Kuchar slips after Cup win

The team event didn't carry any ranking points so Kuchar (down to 11th) has been replaced at number 10 by compatriot Nick Watney in the latest standings, still topped by Luke Donald.

The only other change in the top 10 sees American Dustin Johnson and Steve Stricker switch places at five and six.

It could have been different had the leading Aussies not come up short in the Australian PGA.

Victory for Adam Scott or Jason Day at Coolum would have lifted them up to fifth place, overtaking Johnson and Stricker.

But Scott finished tied fourth while Day was tied ninth to leave them still seventh and eighth respectively in the latest standings.

Scott, in particular, must have been thinking what might have been. He eventually finished just two shots out of the play-off despite enduring a nightmare start to his first round when he visited water three times whilst slipping to five over after just eight holes.

Australian PGA winner Greg Chalmers is now up to 63rd after adding to his Australian Open triumph just two weeks earlier.

The left-hander was down in 215th before winning the Aussie Open so has risen 152 places after banking the first two legs of the Australian Triple Crown.

Tiger Woods has dropped one to 52 and will be hoping to climb back into the top 50 with a big performance in this week's Chevron World Challenge in California which has carried world ranking points since 2009.

Top-ranked Donald can add to his lead by winning the Nedbank Challenge in South African where world number two Lee Westwood and world number four Martin Kaymer are in opposition.

Latest standings:

1 Luke Donald 10.22pts
2 Rory McIlroy 7.48
3 Lee Westwood 7.35
4 Martin Kaymer 6.91
5 Dustin Johnson 5.69
6 Steve Stricker 5.68
7 Adam Scott 5.60
8 Jason Day 5.41
9 Webb Simpson 5.18
10 Nick Watney 4.97
11 Matt Kuchar 4.96
12 Phil Mickelson 4.88
13 Charl Schwartzel 4.66
14 Graeme McDowell 4.53
15 KJ Choi 4.50
16 Justin Rose 4.18
17 Sergio Garcia 4.04
18 Bubba Watson 3.90
19 Hunter Mahan 3.81
20 David Toms 3.72

Other leading Europeans:

21 Paul Casey
25 Ian Poulter
29 Robert Karlsson
31 Simon Dyson
32 Thomas Bjorn
33 Anders Hansen
34 Fredrik Jacobson
37 Francesco Molinari
38 Darren Clarke
40 Miguel Angel Jimenez
43 Martin Laird
46 Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano
50 Alvaro Quiros
53 Peter Hanson
56 Matteo Manassero
62 Edoardo Molinari
64 Alexander Noren
68 Joost Luiten
76 Nicolas Colsaerts
81 Padraig Harrington
84 Jamie Donaldson
85 Pablo Larrazabal
90 Ross Fisher
97 David Lynn
100 Fredrik Andersson Hed