Poulter surges into world's top 30

Ian Poulter is back in the world's top 30 after his joint second place behind Tiger Woods in the American Express World Championship at The Grove.

Poulter, 59th at the start of the year, tied with Australian Adam Scott, who moves up to a career-best fourth, while fourth-placed Jim Furyk is back up to second ahead of Phil Mickelson.

Woods, of course, is even further out in front.

Best of the Irish is Padraig Harrington who maintains his top 20 ranking in 19th place.

Latest positions: (Irish in bold)

1 Tiger Woods 23.20, 2 Jim Furyk 8.82, 3 Phil Mickelson 8.58, 4 Adam Scott 7.08, 5 Vijay Singh 6.87, 6 Ernie Els 6.21, 7 Retief Goosen 6.14, 8 Luke Donald 5.61, 9 Sergio Garcia 5.50, 10 Geoff Ogilvy 5.38

11 Henrik Stenson 4.83, 12 Trevor Immelman 4.65, 13 David Howell 4.54, 14 Colin Montgomerie 4.41, 15 Chris DiMarco 4.26, 16 David Toms 4.25, 17 Paul Casey 4.05, 18 Jose Maria Olazabal 4.03, 19 Padraig Harrington 3.90, 20 Tim Clark 3.85

Other leading Europeans:

25 Darren Clarke, 28 Carl Pettersson, 29 Ian Poulter, 32 Thomas Bjorn, 34 Robert Karlsson, 48 Johan Edfors, 51 Lee Westwood, 53 Paul McGinley, 57 Paul Broadhurst, 59 Niclas Fasth, 61 Bradley Dredge, 63 Miguel Angel Jimenez, 71 Stephen Dodd, 75 Greg Owen, 76 Anthony Wall, 78 Justin Rose, 79 Simon Khan, 81 Simon Dyson, 93 Anders Hansen, 94 Kenneth Ferrie, 96 Graeme McDowell, 99 Nick Dougherty