Official World Golf Ranking 03/2026 - Golf Today

Week 03 – 18/01/2026

Simon Bale|January 19, 2026

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Chris Gotterup has won the Sony Open in Hawaii, Ryan Gerard came second, Patrick Rodgers third and Robert MacIntyre tied for fourth with Jacob Bridgeman.

Gotterup moves up eleven places to 17 this week, Gerard up twelve to 30, Rodgers up to 87 from 121, MacIntyre up one to number 6 and Bridgeman to 63 from 81.

Related: Third PGA Tour title for Chris Gotterup

Sony Open in Hawaii R4

Nacho Elvira has won the Dubai Invitational, Daniel Hillier came second, Shane Lowry, Rory McIlroy, David Puig and Julien Guerrier tied for third place.

Elvira moves up to 118 from 190, Hillier to 110 from 138, Lowry stays at 26, McIlroy stays at number 2, Puig up to 99 from 113 and Guerrier to 176 from 211.

Nacho Elvira of Spain plays his second shot on the 17th hole on day one of the Amgen Irish Open 2025 at The K Club

Related: Nacho Elvira wins third DP World Tour title

Dubai Invitational R4

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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	16.02	640.75	-44.21	-
2	2	Northern Ireland	Rory McIlroy	8.89	417.76	-25.03	6.07
3	3	England	Tommy Fleetwood	5.42	270.77	-13.15	0.92
4	4	United States	Xander Schauffele	4.71	188.25	-17.83	-
5	5	United States	Russell Henley	4.70	188.03	-11.41	3.08
6	7	Scotland	Robert MacIntyre	4.64	241.46	-12.56	12.68
7	6	United States	J.J. Spaun	4.59	238.69	-10.78	1.43
8	8	United States	Ben Griffin	4.42	229.69	-9.74	3.08
9	9	United States	Justin Thomas	4.34	177.87	-11.28	-
10	10	England	Justin Rose	4.00	171.84	-8.98	-
11	11	United States	Harris English	3.76	180.66	-9.35	-
12	12	Austria	Sepp Straka	3.75	180.09	-10.00	-
13	13	Sweden	Alex Noren	3.73	149.25	-7.03	-
14	15	Norway	Viktor Hovland	3.57	142.91	-8.28	-
15	16	Japan	Hideki Matsuyama	3.56	170.88	-12.03	4.38
16	14	United States	Keegan Bradley	3.56	156.53	-9.91	-
17	28	United States	Chris Gotterup	3.50	182.09	-6.14	50.95
18	18	Sweden	Ludvig Aberg	3.44	148.00	-12.01	-
19	17	United States	Collin Morikawa	3.37	141.35	-12.01	-
20	19	United States	Cameron Young	3.23	151.90	-9.00	-
21	20	England	Tyrrell Hatton	3.09	123.52	-6.75	-
22	21	England	Matt Fitzpatrick	3.00	143.89	-6.26	-
23	22	United States	Maverick McNealy	2.95	153.31	-9.19	2.35
24	23	England	Aaron Rai	2.79	144.93	-7.75	1.08
25	24	United States	Sam Burns	2.74	126.06	-8.41	-
26	26	Ireland	Shane Lowry	2.71	141.15	-8.97	6.07
27	25	United States	Patrick Cantlay	2.64	105.68	-7.75	-
28	27	United States	Bryson DeChambeau	2.51	100.30	-8.68	-
29	29	England	Marco Penge	2.50	129.99	-4.52	-
30	42	United States	Ryan Gerard	2.45	127.51	-4.57	28.17
31	30	Canada	Corey Conners	2.44	114.59	-7.17	2.35
32	33	United States	Andrew Novak	2.19	109.60	-6.05	-
33	34	United States	Max Greyserman	2.19	109.25	-6.57	-
34	32	United States	Michael Brennan	2.18	87.03	-1.85	-
35	31	Norway	Kristoffer Reitan	2.16	110.10	-3.53	-
36	35	United States	Brian Harman	2.15	107.27	-7.04	0.66
37	36	United States	Kurt Kitayama	2.10	92.39	-4.92	1.43
38	37	United States	Michael Kim	2.09	108.72	-5.08	1.88
39	38	Finland	Sami Valimaki	2.05	106.59	-3.10	-
40	39	Denmark	Rasmus Hojgaard	2.04	99.84	-5.81	-
41	40	New Zealand	Ryan Fox	2.00	104.02	-5.30	0.76
42	46	South Korea	Si Woo Kim	1.98	102.72	-5.15	5.87
43	51	Canada	Taylor Pendrith	1.97	92.62	-6.55	7.79
44	41	United States	Patrick Reed	1.93	77.21	-3.89	0.86
45	43	Australia	Min Woo Lee	1.92	92.19	-5.97	-
46	45	United States	John Keefer	1.89	75.47	-3.47	0.66
47	49	Denmark	Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen	1.87	97.36	-3.90	1.34
