Official World Golf Ranking 20/2026 - Golf Today

Week 20 – 10/05/2026

Simon Bale|May 18, 2026

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Aaron Rai has won the PGA Championship, Jon Rahm and Alex Smalley came second, Justin Thomas, Ludvig Åberg and Matti Schmid finished fourth.

Rai moves up to 15 from 44 this week, Rahm up eight places to 12, Smalley to 42 from 78, Thomas stays at 16, Åberg up two to 13 and Schmid to 65 from 97.

Related: Aaron Rai captures PGA Championship title

Final round 65 via 31 score on inward half vaults Englishman.

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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	16.40	672.20	-266.24	253.48
2	2	Northern Ireland	Rory McIlroy	9.95	447.56	-160.94	171.78
3	3	United States	Cameron Young	7.19	338.03	-51.47	228.60
4	4	England	Matt Fitzpatrick	6.32	303.55	-42.93	196.34
5	7	England	Justin Rose	5.23	230.30	-61.31	110.79
6	5	United States	Collin Morikawa	5.03	206.24	-76.76	129.64
7	6	England	Tommy Fleetwood	5.00	260.23	-89.31	66.55
8	11	United States	Xander Schauffele	4.90	195.95	-108.19	98.06
9	8	United States	J.J. Spaun	4.85	251.95	-73.09	77.00
10	10	United States	Chris Gotterup	4.82	250.80	-44.26	157.78
11	9	United States	Russell Henley	4.77	190.97	-71.01	65.62
12	20	Spain	Jon Rahm	4.77	190.68	-22.87	152.90
13	15	Sweden	Ludvig Aberg	4.45	200.30	-67.32	107.62
14	12	Scotland	Robert MacIntyre	4.29	222.86	-87.21	68.74
15	44	England	Aaron Rai	4.28	213.94	-55.60	117.95
16	16	United States	Justin Thomas	4.27	170.67	-68.09	49.61
17	14	United States	Ben Griffin	4.17	216.65	-71.60	51.90
18	13	Austria	Sepp Straka	4.06	198.84	-66.05	74.80
19	17	Japan	Hideki Matsuyama	3.68	184.14	-72.31	77.92
20	18	Sweden	Alex Noren	3.65	145.81	-46.20	35.73
21	24	United States	Patrick Reed	3.62	144.91	-27.87	92.53
22	21	United States	Harris English	3.56	178.08	-58.73	46.80
23	19	United States	Jacob Bridgeman	3.54	184.29	-28.26	131.32
24	22	South Korea	Si Woo Kim	3.49	181.71	-36.69	116.40
25	25	Norway	Kristoffer Reitan	3.37	175.21	-27.35	88.94
26	23	United States	Akshay Bhatia	3.33	173.36	-45.30	115.49
27	26	England	Tyrrell Hatton	3.22	128.63	-44.32	42.67
28	29	Denmark	Nicolai Hojgaard	3.07	159.74	-26.43	103.51
29	34	United States	Kurt Kitayama	3.07	141.24	-30.63	75.99
30	27	Norway	Viktor Hovland	3.06	131.53	-55.16	35.51
31	31	Australia	Min Woo Lee	3.00	153.00	-36.67	91.52
32	28	United States	Bryson DeChambeau	2.98	119.31	-56.91	67.25
33	30	United States	Patrick Cantlay	2.98	119.02	-46.43	52.03
34	33	United States	Maverick McNealy	2.92	152.02	-57.95	49.82
35	35	United States	Sam Burns	2.86	137.47	-48.97	51.97
36	32	United States	Keegan Bradley	2.82	127.00	-61.49	22.05
37	36	United States	Ryan Gerard	2.78	144.61	-35.21	75.90
38	37	United States	Rickie Fowler	2.66	114.58	-21.93	70.69
39	39	United States	Jake Knapp	2.60	106.66	-23.49	69.75
40	38	Ireland	Shane Lowry	2.58	134.25	-56.88	47.08
41	41	Australia	Jason Day	2.40	95.86	-31.38	53.07
42	78	United States	Alex Smalley	2.39	124.35	-19.01	85.13
