Who is the top ranked golfer in the world?

The current #1 player in the world is Scottie Scheffler. He's been the top ranked player for the past 131 weeks, starting on May 22. Overall he's held the #1 position for 165 weeks. Scottie Scheffler first achieved the number 1 ranking on March 28, 2022.

Current Top 100 Golfers By World Ranking

Rank Name Ranking Points Been #1? Been Top 10?
1 Scottie Scheffler 17.872
2 Rory McIlroy 10.132
3 Xander Schauffele 5.866
4 Tommy Fleetwood 5.859
5 Russell Henley 5.389
6 J.J Spaun 4.966
7 Robert MacIntyre 4.952
8 Justin Thomas 4.839
9 Ben Griffin 4.835
10 Justin Rose 4.231
11 Harris English 4.117
12 Viktor Hovland 4.100
13 Collin Morikawa 4.039
14 Keegan Bradley 4.016
15 Ludvig Aberg 4.000
16 Sepp Straka 3.993
17 Alex Noren 3.731
18 Cameron Young 3.514
19 Tyrrell Hatton 3.511
20 Hideki Matsuyama 3.420
21 Maverick McNealy 3.372
22 Patrick Cantlay 3.162
23 ↑↑ Aaron Rai 3.156
24 Matt Fitzpatrick 3.147
25 Bryson DeChambeau 3.086
26 Shane Lowry 3.054
27 Sam Burns 3.023
28 Chris Gotterup 2.836
29 Corey Conners 2.693
30 Marco Penge 2.687
31 Andrew Novak 2.425
32 Max Greyserman 2.422
33 Brian Harman 2.377
34 Kurt Kitayama 2.315
35 Michael Kim 2.295
36 ↑↑ Michael Brennan 2.288
37 ↑↑ Rasmus Hojgaard 2.248
38 Sungjae Im 2.245
39 ↓↓ Wyndham Clark 2.234
40 ↑↑ Sami Valimaki 2.209
41 Ryan Fox 2.208
42 ↓↓ Akshay Bhatia 2.175
43 Billy Horschel 2.166
44 Patrick Reed 2.155
45 Taylor Pendrith 2.134
46 Min Woo Lee 2.129
47 John Keefer 2.095
48 Samuel Stevens 2.075
49 ↓↓ Nick Taylor 2.059
50 ↑↑ Nicolas Echavarria 2.055
51 ↓↓ Jason Day 2.028
52 JT Poston 2.000
53 Ryan Gerard 1.980
54 ↓↓ Thomas Detry 1.963
55 Matt McCarty 1.962
56 ↑↑ Si Woo Kim 1.960
57 Harry Hall 1.933
58 ↓↓ Daniel Berger 1.931
59 ↓↓ Kristoffer Reitan 1.917
60 Lucas Glover 1.879
61 ↑↑ Laurie Canter 1.875
62 ↓↓ Denny McCarthy 1.851
63 Thriston Lawrence 1.838
64 ↓↓ Adam Scott 1.829
65 ↑↑ Max McGreevy 1.815
66 ↓↓ Chris Kirk 1.808
67 Brian Campbell 1.805
68 ↑↑ Michael Thorbjornsen 1.798
69 Bud Cauley 1.797
70 ↑↑ Garrick Higgo 1.786
71 ↑↑ Richard Hoey 1.774
72 ↓↓ Jordan Spieth 1.765
73 ↑↑ Nicolai Hojgaard 1.734
74 ↓↓ Matt Wallace 1.733
75 ↓↓ Jacob Bridgeman 1.694
76 Daniel Brown(Oct1994) 1.688
77 Adrien Saddier 1.685
78 ↓↓ Aldrich Potgieter 1.665
79 ↑↑ Tom McKibbin 1.659
80 ↓↓ Jon Rahm 1.651
81 ↑↑ Rasmus Neergaard Petersen 1.644
82 Jhonattan Vegas 1.621
83 ↓↓ Rickie Fowler 1.589
84 Haotong Li 1.581
85 ↓↓ Christiaan Bezuidenhout 1.578
86 ↓↓ Chun an Yu 1.576
87 ↑↑ Matti Schmid 1.573
88 ↓↓ Tony Finau 1.571
89 ↓↓ Mackenzie Hughes 1.571
90 ↓↓ Davis Thompson 1.565
91 Jordan Smith 1.554
92 ↓↓ Byeong Hun An 1.547
93 ↓↓ Tom Hoge 1.515
94 John Parry 1.500
95 ↓↓ Neal Shipley 1.493
96 ↓↓ Jake Knapp 1.486
97 ↓↓ Davis Riley 1.485
98 Keita Nakajima 1.474
99 ↑↑ Pierceson Coody 1.471
100 ↓↓ Tom Kim 1.468

Who has gained the most rating points in the last month?

Sami Valimaki has gained 1.01 points since November 3, which is the most of anybody in the world rankings. His rank has increased from 124th to 40th in the world rankings.

Who has lost the most rating points in the last month?

Scottie Scheffler has lost 1.67 points since November 3, which is the steepest drop of anybody in the world rankings.

Who is the highest ranked player who hasn't been #1?

The highest ranked player who hasn't reached the top spot in the world rankings is currently Xander Schauffele, who is ranked 3rd in the world.