Volvo China Open Power Rankings: Ranking the 10 best in Beijing
Life’s good for Alexander Levy.
The Frenchman comes to Topwin as the defending China Open champion (to go with his win in 2014) as well as last week’s winner at the Trophee Hassan II.
“I think I don’t drive my best but I managed to play really well my iron shot, and also my short game was really good,” Levy said after his win in Morocco. “So that’s good. And I work a lot the last two weeks, so it’s nice when you see you can work and you win a tournament after. That brings you some confidence and also show you how to win the tournament.”
Levy’s got four top-10s in 2018 and hasn’t missed a cut since September. As it stands, he’d qualify for the US Open (via the world top 60) and for the PLAYERS Championship (world top 50), but could use another week or two to feel fully confident about those prospects.
He’s downplayed potentially making the Ryder Cup team to compete in his home country, but is right in the mix to qualify at No. 9 on the European points list.
Levy isn’t a straight driver in the way you’d want at Topwin, but he’s phenomenal out of the rough and hits greens at a great clip.
He’s fifth on the European Tour in GIR and finished top five in his win in Morroco and last year in China.
Levy is fifth in scrambling and 19th in strokes gained putting. If he can avoid colossal trouble off the tee, there’s no reason he can’t win again this week.
Maybe this time he won’t need to erase a seven-shot final round deficit, either.