World Golf Ranking 49/2022 - Golf Today

Week 49 – 04/12/2022

Simon Bale|December 5, 2022

Keywords: DP World Tour, European Tour, golf news, news, Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR), PGA Tour

Viktor Hovland has won the Hero World Challenge with a final round 69 for a 16-under, 272 total.
Scottie Scheffler came second at 14-under, Cameron Young third at 12-under and Xander Schauffele fourth at 11-under.

Hovland moves up three places to number 9 this week, Scheffler stays at number2, Young up one place to 17 and Schauffele stays at number 6.

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Adrian Meronk has won the ISPS HANDA Australian Open with a final round 66 for a 14-under, 268 total.
Adam Scott came second at 9-under, Min Woo Lee third at 8-under and Haydn Barron tied with Alejandro Cañizares at 7-under.

Meronk moves up four places to 52, Scott up one to 35, Lee up four to 57, Barron to 880 from 1214 and Cañizares up thirty to 437.

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Thriston Lawrence has won the Investec South African Open Championship with a final round 74 for a 16-under, 272 total.
Clement Sordet came second at 15-under, Jens Fahrbring third at 14-under and Matti Schmid fourth at 11-under.

Lawrence moves up to 64 from 90, Sordet to 294 from 362, Fahrbring to 671 from 980 and Schmid to 241 from 263.

