World Golf Ranking 36/2026 September 6, 2026 - Golf Today

Week 36 – 06/09/26

Simon Bale|September 6, 2026

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Thriston Lawrence has won the Omega European Masters, Paul Casey came second, Harry Hall third and Ángel Hidalgo tied for fourth place with Bernd Wiesberger, Francesco Laporta, Ángel Ayora and Eugenio Chacarra.

Lawrence moves up to 111 from 183, Casey to 300 from 707, Hall to 67 from 73, Hidalgo to 309 from 370, Wiesberger to 145 from 162, Laporta to 225 from 270, Ayora to 118 from 130 and Chacarra up seven places to 57.

Joburg Open 2023 R2. Pictured: South Africa's Thriston Lawrence

Related: Thriston Lawrence Makes History After Crans-Montana Play-Off Thriller

A final-round 62 and a 23-foot birdie on the fourth extra hole carried Lawrence past Paul Casey and into the Omega European Masters record books.

Related: How the Official World Golf Ranking Works: OWGR Points, Field Rating and Time Decay Explained

The OWGR system is built on field rating, finishing position, and a two-year rolling average. Here's how the mechanics actually work, from Strokes Gained to the minimum divisor.

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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	18.24	765.91	-436.68	517.63
2	2	Northern Ireland	Rory McIlroy	8.92	383.40	-280.00	226.69
3	3	United States	Cameron Young	7.65	359.50	-108.62	307.22
4	4	England	Matt Fitzpatrick	6.99	335.32	-95.07	280.24
5	5	United States	Wyndham Clark	6.61	323.92	-66.73	295.48
6	6	United States	Russell Henley	5.63	225.09	-124.87	153.61
7	7	United States	Chris Gotterup	5.51	286.35	-95.20	244.27
8	8	England	Tommy Fleetwood	5.43	277.15	-158.40	152.55
9	9	United States	Sam Burns	5.39	253.48	-86.26	205.28
10	10	United States	Xander Schauffele	5.23	209.40	-160.48	163.80
11	11	United States	Collin Morikawa	5.21	208.50	-132.80	187.93
12	12	Norway	Viktor Hovland	5.17	217.31	-93.75	159.87
13	13	South Korea	Si Woo Kim	4.81	250.01	-74.87	222.88
14	14	Spain	Jon Rahm	4.75	189.86	-54.62	183.82
15	15	England	Justin Rose	4.56	200.55	-116.39	136.12
16	16	Sweden	Ludvig Aberg	4.43	199.48	-114.25	153.72
17	17	United States	J.J. Spaun	4.25	221.04	-137.84	110.84
18	18	Scotland	Robert MacIntyre	4.09	212.85	-147.97	119.48
19	19	England	Aaron Rai	4.07	195.30	-96.27	139.97
20	20	Sweden	Alex Noren	3.99	159.61	-79.23	82.57
21	22	United States	Ryan Gerard	3.87	201.09	-73.05	170.23
22	21	United States	Justin Thomas	3.83	153.02	-117.98	81.85
23	23	United States	Ben Griffin	3.78	196.39	-127.11	87.15
24	24	England	Tyrrell Hatton	3.75	150.16	-82.31	102.20
25	25	New Zealand	Ryan Fox	3.74	194.43	-62.25	148.11
26	26	Japan	Hideki Matsuyama	3.71	193.01	-127.46	141.94
27	27	United States	Patrick Cantlay	3.65	149.49	-76.81	112.88
28	28	United States	Jacob Bridgeman	3.45	179.39	-70.05	168.22
29	29	Australia	Min Woo Lee	3.35	170.93	-71.47	144.25
30	30	South Korea	Tom Kim	3.34	173.49	-51.74	157.48
31	34	United States	Michael Brennan	3.31	148.76	-38.47	98.35
32	31	Norway	Kristoffer Reitan	3.30	171.49	-57.48	115.34
33	33	United States	Akshay Bhatia	3.24	165.07	-84.53	146.44
34	32	Austria	Sepp Straka	3.22	151.45	-120.58	81.95
