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 156 weeks, starting on May 22. Overall he's held the #1 position for 190 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 16.216
2 Rory McIlroy 9.854
3 Cameron Young 7.297
4 Matt Fitzpatrick 6.756
5 ↑↑ Russell Henley 5.678
6 Tommy Fleetwood 5.203
7 ↓↓ Justin Rose 5.172
8 Jon Rahm 4.959
9 J.J Spaun 4.824
10 ↓↓ Collin Morikawa 4.823
11 Chris Gotterup 4.637
12 Xander Schauffele 4.583
13 Ludvig Aberg 4.310
14 Aaron Rai 4.226
15 Ben Griffin 4.204
16 Justin Thomas 4.176
17 Robert MacIntyre 4.029
18 ↑↑ Si Woo Kim 3.940
19 Sepp Straka 3.925
20 Alex Noren 3.664
21 ↑↑ Tyrrell Hatton 3.592
22 Harris English 3.566
23 ↑↑ Ryan Gerard 3.500
24 ↓↓ Hideki Matsuyama 3.494
25 Jacob Bridgeman 3.490
26 Kristoffer Reitan 3.489
27 ↓↓ Patrick Reed 3.432
28 Viktor Hovland 3.352
29 Akshay Bhatia 3.191
30 ↑↑ Sam Burns 3.146
31 Kurt Kitayama 3.046
32 Bryson DeChambeau 2.988
33 ↓↓ Nicolai Hojgaard 2.957
34 ↑↑ Wyndham Clark 2.912
35 Min Woo Lee 2.891
36 Patrick Cantlay 2.878
37 Maverick McNealy 2.863
38 ↑↑ JT Poston 2.788
39 Keegan Bradley 2.766
40 ↑↑ Bud Cauley 2.711
41 Rickie Fowler 2.618
42 Alex Smalley 2.594
43 Jake Knapp 2.535
44 Shane Lowry 2.471
45 Gary Woodland 2.360
46 Daniel Berger 2.285
47 ↓↓ Jason Day 2.248
48 ↓↓ Marco Penge 2.242
49 Adam Scott 2.220
50 ↓↓ Michael Kim 2.195
51 Jordan Spieth 2.194
52 Nicolas Echavarria 2.182
53 ↓↓ Matt McCarty 2.074
54 Samuel Stevens 2.051
55 Ryan Fox 2.004
56 Corey Conners 1.981
57 David Puig 1.933
58 Pierceson Coody 1.916
59 Brian Harman 1.905
60 Michael Brennan 1.897
61 ↓↓ Andrew Novak 1.879
62 Ryo Hisatsune 1.849
63 Nick Taylor 1.843
64 ↑↑ Eric Cole 1.788
65 Sami Valimaki 1.761
66 ↓↓ Harry Hall 1.737
67 Thomas Detry 1.723
68 ↓↓ Max Greyserman 1.692
69 ↑↑ Alex Fitzpatrick 1.663
70 Jayden Schaper 1.659
71 ↓↓ Matti Schmid 1.654
72 Jordan Smith 1.648
73 Aldrich Potgieter 1.645
74 Sungjae Im 1.607
75 John Keefer 1.597
76 ↓↓ Michael Thorbjornsen 1.574
76 ↓↓ Rasmus Hojgaard 1.574
78 ↓↓ Casey Jarvis 1.571
79 ↓↓ Matt Wallace 1.531
80 ↑↑ Joaquin Niemann 1.514
81 ↓↓ Patrick Rodgers 1.507
82 Rasmus Neergaard Petersen 1.501
83 ↓↓ Sahith Theegala 1.492
84 ↑↑ Eugenio Chacarra 1.471
85 Andrew Putnam 1.444
86 ↑↑ Shaun Norris 1.442
87 ↑↑ McClure Meissner 1.436
88 Lucas Herbert 1.414
89 Richard Hoey 1.408
90 ↓↓ Haotong Li 1.401
91 Daniel Hillier 1.391
92 ↓↓ Taylor Pendrith 1.383
93 Ricky Castillo 1.362
94 ↓↓ Christiaan Bezuidenhout 1.359
95 ↓↓ Austin Smotherman 1.354
96 ↑↑ Sudarshan Yellamaraju 1.346
97 Stephan Jaeger 1.344
98 Garrick Higgo 1.333
99 ↓↓ Max McGreevy 1.332
100 ↑↑ Keith Mitchell 1.307

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

JT Poston has gained 1.37 points since May 25, which is the most of anybody in the world rankings. His rank has increased from 85th to 38th in the world rankings.

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

Xander Schauffele has lost 0.32 points since May 25, which is the steepest drop of anybody in the world rankings. His ranking has dropped from 8th to 12th 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 Cameron Young, who is ranked 3rd in the world.