Official World Golf Ranking 21/2026 - Golf Today

Week 21 – 24/05/2026

Simon Bale|May 25, 2026

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Wyndham Clark has won the CJ Cup Byron Nelson, Si Woo Kim came second, Scottie Scheffler third, Jackson Suber fourth and Keith Mitchell finished fifth.

Clark moves up to 44 from 75 this week, Kim up five places to 19, Scheffler stays at number 1, Suber to 166 from 209 and Mitchell to 95 from 108.

Wyndham Clark will defend his US Open title at Pinehurst

Related: Wyndham Clark wins fourth PGA Tour title with stunning final round

The CJ Cup Byron Nelson R4

Richard Sterne has won the Soudal Open, Jacob Skov Olesen, Jorge Campillo, Kota Kaneko, Victor Perez, Marcus Armitage and Marcus Kinhult tied for second place.

Sterne moves up

Related: Richard Sterne makes long awaited return to the winner’s circle

Soudal 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	16.49	676.13	-277.87	269.04
2	2	Northern Ireland	Rory McIlroy	9.78	440.07	-168.43	171.78
3	3	United States	Cameron Young	7.14	335.76	-53.75	228.60
4	4	England	Matt Fitzpatrick	6.28	301.39	-45.10	196.34
5	5	England	Justin Rose	5.28	226.87	-64.75	110.79
6	6	United States	Collin Morikawa	5.06	202.26	-80.74	129.64
7	7	England	Tommy Fleetwood	4.92	255.86	-93.69	66.55
8	8	United States	Xander Schauffele	4.81	192.36	-111.77	98.06
9	9	United States	J.J. Spaun	4.77	248.26	-76.78	77.00
10	10	United States	Chris Gotterup	4.77	247.81	-47.25	157.78
11	12	Spain	Jon Rahm	4.73	189.29	-24.27	152.90
12	11	United States	Russell Henley	4.69	187.73	-74.25	65.62
13	13	Sweden	Ludvig Aberg	4.39	197.67	-69.95	107.62
14	15	England	Aaron Rai	4.31	211.26	-58.29	117.95
15	14	Scotland	Robert MacIntyre	4.21	219.06	-91.01	68.74
16	16	United States	Justin Thomas	4.19	167.66	-71.10	49.61
17	17	United States	Ben Griffin	4.11	213.56	-74.68	51.90
18	18	Austria	Sepp Straka	4.07	195.38	-69.51	74.80
19	24	South Korea	Si Woo Kim	3.91	203.07	-38.67	139.74
20	19	Japan	Hideki Matsuyama	3.61	180.35	-76.10	77.92
21	20	Sweden	Alex Noren	3.59	143.77	-48.24	35.73
22	22	United States	Harris English	3.58	175.24	-61.57	46.80
23	21	United States	Patrick Reed	3.58	143.02	-29.75	92.53
24	23	United States	Jacob Bridgeman	3.50	181.95	-30.59	131.32
25	25	Norway	Kristoffer Reitan	3.34	173.72	-28.85	88.94
26	26	United States	Akshay Bhatia	3.30	171.36	-47.30	115.49
27	27	England	Tyrrell Hatton	3.16	126.44	-46.50	42.67
28	28	Denmark	Nicolai Hojgaard	3.05	158.36	-27.82	103.51
29	29	United States	Kurt Kitayama	3.03	139.47	-32.40	75.99
30	31	Australia	Min Woo Lee	3.02	150.94	-38.73	91.52
31	30	Norway	Viktor Hovland	3.00	129.14	-57.56	35.51
32	32	United States	Bryson DeChambeau	2.93	117.20	-59.02	67.25
33	33	United States	Patrick Cantlay	2.92	116.93	-48.52	52.03
34	34	United States	Maverick McNealy	2.87	149.30	-60.67	49.82
35	36	United States	Keegan Bradley	2.82	124.09	-64.40	22.05
36	35	United States	Sam Burns	2.81	135.06	-51.38	51.97
37	37	United States	Ryan Gerard	2.74	142.54	-37.28	75.90
38	38	United States	Rickie Fowler	2.70	113.46	-23.05	70.69
39	39	United States	Jake Knapp	2.57	105.35	-24.80	69.75