43	40	England	Marco Penge	2.37	123.45	-33.05	21.99
44	42	United States	Daniel Berger	2.34	119.20	-30.69	64.92
45	45	United States	Michael Kim	2.24	116.66	-34.54	39.29
46	43	United States	Matt McCarty	2.22	115.64	-40.43	59.92
47	51	United States	Jordan Spieth	2.20	92.36	-23.68	49.65
48	47	United States	Gary Woodland	2.18	104.86	-17.78	71.04
49	46	Australia	Adam Scott	2.18	104.53	-38.54	59.32
50	48	Colombia	Nicolas Echavarria	2.17	112.60	-34.50	48.26
51	49	United States	Samuel Stevens	2.16	112.08	-34.80	47.14
52	50	Canada	Corey Conners	2.10	98.73	-45.47	24.79
53	54	United States	Andrew Novak	2.01	104.67	-38.64	27.67
54	56	New Zealand	Ryan Fox	1.96	101.81	-34.73	27.96
55	53	United States	Brian Harman	1.96	99.78	-41.59	27.72
56	52	United States	Michael Brennan	1.95	83.68	-19.85	14.65
57	55	United States	Pierceson Coody	1.93	100.40	-25.32	54.18
58	62	Spain	David Puig	1.92	76.74	-15.60	44.41
59	58	Canada	Nick Taylor	1.90	98.77	-34.40	40.41
60	59	Japan	Ryo Hisatsune	1.87	97.44	-24.03	65.95
61	57	England	Harry Hall	1.83	94.94	-32.60	35.08
62	60	Finland	Sami Valimaki	1.82	94.62	-26.23	11.17
63	70	United States	Max Greyserman	1.76	91.72	-44.06	19.96
64	61	Belgium	Thomas Detry	1.76	91.64	-38.88	34.84
65	97	Germany	Matti Schmid	1.75	91.05	-25.23	40.15
66	66	United States	Bud Cauley	1.73	76.00	-21.20	30.77
67	64	Denmark	Rasmus Hojgaard	1.71	88.78	-36.22	19.35
68	65	South Africa	Jayden Schaper	1.69	87.92	-19.07	15.15
69	69	England	Matt Wallace	1.68	87.35	-31.47	35.94
70	63	United States	Michael Thorbjornsen	1.67	80.22	-20.41	32.65
71	68	England	Jordan Smith	1.65	85.59	-25.98	35.49
72	67	South Korea	Sungjae Im	1.63	84.77	-48.38	28.63
73	72	South Africa	Casey Jarvis	1.63	84.76	-9.81	59.16
74	75	South Africa	Aldrich Potgieter	1.61	83.53	-22.66	29.79
75	71	United States	Wyndham Clark	1.60	75.08	-43.30	23.21
76	73	United States	Patrick Rodgers	1.58	82.06	-23.77	46.18
77	74	United States	John Keefer	1.55	80.50	-24.11	26.34
78	76	United States	Sahith Theegala	1.53	74.89	-34.86	54.11
79	77	Denmark	Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen	1.51	78.77	-29.50	8.35
80	80	China	Haotong Li	1.49	77.36	-22.82	24.58
81	82	United States	Andrew Putnam	1.44	75.13	-15.89	50.80
82	86	Canada	Taylor Pendrith	1.43	68.81	-40.83	18.26
83	83	England	Alex Fitzpatrick	1.43	74.42	-12.17	50.46
84	80	United States	Max McGreevy	1.42	73.69	-29.85	14.94
85	79	United States	J.T. Poston	1.41	69.29	-34.20	13.68
86	87	England	John Parry	1.41	73.20	-26.07	19.52
87	84	United States	Austin Smotherman	1.41	73.18	-16.65	36.96
88	92	South Africa	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	1.41	73.16	-31.06	22.01
89	88	Philippines	Richard Hoey	1.40	72.59	-28.56	13.88
90	89	Australia	Lucas Herbert	1.39	55.50	-7.83	38.88
91	96	New Zealand	Daniel Hillier	1.38	71.85	-15.98	36.35
92	90	United States	Ricky Castillo	1.38	71.68	-12.30	40.99
93	100	Germany	Stephan Jaeger	1.36	68.17	-30.22	33.24
94	85	South Africa	Garrick Higgo	1.36	62.67	-21.01	3.43
95	91	United States	David Lipsky	1.35	70.25	-17.90	37.90