35	35	United States	Patrick Reed	3.18	127.03	-59.73	106.51
36	36	United States	Bryson DeChambeau	3.11	124.31	-85.25	100.58
37	37	United States	J.T. Poston	3.04	145.85	-58.77	114.82
38	38	United States	Kurt Kitayama	2.84	133.69	-60.49	98.30
39	39	Denmark	Nicolai Hojgaard	2.73	141.90	-55.25	114.49
40	41	United States	Michael Thorbjornsen	2.71	135.38	-40.10	107.50
41	40	United States	Harris English	2.70	137.78	-106.18	53.95
42	42	Chile	Joaquin Niemann	2.67	106.83	-28.00	95.20
43	43	United States	Gary Woodland	2.66	130.21	-38.45	117.06
44	44	United States	Bud Cauley	2.63	126.44	-40.56	100.56
45	46	United States	Alex Smalley	2.62	136.16	-39.64	117.56
46	45	United States	Maverick McNealy	2.60	135.35	-103.31	78.52
47	48	United States	Rickie Fowler	2.51	112.97	-43.38	90.53
48	47	United States	Keegan Bradley	2.50	107.55	-103.32	44.42
49	49	United States	Jake Knapp	2.46	98.39	-46.39	84.38
50	50	Australia	Lucas Herbert	2.33	93.20	-17.02	85.76
51	51	Australia	Adam Scott	2.30	108.30	-67.91	92.47
52	53	England	Marco Penge	2.16	112.54	-62.67	40.70
53	52	Ireland	Shane Lowry	2.13	106.29	-97.60	59.84
54	54	Canada	Corey Conners	2.13	99.88	-75.61	56.09
55	58	England	Matt Wallace	2.04	106.22	-55.77	79.11
56	55	United States	Jordan Spieth	2.03	85.26	-44.49	63.37
57	64	Spain	Eugenio Chacarra	1.98	102.93	-24.77	83.52
58	57	South Korea	Sungjae Im	1.98	102.85	-80.43	78.76
59	56	Colombia	Nicolas Echavarria	1.97	102.55	-72.44	76.16
60	59	United States	Samuel Stevens	1.95	101.14	-64.61	66.01
61	61	England	Alex Fitzpatrick	1.94	100.97	-25.43	90.27
62	60	United States	Daniel Berger	1.92	90.22	-62.05	67.30
63	62	United States	Brian Harman	1.90	97.14	-69.52	53.00
64	63	United States	Michael Kim	1.90	98.60	-74.87	61.56
65	66	United States	Jackson Koivun	1.87	74.67	-13.81	56.78
66	65	Japan	Ryo Hisatsune	1.86	96.76	-45.94	87.19
67	73	England	Harry Hall	1.82	94.86	-60.79	63.18
68	68	United States	Pierceson Coody	1.80	93.57	-50.93	72.96
69	70	South Africa	Casey Jarvis	1.80	93.45	-27.28	85.31
70	67	Australia	Jason Day	1.79	71.79	-55.84	53.45
71	69	United States	John Keefer	1.77	92.23	-45.92	59.88
72	71	United States	Matt McCarty	1.70	88.48	-74.57	66.91
73	76	Denmark	Rasmus Hojgaard	1.69	87.88	-65.98	48.21
74	72	England	Jordan Smith	1.67	87.07	-48.65	59.65
75	74	United States	Keith Mitchell	1.66	86.52	-38.24	70.86
76	75	United States	Eric Cole	1.66	86.23	-46.27	68.20
77	77	United States	Max Homa	1.66	77.81	-32.20	63.46
78	79	Spain	David Puig	1.66	66.21	-31.87	50.14
79	78	United States	Andrew Novak	1.63	84.92	-69.44	38.72
80	80	Canada	Nick Taylor	1.60	83.27	-61.17	51.69
81	81	Finland	Sami Valimaki	1.55	74.34	-49.35	14.00
82	82	United States	Steven Fisk	1.54	77.05	-35.27	47.71
83	83	United States	Ross Steelman	1.52	70.13	-12.09	60.65
84	85	United States	Sahith Theegala	1.51	73.96	-55.90	74.22
85	84	Denmark	Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen	1.51	78.35	-53.74	32.16
86	86	Germany	Matti Schmid	1.47	76.48	-47.61	47.96
87	88	Belgium	Thomas Detry	1.47	76.31	-65.42	46.05
88	87	United States	McClure Meissner	1.47	73.34	-38.65	45.69
89	89	United States	Max Greyserman	1.45	73.95	-75.44	33.57
90	90	United States	Denny McCarthy	1.43	65.89	-51.78	39.95
