Official World Golf Ranking 02/2026 - Golf Today

Week 02 – 11/01/2026

Simon Bale|January 12, 2026

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This Week	Last Week	Country	Player	Avg. Points	Total Points	Points Lost (2025)
1	1	United States	Scottie Scheffler	15.99	655.45	-29.51
2	2	Northern Ireland	Rory McIlroy	8.94	419.97	-16.74
3	3	England	Tommy Fleetwood	5.49	274.30	-8.70
4	4	United States	Xander Schauffele	4.86	194.31	-11.77
5	5	United States	Russell Henley	4.72	188.66	-7.70
6	6	United States	J.J. Spaun	4.63	240.85	-7.19
7	7	Scotland	Robert MacIntyre	4.48	232.97	-8.37
8	8	United States	Ben Griffin	4.42	230.07	-6.28
9	9	United States	Justin Thomas	4.32	181.63	-7.52
10	10	England	Justin Rose	4.07	174.83	-6.00
11	13	United States	Harris English	3.83	183.72	-6.30
12	11	Austria	Sepp Straka	3.82	183.40	-6.69
13	12	Sweden	Alex Noren	3.79	151.59	-4.69
14	15	United States	Keegan Bradley	3.71	159.65	-6.79
15	14	Norway	Viktor Hovland	3.64	145.69	-5.50
16	17	Japan	Hideki Matsuyama	3.63	170.50	-8.03
17	16	United States	Collin Morikawa	3.54	145.33	-8.03
18	18	Sweden	Ludvig Aberg	3.53	151.98	-8.02
19	19	United States	Cameron Young	3.23	154.90	-6.01
20	20	England	Tyrrell Hatton	3.14	125.72	-4.55
21	21	England	Matt Fitzpatrick	3.04	145.96	-4.19
22	22	United States	Maverick McNealy	2.96	154.02	-6.13
23	23	England	Aaron Rai	2.82	146.45	-5.15
24	24	United States	Sam Burns	2.74	128.85	-5.61
25	25	United States	Patrick Cantlay	2.71	108.24	-5.18
26	26	Ireland	Shane Lowry	2.66	138.13	-5.92
27	27	United States	Bryson DeChambeau	2.58	103.20	-5.79
28	28	United States	Chris Gotterup	2.56	133.20	-4.08
29	29	England	Marco Penge	2.53	131.61	-2.90
30	30	Canada	Corey Conners	2.49	114.62	-4.79
31	31	Norway	Kristoffer Reitan	2.23	111.28	-2.35
32	32	United States	Michael Brennan	2.19	87.64	-1.23
33	34	United States	Andrew Novak	2.19	111.61	-4.03
34	33	United States	Max Greyserman	2.19	111.52	-4.30
35	35	United States	Brian Harman	2.18	108.91	-4.74
36	36	United States	Kurt Kitayama	2.15	92.58	-3.30
37	37	United States	Michael Kim	2.09	108.60	-3.32
38	38	Finland	Sami Valimaki	2.07	107.62	-2.06
39	40	Denmark	Rasmus Hojgaard	2.04	101.77	-3.88
40	39	New Zealand	Ryan Fox	2.02	105.07	-3.50
41	41	United States	Patrick Reed	1.94	77.66	-2.59
42	42	United States	Ryan Gerard	1.94	100.91	-3.00
43	44	Australia	Min Woo Lee	1.92	94.19	-3.96
44	43	South Korea	Sungjae Im	1.92	99.63	-4.90
45	48	United States	John Keefer	1.90	75.97	-2.31
46	47	South Korea	Si Woo Kim	1.90	98.66	-3.34
47	45	United States	Wyndham Clark	1.89	88.75	-6.43
48	46	United States	Akshay Bhatia	1.89	98.13	-5.03
49	49	Denmark	Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen	1.87	97.35	-2.57
50	50	United States	Samuel Stevens	1.86	96.47	-3.27
51	52	Canada	Taylor Pendrith	1.85	86.97	-4.42
52	51	Colombia	Nicolas Echavarria	1.84	95.56	-3.27
53	53	United States	Billy Horschel	1.83	74.85	-4.66
54	56	Canada	Nick Taylor	1.80	88.18	-4.57
55	58	United States	J.T. Poston	1.79	85.80	-4.00
56	54	United States	Matt McCarty	1.78	92.56	-3.59
57	55	Australia	Jason Day	1.77	70.68	-3.49
58	57	Belgium	Thomas Detry	1.76	91.76	-3.92
59	60	South Africa	Jayden Schaper	1.74	90.66	-1.19
60	62	United States	Lucas Glover	1.74	81.79	-3.45
61	59	England	Laurie Canter	1.73	71.05	-2.15
62	61	England	Harry Hall	1.72	89.21	-3.26
63	63	United States	Daniel Berger	1.71	81.88	-3.09
64	66	South Africa	Garrick Higgo	1.70	78.27	-1.97
65	65	South Africa	Thriston Lawrence	1.67	86.72	-3.00
