World Golf Ranking 45/2026 November 9, 2026 - Golf Today

Week 45 – 08/11/26

Simon Bale|November 9, 2026

Keywords: DP World Tour, golf trivia, Number 1, Official World Golf Ranking, PGA Tour, rankings

Blades Brown has won the playoff for the World Wide Technology Championship and moves up to 62 from 95 in the Official World Golf Ranking this week.

Ben James came second and moves up to 54 from 75.

Michael Kim came third and moves up seven places to 64. Kensei Hirata came fourth and moves to 281 from 386 while David Ford finished fifth and moves to 177 from 236.

Related: Blades Brown Wins World Wide Technology Championship to Become Youngest PGA Tour Winner in 95 Years

The 19-year-old started Sunday seven shots back at El Cardonal, closed with a 63 and beat Ben James on the second playoff hole.

What is the OWGR?

The Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR) is the weekly ranking of golfers on eligible men’s tours. Players earn points at eligible tournaments based on how strong the field was and where they finished, and their position is decided by their average points per event over a rolling two-year period.

The OWGR describes its mission as being “to administer and publish, on a weekly basis, a transparent, credible, and accurate Ranking based on the relative performances of players participating in male Eligible Golf Tours worldwide.”

Where did the world ranking come from?

The idea was born in the early 1980s, the work of Mark H McCormack and Tony Greer.

The first official world Number 1 was Bernhard Langer, who took the position on April 6, 1986.

For more in depth answers on how the OWGR is calculated and the number 1 position, its history and records, see links below.

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.

Related: Official World Golf Ranking – Number 1

History of the Official World Golf Ranking Number 1 Position

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The top-200 in the ranking this week

