf Championship events and three tournaments co-sanctioned with the PGA TOUR, as well as tournaments staged around the world with a minimum prize of $2million for all events solely sanctioned by the DP World Tour.
The season concludes with the final Rolex Series event, the DP World Tour Championship, Dubai, where the winner of the Tour’s seasonlong competition, the DP World Tour Rankings, will be crowned.
Meanwhile, the field is now set for the 2022 Trust golf Women’s Scotish Open with this year’s 144-woman field featuring 8 out of the world’s top 10 along with 22 major winners ready to batle it out on the links next week July 28-31, at Dundonald Links.
In the strongest line up to date, 30 countries are represented in the field, 45 LPGA winners with a haul of 194 titles and 28 Solheim Cup players with 74 appearances between them, and three past champions as Ryann O’toole returns to Scotland to defend her first LPGA title.
The aforementioned 22 major winners boast a total of 39 major championships, including winner of this season’s most recent major, The Amundi Evian Championship Brooke Henderson.
Joining Henderson in the field at Dundonald Links is 2016 KPMG Women’s PGA Championship winner Brooke Henderson; three-time major winner Anna Nordqvist; world no.8 and winner of the 2014 Evian Championship Hyo Joo Kim; Hannah Green, winner of the 2019 KPMG Women’s PGA Championship; and winner of the 2021 Chevron Championship Paty Tavatanakit.
There are 22 Brits in the field this week at Dundonald Links and among the home hopes are major champion Georgia Hall and Solheim Cup star Charley Hull. With both girls having been key players in the Trust golf Women’s Scotish Open in previous years, they are looking forward to taking on the challenge of one of Scotland’s leading links courses next week.
Hall commented: “I am really looking forward to playing in the Trust golf Women’s Scotish Open next week.”