Top ten golfers in world

The rankings started on 6 April and are updated each week.

Skip to main content Skip to navigation. Official World Golf Ranking Men's Top Scottie Scheffler. Rory McIlroy. Jon Rahm. Viktor Hovland.

Top ten golfers in world

The following is a list of golfers who have been top of the Official World Golf Ranking originally known as the Sony Ranking , since the rankings started on April 6, As of February 25, , Scottie Scheffler is the number one ranked golfer. The rankings are calculated each week based on finishing positions in individual tournaments i. During , nearly tournaments on 20 tours were covered by the ranking system. All players competing in these tournaments are included in the rankings. In , 24 tours factored into the world rankings. A total of 25 different golfers from ten countries spanning four continents have been ranked world number one. The United States has had nine golfers ranked number one, the most of any country. Tiger Woods has spent the most consecutive weeks and most total weeks at the top of the rankings, and Tom Lehman the fewest total weeks, having spent just a single week at the top in April Three golfers have spent an entire calendar year atop the rankings: Nick Faldo , Greg Norman , and Woods , , , , , , , Lee Westwood and Luke Donald are the only world number one golfers to have not won a major championship. Order — indicates the sequence in which the players first reached number 1. Majors — number of major championships each player has won throughout his golfing career. Order — indicates the sequence in which the country first had a number 1 player.

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Scheffler Scottie Scheffler. McIlroy Rory McIlroy. Rahm Jon Rahm. Hovland Viktor Hovland. Schauffele Xander Schauffele.

Jon Rahm became the No. Rory McIlroy took over the top spot on Oct. He last held the top spot in July Scottie Scheffler became No. It is his first run at the top of the world ranking, overtaking Rahm, who was the 24th person to take the top ranking in the world.

Top ten golfers in world

The Official World Golf Ranking is a system for rating the performance level of professional golfers. It was started in The rankings are based on a player's position in individual tournaments i. New rankings are calculated each week. During , nearly tournaments on 20 tours were covered by the ranking system. All players competing in these tournaments are included in the rankings. In , 21 tours factored into the world rankings.

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Ogletree Andy Ogletree. Chip Beck. Retrieved 3 April Lombard Zander Lombard. Andrew Novak. Bryson DeChambeau. September 9, Xiong Norman Xiong. Retief Goosen. As of February 25, , Scottie Scheffler is the number one ranked golfer. October 20, Tools Tools. Retrieved 20 December Men's Top Rankings were produced on 15 March and restarted on 14 June

Scottie Scheffler became the latest new player to achieve the feat with his victory at the WGC Dell Technologies Match Play and spent 13 weeks at the helm before Rory McIlroy returned to the summit for the ninth time and a th weeks after his victory at the CJ Cup in October The time Major champion has spent more than 13 years combined at the helm during his incredible career.

He has been number 1 for weeks, number 2 for weeks and number 3 for 27 weeks. Retrieved 3 June West Germany. Lowry Shane Lowry. Long Hurly Long. August 16, Luke List. Retrieved 25 January April 10, Tosti Alejandro Tosti. Taylor Nick Taylor. Hojgaard Nicolai Hojgaard.