Official World Golf Ranking 17/2026 - Golf Today

Week 17 – 26/04/2026

Simon Bale|April 26, 2026

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Bernd Wiesberger has won the Volvo China Open, Adrian Otaegui came second, Mikael Lindberg third, Shaun Norris fourth and Freedy Schott finished fifth.

Wiesberger moves up to 214 from 370 this week, Otaegui to 222 from 303, Lindberg to 220 from 263, Norris to 120 from 134 and Schott to 185 from 199.

Related: Bernd Wiesberger wins 9th DP World Tour title

Volvo China 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	16.56	662.37	-231.66	209.07
2	2	Northern Ireland	Rory McIlroy	10.02	451.06	-137.94	152.28
3	3	England	Matt Fitzpatrick	6.25	300.09	-36.73	186.67
4	4	United States	Cameron Young	5.84	268.70	-44.91	152.71
5	5	England	Justin Rose	5.30	227.92	-50.41	97.51
6	6	United States	Collin Morikawa	5.25	215.26	-65.73	127.63
7	7	England	Tommy Fleetwood	5.08	259.28	-76.61	52.89
8	8	United States	Russell Henley	5.01	200.33	-61.06	65.04
9	9	United States	Xander Schauffele	4.84	193.74	-93.81	81.47
10	10	United States	J.J. Spaun	4.75	247.10	-62.04	61.10
11	11	United States	Chris Gotterup	4.64	241.47	-35.47	139.66
12	12	Scotland	Robert MacIntyre	4.50	234.23	-75.59	68.48
13	13	Austria	Sepp Straka	4.06	194.83	-56.31	61.06
14	14	Sweden	Ludvig Aberg	3.98	175.17	-59.58	74.74
15	15	Japan	Hideki Matsuyama	3.96	189.96	-61.44	72.87
16	16	United States	Ben Griffin	3.75	194.76	-61.20	19.61
17	17	United States	Justin Thomas	3.69	147.78	-58.54	17.17
18	18	United States	Harris English	3.63	177.67	-50.15	37.80
19	19	United States	Jacob Bridgeman	3.63	188.54	-23.59	130.91
20	20	Spain	Jon Rahm	3.53	141.30	-19.13	99.77
21	22	United States	Patrick Reed	3.45	137.86	-22.42	80.03
22	21	Sweden	Alex Noren	3.43	137.14	-39.75	20.61
23	23	England	Tyrrell Hatton	3.38	135.07	-37.88	42.67
24	24	United States	Akshay Bhatia	3.37	175.49	-39.84	112.17
25	26	South Korea	Si Woo Kim	3.29	170.95	-30.12	99.06
26	25	Norway	Viktor Hovland	3.28	137.57	-46.75	33.14
27	27	United States	Keegan Bradley	3.01	132.23	-52.50	18.29
28	28	United States	Bryson DeChambeau	2.96	118.32	-48.78	58.12
29	29	United States	Sam Burns	2.94	138.02	-41.92	45.47
30	30	United States	Maverick McNealy	2.92	151.84	-49.16	40.86
31	32	Australia	Min Woo Lee	2.88	143.84	-31.28	76.97
32	31	United States	Patrick Cantlay	2.87	114.92	-40.24	41.74
33	33	United States	Ryan Gerard	2.86	148.58	-28.73	73.40
34	34	United States	Kurt Kitayama	2.74	123.23	-26.30	53.65
35	35	Ireland	Shane Lowry	2.64	137.45	-48.78	42.18
36	37	United States	Jake Knapp	2.50	110.00	-20.15	69.75
37	36	Denmark	Nicolai Hojgaard	2.50	129.90	-22.17	69.41
38	39	England	Marco Penge	2.47	128.50	-28.00	21.99
39	38	Australia	Jason Day	2.46	98.54	-26.55	50.92
40	40	United States	Daniel Berger	2.35	117.29	-25.92	58.24
41	41	England	Aaron Rai	2.24	111.80	-47.40	7.59
42	42	Colombia	Nicolas Echavarria	2.23	116.07	-29.20	46.44
43	43	United States	Michael Kim	2.21	115.05	-29.57	32.70
44	44	Canada	Corey Conners	2.18	100.44	-39.04	20.07
