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 148 weeks, starting on May 22. Overall he's held the #1 position for 182 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 16.843
2 Rory McIlroy 10.199
3 Matt Fitzpatrick 6.293
4 Cameron Young 5.888
5 Justin Rose 5.370
6 Collin Morikawa 5.334
7 ↓↓ Tommy Fleetwood 5.166
8 Russell Henley 5.092
9 ↓↓ Xander Schauffele 4.966
10 J.J Spaun 4.823
11 Chris Gotterup 4.692
12 Robert MacIntyre 4.577
13 Sepp Straka 4.124
14 Ludvig Aberg 4.040
15 Hideki Matsuyama 4.026
16 Ben Griffin 3.805
17 Justin Thomas 3.775
18 Harris English 3.683
19 Jacob Bridgeman 3.654
20 ↑↑ Jon Rahm 3.560
21 Alex Noren 3.485
22 Patrick Reed 3.484
23 ↑↑ Tyrrell Hatton 3.430
24 Akshay Bhatia 3.407
25 Viktor Hovland 3.341
26 Si Woo Kim 3.318
27 Keegan Bradley 3.073
28 Bryson DeChambeau 3.025
29 Sam Burns 2.986
30 Maverick McNealy 2.972
31 Patrick Cantlay 2.924
32 Min Woo Lee 2.910
33 ↓↓ Ryan Gerard 2.896
34 Kurt Kitayama 2.770
35 Shane Lowry 2.695
36 ↑↑ Nicolai Hojgaard 2.522
37 ↑↑ Jake Knapp 2.521
38 Jason Day 2.505
39 Marco Penge 2.503
40 Daniel Berger 2.378
41 Aaron Rai 2.292
42 Nicolas Echavarria 2.265
43 ↑↑ Michael Kim 2.244
44 Corey Conners 2.231
45 ↑↑ Gary Woodland 2.202
46 Samuel Stevens 2.195
47 Matt McCarty 2.161
48 Kristoffer Reitan 2.101
49 ↓↓ Michael Brennan 2.077
50 Brian Harman 2.062
51 ↑↑ Jordan Spieth 2.058
52 Andrew Novak 2.031
53 Adam Scott 2.002
54 ↓↓ Ryan Fox 1.993
55 Pierceson Coody 1.992
56 ↑↑ Rickie Fowler 1.942
57 ↑↑ Ryo Hisatsune 1.923
58 Sami Valimaki 1.901
59 ↓↓ Rasmus Hojgaard 1.833
60 Michael Thorbjornsen 1.833
61 ↑↑ David Puig 1.808
62 ↓↓ Thomas Detry 1.804
63 Harry Hall 1.771
64 ↓↓ Jayden Schaper 1.770
65 ↑↑ Bud Cauley 1.754
66 ↓↓ Max Greyserman 1.746
67 Nick Taylor 1.744
68 Jordan Smith 1.725
69 ↑↑ Matt Wallace 1.687
70 Wyndham Clark 1.682
71 John Keefer 1.674
72 Casey Jarvis 1.633
73 ↓↓ Patrick Rodgers 1.629
74 ↑↑ Sahith Theegala 1.612
75 ↓↓ Rasmus Neergaard Petersen 1.609
76 ↓↓ Sungjae Im 1.586
77 Aldrich Potgieter 1.523
78 ↓↓ Max McGreevy 1.519
79 ↓↓ JT Poston 1.515
80 Haotong Li 1.515
81 ↓↓ Taylor Pendrith 1.494
82 ↓↓ Richard Hoey 1.481
83 John Parry 1.462
84 Garrick Higgo 1.446
85 ↓↓ Elvis Smylie 1.425
86 ↑↑ Ricky Castillo 1.418
87 Austin Smotherman 1.409
88 ↑↑ Andrew Putnam 1.395
89 David Lipsky 1.381
90 Daniel Hillier 1.371
91 ↓↓ Matti Schmid 1.369
92 ↓↓ Lucas Glover 1.364
93 Denny McCarthy 1.359
94 Christiaan Bezuidenhout 1.355
95 ↓↓ Daniel Brown(Oct1994) 1.346
96 Chris Kirk 1.336
97 Adrien Saddier 1.317
98 Stephan Jaeger 1.301
99 ↓↓ Billy Horschel 1.288
100 Brian Campbell 1.269

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

Rory McIlroy has gained 1.97 points since March 30, which is the most of anybody in the world rankings. In this time period he has solidified his position as the 2nd ranked player in the world.

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

Bryson DeChambeau has lost 0.28 points since March 30, which is the steepest drop of anybody in the world rankings. His ranking has dropped from 24th to 28th 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.