despite currently holding the third spot in the official World Golf Ranking AAR Rory maroy remains humble about his 2024 campaign trailing behind Scotty sheffel and Xander schaul who occupy the top two positions mroy kicked off the year on a high note with a win at the hero Dubai Desert Classic on the DP World Tour in January he also bagged two PGA Tour titles this year clinching victories at the Wells Fargo Championship and the Z classic alongside Shane Lowry however being a man of high expectations maoy admits that he hasn't been performing at his best sheffel has emerged as the dominant force in 2024 securing six victories on the PGA tour including the Masters and an Olympic gold medal chafful another American golfer has also been in Stellar form over the past year after a long wait he became a major Champion winning two majors within months he first secured the PGA Championship in May and just 2 months later chaul was back on the podium this time winning the Open Championship at Royal trun beating Justin Rose as the season finale at the Tour Championship approaches mroy finds himself starting four shots behind chaffel and six behind sheffel due to the staggered Strokes system fortime major winner Rory mroy despite being third in the world rankings feels overshadowed by Scotty sheff and Xander schaul's performances this year you know seeing what Scotty and Xander have done this year I'm third in the world rankings but I feel like a distant third you know they've had great years and I look at my year compared to them and I mean it doesn't compare on Thursday's opening round in Atlanta mroy didn't manage to close the gap on the leaderboard significantly delivering a two under par 69 with f birdies and a pair of B meanwhile world number one sheffel has leapt ahead bolstering his lead impressively before the games sheffel had voiced his criticisms of the FedEx Cup finale system which offered him only a One-Shot Advantage for his 25 we stint as the leader yet sheffel spoke volumes with his performance not his words he scored an impressive six under 65 on day one even after starting with a bogey now seven shots ahead of cha oh