Power Rankings: Chattanooga Classic

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The Nationwide Tour had another different winner this season, and this time it was Australia's Steven Bowditch.

He became the 21st different winner on Sunday at the Soboba Classic when he shot 68 to beat Daniel Summerhays by three shots.

Because it's so late in the season the victory meant plenty in the mad shuffle on the money list. He moved from 76th to 11th on the money list and safely inside the top 25. There are three tournaments left before the year-ending Nationwide Tour Championship at Daniel Island later this month.

The tour moves to the Chattanooga Classic presented by Black Creek this week and there's still plenty to be decided between now and the end of the month.

Power Rankings: Chattanooga Classic Presented by Black Creek

Rank Player   Comment Daniel SUMMERHAYS There is nobody hotter right now than Summerhays, who has two straight second-place finishes. Five times he has finished inside the top five this season, and it's only a matter of time before he breaks through. Kyle REIFERS It's a Wake Forest-filled Power Rankings this week because two former Deacons won last week. Gary Hallberg won on the Champions Tour, and Bill Haas on the PGA TOUR. Reifers, a former Wake Forest star, won here in 2006. Ron WHITTAKER Sticking with the Wake Forest theme, Whittaker, another former Deacon, won in Chattanooga in 2007. Whittaker missed four straight cuts but has tied for 15th and 45th in his last two tournaments so he has a little momentum. Steven BOWDITCH Since there aren't any more Deacons in the field, I'll go with Bowditch to contend again because he's on a serious roll. He missed four cuts prior to the WNB Golf Classic, then tied for eighth and followed that up with his first victory since '05. Keegan BRADLEY The tour rookie from St. John's has tied for third the last two weeks and is 31 under par in those two tournaments. He has played in 24 tournaments and has five top 25s with two of those in back-to-back weeks. He's inside 'THE 25' on the money list but needs another strong week or two.

John Dell has covered golf for the Winston-Salem Journal in North Carolina for the last 17 years. His views do not necessarily represent the views of the PGA TOUR.