This Week	Last Week	Country	Player	Avg. Points	Total Points	Points Lost (2022)	Points Won (2022)	Events
1	1	Northern Ireland	Rory McIlroy	9.19	422.69	-231.83	378.00	46
2	2	United States	Scottie Scheffler	8.82	450.02	-277.08	462.99	51
3	3	Australia	Cameron Smith	8.10	323.97	-211.05	336.67	38
4	4	United States	Patrick Cantlay	7.81	312.44	-228.56	282.53	38
5	5	Spain	Jon Rahm	7.11	305.91	-335.96	241.46	43
6	6	United States	Xander Schauffele	6.63	278.40	-251.96	242.86	42
7	7	United States	Will Zalatoris	6.09	273.96	-150.01	287.21	45
8	8	United States	Justin Thomas	5.71	257.02	-279.01	236.45	45
9	9	England	Matt Fitzpatrick	5.58	279.12	-188.24	253.92	50
10	10	United States	Collin Morikawa	5.31	244.47	-328.25	134.85	46
11	12	United States	Tony Finau	5.08	263.95	-205.49	215.40	52
12	11	Norway	Viktor Hovland	5.07	263.71	-266.96	201.30	53
13	14	United States	Sam Burns	4.90	235.12	-183.19	174.30	48
14	13	United States	Jordan Spieth	4.89	210.10	-184.41	174.03	43
15	15	Korea; Republic of	Joohyung Kim	4.46	191.92	-51.38	191.27	43
16	16	United States	Max Homa	4.14	198.82	-126.98	181.57	48
17	17	United States	Billy Horschel	4.03	201.43	-183.53	168.96	50
18	18	United States	Cameron Young	4.02	197.09	-66.81	212.40	49
19	19	Japan	Hideki Matsuyama	3.84	180.34	-206.06	141.89	47
20	20	Ireland	Shane Lowry	3.80	182.23	-116.95	172.37	48
21	21	Korea; Republic of	Sungjae Im	3.75	195.11	-162.92	150.86	56
22	22	Chile	Joaquin Niemann	3.54	166.28	-157.44	164.44	47
23	23	England	Tommy Fleetwood	3.16	164.17	-114.03	151.83	52
24	24	United States	Brian Harman	3.13	163.01	-95.49	155.26	52
25	25	England	Tyrrell Hatton	2.96	145.20	-183.76	136.30	49
26	26	United States	Keegan Bradley	2.93	134.59	-75.42	130.94	46
27	27	New Zealand	Ryan Fox	2.86	131.72	-44.19	138.75	46
28	28	Ireland	Seamus Power	2.84	136.21	-63.30	127.40	48
29	29	Austria	Sepp Straka	2.78	144.45	-60.22	162.24	62
30	30	Mexico	Abraham Ancer	2.73	128.53	-186.68	62.81	47
31	31	United States	Kevin Kisner	2.72	122.54	-124.80	124.55	45
32	32	United States	Russell Henley	2.62	120.56	-94.46	116.09	46
33	33	Canada	Corey Conners	2.60	135.03	-123.72	121.32	52
34	35	United States	Aaron Wise	2.57	120.72	-68.99	104.89	47
35	36	United States	Tom Hoge	2.53	131.80	-80.31	138.57	63
36	34	Australia	Adam Scott	2.52	105.91	-86.19	95.97	42
37	37	Korea; Republic of	Kyoung-Hoon Lee	2.52	131.04	-84.02	115.90	56
38	38	United States	Dustin Johnson	2.46	98.35	-266.77	80.31	32
39	39	Belgium	Thomas Pieters	2.45	105.35	-71.25	101.09	43
40	40	United States	Talor Gooch	2.44	104.88	-108.01	62.11	43
41	41	Sweden	Alex Noren	2.42	123.60	-79.69	108.85	51
42	42	United States	Kurt Kitayama	2.30	115.22	-36.96	121.04	50
43	44	United States	Sahith Theegala	2.28	118.41	-26.98	128.35	53
44	43	Chile	Guillermo Mito Pereira	2.27	113.29	-63.51	97.00	50
45	45	United States	Harold Varner III	2.25	103.53	-85.32	108.09	46
46	46	United States	Jason Kokrak	2.20	90.26	-157.47	35.96	41
47	47	United States	Kevin Na	2.19	87.46	-134.48	44.99	37
48	48	United States	Brooks Koepka	2.17	86.86	-157.29	49.09	34
49	50	United States	Daniel Berger	2.12	84.84	-161.38	59.91	33
