Shaun Norris leapfrogged 91 places on the latest Official World Golf Ranking this week after his victory in the Alfred Dunhill Championship at Leopard Creek and moved back towards the list of the world’s top 100 players.

The 42-year-old also got himself four extra ranking points for a multi-win bonus after his victory two weeks earlier on the Japan Golf Tour. His win saw him jump from 220^th the week before to 129^th as he overtook Robin Williams and Louis Oosthuizen on the list of South Africa’s top golfers according to the official rankings. He is now the fifth-best player in the country.

Norris, who has been ranked as high as 54^th on the OWGR after his win in 2020 in the ABU Dhabi HSBC Championship, produced the fourth-best ranking performance of his career with his closing 67 at Leopard Creek, behind his pair of wins in 2021 and 2018 in the Japan Open and his victory at the Steyn City Championship in 2022.

The man he beat at the weekend, Ryan van Velzen, was also up in the rankings. He climbed 112 places to 300^th. It was a climb that could have been more substantial had he won, and it could have taken him closer to or beyond his career-high of 271^st.

Outside the top 25 South African golfers according to the official lists, Keenan Davidse had a substantial jump of 134 places from 717^th to 583^rd.

South Africa’s top-ranked golfer, Thriston Lawrence, moved up one place to 45^th, despite missing the cut at Leopard Creek, and he now seems almost certain to end the year inside the world’s top 50 which will get him a first-ever invitation to the Masters.

South Africa’s top 25:

1. Thriston Lawrence 45 (up 1)
2. Christiaan Bezuidenhout 55 (unchanged)
3. Erik van Rooyen 75 (unchanged)
4. Dean Burmester 115 (up 4)
5. Shaun Norris 129 (up 91)
6. Louis Oosthuizen 199 (down 4)
7. Robin Williams 204 (up 1)
8. Aldrich Potgieter 221 (up 5)
9. Zander Lombard 233 (down 4)
10. Brandon Stone 249 (up 8)
11. Garrick Higgo 297 (down 4)
12. Ryan van Velzen 300 (up 112)
13. Jayden Schaper 306 (down 7)
14. Casey Jarvis 307 (up 22)
15. Barend Botha 315 (down 2)
16. Jonathan Broomhead 357 (down 1)
17. Dylan Frittelli 359 (up 7)
18. Jaco Ahlers 362 (down 2)
19. Deon Germishuys 380 (down 15)
20. Jacques Kruyswijk 387 (down 4)
21. Charl Schwartzel 389 (up 34)
22. Thomas Aiken 395 (down 5)
23. Daniel van Tonder 409 (down 5)
24. Darren Fichardt 410 (down 4)
25. Hennie du Plessis 420 (down 6)