Official World Golf Ranking 09/2026 - Golf Today

Week 09 – 01/03/2026

Simon Bale|March 2, 2026

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Nico Echavarria has won the Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches, Taylor Moore, Shane Lowry and Austin Smotherman tied for second place and Ricky Castillo finished fifth.

Echavarria moves up to 34 from 59 this week, Moore to 138 from 189, Lowry up four places to 27, Smotherman to 99 from 127 and Castillo to 139 from 161.

Related: Nico Echavarria wins third PGA Tour title

Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches R4

Casey Jarvis has won the Investec South African Open Championship, Francesco Laporta, Hennie Du Plessis and Frédéric Lacroix tied for second place and Eddie Pepperell finished fifth.

Jarvis moves up to 80 from 128, Laporta to162 from 196, Du Plessis to 202 from 283, Lacroix to 201 from 258 and Pepperell to 428 from 529.

Casey Jarvis of South Africa plays their second shot on the fifth hole on day one of the Investec South African Open Championship 2026 at Stellenbosch Golf Club

Related: Back-to-back wins for Casey Jarvis

Investec South African Open Championship R4

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This Week	Last Week	Country	Player	Avg. Points	Total Points	Points Lost (2026)	Points Won (2026)
1	1	United States	Scottie Scheffler	16.16	662.58	-130.87	108.49
2	2	Northern Ireland	Rory McIlroy	8.71	409.23	-73.57	46.08
3	3	England	Tommy Fleetwood	5.32	271.34	-40.61	28.95
4	4	England	Justin Rose	4.92	216.38	-26.61	62.17
5	5	United States	Collin Morikawa	4.75	199.37	-35.58	81.59
6	6	United States	Chris Gotterup	4.56	237.33	-18.32	118.37
7	7	United States	Russell Henley	4.47	178.70	-33.58	15.93
8	8	Scotland	Robert MacIntyre	4.29	223.15	-38.06	19.86
9	10	United States	J.J. Spaun	4.27	217.90	-32.48	2.34
10	9	United States	Xander Schauffele	4.21	168.54	-52.26	14.72
11	11	United States	Ben Griffin	4.18	217.13	-30.68	11.46
12	12	Japan	Hideki Matsuyama	4.16	199.49	-34.40	55.37
13	13	Austria	Sepp Straka	4.15	199.16	-29.78	38.85
14	14	United States	Justin Thomas	3.93	157.12	-32.03	-
15	15	United States	Harris English	3.62	177.29	-27.30	14.58
16	16	Sweden	Alex Noren	3.59	143.44	-20.92	8.07
17	17	Norway	Viktor Hovland	3.45	138.09	-24.89	11.79
18	18	United States	Patrick Reed	3.40	136.17	-11.86	67.78
19	20	United States	Jacob Bridgeman	3.26	169.54	-12.50	100.82
20	19	United States	Keegan Bradley	3.22	141.84	-28.25	3.65
21	21	United States	Cameron Young	3.19	149.72	-25.84	14.66
22	22	England	Matt Fitzpatrick	3.09	148.17	-19.60	17.62
23	23	Sweden	Ludvig Aberg	2.98	130.98	-33.96	4.93
24	25	United States	Maverick McNealy	2.97	151.32	-27.03	18.20
25	24	England	Tyrrell Hatton	2.95	118.18	-20.07	7.98
26	26	United States	Ryan Gerard	2.92	152.03	-15.84	63.95
27	31	Ireland	Shane Lowry	2.90	150.60	-27.61	34.16
28	27	South Korea	Si Woo Kim	2.81	145.96	-16.77	60.73
29	28	United States	Sam Burns	2.68	126.02	-23.39	14.95
30	29	United States	Kurt Kitayama	2.67	120.13	-14.47	38.72
31	30	United States	Patrick Cantlay	2.60	103.99	-22.34	12.90
32	33	Australia	Min Woo Lee	2.56	125.60	-17.70	45.14
