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    Ian Poulter’s victory in the Barclays Singapore Open on Sunday and Ross Fisher’s success in the Volvo World Match Play Championship in Spain on the same day, saw both climb into the top 20, making nine Europeans in that elite group, one more than the number of Americans. "We did a survey in April this year on the 23rd anniversary of the starting of the rankings and found there were eight Europeans in the top 20 and that was the most there had been to that date ... Things have obviously improved from the Europeans’ point of view since then. What also has been striking is the way players from the rest of the world have slipped. There are only three in the top 20 now — Geoff Ogilvy, Camilo Villegas and Vijay Singh. Only a year ago there were six." The presence of four Englishmen in the top 20 highlights the considerable change in fortune since May 2002. Full Article at Times Online
    We did a survey in April this year on the 23rd anniversary of the starting of the rankings and found there were eight Europeans in the top 20 and that was the most there had been to that date ... Things have obviously improved from the Europeans’ point of view since then. What also has been striking is the way players from the rest of the world have slipped. There are only three in the top 20 now — Geoff Ogilvy, Camilo Villegas and Vijay Singh. Only a year ago there were six.
    Ian Poulter – Ian Poulter SOURCE: Times Online 1 month ago

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