40	40	Ireland	Shane Lowry	2.53	131.70	-59.43	47.08
41	42	United States	Alex Smalley	2.37	123.37	-19.99	85.13
42	41	Australia	Jason Day	2.36	94.38	-32.86	53.07
43	44	United States	Daniel Berger	2.35	117.61	-32.28	64.92
44	75	United States	Wyndham Clark	2.34	112.52	-44.75	62.10
45	43	England	Marco Penge	2.34	121.73	-34.77	21.99
46	47	United States	Jordan Spieth	2.22	93.44	-24.80	51.85
47	48	United States	Gary Woodland	2.21	104.02	-18.63	71.04
48	45	United States	Michael Kim	2.21	114.99	-36.22	39.29
49	46	United States	Matt McCarty	2.19	113.65	-42.41	59.92
50	49	Australia	Adam Scott	2.18	102.46	-40.61	59.32
51	50	Colombia	Nicolas Echavarria	2.13	110.84	-36.25	48.26
52	51	United States	Samuel Stevens	2.12	110.45	-36.43	47.14
53	52	Canada	Corey Conners	2.06	96.66	-47.54	24.79
54	53	United States	Andrew Novak	1.98	102.78	-40.53	27.67
55	55	United States	Brian Harman	1.96	98.02	-43.36	27.72
56	57	United States	Pierceson Coody	1.95	101.15	-26.78	56.38
57	54	New Zealand	Ryan Fox	1.92	100.02	-36.51	27.96
58	58	Spain	David Puig	1.90	75.86	-16.48	44.41
59	60	Japan	Ryo Hisatsune	1.89	98.49	-25.18	68.15
60	56	United States	Michael Brennan	1.88	82.60	-20.93	14.65
61	59	Canada	Nick Taylor	1.87	97.19	-35.98	40.41
62	63	United States	Max Greyserman	1.82	94.60	-46.24	25.01
63	61	England	Harry Hall	1.79	93.27	-34.27	35.08
64	62	Finland	Sami Valimaki	1.79	93.18	-27.67	11.17
65	64	Belgium	Thomas Detry	1.73	90.18	-40.75	35.25
66	65	Germany	Matti Schmid	1.72	89.67	-26.61	40.15
67	66	United States	Bud Cauley	1.70	74.94	-22.26	30.77
68	72	South Korea	Sungjae Im	1.69	87.93	-50.28	33.68
69	68	South Africa	Jayden Schaper	1.69	87.73	-20.36	16.24
70	67	Denmark	Rasmus Hojgaard	1.68	87.49	-38.05	19.88
71	69	England	Matt Wallace	1.66	86.12	-32.70	35.94
72	71	England	Jordan Smith	1.64	85.04	-27.12	36.09
73	73	South Africa	Casey Jarvis	1.63	84.68	-11.15	60.42
74	77	United States	John Keefer	1.62	84.23	-25.44	31.39
75	70	United States	Michael Thorbjornsen	1.61	78.98	-21.64	32.65
76	74	South Africa	Aldrich Potgieter	1.58	82.25	-23.94	29.79
77	76	United States	Patrick Rodgers	1.57	81.64	-25.16	47.15
78	79	Denmark	Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen	1.53	79.50	-30.97	10.55
79	78	United States	Sahith Theegala	1.50	73.56	-36.18	54.11
80	80	China	Haotong Li	1.46	76.09	-24.09	24.58
81	81	United States	Andrew Putnam	1.43	74.27	-16.75	50.80
82	83	England	Alex Fitzpatrick	1.42	73.86	-12.73	50.46
83	89	Philippines	Richard Hoey	1.42	73.59	-29.75	16.08
84	93	Germany	Stephan Jaeger	1.41	72.06	-31.38	38.30
85	85	United States	J.T. Poston	1.41	67.72	-35.77	13.68
86	86	England	John Parry	1.40	72.77	-27.47	20.49
87	82	Canada	Taylor Pendrith	1.39	68.19	-42.43	19.23
88	84	United States	Max McGreevy	1.39	72.35	-31.19	14.94
89	87	United States	Austin Smotherman	1.39	72.31	-17.52	36.96
90	94	South Africa	Garrick Higgo	1.39	63.83	-22.04	5.63
91	88	South Africa	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	1.38	71.77	-32.45	22.01
92	90	Australia	Lucas Herbert	1.38	55.10	-8.24	38.88
93	92	United States	Ricky Castillo	1.37	71.02	-12.96	40.99
