Official World Golf Ranking 14/2026 - Golf Today

Week 14 – 05/04/2026

Simon Bale|April 6, 2026

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J.J. Spaun has won the Valero Texas Open, Matt Wallace, Michael Kim and Robert MacIntyre tied for second place and Andrew Putnam finished fifth alongside Ludvig Åberg.

Spaun moves up eight places to number 5 this week, Wallace up thirty to 66, Kim to 43 from 56, MacIntyre up three to number 8, Putnam to 93 from 114 and Åberg up one to 17.

FedEx St. Jude 2022 R3 - J.J. Spaun retains narrow lead

Related: J.J. Spaun wins third PGA Tour title

Valero Texas Open 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	15.10	604.00	-196.50	115.54
2	2	Northern Ireland	Rory McIlroy	8.06	370.70	-114.30	48.28
3	3	United States	Cameron Young	5.31	244.11	-38.33	121.54
4	4	England	Tommy Fleetwood	5.23	266.93	-63.73	47.66
5	13	United States	J.J. Spaun	5.01	255.48	-50.99	58.43
6	5	England	Matt Fitzpatrick	4.97	238.76	-30.68	119.29
7	8	United States	Collin Morikawa	4.76	195.27	-54.93	96.84
8	11	Scotland	Robert MacIntyre	4.76	247.63	-60.60	66.89
9	7	England	Justin Rose	4.74	208.34	-41.49	69.01
10	6	United States	Xander Schauffele	4.71	188.24	-78.88	61.03
11	9	United States	Chris Gotterup	4.63	240.82	-28.35	131.89
12	10	United States	Russell Henley	4.48	179.08	-51.14	33.87
13	12	Austria	Sepp Straka	4.16	199.75	-46.61	56.26
14	14	Japan	Hideki Matsuyama	3.95	189.78	-51.62	62.87
15	15	United States	Justin Thomas	3.86	154.41	-48.71	13.97
16	16	United States	Ben Griffin	3.83	199.38	-50.45	13.48
17	18	Sweden	Ludvig Aberg	3.72	163.83	-51.04	54.86
18	17	United States	Jacob Bridgeman	3.61	187.65	-19.15	125.59
19	19	Sweden	Alex Noren	3.47	138.88	-32.91	15.51
20	21	United States	Harris English	3.43	167.93	-41.70	19.62
21	20	United States	Akshay Bhatia	3.40	176.63	-34.74	108.20
22	22	Norway	Viktor Hovland	3.33	136.69	-38.55	24.05
23	23	United States	Patrick Reed	3.30	131.86	-18.42	70.03
24	24	United States	Bryson DeChambeau	3.16	126.59	-40.51	58.12
25	25	Australia	Min Woo Lee	3.02	148.06	-26.26	76.17
26	26	United States	Keegan Bradley	2.94	129.21	-43.48	6.25
27	27	United States	Maverick McNealy	2.91	148.58	-40.95	29.39
28	30	South Korea	Si Woo Kim	2.91	151.14	-24.77	73.91
29	28	United States	Ryan Gerard	2.85	148.21	-23.39	67.68
30	29	Spain	Jon Rahm	2.84	113.75	-15.80	68.89
31	31	England	Tyrrell Hatton	2.73	109.20	-31.38	10.31
32	32	Ireland	Shane Lowry	2.68	139.37	-40.87	36.19
33	33	United States	Sam Burns	2.64	123.99	-34.98	24.51
34	35	United States	Kurt Kitayama	2.60	117.05	-21.98	43.15
35	34	United States	Patrick Cantlay	2.58	103.34	-33.71	23.63
36	36	Denmark	Nicolai Hojgaard	2.55	132.49	-18.58	68.41
37	37	England	Marco Penge	2.52	130.97	-22.98	19.44
38	38	United States	Daniel Berger	2.46	120.36	-21.26	56.64
39	40	England	Aaron Rai	2.35	117.50	-38.99	4.89
40	39	Colombia	Nicolas Echavarria	2.33	121.15	-24.12	46.44
41	41	Australia	Jason Day	2.29	91.43	-22.07	39.32
42	42	United States	Jake Knapp	2.27	99.75	-17.40	56.75
