Official World Golf Ranking 03/2025 - Golf Today

Week 03 – 19/01/2025

Simon Bale|January 20, 2025

Keywords: golf rankings, Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR)

Sepp Straka has won The American Express, Justin Thomas came second, Justin Lower and Jason Day tied for third and Patrick Cantlay and Charley Hoffman finished fifth.

Straka moves up seven places to 19 this week, Thomas also up seven to 14, Lower to 74 from 110, Day to 33 from 47, Cantlay up two places to number 10 and Hoffman to 98 from 134.

Tyrrell Hatton has won the Hero Dubai Desert Classic, Daniel Hillier came second, Laurie Canter third and Rory McIlroy tied for fourth place with Niklas Norgaard.

Hatton moves up nine places to number 8, Hillier to 135 from 223, Canter to 85 from 127, McIlroy stays at number 3 and Norgaard to 83 from 96.

Related: Sepp Straka wins third PGA Tour title

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This Week	Last Week	Country	Player	Avg. Points	Total Points	Points Lost (2025)	Points Won (2025)
1	1	United States	Scottie Scheffler	15.45	617.80	-37.40	-
2	2	United States	Xander Schauffele	8.98	377.07	-21.18	1.47
3	3	Northern Ireland	Rory McIlroy	7.28	349.24	-20.74	9.28
4	5	Japan	Hideki Matsuyama	5.82	261.70	-10.68	59.88
5	4	United States	Collin Morikawa	5.80	255.23	-13.08	30.13
6	6	Sweden	Ludvig Aberg	5.30	211.80	-10.58	9.70
7	7	United States	Wyndham Clark	4.29	201.80	-15.09	3.12
8	17	England	Tyrrell Hatton	4.05	161.82	-8.97	38.36
9	8	Norway	Viktor Hovland	3.92	160.66	-14.07	1.01
10	12	United States	Patrick Cantlay	3.62	144.68	-10.36	14.27
11	10	England	Tommy Fleetwood	3.61	187.76	-11.42	1.98
12	9	United States	Bryson DeChambeau	3.60	143.89	-6.88	-
13	11	United States	Keegan Bradley	3.55	159.94	-9.64	11.61
14	21	United States	Justin Thomas	3.43	150.91	-6.03	32.24
15	13	United States	Sahith Theegala	3.35	171.04	-10.37	2.71
16	14	Scotland	Robert MacIntyre	3.35	174.19	-8.07	6.74
17	15	United States	Russell Henley	3.21	131.75	-7.95	7.17
18	16	United States	Billy Horschel	3.17	161.47	-7.26	3.30
19	36	Austria	Sepp Straka	3.16	164.19	-8.02	55.87
20	19	Korea; Republic of	Sungjae Im	2.98	154.90	-7.87	19.74
21	18	Australia	Adam Scott	2.97	142.39	-7.12	4.31
22	20	United States	Sam Burns	2.89	129.93	-8.69	8.46
23	22	England	Aaron Rai	2.79	144.94	-6.97	3.12
24	23	Korea; Republic of	Tom Kim	2.74	142.35	-8.12	0.16
25	25	Korea; Republic of	Byeong Hun An	2.60	122.39	-6.75	1.24
26	29	Canada	Nick Taylor	2.57	130.82	-6.47	58.83
27	24	United States	Tony Finau	2.55	114.64	-7.51	3.12
28	27	Ireland	Shane Lowry	2.55	124.75	-6.70	-
29	26	United States	Maverick McNealy	2.54	109.10	-2.79	7.54
30	32	United States	Nick Dunlap	2.49	99.50	-4.11	7.58
31	30	United States	Akshay Bhatia	2.48	129.20	-6.44	2.43
32	28	United States	Brian Harman	2.46	125.41	-9.45	2.67
33	47	Australia	Jason Day	2.42	103.95	-7.58	18.57
34	31	Spain	Jon Rahm	2.37	94.73	-14.05	-
35	39	United States	Max Greyserman	2.36	118.01	-3.88	10.14
36	33	France	Matthieu Pavon	2.33	121.09	-6.79	0.56