45	45	United States	Gary Woodland	2.18	102.61	-15.17	66.18
46	46	United States	Samuel Stevens	2.16	112.57	-29.71	42.54
47	47	United States	Matt McCarty	2.12	110.27	-32.44	46.56
48	48	Norway	Kristoffer Reitan	2.07	107.80	-22.79	16.96
49	49	United States	Michael Brennan	2.05	86.18	-16.60	13.90
50	51	United States	Jordan Spieth	2.03	85.36	-20.43	39.40
51	50	United States	Brian Harman	2.03	101.33	-36.24	23.92
52	52	United States	Andrew Novak	2.00	103.77	-32.81	20.94
53	55	United States	Pierceson Coody	1.97	102.50	-20.16	51.11
54	53	Australia	Adam Scott	1.96	94.24	-32.93	43.42
55	54	New Zealand	Ryan Fox	1.96	101.95	-29.52	22.90
56	56	United States	Rickie Fowler	1.92	80.51	-18.69	33.38
57	57	Japan	Ryo Hisatsune	1.91	99.10	-17.99	61.57
58	58	Finland	Sami Valimaki	1.87	97.48	-21.94	9.73
59	60	United States	Michael Thorbjornsen	1.81	83.28	-16.87	32.17
60	59	Denmark	Rasmus Hojgaard	1.80	91.70	-30.73	16.78
61	61	Spain	David Puig	1.79	71.50	-13.02	36.58
62	62	Belgium	Thomas Detry	1.77	92.29	-34.14	30.75
63	64	South Africa	Jayden Schaper	1.75	90.80	-15.21	14.17
64	63	England	Harry Hall	1.74	90.44	-27.43	25.40
65	65	United States	Bud Cauley	1.73	72.64	-18.06	24.26
66	67	Canada	Nick Taylor	1.71	87.43	-29.79	24.46
67	66	United States	Max Greyserman	1.70	86.89	-37.64	8.71
67	68	England	Jordan Smith	1.70	88.60	-22.61	35.13
69	69	England	Matt Wallace	1.66	86.43	-26.47	30.02
70	70	United States	Wyndham Clark	1.65	79.35	-39.03	23.21
71	71	United States	John Keefer	1.65	82.45	-20.27	24.44
72	72	South Africa	Casey Jarvis	1.62	84.48	-7.96	57.02
73	73	United States	Patrick Rodgers	1.61	83.71	-19.96	44.02
74	74	United States	Sahith Theegala	1.59	76.13	-30.71	51.20
75	75	Denmark	Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen	1.58	82.26	-25.13	7.47
76	76	South Korea	Sungjae Im	1.54	80.02	-41.78	17.27
77	77	South Africa	Aldrich Potgieter	1.50	78.10	-19.31	21.01
78	78	United States	Max McGreevy	1.49	77.71	-25.83	14.94
79	80	China	Haotong Li	1.49	77.57	-19.01	20.98
80	79	United States	J.T. Poston	1.48	71.20	-29.54	10.93
81	82	Philippines	Richard Hoey	1.46	75.75	-23.46	11.93
82	81	Canada	Taylor Pendrith	1.45	69.60	-35.52	13.73
83	83	England	John Parry	1.44	74.86	-22.29	17.39
84	84	South Africa	Garrick Higgo	1.42	65.48	-17.90	3.14
85	85	Australia	Elvis Smylie	1.41	60.59	-10.86	25.68
86	86	United States	Ricky Castillo	1.41	73.07	-10.28	40.37
87	87	United States	Austin Smotherman	1.39	72.38	-14.01	33.53
88	88	United States	Andrew Putnam	1.38	71.63	-13.20	44.62
89	89	United States	David Lipsky	1.36	70.93	-15.06	35.74
90	90	New Zealand	Daniel Hillier	1.35	70.34	-12.92	31.79
91	91	Germany	Matti Schmid	1.35	70.08	-21.54	15.49
92	92	United States	Lucas Glover	1.33	61.30	-28.07	4.13
93	93	United States	Denny McCarthy	1.33	62.52	-28.91	13.71
94	94	South Africa	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	1.33	69.06	-26.79	13.64
95	95	England	Daniel Brown(Oct1994)	1.32	66.07	-20.54	6.51
96	96	United States	Chris Kirk	1.31	59.08	-21.88	8.00