43	56	United States	Michael Kim	2.26	117.48	-24.46	30.03
44	43	Canada	Corey Conners	2.25	103.40	-32.52	16.52
45	44	United States	Samuel Stevens	2.15	111.95	-24.53	36.74
46	49	Norway	Kristoffer Reitan	2.10	108.99	-18.40	13.76
47	45	United States	Michael Brennan	2.07	82.68	-13.41	7.21
48	47	United States	Andrew Novak	2.07	105.33	-27.29	16.97
49	46	United States	Matt McCarty	2.02	105.10	-26.57	35.52
50	50	United States	Brian Harman	2.00	100.09	-30.80	17.25
51	48	New Zealand	Ryan Fox	1.98	103.13	-24.37	18.93
52	51	United States	Gary Woodland	1.98	93.10	-12.58	54.08
53	53	Australia	Adam Scott	1.97	94.70	-27.37	38.32
54	52	United States	Pierceson Coody	1.96	101.82	-16.87	47.15
55	64	Japan	Ryo Hisatsune	1.94	100.93	-15.36	60.77
56	57	Finland	Sami Valimaki	1.94	100.68	-17.73	8.72
57	55	Denmark	Rasmus Hojgaard	1.90	94.81	-25.42	14.58
58	54	United States	Michael Thorbjornsen	1.87	84.22	-13.80	30.05
59	62	United States	Max Greyserman	1.83	93.31	-31.23	8.71
60	58	Belgium	Thomas Detry	1.82	94.74	-27.83	26.89
61	63	United States	Jordan Spieth	1.82	76.48	-17.19	27.28
62	59	England	Harry Hall	1.82	94.63	-22.54	24.70
63	61	South Africa	Jayden Schaper	1.82	94.38	-11.63	14.17
64	60	United States	John Keefer	1.78	85.50	-16.59	23.81
65	65	United States	Rickie Fowler	1.76	75.54	-15.55	25.28
66	96	England	Matt Wallace	1.73	89.81	-22.07	29.01
67	66	Canada	Nick Taylor	1.72	87.86	-25.35	20.46
68	67	England	Jordan Smith	1.72	89.22	-18.01	31.16
69	68	Denmark	Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen	1.66	86.54	-20.85	7.47
70	69	South Africa	Casey Jarvis	1.65	85.78	-6.66	57.02
71	70	South Korea	Sungjae Im	1.59	82.88	-34.32	12.68
72	72	United States	Patrick Rodgers	1.59	82.87	-16.83	40.05
73	71	United States	Sahith Theegala	1.59	77.84	-26.33	48.54
74	74	Canada	Taylor Pendrith	1.58	75.86	-29.26	13.73
75	73	United States	Max McGreevy	1.57	81.49	-22.05	14.94
76	80	United States	Bud Cauley	1.56	65.67	-14.97	14.21
77	77	South Africa	Aldrich Potgieter	1.54	78.78	-15.96	18.34
78	75	United States	Wyndham Clark	1.54	73.82	-34.50	13.14
79	76	United States	J.T. Poston	1.54	75.23	-24.70	10.13
80	78	Philippines	Richard Hoey	1.53	79.50	-19.70	11.93
81	79	Spain	David Puig	1.51	60.32	-10.69	23.08
82	84	England	John Parry	1.51	78.33	-18.81	17.39
83	82	Australia	Elvis Smylie	1.49	62.57	-8.87	25.68
84	81	China	Haotong Li	1.49	77.39	-15.58	17.38
85	83	South Africa	Garrick Higgo	1.46	67.35	-14.80	1.91
86	90	United States	Austin Smotherman	1.44	74.84	-11.56	33.53
87	86	United States	Ricky Castillo	1.43	74.18	-8.38	39.56
88	88	United States	David Lipsky	1.41	73.52	-12.47	35.74
89	87	Germany	Matti Schmid	1.41	73.44	-18.17	15.49
90	91	South Africa	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	1.41	73.23	-22.62	13.64
91	89	New Zealand	Daniel Hillier	1.40	73.04	-10.23	31.79
92	85	England	Daniel Brown(Oct1994)	1.40	69.76	-16.86	6.51
93	114	United States	Andrew Putnam	1.39	72.26	-10.98	43.03
94	94	United States	Billy Horschel	1.39	59.68	-32.14	12.30
95	92	United States	Denny McCarthy	1.37	65.84	-24.89	13.01
96	93	United States	Lucas Glover	1.37	64.21	-23.56	2.53
97	95	France	Adrien Saddier	1.36	70.81	-16.79	3.86
98	97	United States	Chris Kirk	1.33	62.44	-18.52	8.00
99	99	Germany	Stephan Jaeger	1.32	68.56	-23.35	26.77
100	100	South Africa	Thriston Lawrence	1.30	67.71	-28.13	6.11
101	98	England	Laurie Canter	1.30	57.23	-17.18	1.21
102	117	Taiwan (Chinese Taipei)	Chun-an Yu	1.29	67.27	-18.84	10.57
103	104	Denmark	Thorbjorn Olesen	1.29	67.18	-17.59	13.69
104	103	England	Andy Sullivan	1.29	67.18	-11.27	27.07
105	102	Northern Ireland	Tom McKibbin	1.29	52.71	-14.81	2.33
106	113	United States	Alex Smalley	1.28	66.80	-13.52	22.08
107	101	Venezuela	Jhonattan Vegas	1.28	56.46	-18.73	9.05
108	105	United States	Keith Mitchell	1.28	63.79	-15.29	25.16
109	108	Spain	Angel Ayora	1.26	65.37	-11.74	16.30
110	106	United States	Tom Hoge	1.26	65.36	-22.24	17.02
111	107	United States	Tony Finau	1.25	54.83	-23.98	19.18
112	111	United States	Brian Campbell	1.24	63.46	-18.97	1.07
113	109	Argentina	Emiliano Grillo	1.24	64.54	-15.68	11.01
114	110	United States	Ian Holt	1.23	52.77	-4.04	39.89
115	112	United States	Chandler Blanchet	1.21	59.44	-9.40	16.42
116	115	United States	McClure Meissner	1.21	61.72	-16.18	11.60
117	120	United States	Davis Thompson	1.19	61.96	-25.19	14.92
118	119	United States	Eric Cole	1.19	61.87	-17.53	15.10
119	131	Canada	Sudarshan Yellamaraju	1.17	59.45	-5.76	38.81
120	116	United States	Davis Riley	1.16	59.33	-20.69	10.21
121	118	Canada	Mackenzie Hughes	1.12	58.50	-22.66	7.62
122	121	United States	William Mouw	1.12	53.87	-12.33	12.77
123	124	United States	Vincent Whaley	1.12	58.06	-15.70	5.90
124	122	Japan	Keita Nakajima	1.11	50.07	-14.75	1.40
125	123	Spain	Eugenio Chacarra	1.11	49.95	-8.00	13.77
126	126	Japan	Takumi Kanaya	1.11	57.47	-12.37	8.75
127	127	Spain	Nacho Elvira	1.10	57.18	-10.46	29.21
128	125	South Africa	Shaun Norris	1.10	57.16	-14.60	1.65
129	128	England	Dan Bradbury	1.09	56.82	-8.56	23.60
130	130	Scotland	Calum Hill	1.09	56.61	-10.81	27.85
131	129	South Korea	Tom Kim	1.07	55.59	-24.06	11.91
132	141	South Korea	Seonghyeon Kim	1.04	53.98	-12.30	21.69
133	132	United States	Lee Hodges	1.04	51.85	-13.70	13.85
134	218	Australia	Travis Smyth	1.04	41.45	-4.23	29.47
135	140	United States	Kevin Roy	1.04	53.85	-12.21	16.47
136	134	South Korea	Byeong Hun An	1.03	50.38	-23.43	2.76
137	133	Japan	Kazuki Higa	1.03	53.43	-11.20	0.88
138	137	United States	Steven Fisk	1.03	53.40	-16.11	4.89
139	135	Denmark	Jacob Skov Olesen	1.02	43.99	-6.27	14.29
140	136	England	Alex Fitzpatrick	1.02	53.14	-8.87	25.87
141	139	United States	Joe Highsmith	1.02	52.88	-15.98	5.19
142	138	France	Martin Couvra	1.02	52.84	-11.08	8.80
143	144	United States	Chad Ramey	0.99	51.28	-8.80	16.48
144	145	Belgium	Adrien Dumont de Chassart	0.98	51.04	-9.94	14.99
145	147	United States	Taylor Moore	0.98	50.89	-15.46	22.35
146	142	Sweden	Joakim Lagergren	0.97	50.28	-11.73	3.37
147	143	United States	Peter Uihlein	0.96	38.51	-7.73	15.54
148	150	United States	Adam Schenk	0.96	49.93	-12.48	7.99
