Official World Golf Ranking 18/2026 - Golf Today

Week 18 – 03/05/2026

Simon Bale|May 4, 2026

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Cameron Young has won the Cadillac Championship, Scottie Scheffler came second, Ben Griffin third and Adam Scott tied for fourth place with Sepp Straka and Si Woo Kim.

Young moves up one place to number 3, Scheffler stays at number 1, Griffin up two places to 14, Scott up to 43 from 54, Straka stays at 13 and Kim up five to 20.

Related: Cameron Young wins by six strokes

Cadillac Championship R4

Mikael Lindberg has won the Turkish Airlines Open, Daniel Rodrigues and Guido Migliozzi came second and Ewen Ferguson tied for fourth place with Darius van Driel and Jacok Skov Olesen.

Lindberg moves up to 129 from 220, Rodrigues to 275 from 511, Migliozzi to 214 from 312, Ferguson to 164 from 182, van Driel to 212 from 248 and Olesen to 125 from 142.

Mikael Lindberg of Sweden looks across the ninth hole, during day one of the Hero Dubai Desert Classic 2026

Related: Mikael Lindberg wins maiden DP World Tour title

Turkish Airlines 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	16.74	686.18	-243.01	244.23
2	2	Northern Ireland	Rory McIlroy	9.85	443.17	-145.82	152.28
3	4	United States	Cameron Young	7.05	331.16	-47.09	217.34
4	3	England	Matt Fitzpatrick	6.21	298.11	-38.72	186.67
5	5	England	Justin Rose	5.10	224.29	-54.04	97.51
6	6	United States	Collin Morikawa	5.05	212.05	-69.16	127.84
7	7	England	Tommy Fleetwood	4.95	257.39	-80.80	55.19
8	8	United States	Russell Henley	4.94	197.59	-64.39	65.62
9	10	United States	J.J. Spaun	4.77	247.95	-65.74	65.65
10	9	United States	Xander Schauffele	4.72	188.85	-98.70	81.47
11	11	United States	Chris Gotterup	4.61	239.53	-38.31	140.56
12	12	Scotland	Robert MacIntyre	4.43	230.44	-79.38	68.48
13	13	Austria	Sepp Straka	4.19	205.45	-59.44	74.80
14	16	United States	Ben Griffin	4.13	214.68	-64.31	42.65
15	14	Sweden	Ludvig Aberg	3.92	172.59	-62.16	74.74
16	15	Japan	Hideki Matsuyama	3.82	187.10	-64.78	73.35
17	17	United States	Justin Thomas	3.67	146.89	-61.73	19.47
18	22	Sweden	Alex Noren	3.60	143.96	-42.02	29.71
19	19	United States	Jacob Bridgeman	3.60	186.94	-25.19	130.91
20	25	South Korea	Si Woo Kim	3.51	182.70	-32.11	112.80
21	20	Spain	Jon Rahm	3.50	140.20	-20.23	99.77
22	18	United States	Harris English	3.50	175.19	-52.99	38.17
23	21	United States	Patrick Reed	3.41	136.22	-24.06	80.03
24	24	United States	Akshay Bhatia	3.39	176.13	-41.50	114.47
25	23	England	Tyrrell Hatton	3.32	132.95	-40.00	42.67
26	26	Norway	Viktor Hovland	3.16	135.73	-49.51	34.05
27	31	Australia	Min Woo Lee	2.91	145.53	-32.95	80.33
28	30	United States	Maverick McNealy	2.89	150.37	-52.10	42.32
29	28	United States	Bryson DeChambeau	2.89	115.63	-51.47	58.12
30	27	United States	Keegan Bradley	2.88	129.82	-55.50	18.88
31	29	United States	Sam Burns	2.85	136.60	-44.24	46.38
32	33	United States	Ryan Gerard	2.84	147.79	-30.99	74.86
33	32	United States	Patrick Cantlay	2.82	112.87	-42.29	41.74
34	34	United States	Kurt Kitayama	2.79	128.48	-27.73	60.32
35	35	Ireland	Shane Lowry	2.63	136.68	-51.85	44.48
36	36	United States	Jake Knapp	2.53	108.94	-21.21	69.75
