Official World Golf Ranking 01/2026 - Golf Today

Week 01 – 04/01/2026

Simon Bale|January 5, 2026

Categories: World Golf Ranking

Keywords: European Tour, History, Number 1, Official World Golf Ranking, PGA Tour, rankings, Tournaments, trivia

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This Week	Last Week	Country	Player	Avg. Points	Total Points	Points Lost (2025)
1	1	United States	Scottie Scheffler	16.35	670.15	-14.81
2	2	Northern Ireland	Rory McIlroy	8.92	428.35	-8.37
3	3	England	Tommy Fleetwood	5.46	278.65	-4.35
4	4	United States	Xander Schauffele	5.01	200.37	-5.71
5	5	United States	Russell Henley	4.81	192.51	-3.85
6	6	United States	J.J. Spaun	4.70	244.44	-3.59
7	7	Scotland	Robert MacIntyre	4.56	237.16	-4.19
8	8	United States	Ben Griffin	4.48	233.21	-3.14
9	9	United States	Justin Thomas	4.41	185.39	-3.76
10	10	England	Justin Rose	4.04	177.82	-3.00
11	12	Austria	Sepp Straka	3.89	186.72	-3.38
12	11	Sweden	Alex Noren	3.85	153.94	-2.34
13	13	United States	Harris English	3.81	186.84	-3.17
14	14	Norway	Viktor Hovland	3.71	148.43	-2.76
15	15	United States	Keegan Bradley	3.71	163.04	-3.40
16	16	United States	Collin Morikawa	3.64	149.31	-4.05
17	17	Japan	Hideki Matsuyama	3.64	174.52	-4.00
18	18	Sweden	Ludvig Aberg	3.55	155.99	-4.01
19	19	United States	Cameron Young	3.29	157.89	-3.01
20	20	England	Tyrrell Hatton	3.20	127.98	-2.30
21	22	England	Matt Fitzpatrick	3.02	148.03	-2.12
22	21	United States	Maverick McNealy	3.02	157.08	-3.06
23	23	England	Aaron Rai	2.87	149.02	-2.58
24	25	United States	Sam Burns	2.80	131.65	-2.81
25	24	United States	Patrick Cantlay	2.77	110.80	-2.62
26	26	Ireland	Shane Lowry	2.71	141.09	-2.96
27	27	United States	Bryson DeChambeau	2.65	106.09	-2.89
28	28	United States	Chris Gotterup	2.60	135.24	-2.04
29	29	England	Marco Penge	2.56	133.23	-1.28
30	30	Canada	Corey Conners	2.49	117.00	-2.40
31	31	Norway	Kristoffer Reitan	2.25	112.46	-1.17
32	34	United States	Michael Brennan	2.21	88.26	-0.62
33	32	United States	Max Greyserman	2.19	113.79	-2.03
34	33	United States	Andrew Novak	2.19	113.63	-2.02
35	35	United States	Brian Harman	2.18	111.22	-2.43
36	37	United States	Kurt Kitayama	2.14	94.22	-1.66
37	36	United States	Michael Kim	2.12	110.26	-1.66
38	38	Finland	Sami Valimaki	2.09	108.66	-1.03
39	39	New Zealand	Ryan Fox	2.05	106.82	-1.75
40	40	Denmark	Rasmus Hojgaard	2.03	103.73	-1.92
41	42	United States	Patrick Reed	1.97	78.96	-1.28
42	44	United States	Ryan Gerard	1.97	102.42	-1.49
43	41	South Korea	Sungjae Im	1.96	102.08	-2.44
44	43	Australia	Min Woo Lee	1.96	96.19	-1.96
45	46	United States	Wyndham Clark	1.96	91.95	-3.22
46	45	United States	Akshay Bhatia	1.94	100.65	-2.52
47	47	South Korea	Si Woo Kim	1.93	100.34	-1.66
48	48	United States	John Keefer	1.93	77.13	-1.15
49	49	Denmark	Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen	1.90	98.66	-1.26
50	50	United States	Samuel Stevens	1.89	98.11	-1.63
51	52	Colombia	Nicolas Echavarria	1.87	97.22	-1.61
52	51	Canada	Taylor Pendrith	1.86	89.18	-2.21
53	53	United States	Billy Horschel	1.84	77.18	-2.33
54	55	United States	Matt McCarty	1.81	94.37	-1.78
55	54	Australia	Jason Day	1.81	72.39	-1.78
56	57	Canada	Nick Taylor	1.81	90.47	-2.29
57	56	Belgium	Thomas Detry	1.80	93.72	-1.95
58	58	United States	J.T. Poston	1.79	87.75	-2.06
59	59	England	Laurie Canter	1.76	72.13	-1.08
60	62	South Africa	Jayden Schaper	1.76	91.28	-0.56
61	60	England	Harry Hall	1.75	90.84	-1.63
62	64	United States	Lucas Glover	1.74	83.51	-1.73
63	61	United States	Daniel Berger	1.74	83.43	-1.55
