Official World Golf Ranking 16/2026 - Golf Today

Week 16 – 19/04/2026

Simon Bale|April 20, 2026

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Matt Fitzpatrick has won the RBC Heritage in a playoff, Scottie Scheffler finished second, Si Woo Kim third and Collin Morikawa tied for fourth place with Harris English and Ludvig Åberg.

Fitzpatrick moves up four places to number 3 this week, Scheffler remains at number 1, Kim up four to 26, Morikawa up two to number 6, English up three to 18 and Åberg up three to 14.

Jon Rahm has won LIV Golf Mexico City, David Puig came second, Josele Ballester third and Scott Vincent finished fourth.

Rahm moves up eleven places to 20, Puig up to 61 from 82, Ballester to 146 from 184 and Vincent to 165 from 197.

Related: Matt Fitzpatrick defeats World No.1 in playoff

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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	16.84	673.72	-220.31	209.07
2	2	Northern Ireland	Rory McIlroy	10.20	458.94	-130.06	152.28
3	7	England	Matt Fitzpatrick	6.29	302.08	-34.74	186.67
4	3	United States	Cameron Young	5.89	270.84	-42.77	152.71
5	4	England	Justin Rose	5.37	230.89	-47.45	97.51
6	8	United States	Collin Morikawa	5.33	218.68	-62.31	127.63
7	5	England	Tommy Fleetwood	5.17	263.46	-72.43	52.89
8	6	United States	Russell Henley	5.09	203.66	-57.73	65.04
9	9	United States	Xander Schauffele	4.97	198.64	-88.91	81.47
10	10	United States	J.J. Spaun	4.82	250.79	-58.35	61.10
11	11	United States	Chris Gotterup	4.69	244.00	-32.94	139.66
12	12	Scotland	Robert MacIntyre	4.58	238.02	-71.80	68.48
13	13	Austria	Sepp Straka	4.12	197.96	-53.19	61.06
14	17	Sweden	Ludvig Aberg	4.04	177.74	-57.00	74.74
15	14	Japan	Hideki Matsuyama	4.03	193.24	-58.16	72.87
16	16	United States	Ben Griffin	3.81	197.87	-58.09	19.61
17	15	United States	Justin Thomas	3.77	150.98	-55.34	17.17
18	21	United States	Harris English	3.68	180.47	-47.34	37.80
19	18	United States	Jacob Bridgeman	3.65	190.00	-22.13	130.91
20	31	Spain	Jon Rahm	3.56	142.40	-18.03	99.77
21	19	Sweden	Alex Noren	3.49	139.41	-37.48	20.61
22	20	United States	Patrick Reed	3.48	139.38	-20.90	80.03
23	23	England	Tyrrell Hatton	3.43	137.19	-35.75	42.67
24	24	United States	Akshay Bhatia	3.41	177.15	-38.18	112.17
25	22	Norway	Viktor Hovland	3.34	140.33	-44.00	33.14
26	30	South Korea	Si Woo Kim	3.32	172.54	-28.52	99.06
27	26	United States	Keegan Bradley	3.07	135.21	-49.52	18.29
28	25	United States	Bryson DeChambeau	3.03	121.01	-46.09	58.12
29	28	United States	Sam Burns	2.99	140.35	-39.59	45.47
30	29	United States	Maverick McNealy	2.97	154.57	-46.43	40.86
31	33	United States	Patrick Cantlay	2.92	116.97	-38.19	41.74
32	27	Australia	Min Woo Lee	2.91	145.51	-29.61	76.97
33	32	United States	Ryan Gerard	2.90	150.58	-26.74	73.40
34	35	United States	Kurt Kitayama	2.77	124.65	-24.88	53.65
35	34	Ireland	Shane Lowry	2.69	140.11	-46.12	42.18
36	38	Denmark	Nicolai Hojgaard	2.52	131.13	-20.94	69.41
37	36	United States	Jake Knapp	2.52	110.93	-19.22	69.75
38	39	Australia	Jason Day	2.50	100.18	-24.91	50.92
39	37	England	Marco Penge	2.50	130.18	-26.32	21.99