149	148	South Africa	JC Ritchie	0.95	49.25	-9.01	3.39
150	149	United States	Mark Hubbard	0.94	49.07	-15.18	4.33
151	151	United States	Davis Lamb	0.93	38.11	-3.39	24.50
152	146	Australia	Karl Vilips	0.93	39.00	-9.94	10.55
153	174	United States	Austin Eckroat	0.92	47.89	-20.87	10.64
154	153	France	Julien Guerrier	0.92	47.81	-9.60	22.20
155	154	Finland	Oliver Lindell	0.92	47.79	-9.37	13.64
156	182	United States	Chandler Phillips	0.92	47.69	-11.76	13.36
157	155	Spain	Jorge Campillo	0.91	47.39	-12.17	14.35
158	159	United States	Beau Hossler	0.90	46.73	-14.21	6.49
159	152	United States	Neal Shipley	0.90	45.80	-13.12	0.67
160	260	France	Jeremy Gandon	0.90	41.25	-4.88	23.54
161	157	Mexico	Carlos Ortiz	0.90	35.86	-8.24	7.52
162	158	South Africa	Erik van Rooyen	0.89	46.40	-18.12	1.98
163	156	United States	Max Homa	0.89	41.81	-16.25	11.51
164	160	United States	Matt Kuchar	0.88	35.03	-11.35	2.51
165	162	Canada	Richard T. Lee	0.87	45.17	-9.90	13.46
166	161	Chile	Joaquin Niemann	0.87	34.63	-11.50	6.50
167	163	United States	Carson Young	0.86	44.86	-10.84	13.22
168	164	Ireland	Seamus Power	0.85	44.43	-12.70	12.28
169	165	United States	Brooks Koepka	0.85	34.01	-6.14	15.92
170	176	United States	Zachary Bauchou	0.85	44.19	-8.05	16.24
171	166	England	Marcus Armitage	0.85	44.09	-7.93	13.81
172	167	Australia	Lucas Herbert	0.84	33.77	-5.54	14.85
173	168	United States	Patrick Fishburn	0.83	43.28	-14.87	2.29
174	170	United States	Taylor Montgomery	0.83	36.50	-7.93	8.84
175	173	United States	Blades Brown	0.82	32.98	-2.21	23.64
175	171	Scotland	Grant Forrest	0.82	41.23	-8.69	7.96
177	172	Scotland	Ewen Ferguson	0.82	41.88	-11.64	9.16
178	169	China	Ding Wenyi	0.82	33.59	-4.92	4.98
179	175	United States	Joel Dahmen	0.81	42.18	-9.71	17.09
180	177	South Africa	Hennie Du Plessis	0.81	32.42	-1.10	24.91
181	184	United States	Doug Ghim	0.80	41.83	-13.36	6.28
182	178	South Africa	Dean Burmester	0.80	31.98	-5.95	15.26
183	179	Italy	Francesco Laporta	0.80	41.49	-7.87	15.07
184	180	France	Antoine Rozner	0.78	40.80	-11.19	7.70
185	183	Spain	Jose Luis Ballester	0.78	31.17	-2.45	3.94
186	181	Sweden	Jesper Svensson	0.78	40.39	-14.38	4.36
187	186	United States	Alistair Docherty	0.77	39.85	-7.01	26.43
188	185	China	Marty Dou Zecheng	0.76	39.61	-6.25	14.41
189	254	United States	Jay Card III	0.76	30.43	-4.35	10.52
190	187	Mexico	Emilio Gonzalez	0.76	38.63	-9.30	1.80
191	212	United States	Trace Crowe(Oct1996)	0.75	31.43	-8.81	4.41
192	189	France	Victor Perez	0.74	37.92	-17.10	0.41
193	194	Japan	Kota Kaneko	0.74	38.65	-7.36	6.19
194	193	South Africa	Jacques Kruyswijk	0.74	37.14	-8.71	5.72
195	188	South Africa	Daniel van Tonder	0.74	38.56	-8.08	10.79
196	191	New Zealand	Kazuma Kobori	0.74	35.37	-7.43	5.32
197	190	England	Richard Mansell	0.73	35.23	-10.26	-
198	192	Zimbabwe	Scott Vincent	0.73	29.25	-6.85	-
199	195	Netherlands	Joost Luiten	0.72	37.40	-9.30	3.58
200	196	Germany	Frederik Schott	0.72	37.26	-4.29	24.42

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Updated: April 6, 2026