94	91	New Zealand	Daniel Hillier	1.36	70.82	-17.01	36.35
95	108	United States	Keith Mitchell	1.36	67.84	-22.17	36.10
96	96	United States	Chris Kirk	1.34	59.13	-26.02	12.20
97	95	United States	David Lipsky	1.33	69.41	-18.74	37.90
98	97	United States	Lucas Glover	1.33	61.11	-33.83	9.70
99	98	United States	Denny McCarthy	1.32	62.04	-34.09	18.40
100	110	United States	Tom Hoge	1.28	66.66	-32.72	28.80
101	99	South Africa	Shaun Norris	1.28	66.56	-22.72	19.17
102	100	Australia	Elvis Smylie	1.28	58.86	-14.25	27.34
103	120	United States	Tony Finau	1.27	53.19	-34.08	27.64
104	112	United States	Blades Brown	1.25	49.97	-3.65	42.07
105	111	United States	Brooks Koepka	1.25	49.93	-9.03	34.72
106	101	France	Adrien Saddier	1.23	63.72	-25.11	5.10
107	106	Canada	Sudarshan Yellamaraju	1.22	62.08	-8.99	44.67
108	105	United States	McClure Meissner	1.21	59.44	-23.89	17.03
109	102	England	Daniel Brown(Oct1994)	1.21	62.86	-25.61	8.37
110	103	United States	Chandler Blanchet	1.20	59.89	-14.09	21.56
111	104	United States	Brian Campbell	1.18	61.35	-27.92	7.90
112	107	England	Andy Sullivan	1.18	61.12	-18.05	27.79
113	190	United States	Doc Redman	1.17	49.04	-6.11	37.05
114	116	United States	Mark Hubbard	1.16	60.54	-21.19	21.81
115	117	Argentina	Emiliano Grillo	1.16	59.04	-22.60	12.43
116	109	Spain	Angel Ayora	1.15	60.00	-19.06	18.24
117	118	United States	Eric Cole	1.15	59.97	-25.79	21.46
118	229	South Africa	Richard Sterne	1.15	46.00	-6.70	24.39
119	115	Spain	Jose Luis Ballester	1.15	45.85	-4.76	20.94
120	138	Denmark	Jacob Skov Olesen	1.14	52.61	-9.95	26.59
121	113	Denmark	Thorbjorn Olesen	1.14	59.46	-25.85	14.23
122	114	Taiwan (Chinese Taipei)	Chun-an Yu	1.13	58.86	-27.75	11.07
123	124	United States	Max Homa	1.13	53.19	-21.32	27.97
124	119	Northern Ireland	Tom McKibbin	1.12	49.09	-22.30	6.20
125	125	United States	Kevin Roy	1.10	57.38	-17.94	25.74
126	121	United States	Ian Holt	1.10	49.42	-7.74	40.25
127	133	Sweden	Mikael Lindberg	1.10	56.98	-7.88	36.31
128	126	South Africa	Thriston Lawrence	1.09	56.77	-39.48	6.53
129	127	Spain	Eugenio Chacarra	1.09	53.29	-12.64	21.75
130	123	United States	Billy Horschel	1.08	46.43	-45.89	12.81
131	122	Venezuela	Jhonattan Vegas	1.08	50.66	-27.81	12.34
132	135	United States	Steven Fisk	1.08	55.98	-22.56	13.93
133	134	United States	Brandt Snedeker	1.07	49.33	-7.97	31.13
134	132	England	Laurie Canter	1.07	48.13	-26.28	1.21
135	131	England	Dan Bradbury	1.06	55.29	-13.54	27.05
136	129	United States	William Mouw	1.06	49.81	-18.43	14.82
137	128	United States	Davis Thompson	1.06	52.82	-36.94	17.53
138	130	Japan	Keita Nakajima	1.03	46.57	-20.87	4.02
139	136	South Africa	JC Ritchie	1.03	53.71	-13.81	12.65
140	152	United States	Taylor Moore	1.03	51.39	-20.84	28.23
141	137	Spain	Nacho Elvira	1.02	53.17	-15.45	30.19
142	140	Scotland	Calum Hill	1.01	52.38	-15.37	28.17
143	146	South Korea	Seonghyeon Kim	1.01	52.28	-17.55	25.25
144	141	South Korea	Tom Kim	1.00	49.83	-35.33	17.41
145	139	Japan	Takumi Kanaya	1.00	51.76	-18.98	9.65
146	149	France	Martin Couvra	0.99	51.43	-16.80	13.11
147	147	Australia	Travis Smyth	0.99	39.46	-6.22	29.47