40	40	United States	Daniel Berger	2.38	118.88	-24.33	58.24
41	41	England	Aaron Rai	2.29	114.60	-44.59	7.59
42	42	Colombia	Nicolas Echavarria	2.26	117.76	-27.51	46.44
43	44	United States	Michael Kim	2.24	116.68	-27.94	32.70
44	43	Canada	Corey Conners	2.23	102.60	-36.87	20.07
45	49	United States	Gary Woodland	2.20	103.48	-14.30	66.18
46	45	United States	Samuel Stevens	2.19	114.13	-28.16	42.54
47	48	United States	Matt McCarty	2.16	112.36	-30.35	46.56
48	46	Norway	Kristoffer Reitan	2.10	109.26	-21.33	16.96
49	47	United States	Michael Brennan	2.08	87.25	-15.53	13.90
50	50	United States	Brian Harman	2.06	103.10	-34.46	23.92
51	52	United States	Jordan Spieth	2.06	86.44	-19.35	39.40
52	53	United States	Andrew Novak	2.03	105.59	-30.99	20.94
53	51	Australia	Adam Scott	2.00	96.10	-31.06	43.42
54	54	New Zealand	Ryan Fox	1.99	103.66	-27.81	22.90
55	55	United States	Pierceson Coody	1.99	103.56	-19.10	51.11
56	63	United States	Rickie Fowler	1.94	81.55	-17.65	33.38
57	56	Japan	Ryo Hisatsune	1.92	99.99	-17.10	61.57
58	57	Finland	Sami Valimaki	1.90	98.88	-20.54	9.73
59	58	Denmark	Rasmus Hojgaard	1.83	93.48	-28.94	16.78
60	59	United States	Michael Thorbjornsen	1.83	84.30	-15.85	32.17
61	82	Spain	David Puig	1.81	72.32	-12.20	36.58
62	62	Belgium	Thomas Detry	1.80	93.83	-32.61	30.75
63	61	England	Harry Hall	1.77	92.11	-25.76	25.40
64	60	South Africa	Jayden Schaper	1.77	92.05	-13.96	14.17
65	76	United States	Bud Cauley	1.75	73.68	-17.02	24.26
66	65	United States	Max Greyserman	1.75	89.03	-35.50	8.71
67	64	Canada	Nick Taylor	1.74	88.94	-28.28	24.46
68	68	England	Jordan Smith	1.72	89.68	-21.52	35.13
69	67	England	Matt Wallace	1.69	87.72	-25.17	30.02
70	71	United States	Wyndham Clark	1.68	80.76	-37.62	23.21
71	66	United States	John Keefer	1.67	83.70	-19.02	24.44
72	69	South Africa	Casey Jarvis	1.63	84.92	-7.52	57.02
73	74	United States	Patrick Rodgers	1.63	84.73	-18.94	44.02
74	73	United States	Sahith Theegala	1.61	77.39	-29.45	51.20
75	70	Denmark	Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen	1.61	83.69	-23.70	7.47
76	72	South Korea	Sungjae Im	1.59	82.49	-39.20	17.17
77	81	South Africa	Aldrich Potgieter	1.52	79.22	-18.20	21.01
78	75	United States	Max McGreevy	1.52	78.99	-24.55	14.94
79	79	United States	J.T. Poston	1.52	72.73	-28.01	10.93
80	78	China	Haotong Li	1.51	78.77	-17.81	20.98
81	77	Canada	Taylor Pendrith	1.49	71.69	-33.42	13.73
82	80	Philippines	Richard Hoey	1.48	77.00	-22.20	11.93
83	83	England	John Parry	1.46	76.03	-21.11	17.39
84	85	South Africa	Garrick Higgo	1.45	66.51	-16.87	3.14
85	84	Australia	Elvis Smylie	1.42	61.25	-10.20	25.68
86	87	United States	Ricky Castillo	1.42	73.72	-9.63	40.37
87	86	United States	Austin Smotherman	1.41	73.26	-13.13	33.53
88	92	United States	Andrew Putnam	1.39	72.53	-12.30	44.62
89	88	United States	David Lipsky	1.38	71.80	-14.18	35.74
90	90	New Zealand	Daniel Hillier	1.37	71.30	-11.96	31.79
91	89	Germany	Matti Schmid	1.37	71.20	-20.42	15.49
92	95	United States	Lucas Glover	1.36	62.76	-26.60	4.13
93	93	United States	Denny McCarthy	1.36	63.86	-27.58	13.71