96	98	United States	Chris Kirk	1.33	58.57	-24.98	10.60
97	93	United States	Lucas Glover	1.33	62.51	-32.44	9.70
98	99	United States	Denny McCarthy	1.32	63.29	-32.84	18.40
99	95	South Africa	Shaun Norris	1.31	67.99	-21.30	19.17
100	94	Australia	Elvis Smylie	1.30	59.77	-13.34	27.34
101	101	France	Adrien Saddier	1.23	63.71	-23.89	3.86
102	102	England	Daniel Brown(Oct1994)	1.21	63.16	-24.34	7.40
103	112	United States	Chandler Blanchet	1.21	60.54	-13.43	21.56
104	104	United States	Brian Campbell	1.20	62.61	-26.65	7.90
105	103	United States	McClure Meissner	1.20	58.96	-22.77	15.44
106	105	Canada	Sudarshan Yellamaraju	1.20	62.55	-8.52	44.67
107	106	England	Andy Sullivan	1.19	62.10	-16.53	27.25
108	109	United States	Keith Mitchell	1.19	59.52	-21.15	26.77
109	107	Spain	Angel Ayora	1.17	60.83	-18.22	18.24
110	124	United States	Tom Hoge	1.17	60.81	-31.57	21.80
111	125	United States	Brooks Koepka	1.17	46.61	-8.66	31.03
112	120	United States	Blades Brown	1.16	46.49	-3.43	38.38
113	110	Denmark	Thorbjorn Olesen	1.16	60.33	-24.44	13.69
114	111	Taiwan (Chinese Taipei)	Chun-an Yu	1.16	60.10	-26.52	11.07
115	118	Spain	Jose Luis Ballester	1.15	46.18	-4.43	20.94
116	114	United States	Mark Hubbard	1.15	59.96	-20.17	20.22
117	115	Argentina	Emiliano Grillo	1.15	58.62	-21.60	11.01
118	116	United States	Eric Cole	1.15	59.56	-24.60	19.87
119	108	Northern Ireland	Tom McKibbin	1.14	50.15	-21.25	6.20
120	119	United States	Tony Finau	1.13	47.62	-32.65	20.64
121	113	United States	Ian Holt	1.13	49.73	-7.07	39.89
122	126	Venezuela	Jhonattan Vegas	1.13	51.96	-26.51	12.34
123	117	United States	Billy Horschel	1.12	48.20	-44.12	12.81
124	123	United States	Max Homa	1.12	53.80	-20.72	27.97
125	121	United States	Kevin Roy	1.12	58.25	-17.08	25.74
126	122	South Africa	Thriston Lawrence	1.12	58.06	-38.20	6.53
127	128	Spain	Eugenio Chacarra	1.10	52.70	-11.97	20.49
128	127	United States	Davis Thompson	1.09	54.41	-35.36	17.53
129	132	United States	William Mouw	1.08	50.68	-17.57	14.82
130	133	Japan	Keita Nakajima	1.08	47.44	-20.00	4.02
131	130	England	Dan Bradbury	1.08	55.99	-12.84	27.05
132	129	England	Laurie Canter	1.07	49.44	-24.97	1.21
133	137	Sweden	Mikael Lindberg	1.07	55.81	-7.45	34.71
134	131	United States	Brandt Snedeker	1.06	49.70	-7.59	31.13
135	134	United States	Steven Fisk	1.05	54.71	-21.63	11.73
136	135	South Africa	JC Ritchie	1.05	54.40	-13.12	12.65
137	136	Spain	Nacho Elvira	1.04	53.91	-14.71	30.19
138	138	Denmark	Jacob Skov Olesen	1.03	46.39	-9.34	19.76
139	139	Japan	Takumi Kanaya	1.03	53.31	-17.43	9.65
140	140	Scotland	Calum Hill	1.02	52.88	-14.55	27.85
141	142	South Korea	Tom Kim	1.01	50.69	-33.73	16.67
142	144	Canada	Mackenzie Hughes	1.00	50.95	-30.62	8.04
143	167	Chile	Joaquin Niemann	1.00	39.91	-15.81	16.09
144	143	United States	Vincent Whaley	1.00	51.81	-21.95	5.90
145	239	Australia	Cameron Smith	1.00	39.81	-10.33	22.36
146	146	South Korea	Seonghyeon Kim	1.00	51.74	-16.86	24.01
147	145	Australia	Travis Smyth	0.99	39.76	-5.92	29.47
148	148	United States	Beau Hossler	0.99	50.25	-19.97	15.75