148	145	Australia	Cameron Smith	0.98	39.37	-10.77	22.36
149	143	Chile	Joaquin Niemann	0.98	39.24	-16.48	16.09
150	144	United States	Vincent Whaley	0.98	50.74	-23.02	5.90
151	148	United States	Beau Hossler	0.97	49.34	-20.88	15.75
152	142	Canada	Mackenzie Hughes	0.96	50.18	-31.89	8.54
153	150	United States	Lee Hodges	0.96	45.28	-20.57	14.15
154	151	United States	Davis Riley	0.95	49.50	-31.23	10.91
155	172	England	Marcus Armitage	0.95	49.37	-12.48	23.64
156	171	Spain	Jorge Campillo	0.95	49.35	-18.03	22.16
157	153	Japan	Kazuki Higa	0.94	48.79	-17.44	2.47
158	154	United States	Davis Lamb	0.93	37.27	-5.12	25.39
159	176	United States	Zachary Bauchou	0.93	48.34	-12.22	24.57
160	155	United States	Joe Highsmith	0.92	47.67	-23.61	7.61
161	156	Belgium	Adrien Dumont de Chassart	0.91	47.52	-14.54	16.07
162	161	Finland	Oliver Lindell	0.91	47.44	-14.39	18.31
163	160	United States	Chad Ramey	0.91	47.40	-13.28	17.08
164	158	United States	Adam Schenk	0.91	47.30	-17.23	10.11
165	157	Sweden	Joakim Lagergren	0.91	47.21	-17.73	6.30
166	209	United States	Jackson Suber	0.90	44.22	-13.96	20.10
167	164	France	Jeremy Gandon	0.90	40.42	-7.40	25.23
168	159	South Korea	Byeong Hun An	0.89	40.96	-32.86	2.76
169	162	Zimbabwe	Scott Vincent	0.89	35.47	-10.27	9.64
170	163	South Africa	Dean Burmester	0.89	35.42	-9.24	21.99
171	166	United States	Austin Eckroat	0.87	43.59	-28.16	13.62
172	165	United States	Peter Uihlein	0.87	34.84	-11.98	16.13
173	192	Japan	Kota Kaneko	0.87	45.02	-11.76	16.96
174	168	United States	Chandler Phillips	0.83	42.43	-17.02	13.36
175	178	South Africa	Erik van Rooyen	0.83	43.00	-24.62	5.08
176	167	Australia	Karl Vilips	0.82	37.12	-15.27	14.00
177	173	France	Julien Guerrier	0.82	42.73	-15.64	23.16
178	169	United States	Carson Young	0.82	42.71	-16.25	16.48
179	170	Scotland	Ewen Ferguson	0.82	42.62	-17.35	15.61
180	174	Mexico	Carlos Ortiz	0.81	32.49	-11.61	7.52
181	175	Canada	Richard T. Lee	0.81	41.26	-14.58	14.23
182	177	United States	Neal Shipley	0.80	41.46	-19.61	2.82
183	179	South Africa	Hennie Du Plessis	0.79	31.77	-2.03	25.19
184	189	Ireland	Seamus Power	0.79	41.17	-18.54	14.86
185	186	United States	Doug Ghim	0.79	39.30	-19.22	9.61
186	185	China	Ding Wenyi	0.78	35.17	-8.07	9.71
187	180	China	Marty Dou Zecheng	0.78	38.88	-9.59	17.02
188	207	Sweden	Jesper Svensson	0.77	40.21	-19.90	9.69
189	181	United States	Matt Kuchar	0.76	30.58	-17.12	3.83
190	187	Spain	Sergio Garcia	0.76	30.50	-5.26	24.54
191	188	United States	Anthony Kim	0.76	30.49	-1.28	27.22
192	183	France	Antoine Rozner	0.76	39.62	-16.75	12.08
193	184	United States	Alistair Docherty	0.76	37.79	-10.52	27.88
194	198	Italy	Francesco Laporta	0.75	39.11	-11.85	16.67
195	182	New Zealand	Kazuma Kobori	0.75	37.60	-11.03	11.14
196	193	United States	Patrick Fishburn	0.74	38.63	-22.23	4.99
197	191	Scotland	Grant Forrest	0.74	37.12	-13.42	8.58
198	227	France	Victor Perez	0.74	37.10	-24.75	7.24
199	196	United States	Zac Blair	0.74	36.18	-10.52	18.99
200	201	United States	Davis Bryant	0.73	29.37	-5.17	14.00

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Updated: May 25, 2026