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 152 weeks, starting on May 22. Overall he's held the #1 position for 186 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 16.395
2 Rory McIlroy 9.946
3 Cameron Young 7.192
4 Matt Fitzpatrick 6.324
5 Justin Rose 5.234
6 Collin Morikawa 5.030
7 Tommy Fleetwood 5.005
8 Xander Schauffele 4.899
9 J.J Spaun 4.845
10 Chris Gotterup 4.823
11 Russell Henley 4.774
12 ↑↑ Jon Rahm 4.767
13 Ludvig Aberg 4.451
14 Robert MacIntyre 4.286
15 ↑↑ Aaron Rai 4.279
16 Justin Thomas 4.267
17 Ben Griffin 4.166
18 ↓↓ Sepp Straka 4.058
19 Hideki Matsuyama 3.683
20 Alex Noren 3.645
21 Patrick Reed 3.623
22 Harris English 3.562
23 Jacob Bridgeman 3.544
24 Si Woo Kim 3.494
25 ↑↑ Kristoffer Reitan 3.369
26 Akshay Bhatia 3.334
27 Tyrrell Hatton 3.216
28 ↑↑ Nicolai Hojgaard 3.072
29 ↑↑ Kurt Kitayama 3.070
30 ↓↓ Viktor Hovland 3.059
31 Min Woo Lee 3.000
32 Bryson DeChambeau 2.983
33 Patrick Cantlay 2.975
34 Maverick McNealy 2.923
35 ↓↓ Sam Burns 2.864
36 ↓↓ Keegan Bradley 2.822
37 Ryan Gerard 2.781
38 ↑↑ Rickie Fowler 2.665
39 Jake Knapp 2.602
40 ↓↓ Shane Lowry 2.582
41 Jason Day 2.397
42 ↑↑ Alex Smalley 2.391
43 Marco Penge 2.374
44 Daniel Berger 2.337
45 Michael Kim 2.244
46 Matt McCarty 2.224
47 Jordan Spieth 2.199
48 Gary Woodland 2.185
49 Adam Scott 2.178
50 ↓↓ Nicolas Echavarria 2.165
51 ↓↓ Samuel Stevens 2.155
52 ↓↓ Corey Conners 2.101
53 Andrew Novak 2.013
54 Ryan Fox 1.958
55 ↓↓ Brian Harman 1.956
56 ↓↓ Michael Brennan 1.946
57 Pierceson Coody 1.931
58 David Puig 1.919
59 ↑↑ Nick Taylor 1.899
60 Ryo Hisatsune 1.874
61 Harry Hall 1.826
62 Sami Valimaki 1.820
63 Max Greyserman 1.764
64 Thomas Detry 1.762
65 ↑↑ Matti Schmid 1.751
66 Bud Cauley 1.727
67 ↓↓ Rasmus Hojgaard 1.707
68 Jayden Schaper 1.691
69 Matt Wallace 1.680
70 ↓↓ Michael Thorbjornsen 1.671
71 Jordan Smith 1.646
72 Sungjae Im 1.630
73 Casey Jarvis 1.630
74 Aldrich Potgieter 1.606
75 ↓↓ Wyndham Clark 1.597
76 Patrick Rodgers 1.578
77 ↓↓ John Keefer 1.548
78 Sahith Theegala 1.528
79 Rasmus Neergaard Petersen 1.515
80 Haotong Li 1.488
81 ↑↑ Andrew Putnam 1.445
82 Taylor Pendrith 1.434
83 ↑↑ Alex Fitzpatrick 1.431
84 ↓↓ Max McGreevy 1.417
85 ↓↓ JT Poston 1.414
86 John Parry 1.408
87 Austin Smotherman 1.407
88 ↑↑ Christiaan Bezuidenhout 1.407
89 ↓↓ Richard Hoey 1.396
90 ↑↑ Lucas Herbert 1.388
91 Daniel Hillier 1.382
92 ↓↓ Ricky Castillo 1.378
93 ↑↑ Stephan Jaeger 1.363
94 ↓↓ Garrick Higgo 1.362
95 ↓↓ David Lipsky 1.351
96 Chris Kirk 1.331
97 ↓↓ Lucas Glover 1.330
98 ↓↓ Denny McCarthy 1.319
99 ↑↑ Shaun Norris 1.308
100 ↓↓ Elvis Smylie 1.299

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

Aaron Rai has gained 1.99 points since April 27, which is the most of anybody in the world rankings. His rank has increased from 41st to 15th in the world rankings.

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

Scottie Scheffler has lost 0.45 points since April 27, 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.