97	97	France	Adrien Saddier	1.29	67.27	-20.32	3.86
98	98	Germany	Stephan Jaeger	1.28	65.28	-26.63	26.77
99	101	Northern Ireland	Tom McKibbin	1.27	53.33	-18.07	6.20
100	100	United States	Brian Campbell	1.27	64.73	-22.81	6.17
101	102	England	Andy Sullivan	1.25	64.84	-13.60	27.07
102	99	United States	Billy Horschel	1.24	53.46	-38.36	12.30
103	108	United States	Chandler Blanchet	1.24	59.54	-11.42	18.55
104	104	United States	Alex Smalley	1.23	64.12	-16.19	22.08
105	105	Denmark	Thorbjorn Olesen	1.23	63.82	-20.95	13.69
106	103	South Africa	Thriston Lawrence	1.22	63.57	-32.26	6.11
107	110	Spain	Angel Ayora	1.22	63.44	-14.27	16.90
108	106	Taiwan (Chinese Taipei)	Chun-an Yu	1.22	63.40	-22.70	10.57
108	107	United States	Keith Mitchell	1.22	60.96	-18.11	25.16
110	109	Argentina	Emiliano Grillo	1.21	61.62	-18.61	11.01
111	113	United States	Ian Holt	1.20	51.73	-5.07	39.89
112	111	Venezuela	Jhonattan Vegas	1.19	52.56	-22.63	9.05
113	118	Canada	Sudarshan Yellamaraju	1.19	59.35	-7.09	40.04
114	112	England	Laurie Canter	1.19	53.35	-21.06	1.21
115	115	United States	Tom Hoge	1.18	61.31	-26.29	17.02
116	114	United States	Tony Finau	1.18	50.55	-28.27	19.18
117	116	United States	McClure Meissner	1.17	58.49	-19.41	11.60
118	117	United States	Max Homa	1.16	54.53	-18.67	26.65
119	119	United States	Eric Cole	1.13	58.63	-20.77	15.10
120	134	South Africa	Shaun Norris	1.12	58.32	-17.90	6.10
121	120	United States	Davis Thompson	1.11	56.82	-30.33	14.92
122	122	United States	William Mouw	1.11	52.26	-14.95	13.78
123	121	Spain	Eugenio Chacarra	1.10	50.75	-9.97	16.55
124	123	United States	Steven Fisk	1.09	56.58	-18.87	10.83
125	129	Japan	Keita Nakajima	1.08	47.43	-17.39	1.40
126	125	United States	Brooks Koepka	1.07	42.76	-7.40	25.92
127	126	Spain	Nacho Elvira	1.06	55.13	-12.51	29.21
128	131	Scotland	Calum Hill	1.06	55.05	-12.37	27.85
129	130	Japan	Takumi Kanaya	1.06	54.98	-14.86	8.75
130	127	United States	Vincent Whaley	1.06	54.96	-18.81	5.90
131	124	United States	Davis Riley	1.05	54.85	-25.17	10.21
132	132	England	Dan Bradbury	1.05	54.80	-10.58	23.60
133	133	United States	Blades Brown	1.05	42.12	-2.76	33.33
134	128	Canada	Mackenzie Hughes	1.05	54.51	-26.64	7.62
135	146	Spain	Jose Luis Ballester	1.05	41.88	-3.44	15.65
136	135	United States	Lee Hodges	1.02	48.88	-16.67	13.85
137	136	Australia	Travis Smyth	1.02	40.63	-5.05	29.47
138	137	South Korea	Seonghyeon Kim	1.00	52.14	-14.46	22.01
139	138	United States	Joe Highsmith	0.99	51.70	-19.28	7.31
140	141	England	Alex Fitzpatrick	0.99	51.55	-10.45	25.87
141	140	United States	Kevin Roy	0.99	51.50	-14.55	16.47
142	142	Denmark	Jacob Skov Olesen	0.99	42.55	-7.72	14.29
143	143	Japan	Kazuki Higa	0.98	50.87	-13.87	0.99
144	139	South Korea	Tom Kim	0.98	50.81	-28.85	11.91
145	145	France	Martin Couvra	0.97	50.46	-13.45	8.80
146	147	United States	Adam Schenk	0.96	50.14	-14.39	10.11
147	144	South Korea	Byeong Hun An	0.96	45.97	-27.85	2.76
148	148	United States	Taylor Moore	0.95	48.56	-17.79	22.35
149	149	United States	Chad Ramey	0.95	49.45	-10.62	16.48
