It wasn’t the best performance by a South African in the RBC Heritage at the weekend, but Garrick Higgo’s share of 48^th on the PGA Tour arrested a slide down the Official World Golf Ranking as he climbed 19 places to 197^th.

Higgo had been on the slide for some time, but a solid closing round changed that, and he climbed back inside the world’s top 200, and back towards his career-high mark of 38^th.

Christiaan Bezuidenhout was the best player in that tournament, with a superb closing round of seven-under-par 64 lifting him inside the top 20 in a share of 19^th. That saw him consolidate his position as South Africa’s top-ranked golfer, as he climbed two places to 72^nd.

Zander Lombard was the only other of the top 20 South Africans on the list to climb, as a technical adjustment saw him climb one place despite not being in action last week.

For the rest, it was all unchanged or slightly down

South Africa’s top 20:

1. Christiaan Bezuidenhout 72 (up 2)
2. Dean Burmester 85 (down 3)
3. Thriston Lawrence 90 (down 1)
4. Oliver Bekker 121 (down 4)
5. Erik van Rooyen 127 (down 4)
6. Louis Oosthuizen 136 (down 9)
7. Ockie Strydom 140 (down 1)
8. MJ Daffue 147 (unchanged)
9. Hennie du Plessis 182 (down 1)
10. Zander Lombard 184 (up 1)
11. Shaun Norris 192 (down 2)
12. Garrick Higgo 197 (up 19)
13. Charl Schwartzel 201 (down 5)
14. Dylan Frittelli 206 (down 24)
15. George Coetzee 239 (down 2)
16. Branden Grace 244 (down 9)
17. Louis de Jager 258 (unchanged)
18. JC Ritchie 259 (down 4)
19. Justin Harding 274 (down 14)
20. Danie van Tonder 287 (unchanged)