In the top tier of the rank­ings, there was on­ly one change as Irish­man Graeme Mc­Dow­ell moved one spot in­to fifth, ex­chang­ing places with Amer­i­can Jim Furyk. Eng­land's Lee West­wood con­tin­ues at the top with for­mer num­ber one Amer­i­can Tiger Woods in sec­ond, and Ger­man Mar­tin Kaymer and Amer­i­can Phil Mick­el­son in third and fourth re­spec­tive­ly. The new sea­son will get go­ing this week with the US$5.6 mil­lion Hyundai Tour­na­ment of Cham­pi­ons set to tee off in Maui, Hawaii on Thurs­day. (CMC)