Official World Golf Ranking 15/2026 - Golf Today

Week 15 – 12/04/2026

Simon Bale|April 13, 2026

Keywords: European Tour, Golf Equipment, golf trivia, History, Number 1, Official World Golf Ranking, PGA Tour, rankings, Tournaments

Rory McIlroy has won The Masters Championship, Scottie Scheffler came second, Tyrrell Hatton, Justin Rose and Cameron Young tied for third place.

McIlroy stays at number 2, Scheffer remains number 1, Hatton up eight places to 23, Rose up five to number 4 and Young stays at number 3.

Related: Rory’s Glory Story

Fourth golfer to successfully defend Masters title.

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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	16.29	651.53	-208.97	175.54
2	2	Northern Ireland	Rory McIlroy	10.15	466.82	-122.18	152.28
3	3	United States	Cameron Young	5.88	270.32	-40.63	150.04
4	9	England	Justin Rose	5.32	233.87	-44.47	97.51
5	4	England	Tommy Fleetwood	5.22	266.42	-68.25	51.66
6	12	United States	Russell Henley	5.11	204.29	-54.44	62.37
7	6	England	Matt Fitzpatrick	5.09	244.20	-32.74	126.79
8	7	United States	Collin Morikawa	5.08	208.42	-58.79	113.84
9	10	United States	Xander Schauffele	4.94	197.63	-83.98	75.53
10	5	United States	J.J. Spaun	4.84	251.81	-54.66	58.43
11	11	United States	Chris Gotterup	4.69	243.92	-30.35	136.99
12	8	Scotland	Robert MacIntyre	4.62	240.19	-68.03	66.89
13	13	Austria	Sepp Straka	4.16	199.61	-49.95	59.46
14	14	Japan	Hideki Matsuyama	4.09	196.51	-54.89	72.87
15	15	United States	Justin Thomas	3.86	154.30	-52.02	17.17
16	16	United States	Ben Griffin	3.83	199.12	-54.71	17.48
17	17	Sweden	Ludvig Aberg	3.79	166.62	-54.35	60.96
18	18	United States	Jacob Bridgeman	3.64	189.27	-20.73	128.79
19	19	Sweden	Alex Noren	3.52	140.99	-35.20	19.91
20	23	United States	Patrick Reed	3.51	140.56	-19.71	80.03
21	20	United States	Harris English	3.46	169.48	-44.55	24.02
22	22	Norway	Viktor Hovland	3.45	141.46	-41.27	31.55
23	31	England	Tyrrell Hatton	3.39	135.44	-33.64	38.81
24	21	United States	Akshay Bhatia	3.36	174.89	-36.47	108.20
25	24	United States	Bryson DeChambeau	3.09	123.69	-43.41	58.12
26	26	United States	Keegan Bradley	3.01	132.26	-46.53	12.35
27	25	Australia	Min Woo Lee	2.99	146.36	-27.96	76.17
28	33	United States	Sam Burns	2.95	138.69	-37.28	41.51
29	27	United States	Maverick McNealy	2.95	153.37	-43.67	36.89
30	28	South Korea	Si Woo Kim	2.92	152.04	-26.68	76.71
31	30	Spain	Jon Rahm	2.91	116.22	-16.93	72.49
32	29	United States	Ryan Gerard	2.89	150.28	-24.91	71.28
33	35	United States	Patrick Cantlay	2.78	111.07	-35.98	33.63
34	32	Ireland	Shane Lowry	2.72	141.19	-43.45	40.59
35	34	United States	Kurt Kitayama	2.62	117.99	-23.44	45.55
36	42	United States	Jake Knapp	2.54	111.86	-18.29	69.75
37	37	England	Marco Penge	2.54	131.85	-24.65	21.99
38	36	Denmark	Nicolai Hojgaard	2.53	131.34	-19.73	68.41
39	41	Australia	Jason Day	2.50	99.99	-23.51	49.32
40	38	United States	Daniel Berger	2.38	118.87	-22.75	56.64
41	39	England	Aaron Rai	2.30	117.41	-41.78	7.59
42	40	Colombia	Nicolas Echavarria	2.30	119.46	-25.81	46.44
