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 141 weeks, starting on May 22. Overall he's held the #1 position for 175 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 16.508
2 Rory McIlroy 8.697
3 Tommy Fleetwood 5.412
4 Justin Rose 4.873
5 ↑↑ Collin Morikawa 4.839
6 ↑↑ Chris Gotterup 4.603
7 ↓↓ Russell Henley 4.559
8 ↓↓ Robert MacIntyre 4.373
9 Xander Schauffele 4.354
10 ↓↓ J.J Spaun 4.344
11 Ben Griffin 4.242
12 Hideki Matsuyama 4.223
13 Sepp Straka 4.132
14 Justin Thomas 4.013
15 Harris English 3.677
16 Alex Noren 3.644
17 Viktor Hovland 3.521
18 ↑↑ Patrick Reed 3.419
19 Keegan Bradley 3.292
20 ↑↑ Jacob Bridgeman 3.286
21 Cameron Young 3.176
22 Matt Fitzpatrick 3.072
23 Ludvig Aberg 3.057
24 Tyrrell Hatton 3.011
25 Maverick McNealy 2.965
26 Ryan Gerard 2.956
27 Si Woo Kim 2.835
28 Sam Burns 2.731
29 ↑↑ Kurt Kitayama 2.704
30 Patrick Cantlay 2.657
31 Shane Lowry 2.656
32 ↓↓ Aaron Rai 2.557
33 ↑↑ Min Woo Lee 2.552
34 Marco Penge 2.432
35 Bryson DeChambeau 2.316
36 Jason Day 2.267
37 ↓↓ Corey Conners 2.215
38 ↑↑ Akshay Bhatia 2.214
39 Matt McCarty 2.193
40 ↑↑ Ryan Fox 2.138
41 ↓↓ Andrew Novak 2.125
42 ↓↓ Michael Brennan 2.108
43 ↑↑ Jake Knapp 2.108
44 Samuel Stevens 2.107
45 Pierceson Coody 2.092
46 ↓↓ Kristoffer Reitan 2.082
47 Sami Valimaki 2.021
48 ↓↓ Rasmus Hojgaard 1.999
49 ↓↓ Michael Kim 1.996
50 ↑↑ Michael Thorbjornsen 1.994
51 ↓↓ Max Greyserman 1.979
52 ↑↑ Adam Scott 1.973
53 ↓↓ Brian Harman 1.966
54 ↑↑ Jon Rahm 1.961
55 ↑↑ Nicolai Hojgaard 1.918
56 ↓↓ Jayden Schaper 1.892
57 Nick Taylor 1.815
58 ↓↓ Rasmus Neergaard Petersen 1.813
59 Nicolas Echavarria 1.798
60 ↓↓ Harry Hall 1.797
61 ↓↓ John Keefer 1.766
62 ↓↓ Daniel Berger 1.734
63 ↓↓ Taylor Pendrith 1.729
64 ↓↓ Wyndham Clark 1.724
65 ↑↑ Ryo Hisatsune 1.709
66 ↓↓ JT Poston 1.685
67 ↓↓ Thomas Detry 1.655
68 ↑↑ Rickie Fowler 1.648
69 Max McGreevy 1.639
70 ↓↓ Sungjae Im 1.630
71 ↑↑ Aldrich Potgieter 1.622
72 ↓↓ Haotong Li 1.622
73 ↑↑ Jordan Spieth 1.584
74 Richard Hoey 1.572
75 ↓↓ Garrick Higgo 1.569
76 ↑↑ Elvis Smylie 1.558
77 ↓↓ Daniel Brown(Oct1994) 1.550
78 ↓↓ Laurie Canter 1.548
79 ↓↓ Lucas Glover 1.526
80 ↓↓ Thriston Lawrence 1.515
81 ↓↓ Billy Horschel 1.510
82 ↓↓ Bud Cauley 1.476
82 Patrick Rodgers 1.476
84 John Parry 1.465
85 Adrien Saddier 1.458
86 ↑↑ David Puig 1.455
87 ↓↓ Denny McCarthy 1.454
88 ↓↓ Tom McKibbin 1.444
89 ↓↓ Christiaan Bezuidenhout 1.428
90 Jordan Smith 1.426
91 Matt Wallace 1.425
92 ↓↓ Brian Campbell 1.424
93 Tom Hoge 1.416
94 Sahith Theegala 1.402
95 ↓↓ Chris Kirk 1.387
96 Tony Finau 1.342
97 Thorbjorn Olesen 1.312
98 ↓↓ Davis Riley 1.310
99 Jhonattan Vegas 1.310
100 Daniel Hillier 1.306

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

Collin Morikawa has gained 1.50 points since February 9, which is the most of anybody in the world rankings. His rank has increased from 18th to 5th in the world rankings.

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

Scottie Scheffler has lost 0.51 points since February 9, 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.