50	49	South Africa	Louis Oosthuizen	2.12	84.63	-163.76	20.43	30
51	51	Canada	Mackenzie Hughes	2.08	108.14	-97.34	72.56	55
52	52	England	Paul Casey	1.98	79.39	-145.18	48.41	31
53	53	United States	Harris English	1.95	79.75	-179.84	23.41	41
54	54	United States	J.T. Poston	1.91	99.30	-54.97	103.44	56
55	56	United States	Scott Stallings	1.88	97.93	-39.67	93.87	54
56	58	Poland	Adrian Meronk	1.84	90.21	-47.40	87.42	49
57	55	Australia	Lucas Herbert	1.84	86.37	-75.91	62.20	47
58	57	United States	Bryson DeChambeau	1.82	72.93	-211.94	21.20	30
59	59	United States	Keith Mitchell	1.82	92.77	-65.30	75.85	51
60	60	South Africa	Dean Burmester	1.81	94.19	-71.03	67.68	55
61	61	Australia	Min Woo Lee	1.81	85.02	-64.57	55.11	47
62	62	United States	Maverick McNealy	1.77	90.06	-72.48	70.46	51
63	65	United States	Taylor Montgomery	1.74	81.68	-21.64	84.71	47
64	63	United States	Cameron Tringale	1.72	82.73	-85.88	62.22	48
65	66	United States	Davis Riley	1.71	88.75	-35.87	100.65	57
66	64	United States	Patrick Reed	1.70	85.22	-172.13	46.55	50
67	67	Australia	Cameron Davis	1.69	86.24	-71.31	72.50	51
68	68	England	Justin Rose	1.67	66.85	-84.83	46.55	37
69	74	South Africa	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	1.66	86.28	-102.39	67.08	53
70	70	Scotland	Robert MacIntyre	1.65	86.03	-81.71	66.50	54
71	72	Canada	Adam Svensson	1.65	85.66	-39.55	80.46	57
72	69	Japan	Kazuki Higa	1.63	84.98	-32.73	75.28	52
73	73	Canada	Adam Hadwin	1.62	84.46	-53.58	81.51	53
74	71	Australia	Marc Leishman	1.62	71.34	-101.72	46.76	44
75	75	Colombia	Sebastian Munoz	1.60	83.16	-82.57	61.02	55
76	76	Korea; Republic of	Siwoo Kim	1.58	82.28	-102.30	72.22	59
77	77	United States	Denny McCarthy	1.58	81.96	-45.36	78.37	58
78	78	United States	Matt Kuchar	1.57	67.43	-65.17	66.53	43
79	81	United States	Andrew Putnam	1.56	81.37	-49.72	74.59	61
80	79	Argentina	Emiliano Grillo	1.56	81.24	-64.25	63.89	56
81	82	Belgium	Thomas Detry	1.56	80.94	-62.35	61.61	55
82	80	Spain	Adri Arnaus	1.56	80.93	-58.06	81.17	52
83	86	Spain	Pablo Larrazabal	1.55	68.12	-34.91	82.14	44
84	83	England	Jordan Smith	1.55	80.44	-41.01	83.40	53
85	85	United States	J.J. Spaun	1.54	80.06	-33.29	82.17	58
86	84	United States	Chris Kirk	1.53	77.92	-65.98	75.70	51
87	88	Zimbabwe	Scott Vincent	1.51	66.32	-49.13	41.69	44
88	87	United States	Joel Dahmen	1.50	77.99	-65.66	64.95	52
89	89	England	Richard Bland	1.50	62.93	-67.52	47.56	42
90	90	South Africa	Thriston Lawrence	1.48	72.30	-24.42	65.53	49
91	92	United States	Alex Smalley	1.46	66.94	-20.00	64.96	46
92	91	United States	Luke List	1.45	75.29	-64.60	81.78	57
93	93	England	Danny Willett	1.42	73.96	-49.10	54.32	54
94	94	United States	Troy Merritt	1.41	73.40	-61.17	59.66	58
95	96	Spain	Adrian Otaegui	1.40	73.04	-43.70	71.78	54
96	97	United States	Matthew NeSmith	1.40	72.67	-39.15	74.19	55
97	95	Australia	Matt Jones	1.39	58.57	-75.41	57.63	42
98	98	United States	Gary Woodland	1.38	67.65	-60.23	62.80	49
99	100	United States	Lucas Glover	1.35	70.19	-59.63	60.87	54
100	103	England	Callum Shinkwin	1.35	60.72	-31.88	56.91	45