43	44	Canada	Corey Conners	2.26	103.77	-34.70	19.07
44	43	United States	Michael Kim	2.23	115.86	-26.09	30.03
45	45	United States	Samuel Stevens	2.21	115.03	-26.55	41.84
46	46	Norway	Kristoffer Reitan	2.13	110.72	-19.88	16.96
47	47	United States	Michael Brennan	2.12	86.72	-14.47	12.31
48	49	United States	Matt McCarty	2.08	108.30	-28.47	40.62
49	52	United States	Gary Woodland	2.05	96.24	-13.44	58.08
50	50	United States	Brian Harman	2.05	102.27	-32.63	21.25
51	53	Australia	Adam Scott	2.04	97.93	-29.24	43.42
52	61	United States	Jordan Spieth	2.03	85.41	-18.26	37.28
53	48	United States	Andrew Novak	1.99	103.49	-29.12	16.97
54	51	New Zealand	Ryan Fox	1.95	101.39	-26.11	18.93
55	54	United States	Pierceson Coody	1.94	100.83	-17.86	47.15
56	55	Japan	Ryo Hisatsune	1.92	100.06	-16.23	60.77
57	56	Finland	Sami Valimaki	1.91	99.27	-19.13	8.72
58	57	Denmark	Rasmus Hojgaard	1.87	95.25	-27.18	16.78
59	58	United States	Michael Thorbjornsen	1.85	83.20	-14.83	30.05
60	63	South Africa	Jayden Schaper	1.79	93.22	-12.79	14.17
61	62	England	Harry Hall	1.79	93.07	-24.09	24.70
62	60	Belgium	Thomas Detry	1.79	92.93	-29.63	26.89
63	65	United States	Rickie Fowler	1.77	74.47	-16.62	25.28
64	67	Canada	Nick Taylor	1.76	89.62	-26.79	23.66
65	59	United States	Max Greyserman	1.75	91.17	-33.37	8.71
66	64	United States	John Keefer	1.72	84.28	-17.80	23.81
67	66	England	Matt Wallace	1.70	88.52	-23.37	29.01
68	68	England	Jordan Smith	1.69	88.07	-19.17	31.16
69	70	South Africa	Casey Jarvis	1.64	85.35	-7.09	57.02
70	69	Denmark	Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen	1.64	85.10	-22.28	7.47
71	78	United States	Wyndham Clark	1.63	78.35	-36.06	19.24
72	71	South Korea	Sungjae Im	1.60	83.33	-36.77	15.58
73	73	United States	Sahith Theegala	1.59	76.28	-27.90	48.54
74	72	United States	Patrick Rodgers	1.58	82.07	-17.64	40.05
75	75	United States	Max McGreevy	1.54	80.24	-23.30	14.94
76	76	United States	Bud Cauley	1.54	64.65	-15.99	14.21
77	74	Canada	Taylor Pendrith	1.54	73.82	-31.30	13.73
78	84	China	Haotong Li	1.54	79.87	-16.70	20.98
79	79	United States	J.T. Poston	1.53	73.56	-26.38	10.13
80	80	Philippines	Richard Hoey	1.51	78.26	-20.94	11.93
81	77	South Africa	Aldrich Potgieter	1.49	77.67	-17.08	18.34
82	81	Spain	David Puig	1.49	59.60	-11.41	23.08
83	82	England	John Parry	1.48	77.20	-19.94	17.39
84	83	Australia	Elvis Smylie	1.47	61.91	-9.53	25.68
85	85	South Africa	Garrick Higgo	1.44	66.32	-15.83	1.91
86	86	United States	Austin Smotherman	1.42	74.05	-12.34	33.53
87	87	United States	Ricky Castillo	1.41	73.56	-8.99	39.56
88	88	United States	David Lipsky	1.40	72.66	-13.32	35.74
89	89	Germany	Matti Schmid	1.39	72.32	-19.29	15.49
90	91	New Zealand	Daniel Hillier	1.39	72.24	-11.02	31.79
91	90	South Africa	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	1.38	71.85	-24.01	13.64
92	93	United States	Andrew Putnam	1.38	71.60	-11.64	43.03
93	95	United States	Denny McCarthy	1.37	64.49	-26.24	13.01
94	92	England	Daniel Brown(Oct1994)	1.37	68.55	-18.06	6.51
