McIlroy overtakes Woods in rankings

03 May,2011 08:32 AM IST |   |  PA Sport

Rory McIlroy is up to a career-high sixth in the world ufffd and ahead of Tiger Woods for the first time


Rory McIlroy is up to a career-high sixth in the world ufffd and ahead of Tiger Woods for the first time.

The pair swap places after a week when neither played. McIlroy is back in action on Thursday defending the Wells Fargo Championship in Charlotte, North Carolina, but Woods misses the event through injury.

Big-hitting left-hander Bubba Watson broke into the top 10 by beating fellow American Webb Simpson in a play-off for the Zurich Classic in New Orleans.

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