33	32	England	Aaron Rai	2.54	131.88	-24.61	4.89
34	59	Colombia	Nicolas Echavarria	2.46	128.07	-15.27	44.51
35	34	England	Marco Penge	2.40	124.79	-14.48	4.76
36	35	United States	Bryson DeChambeau	2.24	89.73	-26.04	6.79
37	36	Australia	Jason Day	2.23	89.20	-14.77	29.80
38	37	Canada	Corey Conners	2.21	101.81	-21.24	3.64
39	38	United States	Akshay Bhatia	2.17	112.68	-22.49	32.01
40	39	United States	Matt McCarty	2.16	112.20	-16.87	32.93
41	43	United States	Jake Knapp	2.13	95.93	-12.92	48.45
42	41	United States	Andrew Novak	2.13	108.57	-17.93	10.86
43	46	Norway	Kristoffer Reitan	2.11	109.70	-10.73	6.80
44	40	New Zealand	Ryan Fox	2.11	109.48	-15.69	16.61
45	42	United States	Michael Brennan	2.10	84.04	-8.11	3.27
46	44	United States	Samuel Stevens	2.08	107.96	-15.61	23.83
47	45	United States	Pierceson Coody	2.07	107.68	-10.21	46.34
48	48	Denmark	Rasmus Hojgaard	2.06	101.09	-16.56	12.01
49	47	Finland	Sami Valimaki	1.99	103.62	-10.72	4.66
50	55	Denmark	Nicolai Hojgaard	1.98	103.12	-12.22	32.67
51	49	United States	Michael Kim	1.96	102.09	-15.65	5.83
52	51	United States	Max Greyserman	1.94	100.64	-20.16	4.98
53	52	Australia	Adam Scott	1.93	92.83	-17.76	26.84
54	54	Spain	Jon Rahm	1.93	77.29	-10.14	26.78
55	53	United States	Brian Harman	1.92	97.98	-20.72	5.05
56	50	United States	Michael Thorbjornsen	1.92	78.76	-8.69	19.47
57	56	South Africa	Jayden Schaper	1.89	98.36	-6.15	12.67
58	58	Denmark	Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen	1.81	93.93	-12.39	6.40
59	57	Canada	Nick Taylor	1.78	89.21	-17.98	14.44
60	60	England	Harry Hall	1.77	91.86	-14.61	14.00
61	62	United States	Daniel Berger	1.73	86.68	-13.73	15.43
62	63	Canada	Taylor Pendrith	1.72	82.68	-18.98	10.28
63	61	United States	John Keefer	1.70	74.71	-10.53	6.96
64	65	Japan	Ryo Hisatsune	1.69	87.96	-10.57	43.02
65	66	United States	J.T. Poston	1.68	79.17	-16.27	5.63
66	64	United States	Wyndham Clark	1.67	80.38	-25.41	10.62
67	68	United States	Rickie Fowler	1.66	69.75	-10.16	14.09
68	71	South Africa	Aldrich Potgieter	1.63	81.63	-10.40	15.63
69	69	United States	Max McGreevy	1.63	84.87	-13.39	9.65
70	67	Belgium	Thomas Detry	1.62	84.13	-18.01	6.46
71	72	China	Haotong Li	1.60	83.09	-9.89	17.38
72	70	South Korea	Sungjae Im	1.58	82.30	-22.22	-
73	76	Australia	Elvis Smylie	1.58	63.24	-5.57	23.04
74	75	South Africa	Garrick Higgo	1.57	72.13	-9.48	1.36
75	73	United States	Jordan Spieth	1.56	65.36	-11.45	10.42
76	77	England	Daniel Brown(Oct1994)	1.55	75.78	-10.83	6.51
77	74	Philippines	Richard Hoey	1.55	80.39	-11.80	4.92
78	79	United States	Lucas Glover	1.52	70.04	-15.41	0.21
79	78	England	Laurie Canter	1.52	63.71	-10.70	1.21
80	128	South Africa	Casey Jarvis	1.50	78.05	-4.20	46.83
81	80	South Africa	Thriston Lawrence	1.49	77.28	-15.67	3.22
82	82	United States	Bud Cauley	1.49	60.90	-9.76	4.23
83	100	New Zealand	Daniel Hillier	1.48	77.01	-6.25	31.79
84	81	United States	Billy Horschel	1.47	63.11	-20.93	4.54
85	82	United States	Patrick Rodgers	1.46	75.79	-10.01	26.14
86	88	Northern Ireland	Tom McKibbin	1.45	58.11	-9.42	2.33
87	84	England	John Parry	1.45	75.49	-12.76	8.50
88	85	France	Adrien Saddier	1.45	75.30	-10.65	2.22
89	87	United States	Denny McCarthy	1.45	66.58	-16.23	5.09
