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 147 weeks, starting on May 22. Overall he's held the #1 position for 181 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 16.288
2 Rory McIlroy 10.148
3 ↑↑ Cameron Young 5.877
4 Justin Rose 5.315
5 ↓↓ Tommy Fleetwood 5.224
6 Russell Henley 5.107
7 ↑↑ Matt Fitzpatrick 5.088
8 ↓↓ Collin Morikawa 5.083
9 Xander Schauffele 4.941
10 J.J Spaun 4.842
11 Chris Gotterup 4.691
12 Robert MacIntyre 4.619
13 Sepp Straka 4.159
14 Hideki Matsuyama 4.094
15 Justin Thomas 3.857
16 Ben Griffin 3.829
17 Ludvig Aberg 3.787
18 Jacob Bridgeman 3.640
19 Alex Noren 3.525
20 Patrick Reed 3.514
21 ↓↓ Harris English 3.459
22 Viktor Hovland 3.450
23 Tyrrell Hatton 3.386
24 ↓↓ Akshay Bhatia 3.363
25 ↑↑ Bryson DeChambeau 3.092
26 Keegan Bradley 3.006
27 Min Woo Lee 2.987
28 Sam Burns 2.951
29 Maverick McNealy 2.949
30 Si Woo Kim 2.924
31 ↑↑ Jon Rahm 2.905
32 ↓↓ Ryan Gerard 2.890
33 Patrick Cantlay 2.777
34 ↓↓ Shane Lowry 2.715
35 Kurt Kitayama 2.622
36 ↑↑ Jake Knapp 2.542
37 Marco Penge 2.536
38 ↑↑ Nicolai Hojgaard 2.526
39 Jason Day 2.500
40 ↓↓ Daniel Berger 2.377
41 ↓↓ Aaron Rai 2.302
42 ↓↓ Nicolas Echavarria 2.297
43 Corey Conners 2.256
44 ↑↑ Michael Kim 2.228
45 Samuel Stevens 2.212
46 Kristoffer Reitan 2.129
47 Michael Brennan 2.115
48 ↓↓ Matt McCarty 2.083
49 ↑↑ Gary Woodland 2.048
50 ↑↑ Brian Harman 2.045
51 Adam Scott 2.040
52 ↑↑ Jordan Spieth 2.034
53 ↓↓ Andrew Novak 1.990
54 ↓↓ Ryan Fox 1.950
55 ↓↓ Pierceson Coody 1.939
56 ↑↑ Ryo Hisatsune 1.924
57 Sami Valimaki 1.909
58 ↓↓ Rasmus Hojgaard 1.868
59 Michael Thorbjornsen 1.849
60 Jayden Schaper 1.793
61 ↓↓ Harry Hall 1.790
62 Thomas Detry 1.787
63 Rickie Fowler 1.773
64 Nick Taylor 1.757
65 ↓↓ Max Greyserman 1.753
66 John Keefer 1.720
67 ↑↑ Matt Wallace 1.702
68 ↑↑ Jordan Smith 1.694
69 Casey Jarvis 1.641
70 ↓↓ Rasmus Neergaard Petersen 1.637
71 Wyndham Clark 1.632
72 ↑↑ Sungjae Im 1.603
73 Sahith Theegala 1.589
74 ↑↑ Patrick Rodgers 1.578
75 Max McGreevy 1.543
76 ↑↑ Bud Cauley 1.539
77 ↓↓ Taylor Pendrith 1.538
78 Haotong Li 1.536
79 ↓↓ JT Poston 1.532
80 Richard Hoey 1.505
81 ↓↓ Aldrich Potgieter 1.494
82 David Puig 1.490
83 John Parry 1.485
84 ↓↓ Elvis Smylie 1.474
85 ↓↓ Garrick Higgo 1.442
86 ↑↑ Austin Smotherman 1.424
87 ↑↑ Ricky Castillo 1.415
88 ↑↑ David Lipsky 1.397
89 Matti Schmid 1.391
90 Daniel Hillier 1.389
91 Christiaan Bezuidenhout 1.382
92 ↑↑ Andrew Putnam 1.377
93 Denny McCarthy 1.372
94 ↓↓ Daniel Brown(Oct1994) 1.371
95 ↓↓ Lucas Glover 1.362
96 Adrien Saddier 1.339
97 ↓↓ Billy Horschel 1.338
98 Chris Kirk 1.331
99 ↑↑ Stephan Jaeger 1.297
100 Brian Campbell 1.294

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

Cameron Young has gained 2.26 points since March 23, which is the most of anybody in the world rankings. His rank has increased from 15th to 3rd in the world rankings.

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

Ben Griffin has lost 0.21 points since March 23, which is the steepest drop of anybody in the world rankings. His ranking has dropped from 13th to 16th 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.