91	91	South Africa	Aldrich Potgieter	1.42	71.20	-43.84	38.64
92	92	South Africa	Jayden Schaper	1.41	73.28	-39.97	21.41
93	93	Japan	Keita Nakajima	1.39	67.92	-33.38	37.87
94	94	United States	Beau Hossler	1.38	71.95	-34.95	52.44
95	95	Canada	Taylor Pendrith	1.37	65.75	-63.67	38.04
96	96	South Africa	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	1.36	68.14	-50.34	36.26
97	97	United States	Ricky Castillo	1.36	66.53	-27.81	51.36
98	98	United States	Blades Brown	1.33	61.39	-10.57	60.41
99	99	South Africa	Shaun Norris	1.32	68.64	-40.74	39.26
100	100	New Zealand	Daniel Hillier	1.32	68.61	-33.53	50.66
101	101	Taiwan (Chinese Taipei)	Chun-an Yu	1.31	68.37	-46.75	39.58
102	104	United States	Jackson Suber	1.31	63.07	-23.18	48.17
103	103	Argentina	Emiliano Grillo	1.31	64.27	-37.51	32.56
104	102	United States	Patrick Rodgers	1.31	68.16	-44.67	53.18
105	105	England	John Parry	1.30	67.81	-51.05	39.11
106	106	United States	Ben Kohles	1.30	67.74	-21.05	59.30
107	107	United States	Andrew Putnam	1.29	66.95	-31.87	58.60
108	108	Philippines	Richard Hoey	1.27	66.05	-49.21	28.00
109	110	Finland	Oliver Lindell	1.26	65.66	-26.08	48.23
110	111	United States	Chris Kirk	1.25	53.87	-41.42	22.34
111	183	South Africa	Thriston Lawrence	1.25	64.86	-56.44	31.58
112	109	Canada	Sudarshan Yellamaraju	1.25	61.08	-20.35	55.03
113	112	United States	Lucas Glover	1.23	59.22	-54.49	28.47
114	114	United States	Davis Thompson	1.23	59.14	-53.96	40.86
115	113	Germany	Stephan Jaeger	1.23	61.37	-49.68	45.91
116	115	United States	Doc Redman	1.22	50.15	-13.14	45.18
117	116	United States	Kevin Roy	1.21	61.76	-31.39	43.57
118	130	Spain	Angel Ayora	1.21	62.73	-34.09	36.01
119	117	United States	Austin Smotherman	1.20	60.13	-34.25	41.51
120	118	Denmark	Jacob Skov Olesen	1.20	62.50	-19.79	46.32
121	119	Japan	Kota Kaneko	1.19	61.78	-21.48	43.44
122	121	United States	Brooks Koepka	1.16	46.42	-17.28	39.46
122	120	United States	Max McGreevy	1.16	60.34	-53.22	24.96
124	124	China	Haotong Li	1.16	60.31	-43.75	28.47
125	131	Spain	Nacho Elvira	1.16	60.30	-26.73	48.60
126	126	South Africa	Hennie Du Plessis	1.14	45.59	-7.41	44.40
127	122	United States	Chandler Blanchet	1.14	54.71	-26.42	28.72
128	123	England	Andy Sullivan	1.14	59.16	-31.82	39.60
129	125	United States	Davis Riley	1.13	58.99	-45.29	34.46
130	127	South Africa	Garrick Higgo	1.12	50.40	-37.86	8.01
131	128	United States	David Lipsky	1.11	57.82	-35.27	42.85
132	129	United States	Tom Hoge	1.11	57.66	-50.38	37.45
133	132	United States	Brandt Snedeker	1.10	49.62	-15.59	39.05
134	133	England	Daniel Brown(Oct1994)	1.08	51.98	-43.77	15.64
135	134	Northern Ireland	Tom McKibbin	1.08	47.56	-35.87	18.23
136	135	United States	Chandler Phillips	1.08	55.97	-27.49	37.36
137	136	United States	Tony Finau	1.06	44.58	-48.48	33.43
138	137	Australia	Cameron Smith	1.06	42.43	-18.03	32.67
139	138	United States	Lee Hodges	1.05	49.34	-33.30	30.94
140	139	Zimbabwe	Scott Vincent	1.05	46.01	-18.07	27.99
141	140	Spain	Jose Luis Ballester	1.04	41.65	-11.55	23.54
142	141	United States	Zac Blair	1.03	53.50	-17.54	43.33
143	142	United States	William Mouw	1.02	45.83	-31.54	23.94
144	145	Spain	Sergio Garcia	1.02	40.60	-9.66	39.04
145	162	Austria	Bernd Wiesberger	1.01	52.28	-15.75	45.82