90	90	England	Jordan Smith	1.44	74.70	-11.68	10.31
91	86	Spain	David Puig	1.43	57.38	-6.89	16.33
92	92	United States	Brian Campbell	1.43	69.88	-12.56	1.07
93	89	South Africa	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	1.42	74.02	-14.53	6.33
94	91	England	Matt Wallace	1.41	73.49	-15.06	5.67
95	93	United States	Tom Hoge	1.39	72.28	-14.82	16.52
96	101	Germany	Matti Schmid	1.37	71.39	-11.41	6.67
97	94	United States	Sahith Theegala	1.36	65.48	-18.03	27.86
98	95	United States	Chris Kirk	1.36	61.15	-12.39	0.58
99	127	United States	Austin Smotherman	1.35	70.24	-7.50	24.87
100	97	Denmark	Thorbjorn Olesen	1.31	67.95	-11.34	8.21
101	96	United States	Tony Finau	1.30	56.06	-15.96	12.38
102	98	United States	Davis Riley	1.28	65.33	-13.34	8.86
103	99	Venezuela	Jhonattan Vegas	1.28	54.99	-12.14	0.99
104	108	Spain	Angel Ayora	1.27	66.09	-7.25	12.53
105	104	Canada	Mackenzie Hughes	1.26	65.31	-15.05	6.82
106	107	United States	Ian Holt	1.25	50.19	-2.59	35.87
107	103	United States	McClure Meissner	1.24	63.44	-10.40	7.54
108	102	Germany	Stephan Jaeger	1.24	64.51	-15.89	15.25
109	106	England	Andy Sullivan	1.24	64.50	-6.89	20.01
110	105	Taiwan (Chinese Taipei)	Chun-an Yu	1.22	63.25	-12.29	-
111	124	United States	Keith Mitchell	1.21	60.73	-10.28	17.10
112	110	South Africa	Shaun Norris	1.21	62.67	-9.09	1.64
113	109	Argentina	Emiliano Grillo	1.20	61.39	-10.68	2.85
114	112	South Korea	Byeong Hun An	1.19	58.13	-15.68	2.76
115	111	Japan	Keita Nakajima	1.18	55.36	-9.47	1.40
116	113	Spain	Nacho Elvira	1.18	61.19	-5.79	28.55
117	118	United States	Eric Cole	1.16	60.56	-10.64	6.90
118	116	South Korea	Tom Kim	1.15	60.03	-15.64	7.92
119	114	United States	Davis Thompson	1.15	58.82	-16.41	3.00
120	119	United States	Alex Smalley	1.15	59.74	-8.26	9.77
121	117	United States	Vincent Whaley	1.15	59.66	-9.64	1.43
122	115	United States	Andrew Putnam	1.14	58.01	-7.32	25.11
123	126	Japan	Takumi Kanaya	1.13	58.77	-7.67	5.36
124	120	United States	Steven Fisk	1.12	56.01	-10.23	1.63
125	138	United States	William Mouw	1.12	52.51	-7.95	7.03
126	125	Scotland	Calum Hill	1.11	57.79	-6.22	24.43
127	123	Japan	Kazuki Higa	1.10	57.05	-6.99	0.28
128	122	Denmark	Jacob Skov Olesen	1.08	44.30	-3.89	12.22
129	121	United States	Neal Shipley	1.08	50.53	-8.40	0.67
130	129	United States	Joe Highsmith	1.06	55.16	-10.61	2.10
131	130	Sweden	Joakim Lagergren	1.05	54.52	-7.49	3.37
132	132	France	Martin Couvra	1.04	54.04	-7.07	6.01
133	133	United States	Lee Hodges	1.03	51.72	-8.84	8.86
134	131	United States	Peter Uihlein	1.03	41.35	-4.88	15.54
135	134	United States	Kevin Roy	1.03	53.60	-8.10	12.12
136	135	United States	Mark Hubbard	1.02	53.04	-9.94	3.06
137	136	United States	Adam Schenk	1.00	51.99	-8.91	6.49
138	189	United States	Taylor Moore	1.00	51.88	-10.23	18.11
139	161	United States	Ricky Castillo	1.00	51.75	-5.18	13.94
140	139	South Africa	JC Ritchie	0.99	51.51	-5.65	2.29
141	137	United States	Chandler Blanchet	0.99	46.39	-6.02	-
142	141	Spain	Eugenio Chacarra	0.97	41.57	-4.87	2.26
143	140	South Africa	Erik van Rooyen	0.96	50.07	-12.47	-
144	145	France	Julien Guerrier	0.96	50.06	-6.11	20.96
145	142	Australia	Karl Vilips	0.96	38.46	-6.36	6.43
