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 119 weeks, starting on May 22. Overall he's held the #1 position for 153 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 20.906
2 Rory McIlroy 10.983
3 Xander Schauffele 6.561
4 Russell Henley 6.344
5 Justin Thomas 5.755
6 ↑↑ Tommy Fleetwood 5.612
7 J.J Spaun 5.416
8 ↓↓ Collin Morikawa 5.234
9 ↑↑ Robert MacIntyre 4.932
10 ↓↓ Harris English 4.828
11 Keegan Bradley 4.758
12 ↑↑ Justin Rose 4.690
13 Sepp Straka 4.656
14 Ludvig Aberg 4.632
15 Viktor Hovland 4.552
16 Hideki Matsuyama 4.328
17 Ben Griffin 4.214
18 Bryson DeChambeau 3.934
19 Maverick McNealy 3.923
20 ↑↑ Cameron Young 3.856
21 Patrick Cantlay 3.803
22 Sam Burns 3.643
23 Shane Lowry 3.562
24 Corey Conners 3.323
25 Tyrrell Hatton 3.175
26 Chris Gotterup 3.143
27 Wyndham Clark 2.984
28 Brian Harman 2.943
29 ↑↑ Matt Fitzpatrick 2.756
30 Sungjae Im 2.732
31 Andrew Novak 2.717
32 ↑↑ Alex Noren 2.681
33 Aaron Rai 2.649
34 ↑↑ Kurt Kitayama 2.628
35 ↓↓ Billy Horschel 2.624
36 Akshay Bhatia 2.620
37 Jason Day 2.558
38 ↓↓ Nick Taylor 2.546
39 ↓↓ Ryan Fox 2.535
40 Taylor Pendrith 2.479
41 ↓↓ Max Greyserman 2.433
42 JT Poston 2.357
43 ↓↓ Daniel Berger 2.342
44 Thomas Detry 2.307
45 Samuel Stevens 2.303
46 Denny McCarthy 2.302
47 Jordan Spieth 2.209
48 ↑↑ Chris Kirk 2.206
49 ↓↓ Min Woo Lee 2.204
50 Lucas Glover 2.197
51 Ryan Gerard 2.195
52 ↑↑ Rasmus Hojgaard 2.179
53 ↓↓ Adam Scott 2.168
54 ↑↑ Harry Hall 2.157
55 ↓↓ Tony Finau 2.149
56 Matt McCarty 2.111
57 Bud Cauley 2.084
58 ↓↓ Nicolas Echavarria 2.068
59 John Keefer 2.066
60 ↑↑ Marco Penge 2.047
61 Brian Campbell 2.030
62 Michael Kim 1.996
63 ↑↑ Jacob Bridgeman 1.975
64 ↓↓ Byeong Hun An 1.965
65 ↓↓ Aldrich Potgieter 1.960
66 Si Woo Kim 1.955
67 ↓↓ Sahith Theegala 1.950
68 ↑↑ Thriston Lawrence 1.933
69 ↓↓ Jhonattan Vegas 1.929
70 ↓↓ Tom Hoge 1.910
71 ↑↑ Kristoffer Reitan 1.885
72 ↑↑ Matt Wallace 1.877
73 ↓↓ Patrick Reed 1.853
74 Davis Thompson 1.848
75 ↓↓ Christiaan Bezuidenhout 1.840
76 ↓↓ Mackenzie Hughes 1.837
77 ↓↓ Davis Riley 1.818
78 ↓↓ Chun an Yu 1.810
79 ↑↑ Rickie Fowler 1.795
80 ↓↓ Jon Rahm 1.783
81 ↓↓ Stephan Jaeger 1.781
82 ↓↓ Tom Kim 1.766
83 ↑↑ Nicolai Hojgaard 1.764
84 Haotong Li 1.762
85 ↓↓ Jake Knapp 1.752
86 ↓↓ Laurie Canter 1.714
87 Matti Schmid 1.704
88 Neal Shipley 1.657
89 ↓↓ Joe Highsmith 1.623
90 ↓↓ Erik van Rooyen 1.596
91 Rasmus Neergaard Petersen 1.565
92 Jordan Smith 1.557
93 ↓↓ Austin Eckroat 1.528
94 ↑↑ McClure Meissner 1.490
95 ↑↑ Mark Hubbard 1.473
96 Emiliano Grillo 1.447
97 Max McGreevy 1.423
98 ↓↓ Cameron Davis 1.406
99 ↑↑ John Parry 1.403
100 ↓↓ Thorbjorn Olesen 1.402

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

Cameron Young has gained 1.47 points since August 11, which is the most of anybody in the world rankings. His rank has increased from 44th to 20th in the world rankings.

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

Xander Schauffele has lost 0.59 points since August 11, 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.