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 177 weeks, starting on May 22. Overall he's held the #1 position for 211 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 16.126 ✓ ✓
2 Rory McIlroy 7.954 ✓ ✓
3 Matt Fitzpatrick 6.916 ✓
4 Cameron Young 6.861 ✓
5 Wyndham Clark 5.994 ✓
6 ↑ Chris Gotterup 5.022 ✓
7 ↑ Xander Schauffele 4.915 ✓
8 ↓↓ Tommy Fleetwood 4.904 ✓
9 ↑ Sam Burns 4.884 ✓
10 ↓↓ Russell Henley 4.875 ✓
11 Collin Morikawa 4.598 ✓
12 J.J Spaun 4.502 ✓
13 Viktor Hovland 4.485 ✓
14 Si Woo Kim 4.419
15 Jon Rahm 4.288 ✓ ✓
16 ↑ Jacob Bridgeman 4.095
17 Aaron Rai 4.067
18 ↑ Michael Brennan 3.931
19 ↑ Robert MacIntyre 3.865 ✓
20 Ludvig Aberg 3.826 ✓
21 ↓ Justin Rose 3.784 ✓ ✓
22 Ryan Fox 3.747
23 Ryan Gerard 3.651
24 Alex Noren 3.618 ✓
25 ↑ Ben Griffin 3.382 ✓
26 Hideki Matsuyama 3.316 ✓
27 ↑ Patrick Cantlay 3.272 ✓
28 ↓ Tyrrell Hatton 3.255 ✓
29 ↑ Tom Kim 3.226
30 Justin Thomas 3.179 ✓ ✓
31 Min Woo Lee 3.116
32 ↓ Patrick Reed 3.111 ✓
33 Kristoffer Reitan 3.081
34 Joaquin Niemann 2.887
35 Akshay Bhatia 2.831
36 ↑ JT Poston 2.788
37 ↑↑ Eugenio Chacarra 2.744
38 Bryson DeChambeau 2.741 ✓
39 ↓ Sepp Straka 2.701 ✓
40 Michael Thorbjornsen 2.612
41 Kurt Kitayama 2.605
42 ↑ Gary Woodland 2.583
43 ↓ Shane Lowry 2.550
44 ↓ Adam Scott 2.491 ✓ ✓
45 ↑ Bud Cauley 2.418
46 Nicolai Hojgaard 2.403
47 ↓ Harris English 2.399 ✓
48 Alex Smalley 2.351
49 Rickie Fowler 2.314 ✓
50 ↑ Jake Knapp 2.157
51 ↓ Maverick McNealy 2.154 ✓
52 Lucas Herbert 2.143
53 ↑↑ Austin Smotherman 2.104
54 Marco Penge 2.079
55 ↓ Keegan Bradley 2.055 ✓
56 Matt Wallace 2.001
57 ↑ Casey Jarvis 2.001
58 ↑↑ Andrew Novak 1.962
59 ↓ Jackson Koivun 1.940
60 Keith Mitchell 1.940
61 ↓↓ Alex Fitzpatrick 1.935
62 Sungjae Im 1.919
63 ↓ Corey Conners 1.868
64 ↓ Jordan Spieth 1.784 ✓ ✓
65 ↑↑ Steven Fisk 1.784
66 ↓ Brian Harman 1.767 ✓
67 ↑ Jordan Smith 1.746
68 ↓ John Keefer 1.729
69 ↓ Daniel Berger 1.720
70 ↓ Nicolas Echavarria 1.704
71 ↓ Michael Kim 1.693
72 ↑ Pierceson Coody 1.688
73 ↓ Harry Hall 1.685
74 ↓ Samuel Stevens 1.651
75 ↓ Ryo Hisatsune 1.637
76 ↓ Ross Steelman 1.599
77 ↑↑ Daniel Hillier 1.595
78 ↑↑ Benjamin James 1.595
79 ↓ Max Homa 1.561 ✓
80 ↓↓ Rasmus Neergaard Petersen 1.551
81 ↑ Sami Valimaki 1.521
82 Eric Cole 1.512
83 ↓ David Puig 1.512
84 ↓ Matt McCarty 1.503
85 ↓↓ Jason Day 1.499 ✓ ✓
86 ↓↓ Rasmus Hojgaard 1.499
87 ↓ Ricky Castillo 1.476
88 Jacob Skov Olesen 1.474
89 Sandy Scott 1.426
90 ↑ Thomas Detry 1.393
91 ↑↑ Doug Ghim 1.389
92 ↓↓ Nick Taylor 1.374
93 Ben Kohles 1.372
94 ↓ Sahith Theegala 1.365
95 Blades Brown 1.351
96 ↓ McClure Meissner 1.331
97 ↑ Beau Hossler 1.308
98 ↓ Max Greyserman 1.293
99 Jayden Schaper 1.287
100 ↓↓ Matti Schmid 1.273

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

Yuto Katsuragawa has gained 0.53 points since October 19, which is the most of anybody in the world rankings. His rank has increased from 398th to 166th in the world rankings.

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

Scottie Scheffler has lost 0.82 points since October 19, 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 Matt Fitzpatrick, who is ranked 3rd in the world.