95	96	United States	Lucas Glover	1.36	62.66	-25.12	2.53
96	97	France	Adrien Saddier	1.34	69.63	-17.96	3.86
97	94	United States	Billy Horschel	1.34	57.53	-34.29	12.30
98	98	United States	Chris Kirk	1.33	61.23	-19.72	8.00
99	99	Germany	Stephan Jaeger	1.30	67.46	-24.46	26.77
100	112	United States	Brian Campbell	1.29	67.29	-20.25	6.17
101	100	South Africa	Thriston Lawrence	1.28	66.51	-29.32	6.11
102	104	England	Andy Sullivan	1.28	66.47	-11.98	27.07
103	101	England	Laurie Canter	1.27	55.94	-18.47	1.21
104	103	Denmark	Thorbjorn Olesen	1.27	66.10	-18.67	13.69
105	102	Taiwan (Chinese Taipei)	Chun-an Yu	1.27	65.98	-20.13	10.57
106	106	United States	Alex Smalley	1.27	65.92	-14.39	22.08
107	108	United States	Keith Mitchell	1.26	62.86	-16.22	25.16
108	107	Venezuela	Jhonattan Vegas	1.25	55.15	-20.03	9.05
109	109	Spain	Angel Ayora	1.24	64.56	-12.55	16.30
110	111	United States	Tony Finau	1.24	53.37	-25.45	19.18
111	110	United States	Tom Hoge	1.23	64.11	-23.49	17.02
112	105	Northern Ireland	Tom McKibbin	1.23	51.64	-15.89	2.33
113	113	Argentina	Emiliano Grillo	1.22	63.57	-16.66	11.01
114	114	United States	Ian Holt	1.22	52.48	-4.32	39.89
115	115	United States	Chandler Blanchet	1.20	58.76	-10.07	16.42
116	116	United States	McClure Meissner	1.19	60.66	-17.24	11.60
117	163	United States	Max Homa	1.18	55.28	-17.27	26.01
118	118	United States	Eric Cole	1.17	60.80	-18.60	15.10
119	117	United States	Davis Thompson	1.16	60.24	-26.91	14.92
120	119	Canada	Sudarshan Yellamaraju	1.16	59.04	-6.17	38.81
121	120	United States	Davis Riley	1.11	57.90	-22.13	10.21
122	122	United States	William Mouw	1.10	53.00	-13.20	12.77
123	121	Canada	Mackenzie Hughes	1.10	57.17	-23.98	7.62
124	123	United States	Vincent Whaley	1.10	57.03	-16.73	5.90
125	125	Spain	Eugenio Chacarra	1.10	49.30	-8.65	13.77
126	124	Japan	Keita Nakajima	1.09	49.19	-15.63	1.40
127	127	Spain	Nacho Elvira	1.09	56.72	-10.92	29.21
128	126	Japan	Takumi Kanaya	1.09	56.66	-13.18	8.75
129	169	United States	Brooks Koepka	1.09	43.58	-6.58	25.92
130	129	England	Dan Bradbury	1.08	56.15	-9.23	23.60
131	130	Scotland	Calum Hill	1.08	56.10	-11.33	27.85
132	128	South Africa	Shaun Norris	1.08	56.07	-15.69	1.65
133	133	United States	Lee Hodges	1.04	50.92	-14.64	13.85
134	131	South Korea	Tom Kim	1.04	54.01	-25.64	11.91
135	134	Australia	Travis Smyth	1.03	41.17	-4.50	29.47
136	132	South Korea	Seonghyeon Kim	1.03	53.36	-12.92	21.69
137	135	United States	Kevin Roy	1.02	53.10	-12.96	16.47
138	136	South Korea	Byeong Hun An	1.02	48.85	-24.96	2.76
139	137	Japan	Kazuki Higa	1.01	52.68	-12.06	0.99
140	139	Denmark	Jacob Skov Olesen	1.01	43.51	-6.75	14.29
141	140	England	Alex Fitzpatrick	1.01	52.61	-9.39	25.87
142	138	United States	Steven Fisk	1.01	52.48	-17.03	4.89
143	142	France	Martin Couvra	1.00	52.06	-11.85	8.80
144	141	United States	Joe Highsmith	1.00	51.81	-17.06	5.19
145	143	United States	Chad Ramey	0.97	50.68	-9.40	16.48
146	144	Belgium	Adrien Dumont de Chassart	0.97	50.41	-10.57	14.99
147	145	United States	Taylor Moore	0.96	50.12	-16.23	22.35
148	146	Sweden	Joakim Lagergren	0.95	49.44	-12.58	3.37