66	64	Australia	Adam Scott	1.66	79.67	-4.08
67	67	United States	Max McGreevy	1.66	86.29	-2.31
68	68	United States	Michael Thorbjornsen	1.65	66.17	-1.80
69	70	United States	Denny McCarthy	1.64	74.02	-3.70
70	69	Philippines	Richard Hoey	1.64	85.13	-2.14
71	73	England	Daniel Brown(Oct1994)	1.62	77.85	-2.25
72	71	United States	Bud Cauley	1.61	64.25	-2.18
73	72	United States	Brian Campbell	1.60	78.51	-2.85
74	77	Northern Ireland	Tom McKibbin	1.58	63.26	-1.93
75	76	United States	Chris Kirk	1.58	69.56	-3.39
76	74	France	Adrien Saddier	1.57	81.38	-2.36
77	75	United States	Jordan Spieth	1.55	63.57	-2.83
78	78	England	Matt Wallace	1.54	79.93	-2.95
79	79	Denmark	Nicolai Hojgaard	1.53	79.62	-3.04
80	80	South Africa	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	1.52	79.01	-3.21
81	81	United States	Jacob Bridgeman	1.51	78.48	-2.74
82	82	England	John Parry	1.49	77.41	-2.34
83	84	South Africa	Aldrich Potgieter	1.48	73.94	-2.46
84	83	United States	Rickie Fowler	1.48	63.55	-2.27
85	86	Venezuela	Jhonattan Vegas	1.47	63.41	-2.72
86	87	China	Haotong Li	1.47	73.35	-2.24
87	85	Spain	Jon Rahm	1.46	58.43	-2.23
88	88	Germany	Matti Schmid	1.42	73.79	-2.33
89	89	England	Jordan Smith	1.42	73.59	-2.48
90	90	Taiwan (Chinese Taipei)	Chun-an Yu	1.40	72.87	-2.68
91	91	Canada	Mackenzie Hughes	1.35	70.20	-3.33
92	93	United States	Neal Shipley	1.34	56.42	-1.83
93	94	Japan	Keita Nakajima	1.34	61.58	-1.84
94	95	United States	Pierceson Coody	1.34	69.47	-2.07
95	98	Argentina	Emiliano Grillo	1.33	66.60	-2.62
96	92	United States	Tony Finau	1.33	55.89	-3.75
97	97	Denmark	Thorbjorn Olesen	1.33	68.92	-2.16
98	96	United States	Davis Thompson	1.32	68.50	-3.73
99	99	South Korea	Byeong Hun An	1.32	67.18	-3.87
100	100	South Africa	Shaun Norris	1.31	68.19	-1.93
101	102	United States	Davis Riley	1.31	66.85	-2.96
102	101	United States	Tom Hoge	1.29	67.31	-3.28
103	103	United States	McClure Meissner	1.28	64.04	-2.26
104	104	United States	Steven Fisk	1.27	62.35	-2.26
105	106	United States	Jake Knapp	1.27	57.22	-3.18
106	105	United States	Vincent Whaley	1.27	65.84	-2.02
107	107	South Korea	Tom Kim	1.24	64.22	-3.53
108	108	Sweden	Joakim Lagergren	1.21	57.04	-1.60
109	111	Japan	Kazuki Higa	1.20	62.34	-1.42
110	110	United States	Eric Cole	1.19	62.05	-2.25
111	109	Germany	Stephan Jaeger	1.18	61.42	-3.72
112	112	United States	Joe Highsmith	1.18	61.36	-2.31
113	113	Spain	David Puig	1.16	46.43	-1.51
114	114	South Africa	Erik van Rooyen	1.15	59.76	-2.78
115	115	United States	William Mouw	1.15	51.70	-1.73
116	116	Japan	Takumi Kanaya	1.15	59.64	-1.45
117	117	Spain	Angel Ayora	1.14	59.46	-1.35
118	118	United States	Chandler Blanchet	1.14	51.21	-1.20
119	119	United States	Mark Hubbard	1.11	57.92	-1.99
120	119	United States	Sahith Theegala	1.11	51.23	-4.41
121	121	United States	Patrick Rodgers	1.11	57.85	-1.80
122	122	United States	Alex Smalley	1.09	56.51	-1.72
123	125	United States	Gary Woodland	1.08	49.78	-1.82
124	123	Spain	Eugenio Chacarra	1.08	43.15	-1.03
125	127	Australia	Elvis Smylie	1.06	44.53	-1.23
126	124	United States	Austin Eckroat	1.05	54.67	-3.45
127	126	United States	Patrick Fishburn	1.03	53.77	-2.10
128	130	South Africa	JC Ritchie	1.03	53.66	-1.21
129	129	France	Martin Couvra	1.03	53.60	-1.51
130	132	United States	Keith Mitchell	1.03	51.49	-2.42
131	128	Japan	Ryo Hisatsune	1.03	53.50	-2.02
132	131	United States	Austin Smotherman	1.02	51.16	-1.70
133	133	United States	Adam Schenk	1.02	52.99	-1.42
