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 142 weeks, starting on May 22. Overall he's held the #1 position for 176 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 16.160
2 Rory McIlroy 8.707
3 Tommy Fleetwood 5.320
4 Justin Rose 4.918
5 ↑↑ Collin Morikawa 4.747
6 Chris Gotterup 4.564
7 Russell Henley 4.468
8 Robert MacIntyre 4.291
9 ↓↓ J.J Spaun 4.272
10 Xander Schauffele 4.213
11 Ben Griffin 4.176
12 Hideki Matsuyama 4.156
13 Sepp Straka 4.149
14 Justin Thomas 3.928
15 Harris English 3.618
16 Alex Noren 3.586
17 Viktor Hovland 3.452
18 Patrick Reed 3.404
19 ↑↑ Jacob Bridgeman 3.260
20 Keegan Bradley 3.224
21 Cameron Young 3.186
22 Matt Fitzpatrick 3.087
23 Ludvig Aberg 2.977
24 Maverick McNealy 2.967
25 Tyrrell Hatton 2.954
26 Ryan Gerard 2.924
27 Shane Lowry 2.896
28 Si Woo Kim 2.807
29 Sam Burns 2.681
30 ↑↑ Kurt Kitayama 2.670
31 Patrick Cantlay 2.600
32 ↑↑ Min Woo Lee 2.563
33 ↓↓ Aaron Rai 2.536
34 ↑↑ Nicolas Echavarria 2.463
35 Marco Penge 2.400
36 Bryson DeChambeau 2.243
37 Jason Day 2.230
38 ↓↓ Corey Conners 2.213
39 ↑↑ Akshay Bhatia 2.167
40 Matt McCarty 2.158
41 ↑↑ Jake Knapp 2.132
42 ↓↓ Andrew Novak 2.129
43 ↓↓ Kristoffer Reitan 2.110
44 ↑↑ Ryan Fox 2.105
45 ↓↓ Michael Brennan 2.101
46 ↓↓ Samuel Stevens 2.076
47 Pierceson Coody 2.071
48 ↓↓ Rasmus Hojgaard 2.063
49 Sami Valimaki 1.993
50 Nicolai Hojgaard 1.983
51 ↓↓ Michael Kim 1.963
52 ↓↓ Max Greyserman 1.935
53 ↑↑ Adam Scott 1.934
54 ↑↑ Jon Rahm 1.932
55 ↓↓ Brian Harman 1.921
56 ↓↓ Michael Thorbjornsen 1.921
57 ↓↓ Jayden Schaper 1.891
58 Rasmus Neergaard Petersen 1.806
59 Nick Taylor 1.784
60 Harry Hall 1.767
61 ↓↓ Daniel Berger 1.734
62 Taylor Pendrith 1.722
63 ↓↓ John Keefer 1.698
64 ↑↑ Ryo Hisatsune 1.692
65 JT Poston 1.685
66 ↓↓ Wyndham Clark 1.675
67 ↑↑ Rickie Fowler 1.661
68 ↑↑ Aldrich Potgieter 1.633
69 Max McGreevy 1.632
70 ↓↓ Thomas Detry 1.618
71 Haotong Li 1.598
72 ↓↓ Sungjae Im 1.583
73 Elvis Smylie 1.581
74 ↓↓ Garrick Higgo 1.568
75 ↑↑ Jordan Spieth 1.556
76 Daniel Brown(Oct1994) 1.547
77 Richard Hoey 1.546
78 ↓↓ Lucas Glover 1.523
79 ↓↓ Laurie Canter 1.517
80 ↑↑ Casey Jarvis 1.501
81 Thriston Lawrence 1.486
82 Bud Cauley 1.485
83 ↑↑ Daniel Hillier 1.481
84 ↓↓ Billy Horschel 1.468
85 Patrick Rodgers 1.458
86 Tom McKibbin 1.453
87 John Parry 1.452
88 Adrien Saddier 1.448
89 ↓↓ Denny McCarthy 1.448
90 Jordan Smith 1.437
91 David Puig 1.435
92 ↓↓ Brian Campbell 1.426
93 ↓↓ Christiaan Bezuidenhout 1.423
94 Matt Wallace 1.413
95 Tom Hoge 1.390
96 Matti Schmid 1.373
97 ↓↓ Sahith Theegala 1.364
98 ↓↓ Chris Kirk 1.359
99 ↑↑ Austin Smotherman 1.351
100 Thorbjorn Olesen 1.307

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

Collin Morikawa has gained 1.56 points since February 16, which is the most of anybody in the world rankings. His rank has increased from 19th to 5th in the world rankings.

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

Scottie Scheffler has lost 0.88 points since February 16, 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 Tommy Fleetwood, who is ranked 3rd in the world.