This Week	Last Week	Country	Player	Avg. Points	Total Points	Points Lost (2026)	Points Won (2026)
1	1	United States	Scottie Scheffler	15.85	665.66	-536.93	517.63
2	2	Northern Ireland	Rory McIlroy	8.02	344.75	-347.64	255.67
3	3	England	Matt Fitzpatrick	6.82	334.26	-135.28	319.39
4	4	United States	Cameron Young	6.75	317.36	-150.76	307.22
5	5	United States	Wyndham Clark	5.93	296.43	-94.22	295.48
6	15	Spain	Jon Rahm	5.00	200.12	-77.02	216.49
7	6	United States	Chris Gotterup	4.94	252.08	-129.48	244.27
8	8	England	Tommy Fleetwood	4.86	252.50	-198.30	167.80
9	7	United States	Xander Schauffele	4.84	193.66	-183.98	171.56
10	9	United States	Sam Burns	4.81	226.19	-113.55	205.28
11	10	United States	Russell Henley	4.78	191.08	-158.88	153.61
12	11	United States	Collin Morikawa	4.52	180.63	-161.48	188.75
13	12	United States	J.J. Spaun	4.51	229.76	-176.97	158.69
14	13	Norway	Viktor Hovland	4.41	194.23	-119.81	162.85
15	14	South Korea	Si Woo Kim	4.36	226.84	-101.47	226.31
16	16	United States	Jacob Bridgeman	4.04	210.29	-94.05	223.12
17	17	England	Aaron Rai	3.94	189.32	-121.90	159.62
18	18	United States	Michael Brennan	3.89	182.79	-50.80	144.71
19	19	Scotland	Robert MacIntyre	3.80	197.43	-180.61	136.69
20	21	England	Justin Rose	3.79	170.50	-148.19	137.87
21	20	Sweden	Ludvig Aberg	3.76	180.41	-142.69	163.10
22	22	New Zealand	Ryan Fox	3.69	184.41	-83.26	159.10
23	28	England	Tyrrell Hatton	3.58	143.16	-106.91	119.80
24	24	Sweden	Alex Noren	3.56	146.13	-98.25	88.09
25	23	United States	Ryan Gerard	3.56	185.06	-105.56	186.70
26	25	United States	Ben Griffin	3.37	175.38	-159.34	98.37
27	26	Japan	Hideki Matsuyama	3.26	169.26	-153.21	143.94
28	27	United States	Patrick Cantlay	3.22	132.11	-94.19	112.88
29	29	South Korea	Tom Kim	3.18	162.28	-67.92	162.46
30	31	Australia	Min Woo Lee	3.13	153.15	-93.81	148.81
31	30	United States	Justin Thomas	3.10	123.85	-148.70	83.40
32	33	Norway	Kristoffer Reitan	3.06	159.22	-80.03	125.61
33	32	United States	Patrick Reed	2.99	125.72	-79.17	124.65
34	34	Chile	Joaquin Niemann	2.85	113.86	-39.86	114.10
35	35	United States	Akshay Bhatia	2.78	141.72	-107.88	146.44
36	36	United States	J.T. Poston	2.74	131.69	-79.94	121.83
37	37	Spain	Eugenio Chacarra	2.74	142.35	-42.45	140.63
38	38	United States	Bryson DeChambeau	2.69	107.66	-101.90	100.58
39	39	Austria	Sepp Straka	2.63	126.23	-151.42	87.56
40	40	United States	Michael Thorbjornsen	2.57	123.45	-52.84	108.32
41	41	United States	Kurt Kitayama	2.56	115.21	-79.14	98.46
42	43	Ireland	Shane Lowry	2.55	125.18	-118.69	99.81
43	42	United States	Gary Woodland	2.54	114.48	-54.18	117.06
44	44	Australia	Adam Scott	2.52	118.52	-80.74	115.51
45	46	Denmark	Nicolai Hojgaard	2.41	122.83	-74.32	114.49
46	47	United States	Harris English	2.38	109.69	-134.27	53.95
47	45	United States	Bud Cauley	2.38	109.31	-57.69	100.56
48	48	United States	Alex Smalley	2.32	120.38	-56.00	118.15
49	49	United States	Rickie Fowler	2.28	97.83	-58.52	90.53
50	51	United States	Maverick McNealy	2.14	109.05	-129.80	78.71
51	53	United States	Austin Smotherman	2.12	104.07	-44.19	95.40
52	50	United States	Jake Knapp	2.12	84.73	-60.05	84.38
53	52	Australia	Lucas Herbert	2.11	84.47	-25.74	85.76
54	78	United States	Benjamin James	2.05	82.18	-2.40	82.89
55	60	United States	Keith Mitchell	2.01	98.27	-50.06	94.41
56	55	United States	Keegan Bradley	2.00	88.11	-123.29	44.95
57	54	England	Marco Penge	2.00	101.95	-80.03	47.46
58	56	England	Matt Wallace	1.99	103.44	-67.74	88.30
59	57	South Africa	Casey Jarvis	1.98	102.77	-37.66	105.01
60	59	United States	Jackson Koivun	1.96	78.51	-19.26	66.07
61	58	United States	Andrew Novak	1.93	100.15	-87.01	71.52
62	95	United States	Blades Brown	1.91	99.46	-16.88	104.79
63	61	England	Alex Fitzpatrick	1.91	99.41	-36.18	99.46
64	71	United States	Michael Kim	1.91	99.18	-94.94	82.20
65	62	South Korea	Sungjae Im	1.89	98.52	-94.10	88.09
66	63	Canada	Corey Conners	1.83	89.51	-92.74	62.85