101	102	United States	Trey Mullinax	1.35	70.14	-23.94	65.14	53
102	101	India	Anirban Lahiri	1.35	60.69	-34.56	69.33	45
103	99	Spain	Sergio Garcia	1.34	53.53	-92.30	28.78	38
104	105	Thailand	Sadom Kaewkanjana	1.33	53.20	-25.99	47.38	27
105	108	Canada	Taylor Pendrith	1.32	60.57	-35.65	56.05	46
106	106	England	Sam Horsfield	1.31	52.55	-54.55	45.57	35
107	107	France	Victor Perez	1.31	64.31	-70.28	57.02	49
108	109	United States	Rickie Fowler	1.31	59.00	-49.72	39.10	45
109	104	Denmark	Rasmus Hojgaard	1.31	68.04	-56.90	53.83	52
110	110	Japan	Rikuya Hoshino	1.30	66.27	-51.69	53.34	51
111	111	United States	Brendon Todd	1.29	65.97	-63.56	60.90	51
112	113	South Africa	Oliver Bekker	1.27	65.84	-42.15	54.84	57
113	114	Australia	Jason Day	1.26	50.38	-58.56	52.44	39
114	112	South Africa	Erik van Rooyen	1.25	58.83	-78.51	38.70	47
115	116	United States	Hudson Swafford	1.25	53.71	-55.34	57.65	43
116	115	United States	Webb Simpson	1.24	49.65	-128.67	22.42	40
117	118	China	Yechun Carl Yuan	1.23	51.72	-24.89	57.75	42
118	117	Japan	Yuto Katsuragawa	1.23	54.00	-15.42	60.27	44
119	120	United States	Benjamin Griffin(May1996)	1.22	48.85	-7.74	56.59	35
120	124	United States	Justin Suh	1.22	52.31	-10.74	56.21	43
121	119	United States	Brendan Steele	1.21	54.54	-56.90	43.08	45
122	122	United States	Taylor Moore	1.21	62.81	-40.21	43.62	54
123	121	Japan	Yuki Inamori	1.21	62.74	-47.46	49.50	54
124	125	South Africa	Shaun Norris	1.20	58.72	-60.36	30.13	49
125	123	Austria	Bernd Wiesberger	1.20	49.10	-70.82	23.08	41
126	126	Italy	Guido Migliozzi	1.18	61.23	-52.46	37.53	55
127	128	Korea; Republic of	Bio Kim	1.17	53.86	-23.29	49.14	46
128	127	Venezuela	Jhonattan Vegas	1.16	51.24	-58.97	31.02	44
129	129	United States	Kevin Streelman	1.16	60.30	-77.39	46.35	56
130	130	Japan	Shugo Imahira	1.16	58.91	-39.64	45.85	51
131	131	United States	Chez Reavie	1.15	59.89	-41.32	55.99	56
132	132	Denmark	Nicolai Hojgaard	1.13	56.25	-46.67	32.33	50
133	134	Japan	Mikumu Horikawa	1.12	54.78	-28.85	33.67	49
134	135	England	Aaron Rai	1.12	58.07	-62.17	45.81	60
135	133	England	Ian Poulter	1.11	48.91	-85.19	23.77	44
136	137	United States	William Gordon	1.11	57.78	-18.48	58.07	57
137	139	Scotland	Ewen Ferguson	1.10	57.18	-26.92	55.00	56
138	138	United States	Bubba Watson	1.10	43.80	-69.26	46.45	26
139	142	Germany	Yannik Paul	1.09	55.53	-16.69	47.17	51
140	136	England	Lee Westwood	1.08	43.39	-103.38	26.74	36
141	143	Korea; Republic of	Seonghyeon Kim	1.08	50.85	-28.85	46.22	47
142	140	Japan	Tomoharu Otsuki	1.08	56.10	-39.25	40.04	52
143	141	United States	Stewart Cink	1.08	53.90	-78.17	35.50	50
144	144	United States	Matthew Wolff	1.07	42.87	-103.58	13.50	31
145	147	China	Haotong Li	1.06	42.39	-19.05	47.66	39
146	150	Japan	Kaito Onishi	1.06	42.37	-9.21	42.08	39
147	146	Australia	Brad Kennedy	1.06	45.49	-25.05	51.20	43
148	145	South Africa	Garrick Higgo	1.06	54.87	-79.27	30.49	58
149	149	Denmark	Thorbjorn Olesen	1.04	44.87	-16.95	47.51	43
150	153	England	Benjamin Taylor	1.04	53.12	-8.55	54.56	51
151	151	Japan	Takumi Kanaya	1.04	52.03	-62.94	25.46	50
152	148	United States	Cameron Champ	1.04	46.82	-58.25	31.81	45
