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 154 weeks, starting on May 22. Overall he's held the #1 position for 188 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 16.214
2 Rory McIlroy 9.831
3 Cameron Young 7.250
4 Matt Fitzpatrick 6.234
5 Russell Henley 5.773
6 Justin Rose 5.197
7 Collin Morikawa 4.961
8 Tommy Fleetwood 4.931
9 J.J Spaun 4.854
10 Xander Schauffele 4.720
11 Chris Gotterup 4.708
12 ↑↑ Jon Rahm 4.697
13 ↑↑ Aaron Rai 4.345
14 Ben Griffin 4.326
15 Ludvig Aberg 4.316
16 Justin Thomas 4.234
17 ↓↓ Robert MacIntyre 4.077
18 ↓↓ Sepp Straka 3.961
19 Si Woo Kim 3.867
20 Hideki Matsuyama 3.554
21 Alex Noren 3.543
22 Patrick Reed 3.528
23 Harris English 3.518
24 ↓↓ Jacob Bridgeman 3.454
25 ↑↑ Kristoffer Reitan 3.311
26 Akshay Bhatia 3.297
27 Tyrrell Hatton 3.107
28 Bryson DeChambeau 3.100
29 ↑↑ Nicolai Hojgaard 3.017
30 Kurt Kitayama 2.994
31 Min Woo Lee 2.978
32 ↓↓ Viktor Hovland 2.948
33 Patrick Cantlay 2.871
34 Sam Burns 2.822
35 ↓↓ Maverick McNealy 2.819
36 Ryan Gerard 2.817
37 ↓↓ Keegan Bradley 2.737
38 ↑↑ Alex Smalley 2.633
39 ↑↑ Rickie Fowler 2.613
40 Jake Knapp 2.537
41 ↓↓ Shane Lowry 2.480
42 Daniel Berger 2.368
43 Gary Woodland 2.366
44 ↓↓ Jason Day 2.322
45 ↑↑ Wyndham Clark 2.314
46 ↓↓ Marco Penge 2.308
47 ↓↓ Michael Kim 2.246
48 Nicolas Echavarria 2.244
49 Jordan Spieth 2.199
50 ↓↓ Adam Scott 2.184
51 ↓↓ Matt McCarty 2.159
52 ↓↓ Samuel Stevens 2.117
53 Corey Conners 2.056
54 Michael Brennan 1.989
55 Pierceson Coody 1.968
56 Andrew Novak 1.955
57 Brian Harman 1.938
58 Ryan Fox 1.926
59 Ryo Hisatsune 1.883
60 David Puig 1.875
60 Nick Taylor 1.875
62 ↑↑ Max Greyserman 1.777
63 ↓↓ Sami Valimaki 1.764
64 Harry Hall 1.758
65 Bud Cauley 1.718
66 Thomas Detry 1.706
67 ↑↑ Matti Schmid 1.702
68 Jordan Smith 1.698
69 ↑↑ Eric Cole 1.663
70 Jayden Schaper 1.662
71 ↓↓ Rasmus Hojgaard 1.646
72 ↑↑ Sungjae Im 1.641
73 ↓↓ Michael Thorbjornsen 1.639
74 ↓↓ Matt Wallace 1.633
75 John Keefer 1.626
76 Casey Jarvis 1.610
77 Aldrich Potgieter 1.557
78 ↑↑ Joaquin Niemann 1.550
79 ↓↓ Patrick Rodgers 1.547
80 Rasmus Neergaard Petersen 1.525
81 ↑↑ McClure Meissner 1.489
82 ↓↓ Sahith Theegala 1.488
83 ↑↑ Shaun Norris 1.483
84 Andrew Putnam 1.478
85 Richard Hoey 1.454
86 ↑↑ Lucas Herbert 1.439
87 ↓↓ Haotong Li 1.439
88 ↑↑ Alex Fitzpatrick 1.409
89 ↓↓ Garrick Higgo 1.407
90 Daniel Hillier 1.401
91 Austin Smotherman 1.395
92 ↓↓ Taylor Pendrith 1.387
93 Christiaan Bezuidenhout 1.387
94 ↓↓ JT Poston 1.386
95 ↓↓ Ricky Castillo 1.376
96 Stephan Jaeger 1.363
97 ↓↓ Max McGreevy 1.356
98 ↓↓ John Parry 1.340
99 ↑↑ Keith Mitchell 1.335
100 ↓↓ David Lipsky 1.319

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

Aaron Rai has gained 2.12 points since May 11, which is the most of anybody in the world rankings. His rank has increased from 42nd to 13th in the world rankings.

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

Scottie Scheffler has lost 0.52 points since May 11, 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.