The formal invitations to the 2022 Masters aren’t expected to go out for another week or so. And for 10 golfers who hadn’t yet locked up a spot in the first men’s Major of the new year, well they should be keeping their eye on the mailbox.
The Official World Golf Ranking for this week and the final week of 2021 were released on Monday, the number crunchers able to calculate both simultaneously thanks to the fact that there are no events that earn World Ranking points left to be played this December.
Augusta National traditionally invites the top 50 in the final yearly ranking to play the following April. Of those 50, these 10 players still were looking for a way to in the field and can now make plans for the second week of April:
Tyrrell Hatton (22)
Matt Fitzpatrick (24)
Matthew Wolff (30)
Lee Westwood (37)
Mackenzie Hughes (39)
Tommy Fleetwood (40)
Ryan Palmer (47)
Christiaan Bezuidenhout (48)
Min Woo Lee (49)
Takumi Kanaya (50)
While these 10 can celebrate, it also means that a handful of players who just missed out on the top 50 have work to do in the new year to get into the Masters.
Among them is Cameron Tringale, who finished in the not so happy spot of No.51 of the final week’s ranking. The next three in the ranking who aren’t yet in the Masters are Ian Poulter (54), Russell Henley (57) and Bernd Wiesberger (58).
For the record, here’s the entire top 50 from the final ranking of 2021.
1: Jon Rahm, 9.5335
2: Collin Morikawa, 8.7575
3: Dustin Johnson, 7.1201
4: Patrick Cantlay, 6.462
5: Bryson DeChambeau, 6.4311
6: Xander Schauffele, 6.3888
7: Justin Thomas, 6.3741
8: Viktor Hovland, 6.3341
9: Rory McIlroy, 6.2845
10: Louis Oosthuizen, 5.3015
11: Sam Burns, 5.1916
12: Scottie Scheffler, 5.079
13: Harris English, 5.0252
14: Jordan Spieth, 4.8995
15: Tony Finau, 4.8854
16: Brooks Koepka, 4.8763
17: Abraham Ancer, 4.8537
18: Hideki Matsuyama, 4.7944
19: Daniel Berger, 4.6578
20: Jason Kokrak, 4.4118
21: Cameron Smith, 4.4076
22: Tyrrell Hatton, 4.2815
23: Billy Horschel, 4.2354
24: Matt Fitzpatrick, 4.1046
25: Patrick Reed, 4.0539
26: Sungjae Im, 3.9842
27: Webb Simpson, 3.8974
28: Paul Casey, 3.8296
29: Kevin Na, 3.7649
30: Matthew Wolff, 3.092
31: Joaquin Niemann, 3.0632
32: Talor Gooch, 2.8994
33: Phil Mickelson, 2.8549
34: Will Zalatoris, 2.8493
35: Max Homa, 2.8279
36: Marc Leishman, 2.8067
37: Lee Westwood, 2.6673
38: Corey Conners, 2.6428
39: Mackenzie Hughes, 2.5563
40: Tommy Fleetwood, 2.5273
41: Lucas Herbert, 2.5022
42: Kevin Kisner, 2.4558
43: Justin Rose, 2.445
44: Shane Lowry, 2.4386
45: Sergio Garcia, 2.4385
46: Adam Scott, 2.4033
47: Ryan Palmer, 2.3782
48: Christiaan Bezuidenhout, 2.3383
49: Min Woo Lee, 2.2494
50: Takumi Kanaya, 2.2379
