Top 70 - August 2011
by hound dog on Aug 3, 2011 3:00 PM PDT
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PrintThe majors of 2011 are now behind us and with a two-week respite coming up, it's time to update the Top 70. These rankings are 65% based on 2011 with 35% based on 2010's statistics. As usual, the third column is the player's previous ranking, rookies are in bold and non-members are in italics. Notes follow the jump.
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 |
Yani Tseng Cristie Kerr Suzann Pettersen In-Kyung Kim Jiyai Shin Na Yeon Choi Ai Miyazato Karrie Webb Stacy Lewis Paula Creamer |
1 2 5 6 3 4 9 7 12 8 |
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11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 |
Angela Stanford Brittany Lincicome Morgan Pressel Amy Yang Inbee Park Maria Hjorth Michelle Wie Mika Miyazato Sun Young Yoo Catriona Matthew |
15 10 13 14 17 18 11 22 19 23 |
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21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 |
Anna Nordqvist Hee Kyung Seo Song-Hee Kim So Yeon Ryu Meena Lee Shanshan Feng Se Ri Pak Sandra Gal Katherine Hull Brittany Lang |
20 26 16 NR 28 24 27 30 21 34 |
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31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 |
Mindy Kim Karen Stupples Juli Inkster Sophie Gustafson Jimin Kang Candie Kung Azahara Munoz Eun-Hee Ji Beatriz Recari Katie Futcher |
31 36 25 47 29 53 44 51 32 40 |
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41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 |
Karine Icher Stacy Prammanasudh Momoko Ueda Hee Young Park Chella Choi Natalie Gulbis Pornanong Phatlum Kristy McPherson Ryann O'Toole Paige Mackenzie |
33 38 42 45 60 48 57 39 NR NR |
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51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 |
Amy Hung Vicky Hurst Cindy LaCrosse Mina Harigae Lexi Thompson M.J. Hur Heather Bowie Young Christina Kim Jennifer Johnson Caroline Hedwall |
49 52 64 50 37 43 56 41 NR NR |
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61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 |
Marcy Hart Jee Young Lee Seon Hwa Lee Wendy Ward Pat Hurst Sarah Jane Smith Kyeong Bae Lorie Kane Michele Redman Lindsey Wright |
68 35 46 59 NR 55 58 NR 65 61 |
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NR NR NR NR NR NR NR |
Jeong Jang Alena Sharp Shi Hyun Ahn Amanda Blumenherst Stephanie Louden Jane Park Meaghan Francella |
54 62 63 66 67 69 70 |
Yesterday I wrote that Yani Tseng is a virtual lock for the Player of the Year Award. Using my system and looking at only the numbers for 2011, she has a 48-point lead on Stacy Lewis. The only way Lewis could catch Tseng would be for 1) Stacy to win at least four times over the final 11 events and 2) Yani would need to miss a few cuts and have her scoring average and Top 10 percentage suffer accordingly. Obviously, that's a rather tall order.
So Yeon Ryu jumps into the Top 25 thanks to her U.S. Open win but the ranking is also bolstered by her having made two other LPGA starts this year (HSBC and Evian) with reasonable success. With no missed cuts and over $600,000 in earnings (which would be Top 10 on the money list if she were a member), Ryu's ranking seems justified.
Three more rookies join Hee Kyung Seo on this month's list. Ryann O'Toole's ninth-place finish at the U.S. Open coupled with only one MC in six starts earns a spot in the Top 50. Jennifer Johnson makes the Top 60 despite missing her first cut of the year at Carnoustie and Caroline Hedwall does the same with her T12 and T30 finishes the last two weeks.
Three players who played with such promise during the mid ‘00s continue to falter. Christina Kim has missed four cuts in her last six starts and has fallen out of the Top 50. Jee Young Lee missed her fifth in a row at the WBO and her eighth of the season. Seon Hwa Lee (the 2006 Rookie of the Year) missed her fourth straight and sixth in her last ten starts. All three could be gone the next time I rank the Top 70.
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