37	37	Denmark	Nicolai Hojgaard	2.52	130.94	-23.43	71.71
38	39	Australia	Jason Day	2.44	97.79	-28.21	51.83
39	38	England	Marco Penge	2.44	126.83	-29.67	21.99
40	40	United States	Daniel Berger	2.36	118.01	-27.50	60.54
41	43	United States	Michael Kim	2.25	116.78	-31.20	36.06
42	41	England	Aaron Rai	2.22	108.99	-50.20	7.59
43	54	Australia	Adam Scott	2.21	106.09	-34.82	57.16
44	42	Colombia	Nicolas Echavarria	2.21	114.74	-30.89	46.80
45	47	United States	Matt McCarty	2.21	114.73	-34.64	53.23
46	46	United States	Samuel Stevens	2.20	114.22	-31.42	45.90
47	45	United States	Gary Woodland	2.14	102.65	-16.04	67.09
48	48	Norway	Kristoffer Reitan	2.13	110.81	-24.33	21.51
49	44	Canada	Corey Conners	2.12	99.74	-41.20	21.53
50	50	United States	Jordan Spieth	2.09	87.64	-21.51	42.76
51	49	United States	Michael Brennan	2.03	85.11	-17.67	13.90
52	56	United States	Rickie Fowler	2.00	86.14	-19.73	40.05
53	51	United States	Brian Harman	1.97	100.46	-38.01	24.82
54	52	United States	Andrew Novak	1.96	101.85	-34.73	20.94
55	55	New Zealand	Ryan Fox	1.95	101.64	-31.29	24.36
56	53	United States	Pierceson Coody	1.94	101.02	-22.55	52.02
57	58	Finland	Sami Valimaki	1.85	96.07	-23.34	9.73
58	57	Japan	Ryo Hisatsune	1.83	95.27	-21.81	61.57
59	61	Spain	David Puig	1.80	72.02	-13.84	37.93
60	66	Canada	Nick Taylor	1.78	92.59	-31.30	31.13
61	60	Denmark	Rasmus Hojgaard	1.76	89.89	-32.53	16.78
62	59	United States	Michael Thorbjornsen	1.76	82.69	-17.94	32.65
63	62	Belgium	Thomas Detry	1.75	90.75	-35.68	30.75
64	64	England	Harry Hall	1.74	90.23	-29.10	26.86
65	65	United States	Bud Cauley	1.73	72.51	-19.10	25.17
66	63	South Africa	Jayden Schaper	1.72	89.54	-16.47	14.17
67	67	England	Jordan Smith	1.69	87.87	-23.69	35.49
68	67	United States	Max Greyserman	1.68	85.66	-39.78	9.62
69	69	England	Matt Wallace	1.68	87.18	-28.02	32.32
70	70	United States	Wyndham Clark	1.62	77.94	-40.44	23.21
71	71	United States	John Keefer	1.62	81.18	-21.54	24.44
72	72	South Africa	Casey Jarvis	1.62	84.01	-8.43	57.02
73	73	United States	Patrick Rodgers	1.59	82.67	-21.00	44.02
74	77	South Africa	Aldrich Potgieter	1.57	81.52	-20.44	25.56
75	74	United States	Sahith Theegala	1.56	76.24	-32.06	52.67
76	75	Denmark	Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen	1.55	80.82	-26.56	7.47
77	76	South Korea	Sungjae Im	1.50	77.94	-43.86	17.27
78	78	United States	Max McGreevy	1.47	76.40	-27.14	14.94
79	79	China	Haotong Li	1.47	76.30	-20.28	20.98
80	80	United States	J.T. Poston	1.43	70.25	-31.07	11.52
81	81	Philippines	Richard Hoey	1.43	74.48	-24.72	11.93
82	84	South Africa	Garrick Higgo	1.43	64.45	-18.93	3.14
83	82	Canada	Taylor Pendrith	1.43	68.41	-37.61	14.64
84	88	United States	Andrew Putnam	1.42	74.07	-14.12	47.98
85	83	England	John Parry	1.42	73.66	-23.48	17.39
86	86	United States	Ricky Castillo	1.40	72.75	-10.97	40.73
87	104	United States	Alex Smalley	1.39	72.30	-17.11	31.17
88	87	United States	Austin Smotherman	1.38	71.77	-14.89	33.79
89	85	Australia	Elvis Smylie	1.38	60.71	-11.52	26.46
90	92	United States	Lucas Glover	1.37	64.38	-29.54	8.67
91	89	United States	David Lipsky	1.35	70.01	-15.98	35.74
92	90	New Zealand	Daniel Hillier	1.33	69.33	-13.93	31.79
