Lamprecht in big climb to 247th on Official World Golf Ranking list

Feb 11, 2025 | Featured, Features, Rankings

Christo Lamprecht jumped inside South Africa’s top 10 players according to the Official World Golf Ranking following a career-best points haul from his share of second on the Korn Ferry Tour over the weekend.

Lamprecht climbed 105 places on the official list to 247^th place after finishing runner-up in the Astara Golf Championship in Bogota, Colombia. That makes him the 10^th-best South African. He was the 18^th-best last week, and he has leapfrogged the likes of Dylan Frittelli, Brandon Stone and Jayden Schaper into 10^th place.

Lamprecht’s climb up the official rankings has been a long time coming, and there is a sense that he is starting to hit his straps as a professional. A maiden professional victory seems only a matter of time.

Schaper, who was overtaken by Lamprecht on the South African list, had a great finish himself over the weekend, and his share of fifth on the DP World Tour in the Commercial Bank Qatar Masters gave him a 33-place boost on the official rankings to 258^th.

There was a change at the top of the South African list as Christiaan Bezuidenhout finished in a share of fourth in the PGA Tour’s WM Phoenix Open in Scottsdale, Arizona. That meant he climbed 10 places on the world rankings to 51^st, and he has supplanted Thriston Lawrence as the top-ranked South African. Lawrence missed the cut in Scottsdale.

Daniel van Tonder’s meteoric rise up the ranking slowed down considerably this week as his share of sixth in the Cell C Cape Town Open saw him climb just one place to 176^th.

Outside the top 25, Keenan Davidse went up 126 places, from 580 to 454, and Jovan Rebula up 72 spots, from 663 to 591.

South Africa’s top 25: