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Official World Ranking for week 44
October 31, 2005

On the Japan Golf Tour, Shingo Katayama won for the second time in his last three starts (he won the Japan Open two weeks ago), taking the ABC Championship with a 14 under par total of 274 by two strokes from Dinesh Chand of Fiji.

Katayama moves up 8 places to 42nd in the World Ranking, and the second highest ranked Japanese player behind Shigeki Maruyama in 36th place.

With five tournaments to go, Katayama leads the Japan Tour money list with Yen 116,483,266, more than Yen 30m ahead of Keiichiro Fukabori. Katayama topped the list for the 2004 season with Yen 110,995,366.

On the Asian Tour, Thaworn Wiratchant took the Hero Honda Indian Open for his third victory of 2005, thus becoming only the fourth player in Asian Tour history to win three times in a year, joining Chinese Taipei's Lin Keng-chi, Simon Dyson of England and Korea's Charlie Wi.

Thaworn's 16 under par score of 272 gave him a two shot margin over Gaurav Ghei of India, and moved him up 22 places in the World Ranking to 146th. He remains the second highest ranked Thai player in the world, behind Thongchai Jaidee in 111th place, although he now leads Thongchai in the race for the Asian Tour Order of Merit by almost US$100.000.

India's Jyoti Randhawa, third in the Asian Tour Order of Merit lies 149th in the world, while Australia's Terry Pilkadaris in 4th place is 183rd in the world.

Korea's Choi Kyung-ju remains the highest ranked Asian player in the world in 34th, down one place from last week.

The Japan Golf Tour's top 200 in 2004 were as follows:

