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 125 weeks, starting on May 22. Overall he's held the #1 position for 159 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 19.863
2 Rory McIlroy 10.929
3 Xander Schauffele 6.719
4 Russell Henley 5.929
5 Tommy Fleetwood 5.272
6 J.J Spaun 5.270
7 ↓↓ Justin Thomas 5.254
8 Robert MacIntyre 5.226
9 Justin Rose 4.530
10 ↓↓ Collin Morikawa 4.507
11 Harris English 4.475
12 ↑↑ Ben Griffin 4.441
13 Viktor Hovland 4.392
14 Keegan Bradley 4.365
15 Ludvig Aberg 4.345
16 Sepp Straka 4.340
17 ↑↑ Alex Noren 3.854
18 Hideki Matsuyama 3.812
19 Maverick McNealy 3.701
20 Cameron Young 3.679
21 Tyrrell Hatton 3.642
22 Bryson DeChambeau 3.520
23 Patrick Cantlay 3.516
24 Sam Burns 3.351
25 Shane Lowry 3.233
26 Chris Gotterup 3.063
27 Corey Conners 2.925
28 Matt Fitzpatrick 2.781
29 ↑↑ Aaron Rai 2.732
30 ↑↑ Max Greyserman 2.698
31 ↑↑ Marco Penge 2.693
32 Brian Harman 2.684
33 ↓↓ Wyndham Clark 2.584
34 Andrew Novak 2.510
35 ↓↓ Sungjae Im 2.494
36 Kurt Kitayama 2.453
37 Akshay Bhatia 2.446
38 ↓↓ Billy Horschel 2.413
39 Ryan Fox 2.405
40 ↑↑ Michael Kim 2.350
41 Nick Taylor 2.329
42 ↓↓ Jason Day 2.299
43 ↑↑ Rasmus Hojgaard 2.269
44 Taylor Pendrith 2.267
45 Min Woo Lee 2.248
46 ↑↑ Patrick Reed 2.236
47 ↓↓ Thomas Detry 2.185
48 Samuel Stevens 2.169
49 ↓↓ Daniel Berger 2.154
50 ↓↓ JT Poston 2.143
51 ↑↑ John Keefer 2.128
52 Ryan Gerard 2.109
53 Harry Hall 2.100
54 ↓↓ Denny McCarthy 2.076
55 ↑↑ Kristoffer Reitan 2.063
56 ↓↓ Adam Scott 2.014
57 ↓↓ Lucas Glover 2.011
58 Matt McCarty 2.004
59 ↓↓ Chris Kirk 1.995
60 ↓↓ Jordan Spieth 1.992
61 Nicolas Echavarria 1.982
62 Brian Campbell 1.978
63 Si Woo Kim 1.967
64 ↓↓ Bud Cauley 1.955
65 Aldrich Potgieter 1.857
66 ↑↑ Matt Wallace 1.849
67 ↓↓ Tony Finau 1.838
68 Thriston Lawrence 1.833
69 ↑↑ Christiaan Bezuidenhout 1.833
70 ↓↓ Jacob Bridgeman 1.830
71 ↑↑ Jon Rahm 1.815
72 ↓↓ Byeong Hun An 1.804
73 ↑↑ Chun an Yu 1.750
74 Mackenzie Hughes 1.745
75 ↑↑ Adrien Saddier 1.739
76 Davis Thompson 1.739
77 ↑↑ Michael Thorbjornsen 1.727
78 ↓↓ Jhonattan Vegas 1.720
79 Haotong Li 1.720
80 ↓↓ Tom Hoge 1.699
81 Rickie Fowler 1.691
82 Jake Knapp 1.690
83 ↑↑ Daniel Brown(Oct1994) 1.686
84 ↑↑ Garrick Higgo 1.677
85 Tom Kim 1.665
86 ↓↓ Sahith Theegala 1.655
87 Rasmus Neergaard Petersen 1.647
88 ↓↓ Davis Riley 1.647
89 Neal Shipley 1.639
90 ↓↓ Nicolai Hojgaard 1.636
91 ↓↓ Laurie Canter 1.631
92 ↓↓ Matti Schmid 1.601
93 Jordan Smith 1.588
94 ↓↓ Stephan Jaeger 1.581
95 John Parry 1.579
96 Emiliano Grillo 1.575
97 ↑↑ Steven Fisk 1.573
98 McClure Meissner 1.520
99 ↓↓ Erik van Rooyen 1.501
100 ↓↓ Joe Highsmith 1.482

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

Alex Noren has gained 1.21 points since September 22, which is the most of anybody in the world rankings. His rank has increased from 32nd to 17th in the world rankings.

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

Scottie Scheffler has lost 0.75 points since September 22, 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.