64	63	Australia	Adam Scott	1.70	81.72	-2.03
65	65	South Africa	Thriston Lawrence	1.70	88.23	-1.49
66	66	South Africa	Garrick Higgo	1.69	79.30	-0.95
67	67	United States	Max McGreevy	1.68	87.45	-1.15
68	68	United States	Michael Thorbjornsen	1.68	67.15	-0.82
69	69	Philippines	Richard Hoey	1.66	86.24	-1.03
70	72	United States	Denny McCarthy	1.65	75.87	-1.86
71	70	United States	Bud Cauley	1.63	65.35	-1.09
72	71	United States	Brian Campbell	1.63	79.94	-1.42
73	73	England	Daniel Brown(Oct1994)	1.61	79.07	-1.03
74	74	France	Adrien Saddier	1.59	82.56	-1.18
75	80	United States	Jordan Spieth	1.58	64.85	-1.54
76	78	United States	Chris Kirk	1.58	70.91	-2.04
77	76	Northern Ireland	Tom McKibbin	1.57	64.27	-0.92
78	75	England	Matt Wallace	1.57	81.42	-1.45
79	77	Denmark	Nicolai Hojgaard	1.56	81.16	-1.51
80	79	South Africa	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	1.55	80.63	-1.58
81	81	United States	Jacob Bridgeman	1.54	79.85	-1.37
82	82	England	John Parry	1.51	78.59	-1.16
83	86	United States	Rickie Fowler	1.50	64.68	-1.14
84	83	South Africa	Aldrich Potgieter	1.50	75.18	-1.22
85	84	Spain	Jon Rahm	1.49	59.56	-1.09
86	85	Venezuela	Jhonattan Vegas	1.47	64.77	-1.36
87	87	China	Haotong Li	1.46	74.47	-1.12
88	88	Germany	Matti Schmid	1.44	74.96	-1.16
89	89	England	Jordan Smith	1.44	74.83	-1.24
90	90	Taiwan (Chinese Taipei)	Chun-an Yu	1.43	74.21	-1.33
91	91	Canada	Mackenzie Hughes	1.38	71.87	-1.66
92	94	United States	Tony Finau	1.38	57.76	-1.88
93	93	United States	Neal Shipley	1.37	57.36	-0.89
94	95	Japan	Keita Nakajima	1.36	62.51	-0.92
95	96	United States	Pierceson Coody	1.36	70.52	-1.03
96	92	United States	Davis Thompson	1.35	70.37	-1.86
97	97	Denmark	Thorbjorn Olesen	1.35	70.02	-1.06
98	102	Argentina	Emiliano Grillo	1.33	67.91	-1.31
99	98	South Korea	Byeong Hun An	1.33	69.16	-1.89
100	100	South Africa	Shaun Norris	1.33	69.15	-0.96
101	99	United States	Tom Hoge	1.33	68.95	-1.64
102	101	United States	Davis Riley	1.31	68.34	-1.48
103	103	United States	McClure Meissner	1.30	65.17	-1.13
104	104	United States	Steven Fisk	1.30	63.48	-1.13
105	106	United States	Vincent Whaley	1.29	66.85	-1.01
106	105	United States	Jake Knapp	1.28	58.81	-1.59
107	107	South Korea	Tom Kim	1.27	65.98	-1.76
108	109	Sweden	Joakim Lagergren	1.23	57.87	-0.77
109	108	Germany	Stephan Jaeger	1.22	63.28	-1.86
110	110	United States	Eric Cole	1.22	63.18	-1.12
111	111	Japan	Kazuki Higa	1.21	63.06	-0.70
112	112	United States	Joe Highsmith	1.20	62.52	-1.15
113	114	Spain	David Puig	1.18	47.20	-0.74
114	113	South Africa	Erik van Rooyen	1.18	61.15	-1.39
115	115	United States	William Mouw	1.17	52.57	-0.85
116	116	Japan	Takumi Kanaya	1.16	60.40	-0.68
117	117	Spain	Angel Ayora	1.16	60.16	-0.66
118	118	United States	Chandler Blanchet	1.15	51.91	-0.51
119	120	United States	Mark Hubbard	1.13	58.92	-0.99
119	119	United States	Sahith Theegala	1.13	53.25	-2.39
121	121	United States	Patrick Rodgers	1.13	58.76	-0.90
122	122	United States	Alex Smalley	1.10	57.42	-0.82
123	124	Spain	Eugenio Chacarra	1.09	43.66	-0.52
124	123	United States	Austin Eckroat	1.08	56.40	-1.73
125	125	United States	Gary Woodland	1.08	50.69	-0.91
126	126	United States	Patrick Fishburn	1.05	54.82	-1.05
127	128	Australia	Elvis Smylie	1.05	45.15	-0.62
128	127	Japan	Ryo Hisatsune	1.05	54.51	-1.01
129	129	France	Martin Couvra	1.05	54.36	-0.75
130	132	South Africa	JC Ritchie	1.04	54.27	-0.60
131	130	United States	Austin Smotherman	1.04	52.01	-0.85
132	131	United States	Keith Mitchell	1.03	52.72	-1.19
