Top 70 - March 2010

I wasn't going to post new rankings after only two events but the other ideas I've been working on during this long Tour dry spell haven't panned out.  There aren't any drastic changes (although there's a new #1) but what changes there are will give you an idea of how each player's season has started.  The numbers in the third column are the players' final 2009 rankings, and notes on the new rankings follow the jump.

Jiyai Shin retakes the #1 spot (she held it back in September) mainly because Lorena Ochoa doesn't have a Top 10 through two starts, one of them a T38.  If you wonder why Ai Miyazato didn't move up like she did in the Rolex Rankings, 1) she was already #3 on my chart and 2) she had a significant gap to close on the top two.  Now that each of them has three wins over the last 13 months, it's up to Shin and Ochoa to respond before last year's accomplishments fade from my formula.

Song-Hee Kim is the lone new member of the Top 10.  A T6 and T3 is what got her there.  Other significant mover-uppers are Momoko Ueda (T6 and T15 push her up to #25), Amy Yang (a 10th and a T24 are good enough to enter the Top 30) and Eunjung Yi (T32 and T21 boosts a player who ranked in the 50s).

Stacy Prammanasudh got a sponsor's exemption at Thailand and barely made the field for HSBC but she took full advantage by finishing T18 and T21, moving her back into the rankings.  Her money earned in Thailand doesn't count officially (and is reflected in that part of my system) but her good overall scoring average and the money earned in Singapore was enough to boost her over a lot of idle players.  Not the fairest of situations but nobody ever said these things are completely fair.