37	35	United States	J.T. Poston	2.30	117.50	-5.67	5.90
38	34	Canada	Corey Conners	2.25	103.38	-6.58	9.70
39	38	United States	Austin Eckroat	2.24	114.44	-4.93	3.12
40	37	United States	Cameron Young	2.18	102.45	-7.58	6.23
41	40	Germany	Stephan Jaeger	2.17	112.92	-5.33	18.24
42	42	Denmark	Rasmus Hojgaard	2.16	103.47	-4.21	3.35
43	41	Colombia	Nicolas Echavarria	2.16	112.08	-1.89	30.77
44	43	United States	Denny McCarthy	2.08	95.63	-6.86	4.58
45	46	United States	Davis Thompson	2.05	104.52	-5.51	2.08
46	48	Canada	Taylor Pendrith	2.03	105.60	-4.93	5.78
47	44	England	Matt Fitzpatrick	2.02	100.90	-8.79	2.16
48	45	United States	Max Homa	2.00	92.17	-9.45	1.83
49	52	Australia	Cameron Davis	1.97	102.34	-6.18	8.28
50	49	South Africa	Thriston Lawrence	1.96	102.00	-4.88	-
51	50	United States	Matt McCarty	1.96	101.77	-3.79	0.16
52	53	England	Justin Rose	1.92	86.45	-6.41	-
53	55	Australia	Min Woo Lee	1.91	93.74	-6.37	2.66
54	51	United States	Eric Cole	1.91	99.08	-7.10	11.81
55	54	United States	Lucas Glover	1.88	97.60	-6.51	2.67
56	56	Sweden	Alex Noren	1.84	88.16	-4.89	-
57	60	United States	Chris Kirk	1.79	84.33	-6.85	2.59
58	57	South Africa	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	1.79	93.21	-5.15	0.83
59	58	Belgium	Thomas Detry	1.79	93.15	-4.70	10.66
60	59	Canada	Mackenzie Hughes	1.76	91.40	-4.47	0.77
61	68	United States	Ben Griffin	1.74	90.51	-3.54	9.29
62	61	Venezuela	Jhonattan Vegas	1.74	69.60	-2.24	14.54
63	65	United States	Will Zalatoris	1.73	69.38	-3.78	6.90
64	62	Denmark	Nicolai Hojgaard	1.66	86.32	-5.67	0.15
65	63	United States	Tom Hoge	1.65	86.01	-7.42	9.77
66	64	England	Matt Wallace	1.64	85.04	-3.53	0.93
67	67	Taiwan (Chinese Taipei)	Chun-an Yu	1.60	70.33	-3.13	0.72
68	66	Canada	Adam Hadwin	1.59	78.12	-5.27	2.33
69	69	Korea; Republic of	Si Woo Kim	1.59	82.75	-6.21	2.30
70	70	Denmark	Thorbjorn Olesen	1.58	82.03	-4.12	1.43
71	72	Chile	Joaquin Niemann	1.50	59.96	-2.12	-
72	71	United States	Jordan Spieth	1.49	62.39	-7.04	-
73	73	United States	Kurt Kitayama	1.45	63.91	-5.44	2.47
74	110	United States	Justin Lower	1.45	75.32	-2.05	19.44
75	75	United States	Harris English	1.42	68.14	-5.42	1.44
76	74	South Africa	Erik van Rooyen	1.42	73.60	-4.42	2.07
77	85	United States	Taylor Moore	1.41	73.55	-5.35	7.98
78	78	United States	Rickie Fowler	1.41	65.04	-5.85	2.81
79	81	United States	Beau Hossler	1.41	73.49	-4.15	5.07
80	77	United States	J.J. Spaun	1.40	72.65	-2.81	19.45
81	76	France	Romain Langasque	1.39	72.52	-3.28	0.93
82	82	England	Harry Hall	1.36	70.97	-2.83	14.74
83	96	Denmark	Niklas Norgaard	1.35	70.45	-2.63	9.28
84	80	France	Victor Perez	1.35	69.03	-4.37	1.88
85	127	England	Laurie Canter	1.33	53.36	-1.76	13.75
86	79	Australia	Cameron Smith	1.33	53.18	-2.75	-
87	84	United States	Lee Hodges	1.31	67.90	-4.17	7.58
88	83	United States	Max McGreevy	1.31	67.88	-2.33	-
89	87	New Zealand	Ryan Fox	1.29	66.96	-4.81	4.30
90	97	United States	Mark Hubbard	1.24	64.72	-4.26	7.74
91	100	Denmark	Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen	1.24	53.42	-1.88	4.30