133	135	United States	Adam Schenk	1.03	53.70	-0.71
134	134	United States	Beau Hossler	1.03	53.44	-1.02
135	133	France	Victor Perez	1.03	53.37	-1.24
136	137	Australia	Cameron Davis	1.01	48.39	-1.37
137	136	United States	Matt Kuchar	1.00	43.08	-0.79
138	140	United States	Max Homa	0.98	45.30	-1.25
139	141	New Zealand	Daniel Hillier	0.98	50.90	-0.58
140	138	United States	Lee Hodges	0.98	50.74	-0.95
141	142	England	Andy Sullivan	0.98	50.72	-0.66
142	139	Chile	Joaquin Niemann	0.97	38.72	-0.91
143	143	Sweden	Jesper Svensson	0.95	49.40	-1.02
144	144	United States	David Lipsky	0.95	49.36	-0.88
145	145	Australia	Karl Vilips	0.94	37.69	-0.70
146	146	South Africa	Christo Lamprecht	0.94	37.64	-0.53
147	147	United States	Kevin Roy	0.94	48.72	-0.86
148	148	United States	Doug Ghim	0.92	47.88	-1.03
149	149	Mexico	Carlos Ortiz	0.90	35.92	-0.67
150	150	Zimbabwe	Scott Vincent	0.89	35.62	-0.48
151	152	Denmark	Jacob Skov Olesen	0.89	35.56	-0.40
152	151	Denmark	Niklas Norgaard	0.88	45.89	-1.00
153	153	Japan	Kensei Hirata	0.88	45.62	-0.91
154	154	Mexico	Emilio Gonzalez	0.87	45.46	-0.67
155	156	Belgium	Adrien Dumont de Chassart	0.87	45.29	-0.70
155	155	United States	Chandler Phillips	0.87	45.29	-0.80
157	157	United States	Justin Lower	0.86	44.86	-0.85
158	158	England	Richard Mansell	0.86	44.76	-0.73
159	159	Spain	Jorge Campillo	0.86	44.49	-0.72
160	160	Ireland	Seamus Power	0.85	44.01	-0.85
161	161	South Korea	Seonghyeon Kim	0.84	43.81	-0.78
162	162	Scotland	Ewen Ferguson	0.84	43.49	-0.86
163	163	France	Antoine Rozner	0.84	43.45	-0.83
164	168	China	Ding Wenyi	0.83	33.27	-0.26
165	167	United States	Chad Ramey	0.83	43.10	-0.49
166	166	Scotland	Grant Forrest	0.83	41.36	-0.60
167	169	Finland	Oliver Lindell	0.83	42.90	-0.62
168	165	United States	Taylor Moore	0.82	42.86	-1.14
169	171	Japan	Kota Kaneko	0.82	39.40	-0.42
170	164	United States	Nick Dunlap	0.82	40.97	-1.60
171	172	Netherlands	Joost Luiten	0.82	42.54	-0.57
172	170	Canada	Richard T. Lee	0.82	40.90	-0.71
173	173	United States	Ricky Castillo	0.82	42.43	-0.56
174	174	United States	Carson Young	0.80	41.72	-0.76
175	175	United States	Luke Clanton	0.80	31.80	-0.75
176	176	England	Dan Bradbury	0.79	41.26	-0.53
177	177	South Korea	Taehoon Ok	0.78	36.10	-0.52
178	178	United States	Jackson Koivun(Am)	0.78	31.31	-0.39
179	179	South Africa	Jacques Kruyswijk	0.77	39.52	-0.61
180	180	United States	Andrew Putnam	0.76	39.40	-0.82
181	181	United States	Peter Uihlein	0.76	30.21	-0.48
182	184	Scotland	Calum Hill	0.75	38.97	-0.61
183	183	United States	Jackson Suber	0.75	37.44	-0.63
184	182	United States	Trace Crowe(Oct1996)	0.75	35.18	-0.65
185	186	Japan	Tatsunori Shogenji	0.74	38.55	-0.49
186	188	Spain	Jose Luis Ballester	0.74	29.65	-0.02
187	185	United States	Lanto Griffin	0.74	37.77	-0.63
188	187	New Zealand	Kazuma Kobori	0.74	36.89	-0.59
189	190	Spain	Nacho Elvira	0.73	37.90	-0.53
190	192	Germany	Nicolai Von Dellingshausen	0.73	37.82	-0.56
191	189	United States	Taylor Montgomery	0.73	34.90	-0.70
192	194	England	Marcus Armitage	0.72	37.67	-0.54
193	193	United States	Hank Lebioda	0.72	34.04	-0.57
194	191	England	Matthew Jordan	0.72	37.60	-0.81
195	198	South Korea	Junghwan Lee	0.71	35.41	-0.31
196	196	Scotland	David Law	0.71	36.78	-0.52
197	197	South Africa	Barend Botha	0.71	28.27	-0.36
198	195	France	Romain Langasque	0.70	36.48	-0.91
199	200	South Africa	Richard Sterne	0.70	28.05	-0.26
200	199	United States	Harry Higgs	0.70	36.28	-0.83

Simon Bale

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