146	143	Australia	Elvis Smylie	0.99	47.60	-28.40	30.24
147	144	Sweden	Mikael Lindberg	0.99	51.52	-15.95	38.92
148	151	United States	Ian Holt	0.98	44.26	-17.92	45.26
149	149	England	Joe Dean	0.98	50.92	-20.62	42.08
150	150	England	Laurie Canter	0.98	45.02	-41.91	13.73
151	148	United States	Mark Hubbard	0.98	50.74	-35.07	25.90
152	147	France	Adrien Saddier	0.98	50.73	-42.53	9.52
153	146	South Africa	Richard Sterne	0.96	43.28	-12.84	27.80
154	152	United States	Zachary Bauchou	0.96	49.96	-22.32	36.28
155	153	United States	Cole Sherwood	0.96	44.00	-10.24	39.64
156	157	Scotland	Calum Hill	0.94	48.96	-27.63	37.01
157	154	United States	Doug Ghim	0.94	47.95	-31.55	30.59
158	155	United States	Billy Horschel	0.93	40.06	-67.59	28.14
159	156	Canada	Mackenzie Hughes	0.93	47.31	-49.21	22.99
160	171	Sweden	Joakim Lagergren	0.93	48.18	-30.13	19.67
161	158	Denmark	Thorbjorn Olesen	0.92	47.77	-44.30	20.99
162	159	United States	Alistair Docherty	0.91	42.92	-18.95	41.43
163	160	France	Victor Perez	0.91	43.71	-35.83	24.92
164	166	United States	Benjamin James	0.91	36.21	-1.06	35.59
165	161	South Africa	Michael Hollick	0.90	46.13	-10.53	32.27
166	170	France	Jeremy Gandon	0.90	40.54	-15.08	33.02
167	168	United States	Tommy Morrison	0.90	35.99	-0.45	35.99
168	164	England	Marcus Armitage	0.90	46.62	-23.50	31.91
169	163	United States	Brian Campbell	0.89	44.61	-46.15	9.40
170	169	United States	Davis Bryant	0.89	42.74	-11.16	33.35
171	167	South Africa	JC Ritchie	0.89	46.27	-24.89	16.30
172	165	United States	Taylor Moore	0.89	40.90	-33.55	30.45
173	174	United States	Dylan Menante	0.89	38.08	-9.22	33.05
174	172	Australia	Travis Smyth	0.88	35.35	-14.01	33.15
175	173	South Korea	Seonghyeon Kim	0.86	44.67	-29.50	29.58
176	175	United States	Davis Lamb	0.85	34.11	-11.42	28.53
177	176	Japan	Kazuki Higa	0.85	44.12	-29.86	10.23
178	177	Mexico	Carlos Ortiz	0.84	33.68	-19.81	16.90
179	181	Denmark	Jeff Winther	0.84	38.59	-15.36	27.74
180	178	England	Dan Bradbury	0.84	43.53	-27.04	28.79
181	179	Japan	Takumi Kanaya	0.83	42.91	-33.11	14.93
182	180	Sweden	Jesper Svensson	0.82	42.85	-31.57	24.01
183	184	Japan	Yuta Sugiura	0.80	41.46	-18.77	28.42
184	182	France	Martin Couvra	0.80	41.36	-29.82	16.07
185	185	Norway	Kristoffer Ventura	0.79	37.04	-20.25	22.55
186	188	United States	Hunter Eichhorn	0.78	31.19	-3.70	33.03
187	190	Canada	A.J. Ewart	0.78	31.02	-9.25	29.09
188	189	South Africa	Dean Burmester	0.77	30.92	-16.64	24.89
189	191	China	Marty Dou Zecheng	0.77	37.08	-17.77	23.41
190	187	United States	Austin Eckroat	0.77	37.81	-42.71	22.40
191	186	Venezuela	Jhonattan Vegas	0.77	33.94	-45.11	12.91
192	192	Belgium	Adrien Dumont de Chassart	0.77	39.89	-25.81	19.70
193	194	Scotland	Ewen Ferguson	0.76	39.63	-28.35	23.63
194	193	Spain	Jorge Campillo	0.76	39.46	-31.61	25.87
195	196	United States	Jay Card III	0.76	30.33	-12.52	18.58
196	199	Sweden	Christofer Blomstrand	0.76	30.22	-6.31	28.69
196	195	United States	Matt Kuchar	0.76	30.22	-27.23	13.58
198	197	United States	Chad Ramey	0.75	39.04	-24.53	19.97
199	198	Mexico	Abraham Ancer	0.75	30.02	-6.79	28.72
200	200	New Zealand	Kazuma Kobori	0.74	38.49	-19.82	20.83

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