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 157 weeks, starting on May 22. Overall he's held the #1 position for 191 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 16.568
2 Rory McIlroy 9.569
3 Cameron Young 7.282
4 Matt Fitzpatrick 6.816
5 ↑↑ Russell Henley 5.628
6 Justin Rose 5.341
7 Tommy Fleetwood 5.328
8 ↑↑ Wyndham Clark 5.049
9 ↓↓ Collin Morikawa 4.925
10 Jon Rahm 4.913
11 Xander Schauffele 4.756
12 J.J Spaun 4.753
13 Chris Gotterup 4.631
14 Ludvig Aberg 4.415
15 ↑↑ Sam Burns 4.376
16 Aaron Rai 4.306
17 Justin Thomas 4.285
18 Ben Griffin 4.280
19 ↓↓ Robert MacIntyre 4.015
20 ↑↑ Tyrrell Hatton 3.932
21 Si Woo Kim 3.881
22 Sepp Straka 3.855
23 Alex Noren 3.612
24 Harris English 3.506
25 Jacob Bridgeman 3.501
26 Kristoffer Reitan 3.459
27 ↑↑ Ryan Gerard 3.450
28 ↓↓ Hideki Matsuyama 3.448
29 ↓↓ Patrick Reed 3.384
30 Viktor Hovland 3.293
31 ↓↓ Akshay Bhatia 3.283
32 ↑↑ JT Poston 3.271
33 Kurt Kitayama 3.053
34 Bryson DeChambeau 2.949
35 ↓↓ Nicolai Hojgaard 2.928
36 Maverick McNealy 2.886
37 Patrick Cantlay 2.833
38 Keegan Bradley 2.798
39 ↓↓ Min Woo Lee 2.793
40 ↑↑ Bud Cauley 2.664
41 ↑↑ Gary Woodland 2.621
42 Rickie Fowler 2.588
43 Alex Smalley 2.573
44 ↓↓ Jake Knapp 2.502
45 ↓↓ Shane Lowry 2.420
46 ↑↑ Samuel Stevens 2.319
47 ↓↓ Jason Day 2.211
48 ↓↓ Marco Penge 2.206
49 Jordan Spieth 2.205
50 ↓↓ Daniel Berger 2.200
51 ↓↓ Michael Kim 2.188
52 Adam Scott 2.175
53 Nicolas Echavarria 2.172
54 Ryan Fox 2.068
55 Corey Conners 2.049
56 ↓↓ Matt McCarty 2.010
57 Pierceson Coody 1.982
58 Brian Harman 1.950
59 Michael Brennan 1.933
60 David Puig 1.910
61 ↑↑ Joaquin Niemann 1.889
62 Ryo Hisatsune 1.873
63 ↓↓ Andrew Novak 1.843
64 ↑↑ Tom Kim 1.813
65 ↓↓ Nick Taylor 1.812
66 ↑↑ Eric Cole 1.770
67 ↑↑ Alex Fitzpatrick 1.743
68 ↑↑ Keith Mitchell 1.736
69 ↓↓ Sami Valimaki 1.734
70 ↓↓ Harry Hall 1.709
71 ↓↓ Max Greyserman 1.704
72 ↓↓ Thomas Detry 1.691
73 ↑↑ Sahith Theegala 1.683
74 Aldrich Potgieter 1.652
75 John Keefer 1.639
76 ↓↓ Jayden Schaper 1.631
77 ↓↓ Matti Schmid 1.627
78 ↓↓ Jordan Smith 1.623
79 ↓↓ Sungjae Im 1.618
80 ↓↓ Michael Thorbjornsen 1.579
81 ↓↓ Rasmus Hojgaard 1.568
82 ↓↓ Casey Jarvis 1.552
83 ↓↓ Matt Wallace 1.511
84 ↓↓ Patrick Rodgers 1.506
85 John Parry 1.475
86 ↓↓ Rasmus Neergaard Petersen 1.473
87 ↑↑ Eugenio Chacarra 1.457
88 ↓↓ Andrew Putnam 1.450
89 ↑↑ Shaun Norris 1.421
90 ↑↑ McClure Meissner 1.416
91 Lucas Herbert 1.402
92 Richard Hoey 1.386
93 ↓↓ Taylor Pendrith 1.381
94 ↓↓ Max McGreevy 1.377
95 ↓↓ Haotong Li 1.377
96 Ricky Castillo 1.369
97 ↓↓ Daniel Hillier 1.369
98 ↓↓ Christiaan Bezuidenhout 1.363
99 ↓↓ Stephan Jaeger 1.347
100 ↑↑ Sudarshan Yellamaraju 1.333

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

Wyndham Clark has gained 3.45 points since June 1, which is the most of anybody in the world rankings. His rank has increased from 75th to 8th in the world rankings.

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

Rory McIlroy has lost 0.38 points since June 1, 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 Cameron Young, who is ranked 3rd in the world.