93	91	Germany	Matti Schmid	1.33	68.94	-22.67	15.49
94	93	United States	Denny McCarthy	1.31	62.64	-30.26	15.17
95	94	South Africa	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	1.30	67.62	-28.23	13.64
96	95	England	Daniel Brown(Oct1994)	1.30	64.81	-21.81	6.51
97	96	United States	Chris Kirk	1.29	58.04	-22.91	8.00
98	98	Germany	Stephan Jaeger	1.28	64.08	-27.84	26.77
99	97	France	Adrien Saddier	1.27	66.09	-21.50	3.86
100	99	Northern Ireland	Tom McKibbin	1.24	52.26	-19.13	6.20
101	100	United States	Brian Campbell	1.23	64.05	-24.08	6.76
102	101	England	Andy Sullivan	1.23	63.89	-14.73	27.25
103	107	Spain	Angel Ayora	1.21	62.89	-16.17	18.24
104	108	United States	Keith Mitchell	1.21	60.31	-19.13	25.53
105	105	Denmark	Thorbjorn Olesen	1.20	62.65	-22.11	13.69
106	103	United States	Chandler Blanchet	1.20	58.87	-12.09	18.55
107	102	United States	Billy Horschel	1.20	51.54	-40.28	12.30
108	108	Taiwan (Chinese Taipei)	Chun-an Yu	1.19	62.11	-23.99	10.57
109	110	Argentina	Emiliano Grillo	1.19	60.62	-19.61	11.01
110	111	United States	Ian Holt	1.19	51.06	-5.74	39.89
111	113	Canada	Sudarshan Yellamaraju	1.18	60.34	-7.56	41.50
112	117	United States	McClure Meissner	1.17	57.39	-20.51	11.60
112	112	Venezuela	Jhonattan Vegas	1.17	51.53	-23.92	9.32
114	106	South Africa	Thriston Lawrence	1.16	60.31	-35.94	6.53
115	114	England	Laurie Canter	1.16	52.05	-22.36	1.21
116	115	United States	Tom Hoge	1.16	60.14	-27.67	17.23
117	116	United States	Tony Finau	1.14	49.10	-29.71	19.18
118	118	United States	Max Homa	1.14	54.73	-19.38	27.56
119	120	South Africa	Shaun Norris	1.12	58.18	-19.11	7.17
120	140	England	Alex Fitzpatrick	1.11	57.64	-11.04	32.54
121	119	United States	Eric Cole	1.11	57.50	-21.90	15.10
122	121	United States	Davis Thompson	1.10	55.11	-32.04	14.92
123	123	Spain	Eugenio Chacarra	1.09	51.43	-10.64	17.89
124	122	United States	William Mouw	1.09	51.39	-15.82	13.78
125	142	Denmark	Jacob Skov Olesen	1.08	47.52	-8.21	19.76
126	124	United States	Steven Fisk	1.07	55.66	-19.78	10.83
127	125	Japan	Keita Nakajima	1.06	46.57	-18.26	1.40
127	126	United States	Brooks Koepka	1.06	42.34	-7.82	25.92
129	220	Sweden	Mikael Lindberg	1.05	54.82	-6.64	32.91
130	133	United States	Blades Brown	1.05	41.90	-2.98	33.33
131	128	Scotland	Calum Hill	1.05	54.42	-13.01	27.85
132	127	Spain	Nacho Elvira	1.05	54.41	-13.23	29.21
133	131	United States	Davis Riley	1.05	53.32	-26.70	10.21
134	129	Japan	Takumi Kanaya	1.04	54.14	-15.70	8.75
135	132	England	Dan Bradbury	1.04	54.12	-11.26	23.60
136	135	Spain	Jose Luis Ballester	1.04	41.55	-3.77	15.65
137	130	United States	Vincent Whaley	1.04	53.92	-19.84	5.90
138	134	Canada	Mackenzie Hughes	1.02	53.17	-27.98	7.62
139	138	South Korea	Seonghyeon Kim	1.01	52.74	-15.22	23.37
140	137	Australia	Travis Smyth	1.01	40.35	-5.32	29.47
141	136	United States	Lee Hodges	1.00	47.87	-17.68	13.85
142	141	United States	Kevin Roy	0.98	50.70	-15.35	16.47
143	139	United States	Joe Highsmith	0.97	50.63	-20.36	7.31
144	145	France	Martin Couvra	0.97	50.25	-14.29	9.42
145	144	South Korea	Tom Kim	0.96	49.19	-30.47	11.91
146	143	Japan	Kazuki Higa	0.96	50.09	-14.80	1.14
