PGA Tour Week 8: WGC Match Play: Euros Storm to the Top in the World of Golf

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Published: February 28, 2011

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With snow on the ground in the morning, a hail storm in the afternoon, by nightfall in the Arizona desert four European golfers have stormed to the top of the world of golf.

In the 13th edition of the World Golf Championship Accenture Match Play, Martin Kaymer displaced Lee Westwood and became the 14th golfer to be World No. 1.

On Sunday when Luke Donald defeated Kaymer for the Match Play championship, he leapfrogged from World No. 9 to No. 3 behind only Kaymer and Westwood.

2010 U.S. Open champion Graeme McDowell rounds out the European Top 4—the first time since March 1992 when Ian Woosnam (No. 1), Nick Faldo (2), Jose-Marie Olazabal (3) and Seve Ballesteros (4) led the world rankings.

With Tiger Woods No. 5 and Phil Mickelson No.6, then Paul Casey (7) and Rory McIlroy (8), the Euros hold six of the top eight spots.

The world order in golf has changed significantly since Phil Mickelson won the Masters nearly one year ago.

McDowell won at Pebble Beach, South African Louis Oosthuizen won the Open at St. Andrews and Kaymer beat Bubba Watson in the playoff at Whistling Straits in the PGA Championship.

Then McDowell won the Ryder Cup for the Europeans in Celtic Manor in Wales to end the year 2010 completing the monumental shift in golfing prowess.

Now it looks as though America's aged golfing stars are being passed by with only the young Matt Kuchar at World No. 10 coming into his prime. 

We might very well see Westwood win his first major this year, and Donald or Casey too.

Okay, maybe the sky is not falling in for the Americans. Dustin Johnson, Bubba Watson and Hunter Mahan have developed quite nicely in the last year as well.

But the change has been as dramatic as Donald's domineering performance in the six rounds of match play at the Ritz Carlton Dove Mountain Resort.

Donald never trailed in any of his matches en...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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