153	152	United States	Patrick Rodgers	1.04	54.09	-34.90	43.74	64
154	184	United States	Chan Kim	1.04	47.83	-50.82	19.67	46
155	156	Scotland	Richie Ramsay	1.03	53.44	-19.43	50.85	53
156	155	Italy	Francesco Molinari	1.02	41.00	-29.53	40.46	39
157	154	United States	Ryan Palmer	1.02	44.78	-94.88	32.64	44
158	158	United States	Paul Haley-II	1.01	51.53	-20.29	52.83	51
159	157	South Africa	Justin Harding	1.01	49.50	-57.46	36.47	49
160	159	Germany	Stephan Jaeger	1.01	52.32	-50.93	40.61	58
161	160	United States	Lanto Griffin	1.00	44.78	-68.34	39.13	45
162	162	South Africa	Charl Schwartzel	0.99	39.74	-48.90	26.14	37
163	160	Japan	Ryosuke Kinoshita	0.99	51.63	-50.94	27.95	52
164	163	United States	Mark Hubbard	0.99	51.47	-34.17	50.31	59
165	164	United States	Wyndham Clark	0.99	51.36	-37.15	50.78	56
166	165	England	Callum Tarren	0.99	51.29	-14.04	51.89	55
167	166	United States	Tyson Alexander	0.98	48.21	-15.92	48.08	49
168	167	Denmark	Marcus Helligkilde	0.97	43.71	-39.08	15.32	45
169	168	Germany	Marcel Schneider	0.97	48.53	-31.97	35.61	50
170	169	United States	Adam Schenk	0.97	50.25	-40.88	34.17	63
171	170	South Africa	MJ Daffue	0.97	38.65	-9.62	44.54	38
172	172	United States	Robby Shelton IV	0.96	50.16	-20.92	52.09	59
173	171	United States	Beau Hossler	0.96	49.95	-27.15	54.83	53
174	174	Thailand	Phachara Khongwatmai	0.96	38.26	-23.23	27.05	25
175	173	England	Matt Wallace	0.95	49.61	-72.00	32.85	60
176	175	Germany	Hurly Long	0.95	49.57	-26.78	51.62	57
177	179	South Africa	Hennie Du Plessis	0.94	42.31	-28.05	33.20	45
178	180	United States	Davis Thompson	0.94	37.51	-6.06	40.94	36
179	178	United States	John Huh	0.94	48.74	-21.87	45.15	53
180	177	United States	Sean Crocker	0.93	48.57	-42.26	31.78	56
181	182	France	Antoine Rozner	0.93	48.15	-55.54	36.94	54
182	176	United States	Phil Mickelson	0.92	36.78	-83.90	6.48	26
183	183	Sweden	Alexander Bjork	0.92	41.37	-35.69	20.06	45
184	185	United States	Sihwan Kim	0.92	40.43	-19.65	45.55	44
185	186	United States	Lee Hodges	0.92	47.77	-31.33	50.31	57
186	188	United States	Nick Hardy	0.91	47.48	-21.35	44.68	52
186	181	South Africa	Branden Grace	0.91	41.09	-70.83	15.36	45
188	187	Scotland	Russell Knox	0.91	47.44	-33.63	50.37	60
189	193	England	Laurie Canter	0.91	36.46	-56.25	18.40	40
190	189	United States	Greyson Sigg	0.91	47.32	-42.59	35.23	56
191	190	Sweden	Henrik Stenson	0.90	36.19	-31.52	28.59	39
192	192	Taiwan (Chinese Taipei)	Chun-an Yu	0.90	37.05	-11.45	35.55	41
193	191	South Africa	Dylan Frittelli	0.90	46.96	-62.59	36.23	58
194	217	Japan	Ryo Hisatsune	0.90	42.31	-15.69	32.57	47
195	196	England	Richard Mansell	0.89	39.35	-15.44	38.77	44
196	194	Scotland	Martin Laird	0.89	41.98	-47.75	37.88	47
197	220	Australia	Jason Scrivener	0.89	37.41	-41.30	29.96	42
198	197	United States	Brandon Wu	0.89	46.24	-28.10	52.11	56
199	198	China	Marty Dou Zecheng	0.89	43.47	-18.17	45.51	49
200	199	Scotland	Connor Syme	0.87	45.48	-27.74	44.38	53

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Official World Golf Ranking 49/2022

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