67	67	England	Jordan Smith	1.80	93.83	-60.74	78.50
68	64	United States	Jordan Spieth	1.75	75.20	-57.76	66.56
69	65	United States	Steven Fisk	1.75	90.74	-44.64	70.77
70	66	United States	Brian Harman	1.73	88.17	-86.25	60.77
71	73	England	Harry Hall	1.72	89.39	-74.10	71.02
72	69	United States	Daniel Berger	1.71	71.99	-80.28	67.30
73	68	United States	John Keefer	1.69	87.80	-60.42	69.94
74	72	United States	Pierceson Coody	1.68	87.34	-64.20	79.99
75	70	Colombia	Nicolas Echavarria	1.67	86.95	-88.86	76.97
76	74	United States	Samuel Stevens	1.61	83.94	-81.81	66.01
77	83	Spain	David Puig	1.61	64.51	-41.69	58.26
78	75	Japan	Ryo Hisatsune	1.61	83.70	-59.54	87.72
79	77	New Zealand	Daniel Hillier	1.60	83.09	-43.44	75.06
80	76	United States	Ross Steelman	1.58	74.45	-17.03	69.92
81	79	United States	Max Homa	1.54	73.81	-41.25	68.51
82	80	Denmark	Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen	1.53	79.81	-66.56	46.45
83	82	United States	Eric Cole	1.49	77.42	-57.81	70.93
84	86	Denmark	Rasmus Hojgaard	1.48	76.92	-78.82	50.10
85	84	United States	Matt McCarty	1.48	76.71	-87.30	67.87
86	85	Australia	Jason Day	1.46	58.49	-69.14	53.45
87	88	Denmark	Jacob Skov Olesen	1.46	75.75	-26.96	66.74
88	87	United States	Ricky Castillo	1.45	69.82	-36.81	63.64
89	81	Finland	Sami Valimaki	1.45	63.97	-62.16	16.45
90	89	Scotland	Sandy Scott	1.42	63.84	-13.00	61.69
91	91	United States	Doug Ghim	1.40	68.70	-39.21	59.00
92	93	United States	Ben Kohles	1.39	72.03	-28.28	70.81
93	90	Belgium	Thomas Detry	1.36	70.95	-81.91	57.19
94	97	United States	Beau Hossler	1.35	68.72	-43.19	57.45
95	94	United States	Sahith Theegala	1.34	64.42	-65.44	74.22
96	99	South Africa	Jayden Schaper	1.34	69.45	-51.50	29.11
97	92	Canada	Nick Taylor	1.33	69.41	-77.88	54.54
98	96	United States	McClure Meissner	1.31	65.35	-48.92	47.97
99	98	United States	Max Greyserman	1.28	66.74	-91.00	41.92
100	104	Poland	Adrian Meronk	1.27	50.74	-5.10	48.13
101	102	Japan	Keita Nakajima	1.27	60.79	-42.45	39.82
102	111	United States	Denny McCarthy	1.26	65.32	-62.53	50.13
103	100	Germany	Matti Schmid	1.25	64.85	-59.23	47.96
104	103	Finland	Oliver Lindell	1.23	64.21	-34.29	54.98
105	107	United States	Chris Kirk	1.23	56.65	-50.15	33.85
106	108	Philippines	Richard Hoey	1.22	63.56	-59.06	35.35
107	101	United States	Jackson Suber	1.22	60.99	-30.95	53.86
108	109	Northern Ireland	Tom McKibbin	1.22	51.09	-43.11	29.01
109	105	South Africa	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	1.21	62.69	-61.45	41.92
110	106	Germany	Stephan Jaeger	1.21	61.47	-60.84	57.16
111	123	Spain	Angel Ayora	1.20	62.49	-42.77	44.44
112	113	England	John Parry	1.20	62.15	-62.11	44.51
113	110	South Africa	Thriston Lawrence	1.19	62.02	-63.65	35.95
114	112	United States	Brooks Koepka	1.17	46.90	-23.07	45.72
115	114	Taiwan (Province of China)	Chun-an Yu	1.17	60.84	-57.65	42.95
116	121	Canada	Sudarshan Yellamaraju	1.16	57.78	-28.76	60.14
117	134	Mexico	Alvaro Ortiz Becerra	1.15	59.81	-18.70	54.19
118	117	Spain	Nacho Elvira	1.14	59.34	-33.81	54.72
119	115	South Africa	Aldrich Potgieter	1.14	58.06	-56.98	38.64
120	119	United States	Andrew Putnam	1.14	59.14	-41.81	60.73
121	125	England	Andy Sullivan	1.14	59.12	-40.36	48.10
122	116	United States	Kevin Roy	1.13	59.00	-40.33	49.75
123	120	South Africa	Hennie Du Plessis	1.13	45.28	-11.90	48.57
124	118	United States	Doc Redman	1.13	45.01	-18.56	45.46
124	124	England	Joe Dean	1.13	58.51	-24.65	53.71
126	127	Argentina	Emiliano Grillo	1.12	58.29	-47.16	36.23
127	122	France	Victor Perez	1.11	53.16	-42.03	40.57
128	141	Austria	Bernd Wiesberger	1.10	57.39	-21.08	56.27
129	128	Japan	Kota Kaneko	1.09	56.92	-29.72	46.83
130	126	South Africa	Shaun Norris	1.09	56.72	-54.88	41.49
131	130	England	Daniel Brown(Oct1994)	1.09	48.98	-53.23	22.11
132	131	United States	Patrick Rodgers	1.06	55.14	-60.04	55.52
133	132	China	Haotong Li	1.05	54.47	-58.31	37.19