150	150	Belgium	Adrien Dumont de Chassart	0.94	49.09	-11.88	14.99
151	151	Sweden	Joakim Lagergren	0.94	47.94	-14.28	3.58
152	152	United States	Peter Uihlein	0.94	37.42	-9.40	16.13
153	155	United States	Davis Lamb	0.93	37.39	-4.11	24.50
154	154	South Africa	JC Ritchie	0.91	47.22	-11.04	3.39
155	153	Australia	Karl Vilips	0.91	38.93	-12.13	12.67
156	161	France	Jeremy Gandon	0.90	40.47	-5.90	23.78
157	156	United States	Mark Hubbard	0.90	46.59	-17.66	4.33
158	158	Finland	Oliver Lindell	0.89	46.31	-11.44	14.23
159	157	United States	Austin Eckroat	0.88	44.71	-24.06	10.64
160	160	United States	Chandler Phillips	0.87	45.47	-13.98	13.36
161	159	France	Julien Guerrier	0.87	45.45	-11.95	22.20
162	162	Spain	Jorge Campillo	0.87	45.28	-14.28	14.35
163	164	Mexico	Carlos Ortiz	0.86	34.42	-9.68	7.52
164	163	United States	Neal Shipley	0.86	43.02	-15.91	0.67
165	165	Zimbabwe	Scott Vincent	0.86	34.30	-8.32	6.52
166	169	Canada	Richard T. Lee	0.84	43.88	-11.96	14.23
167	166	United States	Beau Hossler	0.84	43.83	-17.12	6.49
168	167	South Africa	Erik van Rooyen	0.84	43.62	-20.90	1.98
169	168	United States	Carson Young	0.83	43.16	-13.07	13.74
170	171	United States	Zachary Bauchou	0.82	42.52	-9.71	16.24
171	173	Australia	Lucas Herbert	0.82	32.67	-6.64	14.85
172	170	United States	Matt Kuchar	0.81	32.56	-13.82	2.51
173	174	England	Marcus Armitage	0.81	42.23	-9.79	13.81
174	172	Chile	Joaquin Niemann	0.81	32.44	-13.68	6.50
175	175	Ireland	Seamus Power	0.81	42.08	-15.05	12.28
176	176	South Africa	Hennie Du Plessis	0.80	32.13	-1.40	24.91
177	177	Scotland	Grant Forrest	0.80	39.31	-10.60	7.96
178	178	China	Ding Wenyi	0.79	32.97	-6.24	5.69
179	180	United States	Taylor Montgomery	0.78	35.17	-9.26	8.84
180	187	France	Antoine Rozner	0.78	40.56	-13.50	9.78
181	182	United States	Joel Dahmen	0.78	40.40	-11.49	17.09
182	181	Scotland	Ewen Ferguson	0.77	39.48	-14.04	9.16
183	179	United States	Patrick Fishburn	0.77	40.11	-18.04	2.29
184	183	United States	Doug Ghim	0.77	39.31	-15.88	6.28
185	199	Germany	Frederik Schott	0.77	40.04	-5.08	27.98
186	184	Italy	Francesco Laporta	0.77	39.86	-9.50	15.07
187	186	United States	Alistair Docherty	0.77	38.31	-8.56	26.43
188	185	South Africa	Dean Burmester	0.76	30.56	-7.37	15.26
189	189	Mexico	Emilio Gonzalez	0.75	36.66	-11.27	1.80
190	190	United States	Jay Card III	0.74	29.48	-5.31	10.52
191	191	China	Marty Dou Zecheng	0.74	38.28	-7.58	14.41
192	192	United States	Dylan Menante	0.73	30.03	-3.48	19.26
193	188	Sweden	Jesper Svensson	0.73	38.07	-16.71	4.36
194	197	United States	Doc Redman	0.73	30.57	-4.95	17.42
195	194	Japan	Kota Kaneko	0.73	37.79	-9.17	7.14
196	193	United States	Trace Crowe(Oct1996)	0.72	29.61	-10.64	4.41
197	196	South Africa	Jacques Kruyswijk	0.72	35.88	-10.56	6.31
198	198	New Zealand	Kazuma Kobori	0.71	34.11	-8.93	5.56
199	195	South Africa	Daniel van Tonder	0.71	36.76	-9.87	10.79
200	200	England	Richard Mansell	0.70	33.06	-12.43	-

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Updated: April 27, 2026