149	147	France	Martin Couvra	0.98	51.18	-15.95	12.02
150	149	United States	Lee Hodges	0.98	46.16	-19.69	14.15
151	141	United States	Davis Riley	0.98	51.00	-29.72	10.91
152	150	United States	Taylor Moore	0.97	48.37	-20.17	24.54
153	152	Japan	Kazuki Higa	0.95	49.48	-16.45	2.18
154	158	United States	Davis Lamb	0.94	37.52	-4.86	25.39
155	151	United States	Joe Highsmith	0.94	48.75	-22.53	7.61
156	154	Belgium	Adrien Dumont de Chassart	0.93	48.19	-13.87	16.07
157	153	Sweden	Joakim Lagergren	0.92	48.09	-16.85	6.30
158	155	United States	Adam Schenk	0.92	48.00	-16.53	10.11
159	159	South Korea	Byeong Hun An	0.91	42.05	-31.77	2.76
160	156	United States	Chad Ramey	0.91	47.47	-12.61	16.48
161	157	Finland	Oliver Lindell	0.91	47.29	-13.68	17.45
162	160	Zimbabwe	Scott Vincent	0.90	35.96	-9.79	9.64
163	161	South Africa	Dean Burmester	0.90	35.82	-8.83	21.99
164	163	France	Jeremy Gandon	0.89	39.34	-7.03	23.78
165	162	United States	Peter Uihlein	0.89	35.55	-11.28	16.13
166	165	United States	Austin Eckroat	0.87	43.31	-27.19	12.38
167	164	Australia	Karl Vilips	0.86	37.90	-14.48	14.00
168	166	United States	Chandler Phillips	0.85	43.19	-16.26	13.36
169	177	United States	Carson Young	0.84	43.56	-15.41	16.48
170	168	Scotland	Ewen Ferguson	0.84	43.48	-16.49	15.61
171	170	Spain	Jorge Campillo	0.83	43.21	-17.33	15.34
172	171	England	Marcus Armitage	0.83	43.20	-11.82	16.81
173	169	France	Julien Guerrier	0.83	43.15	-14.67	22.62
174	172	Mexico	Carlos Ortiz	0.82	32.98	-11.13	7.52
175	176	Canada	Richard T. Lee	0.82	41.89	-13.95	14.23
176	175	United States	Zachary Bauchou	0.81	41.96	-11.60	17.57
177	173	United States	Neal Shipley	0.81	41.14	-18.68	1.57
178	174	South Africa	Erik van Rooyen	0.80	41.71	-23.71	2.88
179	179	South Africa	Hennie Du Plessis	0.79	31.71	-1.82	24.91
180	182	China	Marty Dou Zecheng	0.79	39.38	-9.09	17.02
181	178	United States	Matt Kuchar	0.79	31.40	-16.30	3.83
182	186	New Zealand	Kazuma Kobori	0.78	38.13	-10.50	11.14
183	180	France	Antoine Rozner	0.78	40.43	-15.93	12.08
184	191	United States	Alistair Docherty	0.77	37.97	-10.10	27.63
185	181	China	Ding Wenyi	0.77	34.03	-7.61	8.11
186	187	United States	Doug Ghim	0.77	38.51	-18.42	8.02
187	184	Spain	Sergio Garcia	0.77	30.80	-4.97	24.54
188	184	United States	Anthony Kim	0.77	30.79	-0.98	27.22
189	183	Ireland	Seamus Power	0.77	39.81	-17.70	12.66
190	201	United States	Doc Redman	0.77	32.15	-5.82	19.87
191	188	Scotland	Grant Forrest	0.76	37.83	-12.71	8.58
192	192	Japan	Kota Kaneko	0.75	38.79	-11.16	10.13
193	189	United States	Patrick Fishburn	0.74	38.70	-21.19	4.02
194	194	Germany	Frederik Schott	0.74	38.55	-6.56	27.98
195	190	United States	Taylor Montgomery	0.74	34.08	-10.68	9.16
196	193	United States	Joel Dahmen	0.74	38.47	-13.63	17.30
196	256	United States	Zac Blair	0.74	36.25	-9.99	18.54
198	195	Italy	Francesco Laporta	0.73	38.17	-11.19	15.07
199	199	United States	Jay Card III	0.73	29.20	-6.30	11.23
200	198	Mexico	Emilio Gonzalez	0.72	34.66	-13.26	1.80

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Updated: May 18, 2026