134	129	Canada	Taylor Pendrith	1.04	54.24	-75.44	38.29
135	139	United States	Zachary Bauchou	1.03	53.47	-28.84	46.32
136	144	United States	Zac Blair	1.03	53.45	-22.82	48.56
137	157	Ireland	Seamus Power	1.02	53.29	-36.61	45.05
138	135	United States	Davis Thompson	1.02	52.24	-62.15	42.16
139	137	Scotland	Grant Forrest	1.02	51.11	-29.02	38.17
140	136	Spain	Jose Luis Ballester	1.02	40.84	-16.69	27.86
140	133	United States	Chandler Blanchet	1.02	51.05	-34.36	32.99
142	138	Norway	Kristoffer Ventura	1.01	50.33	-25.04	40.63
143	142	United States	Lucas Glover	1.01	48.28	-67.11	30.15
144	143	Spain	Sergio Garcia	1.00	40.18	-13.70	42.66
145	140	United States	Brandt Snedeker	1.00	43.16	-22.05	39.05
146	146	United States	Max McGreevy	1.00	52.04	-65.50	28.94
147	150	United States	David Lipsky	1.00	51.88	-44.13	45.77
148	151	Sweden	Joakim Lagergren	0.99	51.51	-37.33	30.19
149	147	United States	Chandler Phillips	0.99	51.32	-34.64	39.86
150	145	United States	Davis Riley	0.99	51.31	-54.14	35.63
151	152	Denmark	Jeff Winther	0.98	45.20	-18.94	37.92
152	148	South Africa	Garrick Higgo	0.98	41.98	-47.59	9.33
153	154	Spain	Angel Hidalgo Portillo	0.97	50.67	-26.20	43.59
154	149	United States	Lee Hodges	0.96	44.99	-41.65	34.94
155	153	South Africa	JC Ritchie	0.96	49.75	-32.31	27.18
156	160	Sweden	Mikael Lindberg	0.94	48.87	-22.40	42.73
157	155	Zimbabwe	Scott Vincent	0.94	44.02	-23.83	31.76
158	158	United States	Tom Hoge	0.93	48.27	-62.50	40.18
159	156	Canada	Mackenzie Hughes	0.93	48.21	-58.73	33.41
160	159	France	Martin Couvra	0.92	48.06	-38.58	31.52
161	161	United States	Tommy Morrison	0.92	36.94	-1.96	38.45
162	167	United States	Trace Crowe(Oct1996)	0.91	36.60	-25.38	26.15
163	163	United States	Neal Shipley	0.91	46.37	-38.50	26.61
163	162	Australia	Cameron Smith	0.91	36.37	-24.09	32.67
165	171	United States	Austin Hitt	0.91	47.21	-15.32	40.17
166	166	Japan	Yuto Katsuragawa	0.91	47.14	-17.91	40.49
167	165	United States	Alistair Docherty	0.90	43.20	-23.61	46.38
168	169	Denmark	Niklas Norgaard	0.89	46.43	-40.05	39.59
169	170	United States	Ian Holt	0.88	43.19	-23.80	50.08
170	164	United States	William Mouw	0.88	40.32	-38.71	25.61
171	172	Netherlands	Joost Luiten	0.88	45.51	-29.20	31.59
172	173	Scotland	Calum Hill	0.87	45.26	-35.46	41.15
173	168	United States	Billy Horschel	0.87	39.04	-74.22	33.75
174	175	France	Adrien Saddier	0.87	42.45	-52.13	10.84
175	176	England	Laurie Canter	0.86	38.63	-51.08	16.51
176	174	United States	Cole Sherwood	0.86	42.04	-15.53	42.96
177	236	United States	David Ford	0.85	33.98	-8.73	31.71
178	182	Scotland	Ewen Ferguson	0.85	44.00	-34.22	33.87
179	177	United States	Taylor Moore	0.85	39.72	-41.24	36.96
180	224	Italy	Francesco Laporta	0.83	43.19	-28.10	37.00
181	181	Japan	Yuta Sugiura	0.83	42.95	-22.01	33.15
182	180	United States	Tony Finau	0.82	38.69	-56.10	35.15
183	179	United States	Brian Campbell	0.82	39.41	-56.32	14.37
184	178	England	Marcus Armitage	0.82	42.65	-32.48	36.92
185	188	Spain	Manuel Elvira	0.82	42.44	-18.79	33.17
186	184	South Africa	Michael Hollick	0.81	42.36	-15.25	33.22
187	183	United States	Mark Hubbard	0.81	42.09	-45.14	27.32
188	187	United States	Davis Bryant	0.81	41.90	-16.12	37.48
189	185	United States	Davis Lamb	0.80	32.15	-15.90	31.05
190	186	Australia	Travis Smyth	0.80	31.98	-18.79	34.56
191	193	Japan	Yusaku Hosono	0.80	40.70	-11.91	35.86
192	190	Italy	Gregorio De Leo	0.79	37.08	-13.40	34.43
193	207	England	Matthew Jordan	0.79	39.44	-31.95	32.97
194	189	Japan	Kazuki Higa	0.79	40.88	-38.29	15.42
194	191	United States	Dylan Menante	0.79	36.95	-13.25	35.96
196	195	England	Dan Bradbury	0.78	40.73	-34.24	33.19
197	194	China	Marty Dou Zecheng	0.78	38.98	-23.01	30.54
198	192	Australia	Elvis Smylie	0.78	38.84	-37.16	30.24
199	197	Sweden	Christofer Blomstrand	0.78	31.05	-7.40	30.61
200	196	Japan	Takumi Kanaya	0.77	40.24	-40.13	19.28

Simon Bale

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