94	91	South Africa	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	1.36	70.47	-25.39	13.64
95	94	England	Daniel Brown(Oct1994)	1.35	67.31	-19.30	6.51
96	98	United States	Chris Kirk	1.34	60.12	-20.84	8.00
97	96	France	Adrien Saddier	1.32	68.46	-19.14	3.86
98	99	Germany	Stephan Jaeger	1.30	66.36	-25.56	26.77
99	97	United States	Billy Horschel	1.29	55.38	-36.44	12.30
100	100	United States	Brian Campbell	1.27	66.01	-21.53	6.17
101	112	Northern Ireland	Tom McKibbin	1.27	54.43	-16.97	6.20
102	102	England	Andy Sullivan	1.26	65.76	-12.69	27.07
103	101	South Africa	Thriston Lawrence	1.26	65.30	-30.54	6.11
104	106	United States	Alex Smalley	1.25	65.03	-15.28	22.08
105	104	Denmark	Thorbjorn Olesen	1.25	64.98	-19.79	13.69
106	105	Taiwan (Chinese Taipei)	Chun-an Yu	1.24	64.69	-21.42	10.57
107	107	United States	Keith Mitchell	1.24	61.92	-17.15	25.16
108	115	United States	Chandler Blanchet	1.23	60.21	-10.74	18.55
109	113	Argentina	Emiliano Grillo	1.23	62.59	-17.63	11.01
110	109	Spain	Angel Ayora	1.23	63.73	-13.38	16.30
111	108	Venezuela	Jhonattan Vegas	1.22	53.85	-21.34	9.05
112	103	England	Laurie Canter	1.21	54.65	-19.76	1.21
113	114	United States	Ian Holt	1.21	52.18	-4.62	39.89
114	110	United States	Tony Finau	1.21	51.93	-26.89	19.18
115	111	United States	Tom Hoge	1.20	62.64	-24.96	17.02
116	116	United States	McClure Meissner	1.19	59.58	-18.32	11.60
117	117	United States	Max Homa	1.18	55.24	-17.96	26.65
118	120	Canada	Sudarshan Yellamaraju	1.17	59.80	-6.63	40.04
119	118	United States	Eric Cole	1.15	59.73	-19.67	15.10
120	119	United States	Davis Thompson	1.15	58.52	-28.63	14.92
121	125	Spain	Eugenio Chacarra	1.13	50.82	-9.31	15.95
122	122	United States	William Mouw	1.11	53.13	-14.08	13.78
123	142	United States	Steven Fisk	1.11	57.50	-17.95	10.83
124	121	United States	Davis Riley	1.08	56.38	-23.64	10.21
125	129	United States	Brooks Koepka	1.08	43.17	-6.99	25.92
126	127	Spain	Nacho Elvira	1.08	56.01	-11.63	29.21
127	124	United States	Vincent Whaley	1.08	56.00	-17.77	5.90
128	123	Canada	Mackenzie Hughes	1.07	55.84	-25.31	7.62
129	126	Japan	Keita Nakajima	1.07	48.31	-16.51	1.40
130	128	Japan	Takumi Kanaya	1.07	55.82	-14.02	8.75
131	131	Scotland	Calum Hill	1.07	55.57	-11.85	27.85
132	130	England	Dan Bradbury	1.07	55.48	-9.90	23.60
133	173	United States	Blades Brown	1.06	42.35	-2.54	33.33
134	132	South Africa	Shaun Norris	1.06	54.97	-16.80	1.65
135	133	United States	Lee Hodges	1.04	49.90	-15.65	13.85
136	135	Australia	Travis Smyth	1.02	40.90	-4.78	29.47
137	136	South Korea	Seonghyeon Kim	1.02	52.84	-13.75	22.01
138	144	United States	Joe Highsmith	1.02	52.78	-18.21	7.31
139	134	South Korea	Tom Kim	1.01	52.42	-27.23	11.91
140	137	United States	Kevin Roy	1.01	52.30	-13.76	16.47
141	141	England	Alex Fitzpatrick	1.00	52.09	-9.91	25.87
142	140	Denmark	Jacob Skov Olesen	1.00	43.03	-7.23	14.29
143	139	Japan	Kazuki Higa	1.00	51.86	-12.88	0.99
144	138	South Korea	Byeong Hun An	0.99	47.41	-26.41	2.76
145	143	France	Martin Couvra	0.99	51.28	-12.63	8.80
146	184	Spain	Jose Luis Ballester	0.98	39.35	-3.11	12.79
147	150	United States	Adam Schenk	0.98	50.78	-13.75	10.11
