In the third World Golf Championship event of 2003, World Number One Tiger Woods finished on 6 under par to win the American Express Championship at the Capital City Club in Woodstock, Georgia. The victory is Woods’ 52nd worldwide and his seventh in 13 World Golf Championship starts since the series began in 1999 and the $1,050,000 he earns this week means he is now atop of the US PGA TOUR money list. Despite six International victories in 2003, Ernie Els is still 7.18 points behind Tiger Woods at the summit of the Official World Golf Ranking.
In the third World Golf Championship event of 2003, World Number One Tiger Woods finished on 6 under par to win the American Express Championship at the Capital City Club in Woodstock, Georgia. The victory is Woods’ 52nd worldwide and his seventh in 13 World Golf Championship starts since the series began in 1999 and the $1,050,000 he earns this week means he is now atop of the US PGA TOUR money list. Despite six International victories in 2003, Ernie Els is still 7.18 points behind Tiger Woods at the summit of the Official World Golf Ranking.
Stuart Appleby, Tim Herron and Vijay Singh were all runners-up this week. Stuart improves 17 positions on the World Ranking to No.20, Tim rises 23 spots and moves into the World Top-50 at No.43 while Vijay Singh remains in the World No.3 position but is now only 0.62 points behind Ernie Els at World No.2.
John Huston collected his seventh PGA Tour victory this week as he won the Southern Farm Bureau Classic at the Annandale Golf Club in Madison, Mississippi. John climbs 15 positions to No.55 in the world. Runner-up Brenden Pappas moves up to World No.184 and is now the 9th highest-ranked African player on the Official World Golf Ranking.
In this weeks other tournaments, Scott Gutschewski won the Monterey Peninsula Classic on the US Nationwide Tour and Scott improves to No. 496 in the world. On the European Challenge Tour, Scott Drummond won the Open de Toulouse in France and is now World No. 319.