149	147	United States	Peter Uihlein	0.95	37.94	-8.30	15.54
150	148	United States	Adam Schenk	0.95	49.29	-13.11	7.99
151	149	South Africa	JC Ritchie	0.93	48.58	-9.68	3.39
152	150	United States	Mark Hubbard	0.93	48.25	-16.00	4.33
153	151	United States	Davis Lamb	0.92	37.88	-3.62	24.50
154	152	Australia	Karl Vilips	0.91	38.29	-10.65	10.55
155	155	Finland	Oliver Lindell	0.91	47.16	-9.99	13.64
156	154	France	Julien Guerrier	0.91	47.11	-10.29	22.20
157	156	United States	Chandler Phillips	0.90	46.98	-12.47	13.36
158	153	United States	Austin Eckroat	0.90	46.81	-21.95	10.64
159	157	Spain	Jorge Campillo	0.90	46.70	-12.87	14.35
160	159	United States	Neal Shipley	0.90	44.86	-14.06	0.67
161	160	France	Jeremy Gandon	0.89	40.91	-5.22	23.54
162	161	Mexico	Carlos Ortiz	0.88	35.38	-8.72	7.52
163	158	United States	Beau Hossler	0.88	45.76	-15.18	6.49
164	162	South Africa	Erik van Rooyen	0.87	45.47	-19.05	1.98
165	165	Canada	Richard T. Lee	0.86	44.48	-10.59	13.46
166	164	United States	Matt Kuchar	0.86	34.21	-12.17	2.51
167	167	United States	Carson Young	0.85	44.13	-11.57	13.22
168	166	Chile	Joaquin Niemann	0.85	33.86	-12.26	6.50
169	168	Ireland	Seamus Power	0.84	43.66	-13.47	12.28
170	170	United States	Zachary Bauchou	0.84	43.66	-8.57	16.24
171	171	England	Marcus Armitage	0.84	43.51	-8.51	13.81
172	172	Australia	Lucas Herbert	0.84	33.40	-5.91	14.85
173	175	United States	Blades Brown	0.82	32.82	-2.37	23.64
174	174	United States	Taylor Montgomery	0.82	36.06	-8.38	8.84
175	173	United States	Patrick Fishburn	0.81	42.22	-15.93	2.29
175	175	Scotland	Grant Forrest	0.81	40.60	-9.31	7.96
177	178	China	Ding Wenyi	0.81	33.15	-5.35	4.98
178	180	South Africa	Hennie Du Plessis	0.81	32.33	-1.19	24.91
179	177	Scotland	Ewen Ferguson	0.81	41.09	-12.43	9.16
180	179	United States	Joel Dahmen	0.80	41.59	-10.30	17.09
181	181	United States	Doug Ghim	0.79	41.00	-14.19	6.28
182	182	South Africa	Dean Burmester	0.79	31.50	-6.43	15.26
183	183	Italy	Francesco Laporta	0.79	40.95	-8.41	15.07
184	185	Spain	Jose Luis Ballester	0.77	30.84	-2.78	3.94
185	184	France	Antoine Rozner	0.77	40.04	-11.94	7.70
186	186	Sweden	Jesper Svensson	0.76	39.62	-15.16	4.36
187	187	United States	Alistair Docherty	0.76	39.36	-7.50	26.43
188	188	China	Marty Dou Zecheng	0.75	39.17	-6.68	14.41
189	189	United States	Jay Card III	0.75	30.12	-4.66	10.52
190	190	Mexico	Emilio Gonzalez	0.74	37.98	-9.95	1.80
191	191	United States	Trace Crowe(Oct1996)	0.73	30.81	-9.43	4.41
192	193	Japan	Kota Kaneko	0.73	38.00	-8.00	6.19
192	194	South Africa	Jacques Kruyswijk	0.73	36.54	-9.31	5.72
194	195	South Africa	Daniel van Tonder	0.73	37.96	-8.67	10.79
195	196	New Zealand	Kazuma Kobori	0.73	34.87	-7.93	5.32
196	192	France	Victor Perez	0.72	36.83	-18.20	0.41
197	198	Zimbabwe	Scott Vincent	0.72	28.76	-7.34	-
198	197	England	Richard Mansell	0.72	34.51	-10.98	-
199	200	Germany	Frederik Schott	0.71	37.00	-4.55	24.42
200	199	Netherlands	Joost Luiten	0.71	36.78	-9.92	3.58

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Updated: April 13, 2026