146	143	United States	Matt Kuchar	0.96	38.30	-7.23	1.66
147	144	United States	Gary Woodland	0.96	44.90	-8.15	1.46
148	150	United States	Max Homa	0.94	44.11	-10.87	8.43
149	147	Finland	Oliver Lindell	0.92	48.04	-6.18	10.70
150	146	United States	David Lipsky	0.92	47.90	-8.14	5.79
151	148	United States	Patrick Fishburn	0.91	47.43	-9.50	1.07
152	153	United States	Beau Hossler	0.90	47.05	-9.24	1.83
153	156	United States	Chad Ramey	0.90	46.78	-5.41	8.59
154	149	South Korea	Seonghyeon Kim	0.90	46.60	-8.68	10.69
155	151	Ireland	Seamus Power	0.89	46.26	-8.04	9.45
156	152	Scotland	Grant Forrest	0.88	43.87	-5.54	7.46
157	154	United States	Austin Eckroat	0.87	45.19	-15.31	2.38
158	157	France	Antoine Rozner	0.86	44.74	-7.24	7.70
159	159	China	Ding Wenyi	0.86	34.32	-2.74	3.53
160	181	United States	Joel Dahmen	0.86	44.56	-6.70	16.46
161	164	Belgium	Adrien Dumont de Chassart	0.86	44.48	-6.45	4.94
162	196	Italy	Francesco Laporta	0.85	44.26	-5.10	15.07
162	158	United States	Carson Young	0.85	44.26	-7.04	8.82
164	155	France	Victor Perez	0.84	43.71	-11.31	0.41
164	160	United States	Chandler Phillips	0.84	43.72	-7.53	5.15
166	197	Australia	Lucas Herbert	0.83	33.07	-3.60	12.21
167	163	Spain	Jorge Campillo	0.82	42.60	-7.18	4.58
167	187	United States	Taylor Montgomery	0.82	36.87	-5.50	6.78
169	175	Scotland	Ewen Ferguson	0.82	42.58	-7.60	5.83
170	171	England	Marcus Armitage	0.82	42.51	-5.07	9.37
171	166	England	Dan Bradbury	0.82	42.39	-5.08	5.70
172	170	Mexico	Emilio Gonzalez	0.81	41.88	-6.05	1.80
173	179	United States	Zachary Bauchou	0.80	41.69	-5.20	10.90
174	167	Japan	Kensei Hirata	0.80	41.64	-8.87	3.98
175	168	United States	Doug Ghim	0.80	41.59	-9.00	1.68
176	169	Chile	Joaquin Niemann	0.80	31.96	-7.66	-
177	162	Australia	Cameron Davis	0.79	38.90	-12.05	1.18
178	165	Sweden	Jesper Svensson	0.79	41.27	-10.17	1.03
179	172	Zimbabwe	Scott Vincent	0.79	31.71	-4.39	-
180	183	China	Marty Dou Zecheng	0.79	38.74	-4.03	11.32
181	174	England	Richard Mansell	0.78	38.92	-6.57	-
182	173	South Africa	Christo Lamprecht	0.77	34.69	-4.90	1.42
183	178	Mexico	Carlos Ortiz	0.77	30.79	-5.79	-
184	177	United States	Justin Lower	0.77	39.84	-8.23	2.36
185	180	Netherlands	Joost Luiten	0.77	39.82	-6.00	2.70
186	182	Denmark	Niklas Norgaard	0.76	39.76	-9.13	2.00
187	184	New Zealand	Kazuma Kobori	0.76	35.82	-4.92	3.26
188	176	South Africa	Jacques Kruyswijk	0.76	39.47	-5.66	4.99
189	301	United States	Alistair Docherty	0.75	38.35	-4.52	22.44
190	186	United States	Jackson Suber	0.75	36.82	-5.93	4.67
191	185	Japan	Kota Kaneko	0.74	38.51	-4.40	3.09
192	200	Germany	Frederik Schott	0.72	37.66	-2.81	23.34
193	190	Spain	Jose Luis Ballester	0.72	28.88	-0.79	-
194	194	United States	Johannes Veerman	0.72	37.26	-6.44	11.62
195	192	United States	Davis Bryant	0.71	28.45	-1.95	9.85
196	193	South Africa	Richard Sterne	0.71	28.32	-2.69	2.70
197	195	United States	Jackson Koivun(Am)	0.71	28.22	-3.47	-
198	203	England	Alex Fitzpatrick	0.70	36.63	-5.48	5.98
199	191	Canada	Richard T. Lee	0.70	35.19	-6.43	-
200	188	South Africa	Barend Botha	0.70	30.22	-3.98	5.57

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Updated: March 2, 2026