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 145 weeks, starting on May 22. Overall he's held the #1 position for 179 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 15.412
2 Rory McIlroy 8.060
3 ↑↑ Cameron Young 5.357
4 Tommy Fleetwood 5.207
5 ↑↑ Matt Fitzpatrick 4.916
6 Xander Schauffele 4.833
7 ↓↓ Justin Rose 4.803
8 ↓↓ Collin Morikawa 4.741
9 ↓↓ Chris Gotterup 4.670
10 ↓↓ Russell Henley 4.564
11 Robert MacIntyre 4.443
12 Sepp Straka 4.321
13 J.J Spaun 4.066
14 Hideki Matsuyama 3.968
15 Justin Thomas 3.943
16 ↓↓ Ben Griffin 3.895
17 Jacob Bridgeman 3.634
18 ↑↑ Ludvig Aberg 3.561
19 Alex Noren 3.479
20 ↑↑ Akshay Bhatia 3.429
21 ↓↓ Harris English 3.416
22 ↓↓ Viktor Hovland 3.400
23 ↓↓ Patrick Reed 3.329
24 ↑↑ Bryson DeChambeau 3.237
25 ↑↑ Min Woo Lee 3.056
26 ↓↓ Keegan Bradley 3.006
27 Maverick McNealy 2.914
28 Ryan Gerard 2.878
29 ↑↑ Jon Rahm 2.872
30 Si Woo Kim 2.822
31 ↓↓ Tyrrell Hatton 2.787
32 Shane Lowry 2.730
33 ↓↓ Sam Burns 2.687
34 Patrick Cantlay 2.640
35 ↓↓ Kurt Kitayama 2.634
36 ↑↑ Nicolai Hojgaard 2.570
37 Marco Penge 2.500
38 ↑↑ Daniel Berger 2.487
39 ↑↑ Nicolas Echavarria 2.362
40 ↓↓ Aaron Rai 2.359
41 ↓↓ Jason Day 2.322
42 Jake Knapp 2.287
43 ↓↓ Corey Conners 2.247
44 Samuel Stevens 2.181
45 Michael Brennan 2.094
46 ↓↓ Matt McCarty 2.030
47 ↓↓ Andrew Novak 2.022
48 ↓↓ Ryan Fox 2.017
49 Kristoffer Reitan 2.009
50 Brian Harman 2.009
51 ↑↑ Gary Woodland 1.999
52 ↓↓ Pierceson Coody 1.977
53 Adam Scott 1.972
54 Michael Thorbjornsen 1.937
55 ↓↓ Rasmus Hojgaard 1.931
56 ↓↓ Michael Kim 1.893
57 ↓↓ Sami Valimaki 1.885
58 ↑↑ Thomas Detry 1.857
59 Harry Hall 1.850
60 John Keefer 1.845
61 ↓↓ Jayden Schaper 1.837
62 ↓↓ Max Greyserman 1.835
63 ↑↑ Jordan Spieth 1.832
64 Ryo Hisatsune 1.815
65 Rickie Fowler 1.782
66 ↓↓ Nick Taylor 1.741
67 ↑↑ Jordan Smith 1.738
68 ↓↓ Rasmus Neergaard Petersen 1.691
69 ↑↑ Casey Jarvis 1.658
70 Sungjae Im 1.640
71 ↑↑ Sahith Theegala 1.621
72 ↑↑ Patrick Rodgers 1.615
73 Max McGreevy 1.591
74 ↓↓ Taylor Pendrith 1.590
75 ↓↓ Wyndham Clark 1.571
76 ↓↓ JT Poston 1.546
77 ↓↓ Aldrich Potgieter 1.537
78 Richard Hoey 1.529
79 ↑↑ David Puig 1.526
80 Bud Cauley 1.524
81 ↓↓ Haotong Li 1.511
82 ↓↓ Elvis Smylie 1.506
83 ↓↓ Garrick Higgo 1.487
84 John Parry 1.453
85 ↓↓ Daniel Brown(Oct1994) 1.448
86 ↑↑ Ricky Castillo 1.438
87 ↑↑ Matti Schmid 1.434
88 ↑↑ David Lipsky 1.430
89 ↑↑ Daniel Hillier 1.420
90 ↑↑ Austin Smotherman 1.419
91 Christiaan Bezuidenhout 1.411
92 ↓↓ Denny McCarthy 1.407
93 ↓↓ Lucas Glover 1.400
94 ↓↓ Billy Horschel 1.395
95 ↓↓ Adrien Saddier 1.387
96 ↓↓ Matt Wallace 1.354
97 Chris Kirk 1.344
98 ↓↓ Laurie Canter 1.330
99 Stephan Jaeger 1.326
100 ↓↓ Thriston Lawrence 1.325

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

Cameron Young has gained 2.18 points since March 9, which is the most of anybody in the world rankings. His rank has increased from 21st to 3rd in the world rankings.

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

Scottie Scheffler has lost 1.10 points since March 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 Cameron Young, who is ranked 3rd in the world.