134	134	United States	Beau Hossler	1.01	52.42	-2.04
135	137	United States	Matt Kuchar	1.01	42.30	-1.57
136	135	France	Victor Perez	1.00	52.13	-2.48
137	136	Australia	Cameron Davis	1.00	47.02	-2.74
138	139	New Zealand	Daniel Hillier	0.97	50.30	-1.17
139	141	England	Andy Sullivan	0.96	50.07	-1.31
140	138	United States	Max Homa	0.96	44.09	-2.46
141	140	United States	Lee Hodges	0.96	49.78	-1.91
142	142	Chile	Joaquin Niemann	0.95	37.81	-1.82
143	144	United States	David Lipsky	0.93	48.48	-1.76
144	143	Sweden	Jesper Svensson	0.93	48.38	-2.04
145	146	South Africa	Christo Lamprecht	0.93	37.09	-1.07
146	145	Australia	Karl Vilips	0.92	36.99	-1.40
147	147	United States	Kevin Roy	0.92	47.86	-1.72
148	148	United States	Doug Ghim	0.90	46.86	-2.05
149	149	Mexico	Carlos Ortiz	0.88	35.25	-1.33
150	151	Denmark	Jacob Skov Olesen	0.88	35.15	-0.81
151	150	Zimbabwe	Scott Vincent	0.88	35.14	-0.96
152	152	Denmark	Niklas Norgaard	0.86	44.89	-2.00
153	154	Mexico	Emilio Gonzalez	0.86	44.78	-1.34
154	153	Japan	Kensei Hirata	0.86	44.71	-1.83
155	155	Belgium	Adrien Dumont de Chassart	0.86	44.58	-1.42
156	155	United States	Chandler Phillips	0.86	44.48	-1.61
157	158	England	Richard Mansell	0.85	44.03	-1.46
158	157	United States	Justin Lower	0.85	44.01	-1.69
159	159	Spain	Jorge Campillo	0.84	43.78	-1.43
160	162	Scotland	Ewen Ferguson	0.84	42.62	-1.73
161	163	France	Antoine Rozner	0.84	42.62	-1.66
162	166	Scotland	Grant Forrest	0.83	40.73	-1.23
163	160	Ireland	Seamus Power	0.83	43.16	-1.70
164	161	South Korea	Seonghyeon Kim	0.83	43.02	-1.57
165	164	China	Ding Wenyi	0.83	33.02	-0.51
166	165	United States	Chad Ramey	0.82	42.61	-0.99
167	167	Finland	Oliver Lindell	0.81	42.26	-1.26
168	169	Japan	Kota Kaneko	0.81	38.96	-0.85
169	171	Netherlands	Joost Luiten	0.81	41.95	-1.17
170	173	United States	Ricky Castillo	0.81	41.86	-1.12
171	172	Canada	Richard T. Lee	0.80	40.19	-1.42
172	168	United States	Taylor Moore	0.80	41.72	-2.28
173	174	United States	Carson Young	0.79	40.97	-1.52
174	170	United States	Nick Dunlap	0.79	39.36	-3.21
175	176	England	Dan Bradbury	0.78	40.72	-1.07
176	175	United States	Luke Clanton	0.78	31.05	-1.50
177	177	South Korea	Taehoon Ok	0.77	35.58	-1.04
178	178	United States	Jackson Koivun(Am)	0.77	30.92	-0.77
179	179	South Africa	Jacques Kruyswijk	0.76	38.90	-1.24
180	181	United States	Peter Uihlein	0.74	29.72	-0.97
181	187	United States	Lanto Griffin	0.74	37.14	-1.26
182	180	United States	Andrew Putnam	0.74	38.58	-1.64
183	188	New Zealand	Kazuma Kobori	0.74	36.30	-1.19
184	186	Spain	Jose Luis Ballester	0.74	29.62	-0.05
185	182	Scotland	Calum Hill	0.74	38.33	-1.25
186	183	United States	Jackson Suber	0.74	36.81	-1.26
187	184	United States	Trace Crowe(Oct1996)	0.73	34.53	-1.30
188	185	Japan	Tatsunori Shogenji	0.73	38.06	-0.98
189	191	United States	Taylor Montgomery	0.73	34.20	-1.39
190	189	Spain	Nacho Elvira	0.72	37.36	-1.07
191	190	Germany	Nicolai Von Dellingshausen	0.72	37.25	-1.12
192	192	England	Marcus Armitage	0.71	37.13	-1.08
193	193	United States	Hank Lebioda	0.71	33.45	-1.16
194	194	England	Matthew Jordan	0.71	36.79	-1.63
195	195	South Korea	Junghwan Lee	0.70	35.11	-0.61
196	196	Scotland	David Law	0.70	36.26	-1.04
197	197	South Africa	Barend Botha	0.70	27.82	-0.81
198	199	South Africa	Richard Sterne	0.69	27.78	-0.53
199	198	France	Romain Langasque	0.68	35.57	-1.83
200	200	United States	Harry Higgs	0.68	35.44	-1.67

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Updated: January 12, 2026