92	86	England	Jordan Smith	1.24	64.44	-3.23	0.15
93	95	United States	Doug Ghim	1.23	64.03	-2.58	2.81
94	91	Italy	Matteo Manassero	1.22	63.29	-2.81	1.44
95	90	United States	Luke Clanton(Am)	1.22	48.66	-1.24	-
96	89	Sweden	Jesper Svensson	1.21	62.97	-2.80	5.70
97	101	United States	Keith Mitchell	1.21	61.75	-4.17	4.87
98	134	United States	Charley Hoffman	1.19	57.33	-2.61	11.87
99	114	Northern Ireland	Tom McKibbin	1.19	61.93	-2.75	6.53
100	93	United States	Patrick Fishburn	1.19	61.84	-2.16	8.49
101	98	England	Paul Waring	1.18	60.02	-1.35	-
102	92	Argentina	Emiliano Grillo	1.17	59.69	-5.42	-
103	104	Japan	Ryo Hisatsune	1.17	60.73	-3.20	1.61
104	88	United States	Adam Schenk	1.16	60.53	-6.78	8.49
105	99	United States	Patrick Rodgers	1.16	60.48	-3.51	-
106	94	United States	Jake Knapp	1.15	56.59	-3.46	-
107	103	England	John Parry	1.15	59.86	-1.50	-
108	102	Taiwan (Chinese Taipei)	C.T. Pan	1.15	45.97	-2.19	2.67
109	122	South Africa	Shaun Norris	1.15	59.54	-1.02	6.53
110	105	Spain	Jorge Campillo	1.13	58.68	-2.29	-
111	107	Spain	David Puig	1.12	44.88	-2.18	-
112	108	Germany	Matti Schmid	1.12	58.25	-2.71	-
113	109	United States	Vincent Whaley	1.11	48.76	-1.77	0.68
114	111	United States	Patton Kizzire	1.10	57.15	-2.72	0.83
114	112	Japan	Kensei Hirata	1.10	57.15	-2.46	2.67
116	106	United States	Brooks Koepka	1.09	43.67	-5.91	-
117	123	United States	Daniel Berger	1.08	43.26	-0.85	2.81
118	118	France	Julien Guerrier	1.08	56.11	-2.19	1.98
119	113	United States	Brendon Todd	1.08	56.11	-4.33	-
120	115	Philippines	Richard Hoey	1.07	55.66	-2.77	1.49
121	132	United States	Patrick Reed	1.07	42.76	-2.72	4.30
122	116	Japan	Keita Nakajima	1.07	51.21	-2.85	1.98
123	121	England	Matthew Jordan	1.06	54.87	-2.26	1.62
124	117	South Africa	Dean Burmester	1.05	41.95	-1.83	-
125	119	United States	Matt Kuchar	1.04	53.12	-3.58	4.12
126	120	United States	Davis Riley	1.04	53.90	-3.02	-
127	126	United States	Johannes Veerman	1.03	52.32	-1.38	1.19
128	142	Italy	Guido Migliozzi	1.02	53.26	-2.10	5.33
129	130	United States	Ben Kohles	1.02	52.89	-3.35	3.77
130	124	United States	Andrew Novak	1.00	52.13	-2.27	-
131	131	Sweden	Sebastian Soderberg	0.99	48.67	-2.98	1.43
132	129	United States	John Catlin	0.99	50.63	-2.07	-
133	125	United States	Luke List	0.99	51.52	-3.38	-
134	133	Ireland	Seamus Power	0.98	48.18	-2.75	-
135	223	New Zealand	Daniel Hillier	0.98	51.09	-2.01	20.62
136	141	Scotland	Ewen Ferguson	0.98	50.94	-2.67	3.09
137	148	United States	Frankie Capan	0.98	48.98	-2.10	6.37
138	128	Canada	Adam Svensson	0.97	50.68	-2.88	2.07
139	136	Korea; Republic of	Yubin Jang	0.97	38.60	-1.49	-
140	135	United States	Peter Malnati	0.96	49.95	-2.77	-
141	137	United States	Peter Uihlein	0.96	38.29	-0.82	-
142	138	New Zealand	Ben Campbell	0.95	38.11	-1.24	-
143	140	United States	Samuel Stevens	0.93	48.61	-3.45	1.79
144	147	United States	Carson Young	0.93	48.51	-2.43	2.23
145	139	Poland	Adrian Meronk	0.92	36.70	-3.58	-
146	143	Japan	Takumi Kanaya	0.92	47.70	-3.39	-