147	154	South Africa	JC Ritchie	0.95	49.52	-11.74	6.38
148	146	United States	Adam Schenk	0.95	49.43	-15.10	10.11
149	147	South Korea	Byeong Hun An	0.95	44.53	-29.29	2.76
150	149	United States	Chad Ramey	0.94	48.80	-11.28	16.48
151	148	United States	Taylor Moore	0.94	47.76	-18.59	22.35
152	151	Sweden	Joakim Lagergren	0.93	48.44	-15.13	4.92
153	150	Belgium	Adrien Dumont de Chassart	0.93	48.43	-12.55	14.99
154	153	United States	Davis Lamb	0.93	37.14	-4.36	24.50
155	152	United States	Peter Uihlein	0.92	36.89	-9.94	16.13
156	156	France	Jeremy Gandon	0.91	40.10	-6.28	23.78
157	158	Finland	Oliver Lindell	0.89	46.16	-12.21	14.85
158	155	Australia	Karl Vilips	0.89	38.15	-12.91	12.67
159	157	United States	Mark Hubbard	0.88	45.75	-18.50	4.33
160	160	United States	Chandler Phillips	0.88	44.71	-14.74	13.36
161	161	France	Julien Guerrier	0.86	44.97	-12.86	22.62
162	173	England	Marcus Armitage	0.86	44.56	-10.46	16.81
163	159	United States	Austin Eckroat	0.86	43.66	-25.10	10.64
164	182	Scotland	Ewen Ferguson	0.85	44.14	-14.85	14.63
165	163	Mexico	Carlos Ortiz	0.85	33.94	-10.17	7.52
166	166	Canada	Richard T. Lee	0.85	43.20	-12.65	14.23
167	165	Zimbabwe	Scott Vincent	0.85	33.81	-8.81	6.52
168	164	United States	Neal Shipley	0.84	42.10	-16.83	0.67
169	162	Spain	Jorge Campillo	0.84	43.75	-15.81	14.35
170	167	United States	Beau Hossler	0.82	42.86	-18.09	6.49
171	168	South Africa	Erik van Rooyen	0.82	42.69	-21.83	1.98
172	169	United States	Carson Young	0.82	42.42	-13.80	13.74
173	171	Australia	Lucas Herbert	0.81	32.31	-7.00	14.85
174	170	United States	Zachary Bauchou	0.81	41.91	-10.32	16.24
175	178	China	Ding Wenyi	0.81	34.65	-6.70	7.81
176	177	Scotland	Grant Forrest	0.80	39.24	-11.29	8.58
177	176	South Africa	Hennie Du Plessis	0.80	32.00	-1.52	24.91
178	174	Chile	Joaquin Niemann	0.79	31.73	-14.39	6.50
179	172	United States	Matt Kuchar	0.79	31.72	-14.65	2.51
180	175	Ireland	Seamus Power	0.79	41.22	-15.91	12.28
181	179	United States	Taylor Montgomery	0.79	34.70	-9.73	8.84
182	180	France	Antoine Rozner	0.78	40.71	-14.28	10.71
183	195	Japan	Kota Kaneko	0.77	40.19	-9.76	10.13
184	184	United States	Doug Ghim	0.77	38.47	-16.72	6.28
185	181	United States	Joel Dahmen	0.77	39.90	-12.21	17.30
186	185	Germany	Frederik Schott	0.76	39.54	-5.57	27.98
187	186	Italy	Francesco Laporta	0.76	39.30	-10.06	15.07
188	187	United States	Alistair Docherty	0.75	37.74	-9.12	26.43
189	188	South Africa	Dean Burmester	0.75	30.09	-7.84	15.26
190	183	United States	Patrick Fishburn	0.75	39.06	-19.10	2.29
191	191	China	Marty Dou Zecheng	0.74	37.81	-8.04	14.41
192	189	Mexico	Emilio Gonzalez	0.73	35.99	-11.93	1.80
193	198	New Zealand	Kazuma Kobori	0.73	35.74	-9.44	7.69
194	190	United States	Jay Card III	0.73	29.15	-5.63	10.52
195	192	United States	Dylan Menante	0.73	29.80	-3.71	19.26
196	196	United States	Trace Crowe(Oct1996)	0.73	29.02	-11.22	4.41
197	193	Sweden	Jesper Svensson	0.72	37.52	-17.53	4.63
198	194	United States	Doc Redman	0.72	30.28	-5.24	17.42
199	201	United States	Davis Bryant	0.71	28.58	-4.28	12.32
200	197	South Africa	Jacques Kruyswijk	0.71	35.26	-11.19	6.31

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Updated: May 4, 2026