148	147	United States	Taylor Moore	0.97	49.34	-17.01	22.35
149	145	United States	Chad Ramey	0.96	50.07	-10.01	16.48
150	146	Belgium	Adrien Dumont de Chassart	0.96	49.76	-11.22	14.99
151	148	Sweden	Joakim Lagergren	0.95	48.58	-13.44	3.37
152	149	United States	Peter Uihlein	0.93	37.37	-8.86	15.54
153	154	Australia	Karl Vilips	0.92	39.69	-11.37	12.67
154	151	South Africa	JC Ritchie	0.92	47.91	-10.35	3.39
155	153	United States	Davis Lamb	0.92	37.64	-3.86	24.50
156	152	United States	Mark Hubbard	0.91	47.42	-16.83	4.33
157	158	United States	Austin Eckroat	0.90	45.74	-23.03	10.64
158	155	Finland	Oliver Lindell	0.89	46.53	-10.63	13.64
159	156	France	Julien Guerrier	0.89	46.35	-11.05	22.20
160	157	United States	Chandler Phillips	0.89	46.23	-13.22	13.36
161	161	France	Jeremy Gandon	0.89	40.81	-5.56	23.78
162	159	Spain	Jorge Campillo	0.88	46.00	-13.56	14.35
163	160	United States	Neal Shipley	0.88	43.94	-14.99	0.67
164	162	Mexico	Carlos Ortiz	0.87	34.90	-9.20	7.52
165	197	Zimbabwe	Scott Vincent	0.87	34.79	-7.83	6.52
166	163	United States	Beau Hossler	0.86	44.80	-16.15	6.49
167	164	South Africa	Erik van Rooyen	0.86	44.54	-19.97	1.98
168	167	United States	Carson Young	0.84	43.89	-12.33	13.74
169	165	Canada	Richard T. Lee	0.84	43.80	-11.28	13.46
170	166	United States	Matt Kuchar	0.83	33.39	-12.98	2.51
171	170	United States	Zachary Bauchou	0.83	43.13	-9.11	16.24
172	168	Chile	Joaquin Niemann	0.83	33.15	-12.97	6.50
173	172	Australia	Lucas Herbert	0.83	33.04	-6.27	14.85
174	171	England	Marcus Armitage	0.83	42.90	-9.12	13.81
175	169	Ireland	Seamus Power	0.82	42.88	-14.25	12.28
176	178	South Africa	Hennie Du Plessis	0.81	32.24	-1.28	24.91
177	175	Scotland	Grant Forrest	0.80	39.96	-9.95	7.96
178	177	China	Ding Wenyi	0.80	32.72	-5.79	4.98
179	175	United States	Patrick Fishburn	0.79	41.17	-16.98	2.29
180	174	United States	Taylor Montgomery	0.79	35.61	-8.82	8.84
181	179	Scotland	Ewen Ferguson	0.79	40.29	-13.23	9.16
182	180	United States	Joel Dahmen	0.79	41.01	-10.88	17.09
183	181	United States	Doug Ghim	0.79	40.15	-15.04	6.28
184	183	Italy	Francesco Laporta	0.78	40.41	-8.95	15.07
185	182	South Africa	Dean Burmester	0.78	31.03	-6.90	15.26
186	187	United States	Alistair Docherty	0.76	38.87	-8.00	26.43
187	185	France	Antoine Rozner	0.76	39.26	-12.72	7.70
188	186	Sweden	Jesper Svensson	0.75	38.84	-15.93	4.36
189	190	Mexico	Emilio Gonzalez	0.75	37.31	-10.61	1.80
190	189	United States	Jay Card III	0.75	29.80	-4.98	10.52
191	188	China	Marty Dou Zecheng	0.74	38.73	-7.13	14.41
192	382	United States	Dylan Menante	0.74	30.26	-3.25	19.26
193	191	United States	Trace Crowe(Oct1996)	0.74	30.20	-10.05	4.41
194	192	Japan	Kota Kaneko	0.72	37.43	-8.58	6.19
195	194	South Africa	Daniel van Tonder	0.72	37.37	-9.26	10.79
196	192	South Africa	Jacques Kruyswijk	0.72	35.93	-9.92	5.72
197	202	United States	Doc Redman	0.72	30.86	-4.67	17.42
198	195	New Zealand	Kazuma Kobori	0.72	34.37	-8.43	5.32
199	199	Germany	Frederik Schott	0.71	36.74	-4.81	24.42
200	198	England	Richard Mansell	0.70	33.78	-11.71	-

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Updated: April 20, 2026