Pos	Player			Money (Yen)	Titles	Events
1	S.Katayama		110,995,366	2	22
2	T.Taniguchi		101,773,301	2	25
3	Y E Yang		96,020,908	2	23
4	P.Sheehan		85,020,125	2	18
5	S K Ho			78,350,836	2	19
6	D.Smail			74,357,866	1	20
7	H.Tanihara		70,854,178	1	24
8	H.Kase			60,245,467	1	29
9	B.Jones			58,119,000	2	15
10	S.Conran		58,113,133	1	20
11	T.Kamiyama		56,406,551	1	21
12	T.Kondo			54,420,941	0	29
13	K.Fukabori		54,022,503	0	23
14	R.Kawagishi		51,522,408	0	29
15	T.Suzuki		51,415,145	1	28
16	H.Fujita		50,468,957	1	23
17	T.Hiratsuka		49,891,724	1	24
18	D.Chand			48,202,608	1	25
19	K.Miyamoto		48,191,300	0	27
20	T.Taniguchi		42,212,228	1	27
21	K.Yokoo			41,893,454	0	28
22	T.Mitsuhashi		40,684,974	1	28
23	H.Hoshino		40,048,449	0	26
24	T.Woods			40,000,000	1	1
25	W.T.Yeh			39,398,503	0	23
26	K.Imai			35,771,123	1	28
27	T.Yoneyama		35,259,413	0	21
28	N.Masuda		34,559,630	0	28
29	T.Teshima		33,995,275	0	26
30	M.Inoue			33,521,392	1	26
31	H.Sasaki		33,233,066	0	27
32	T.Izawa			32,510,300	0	17
33	Y.Imano			31,670,647	0	28
34	J.D.Kim			30,923,751	1	22
35	D.Clarke		30,000,000	1	1
36	S.Yokota		29,838,999	0	26
37	K.Maita			29,362,077	0	25
38	T.Takayama		29,132,882	0	25
39	C.Plaphol		28,175,416	1	22
40	N.Kawahara		28,142,618	0	27
41	R.Oda			27,695,883	0	25
42	K.Kuwabara		27,306,326	0	27
43	K.Murota		25,686,775	0	27
44	K.Hosokawa		25,500,080	0	27
45	J.M.Singh		24,789,788	0	22
46	P.Marksaeng		24,649,770	0	20
47	D.Maruyama		24,464,147	0	28
48	C.Pena			24,189,479	0	22
49	Y.Miyazato		23,904,829	0	21
50	T.Kanemoto		22,517,692	0	27
51	N.Ozaki			21,856,416	0	19
52	W.Liang			21,309,186	0	12
53	Y.Mano			20,168,459	0	27
54	J.Randhawa		19,901,660	0	15
55	M.Ozaki			19,833,670	0	26
56	M.Osanai		19,760,266	0	26
57	T.Srirot		19,495,791	0	22
58	M.Kawamura		19,389,885	0	26
59	T.Nakajima		19,043,000	0	22
60	J.Kikuchi		18,981,026	0	26
61	S.Laycock		18,223,999	0	11
62	M.Tateyama		18,126,385	0	27
63	K.Idoki			17,755,667	0	27
64	S.Hirota		17,448,345	0	25
65	T.Hiraishi		17,348,575	0	27
66	K.C.Lin			17,157,960	0	24
67	S.Higaki		16,971,018	0	28
68	H.Gohda			16,648,741	0	28
69	S.Nonaka		16,633,686	0	27
70	A.Yano			15,879,216	0	28
71	K.Nakagawa		15,323,216	0	28
72	K.Takami		15,278,824	0	20
73	H.Iijima		14,944,800	0	22
74	N.Serizawa		14,727,837	0	26
75	K.Miyazato		14,477,467	0	23
76	C.Wi			14,303,999	0	5
77	H.Mahan			14,000,000	0	1
78	C.Jones			13,947,450	0	19
79	K.J.Choi		13,600,000	0	1
80	K.Tomori		13,406,648	0	25
81	G.Meyer			12,675,114	0	20
82	T.Watanabe		12,647,350	0	27
83	L.Westwood		12,600,000	0	1
84	T.Inoue			10,748,968	0	23
85	S.Maruyama		9,240,000	0	1
86	K.Kuboya		9,092,339	0	27
87	F.Minoza		8,851,733	0	24
88	M.Tomida		8,717,690	0	20
89	K.Kinjo			8,569,207	0	26
90	Y.Maeda			8,437,558	0	21
91	M.Kuramoto		8,305,900	0	25
92	N.Sato			8,300,666	0	8
93	Y.Ueda			7,929,083	0	18
94	L.W.Zhang		7,789,666	0	13
95	K.Oda			7,690,212	0	16
96	D.Chopra		7,600,000	0	1
97	T.Ozaki			7,589,000	0	21
98	S.Higashi		7,244,670	0	24
99	Y.Haku			7,187,108	0	21
100	C.Schwartzel		6,720,000	0	1
101	T.Bjorn			6,600,000	0	1
102	K.Fukunaga		6,424,348	0	22
103	S.Tajima		6,055,399	0	28
104	S.Akiba			5,697,494	0	20
105	N.Ueda			5,608,314	0	20
106	D.Ishii			5,271,492	0	23
107	U.Park			5,104,166	0	17
108	S. Yates		5,078,571	0	1
	T.Oh			5,078,571	0	2
	J.Chung			5,078,571	0	2
111	R.Allenby		5,040,000	0	1
112	H.Ahara			4,999,800	0	20
113	G.McDowell		4,975,000	0	1
114	H.Kuniyoshi		4,680,461	0	21
115	M.Kijima		4,380,014	0	15
116	K.Shimizu		4,347,233	0	21
117	K.Makisaka		3,999,000	0	3
118	Y.Shimizu		3,960,000	0	16
119	J.Rose			3,948,000	0	1
120	T.Takahashi		3,820,063	0	8
121	C.Parry			3,760,000	0	1
122	Y.Takagi		3,648,852	0	13
123	F.Ebine			3,634,166	0	10
124	N.Yuhara		3,484,680	0	24
125	T.Sugihara		3,440,000	0	8
126	G.Higaki		3,435,960	0	27
127	H.Haraguchi		3,370,315	0	17
128	M.Kobayashi		3,284,714	0	27
129	N.Hirai			2,998,050	0	20
130	M.Nakajima		2,880,733	0	13
131	R.Goosen		2,842,000	0	1
132	C.Montgomerie		2,828,000	0	1
133	K.Takahashi		2,787,050	0	18
134	N.Sugiyama		2,741,000	0	9
135	H.Kamide		2,737,483	0	14
136	B.Jobe			2,460,000	0	2
137	R.Gibson		2,420,000	0	1
	T.Jaidee		2,420,000	0	1
139	R.Lee			2,358,000	0	1
140	M.Kato			2,228,919	0	16
141	N.Okuwa			2,098,713	0	14
142	K.Okino			2,088,000	0	1
143	M.Kusakabe		1,987,800	0	15
144	T.Kiyota		1,926,416	0	7
145	T.Iwamoto		1,914,000	0	1
146	C.Franco		1,860,000	0	1
147	P.Teravainen		1,847,000	0	21
148	Y.Yamamoto		1,837,157	0	17
149	T.Ogawa			1,835,333	0	18
150	T.Takasaki		1,831,422	0	4
151	H.Meshiai		1,764,000	0	8
152	S.Kai			1,760,000	0	6
153	E.Mizoguchi		1,656,700	0	6
154	T.Pilkadaris		1,590,000	0	1
155	T.Nogami		1,544,333	0	16
156	S.Ideguchi		1,520,732	0	17
157	R.Ikeda			1,513,333	0	4
158	T.Ueda			1,450,633	0	16
159	A.Takamatsu		1,426,777	0	5
160	I.Sadanobu		1,306,500	0	2
161	Y.Takashima		1,298,000	0	2
162	Y.Kimura		1,287,066	0	3
163	H.Okamo			1,286,000	0	5
164	T.Nakamura		1,281,800	0	11
165	Y.Mizumaki		1,280,000	0	3
166	T.Nakajima		1,266,666	0	1
167	A.Baddeley		1,206,666	0	1
168	Y.Fukuzawa		1,147,800	0	9
169	M.Yamazoe		1,142,800	0	12
170	Y.Igarashi		1,071,960	0	14
171	S.Cink			1,060,000	0	1
172	T.Kajikawa		972,000		0	13
	S.Gardiner		972,000		0	1
174	H.Tominaga		961,500		0	4
175	M.Uehira		914,633		0	16
176	K.Kida			894,000		0	4
177	H.Miyase		870,333		0	4
178	A.Stolz			860,000		0	2
179	C.B.Lam			840,000		0	1
180	D.Hashimoto		835,000		0	14
181	T.Hioki			828,000		0	1
182	Y.Tsukada		825,428		0	2
183	T.Hamilton		820,000		0	1
	Richard Backwell	820,000		0	1
185	K.Ichihara		799,700		0	1
186	T.Kibamoto		790,380		0	2
187	N.Hattori		767,300		0	4
188	A.Tani			720,000		0	4
189	H.Hagiwara		716,000		0	1
	Y.Horinouchi		716,000		0	2
191	Y.Suzuki		707,777		0	2
192	K.Niizuma		699,200		0	12
193	H.Kataoka		673,714		0	1
194	W.K.Lin			663,333		0	1
195	A.Cejka			646,857		0	1
196	T.Nakamura		624,000		0	3
197	K.Aramoto		607,822		0	4
198	T.Yakou			561,000		0	3
199	N.Shinozaki		557,800		0	2
200	K.Kusakabe		551,442		0	12