147	144	United States	Andrew Putnam	0.91	47.28	-3.43	2.07
148	145	France	Antoine Rozner	0.90	46.92	-2.01	-
149	146	United States	McClure Meissner	0.90	43.88	-2.18	2.67
150	167	United States	Alex Smalley	0.89	46.28	-2.48	10.53
151	150	Japan	Rikuya Hoshino	0.89	46.23	-2.85	1.44
152	149	United States	David Lipsky	0.87	45.49	-1.91	1.30
153	186	Korea; Republic of	Seonghyeon Kim	0.85	44.37	-1.97	8.42
154	154	United States	Michael Kim	0.84	43.84	-2.58	1.44
155	151	United States	Chandler Phillips	0.84	42.93	-2.31	-
156	153	England	Daniel Brown(Oct1994)	0.83	43.14	-2.01	-
157	152	United States	Chan Kim	0.83	43.07	-2.65	0.96
158	157	England	Joe Dean	0.81	32.59	-1.25	-
159	156	Sweden	Tim Widing	0.81	40.58	-2.22	-
160	155	Korea; Republic of	Kyoung-Hoon Lee	0.81	41.99	-2.66	-
161	163	England	Dan Bradbury	0.80	41.37	-1.60	0.70
162	158	France	Frederic LaCroix	0.79	41.33	-2.02	-
163	171	United States	Harry Higgs	0.79	39.54	-1.91	1.88
164	161	United States	Steven Fisk	0.79	38.68	-1.86	-
165	160	Finland	Sami Valimaki	0.79	41.02	-2.78	-
166	162	United States	Joe Highsmith	0.79	36.99	-1.48	-
167	159	Canada	Ben Silverman	0.78	35.88	-2.49	-
168	164	England	Alex Fitzpatrick	0.78	40.55	-2.20	-
169	166	Puerto Rico	Rafael Campos	0.77	40.13	-1.31	-
170	170	Japan	Yuta Sugiura	0.76	30.39	-1.17	-
171	168	United States	Zac Blair	0.76	36.47	-2.56	-
172	169	United States	William Mouw	0.76	30.37	-1.39	-
173	165	United States	Taylor Dickson	0.76	38.62	-2.11	-
174	172	Spain	Angel Hidalgo Portillo	0.75	39.10	-1.61	-
175	174	United Arab Emirates	Adrian Otaegui	0.74	38.28	-1.99	0.52
176	178	France	David Ravetto	0.73	37.92	-1.74	0.93
177	173	United States	Jackson Suber	0.72	33.94	-1.53	8.49
178	188	United States	Brice Garnett	0.72	31.05	-1.52	4.50
179	176	United States	Michael Thorbjornsen	0.72	28.69	-1.02	-
180	179	Argentina	Alejandro Tosti	0.72	37.24	-2.50	0.77
181	181	Spain	Nacho Elvira	0.71	37.00	-1.97	0.52
182	175	Germany	Yannik Paul	0.71	36.94	-2.53	-
183	177	United States	Gary Woodland	0.71	31.15	-2.24	3.94
184	182	United States	Hayden Springer	0.70	28.12	-1.25	-
185	196	United States	Jacob Bridgeman	0.70	36.56	-1.79	2.81
186	185	Germany	Thomas Rosenmueller	0.70	34.87	-1.58	0.72
187	180	Germany	Marcel Siem	0.70	33.43	-2.31	0.52
188	184	United States	Nate Lashley	0.69	36.07	-2.22	1.70
189	200	United States	Pierceson Coody	0.69	35.87	-1.96	2.39
190	187	Spain	Angel Ayora	0.69	27.48	-0.62	-
191	183	Sweden	Henrik Norlander	0.69	35.63	-1.55	1.70
192	225	Australia	David Micheluzzi	0.68	33.51	-1.26	5.33
193	189	England	Sam Bairstow	0.68	35.18	-1.47	-
194	198	Scotland	Connor Syme	0.68	35.13	-2.04	1.62
195	194	United States	Sam Ryder	0.68	35.10	-2.63	4.12
196	191	England	Andy Sullivan	0.67	35.04	-1.34	0.52
197	190	United States	Greyson Sigg	0.67	34.95	-1.79	-
198	201	Sweden	Alexander Bjork	0.67	30.21	-2.79	1.62
199	197	Australia	Elvis Smylie	0.67	26.82	-0.21	0.52
200	220	United States	Kevin Roy	0.67	34.75	-1.49	5.11

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Updated: January 20, 2025