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SI World Golf Rankings: All Hail Hovland, King of the FedEx
Viktor Hovland picked a good month to have a really good month.
The 25-year-old Norwegian stormed to the Tour Championship title at East Lake, quickly erasing an opening-round two-shot deficit to season points-leader Scottie Scheffler and cruising Sunday to a 5-shot victory over Xander Schauffele. And as they say, to the Viktor goes the spoils: Hovland bagged the PGA Tour’s biggest cash prize: $18 million.
Hovland closed the gap on No. 3 Jon Rahm in this week’s Sports Illustrated World Golf Rankings, our proprietary, data-driven list of the top 100 men’s golfers in the world. But he remains No. 4—for now. As a reminder, here’s how we run our numbers.
Hovland has already locked up a spot on the European Ryder Cup roster, but both U.S. captain Zach Johnson and European captain Luke Donald will soon make six at-large selections to fill out their teams. Johnson’s picks are coming Tuesday morning, and if you’re curious how the SIWGR would advise Johnson to make his six picks, we ran those numbers.
Here’s a closer look at the risers and fallers in this week’s Sports Illustrated World Golf Rankings following the Tour Championship.