Tiger Woods has slumped to his worst World Ranking since 1997 after falling to No. 12 with the release today of the update rankings.
Tiger Woods continues his fall down the World Rankings and now down to No. 12.
Woods went to No. 1 shortly after winning the 1997 Masters that was the first of his 14 Major Championship victories.
When Woods captured the 2008 U.S. Open, and his 14th Major, his world ranking was an all time high of 21.5 points.
In fact, the gap between Woods and then World No. 2, Phil Mickelson was more than the difference between Mickelson and the player ranked 1,000th in the world.
Woods awoke today to find himself with a ranking of 5.03 points.
The crestfallen American is without a win since capturing the 2009 Australian Masters in Melbourne and in his last event, the Players Championship in Florida, he pulled out after just nine holes with an Achilles problem.
England’s Lee Westwood held onto the World No. 1 title when compatriot Luke Donald lost to Ian Poulter in the final of the Volvo World Match-Play Championship in Spain.
Overall, Europeans continue to dominate the world rankings and holding six of the top-10 positions.
Ian Poulter jumped eight places to 14 after capturing the Volvo World Match-Play Championship in Spain.
Northern Ireland’s Michael Hoey made the biggest jump from 374th to 220th in capturing the Maderia Islands Open and his second European Tour, as well as the second in Portugual.
However Padraig Harrington continues an alarm slide dropping from 43rd to 48th and in danger of falling outside of the top-50 for a long time.
The top-10 on the World Rankings as at May 23rd, 2011 are:-
No. 1 – Lee Westwood (Eng) – 8.08 points
No. 2 – Luke Donald (Eng) 8.03
No. 3 – Martin Kaymer (Ger) – 7.49
No. 4 – Phil Mickelson (US) – 6.3
No. 5 – Graeme McDowell (NIR) – 5.71
No. 6 – Rory McIlroy (NIR) – 5.46
No. 7 – Charl Schwartzel (RSA) – 5.16
No. 8 – Steve Stricker (US) – 5.15
No. 9 – Paul Casey (Eng) – 5.13
No. 10 – Matt Kuchar (US) – 5.10