48	44	South Korea	Sungjae Im	1.87	97.16	-7.37	-
49	47	United States	Wyndham Clark	1.86	85.54	-9.64	-
50	50	United States	Samuel Stevens	1.86	96.64	-4.97	1.88
51	54	Canada	Nick Taylor	1.84	90.36	-6.77	4.38
52	48	United States	Akshay Bhatia	1.84	95.61	-7.55	-
53	63	United States	Daniel Berger	1.84	88.13	-4.64	7.79
54	62	England	Harry Hall	1.83	95.31	-4.95	7.79
55	52	Colombia	Nicolas Echavarria	1.81	93.90	-4.93	-
56	55	United States	J.T. Poston	1.79	83.96	-5.84	-
57	53	United States	Billy Horschel	1.78	73.00	-6.96	0.45
58	56	United States	Matt McCarty	1.76	91.55	-5.41	0.82
59	59	South Africa	Jayden Schaper	1.75	91.10	-1.86	1.12
60	61	England	Laurie Canter	1.75	69.97	-3.23	-
61	58	Belgium	Thomas Detry	1.73	89.79	-5.89	-
62	57	Australia	Jason Day	1.72	68.98	-5.20	-
63	81	United States	Jacob Bridgeman	1.72	89.63	-4.26	12.68
64	64	South Africa	Garrick Higgo	1.72	77.25	-3.00	-
65	60	United States	Lucas Glover	1.70	80.08	-5.16	-
66	65	South Africa	Thriston Lawrence	1.68	87.57	-4.68	2.52
67	71	England	Daniel Brown(Oct1994)	1.66	79.72	-3.46	3.08
68	66	Australia	Adam Scott	1.65	79.05	-6.13	1.43
69	72	United States	Bud Cauley	1.64	65.51	-3.28	2.35
70	67	United States	Max McGreevy	1.64	85.12	-3.48	-
71	70	Philippines	Richard Hoey	1.64	85.04	-3.31	1.08
72	68	United States	Michael Thorbjornsen	1.63	65.19	-2.79	-
73	69	United States	Denny McCarthy	1.60	73.63	-5.52	1.43
74	73	United States	Brian Campbell	1.57	77.07	-4.29	-
75	74	Northern Ireland	Tom McKibbin	1.57	62.66	-2.93	0.40
76	78	England	Matt Wallace	1.57	81.38	-4.78	3.28
77	75	United States	Chris Kirk	1.55	68.25	-4.70	-
78	76	France	Adrien Saddier	1.54	80.21	-3.53	-
79	77	United States	Jordan Spieth	1.54	64.63	-4.11	2.35
80	82	England	John Parry	1.52	78.79	-4.04	3.08
81	79	Denmark	Nicolai Hojgaard	1.50	78.08	-4.58	-
82	80	South Africa	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	1.49	77.38	-4.83	-
83	84	United States	Rickie Fowler	1.49	62.41	-3.41	-
84	83	South Africa	Aldrich Potgieter	1.48	72.71	-3.69	-
85	85	Venezuela	Jhonattan Vegas	1.48	62.05	-4.08	-
86	86	China	Haotong Li	1.46	73.06	-3.35	0.82
87	121	United States	Patrick Rodgers	1.45	75.44	-3.00	18.78
88	101	United States	Davis Riley	1.43	73.17	-4.44	7.79
89	87	Spain	Jon Rahm	1.43	57.30	-3.36	-
90	94	United States	Pierceson Coody	1.40	72.76	-3.17	4.38
91	89	England	Jordan Smith	1.39	72.45	-4.19	0.57
92	88	Germany	Matti Schmid	1.39	72.21	-3.91	-
93	90	Taiwan (Chinese Taipei)	Chun-an Yu	1.38	71.52	-4.03	-
94	105	United States	Jake Knapp	1.37	61.50	-4.76	5.87
95	97	Denmark	Thorbjorn Olesen	1.36	70.60	-3.76	3.28
96	91	Canada	Mackenzie Hughes	1.32	68.54	-4.99	-
97	100	South Africa	Shaun Norris	1.31	68.27	-2.97	1.12
98	98	United States	Davis Thompson	1.31	66.64	-5.59	-
99	113	Spain	David Puig	1.29	51.72	-2.28	6.07
100	92	United States	Neal Shipley	1.29	55.49	-2.76	-
101	102	United States	Tom Hoge	1.29	66.96	-5.05	1.43
102	93	Japan	Keita Nakajima	1.29	60.49	-2.93	-
103	103	United States	McClure Meissner	1.29	64.33	-3.40	1.43
104	96	United States	Tony Finau	1.29	54.02	-5.61	-
105	99	South Korea	Byeong Hun An	1.28	65.47	-5.58	-
106	95	Argentina	Emiliano Grillo	1.28	65.37	-3.85	-
107	106	United States	Vincent Whaley	1.27	66.26	-3.04	1.43
108	104	United States	Steven Fisk	1.25	61.22	-3.39	-
109	107	South Korea	Tom Kim	1.21	63.07	-5.33	0.66
110	138	New Zealand	Daniel Hillier	1.21	62.94	-1.82	13.29
111	108	Sweden	Joakim Lagergren	1.19	56.96	-2.44	0.76
112	109	Japan	Kazuki Higa	1.18	61.61	-2.15	-
113	112	United States	Joe Highsmith	1.17	60.78	-3.46	0.57
114	111	Germany	Stephan Jaeger	1.17	59.56	-5.59	-
115	116	Japan	Takumi Kanaya	1.17	60.62	-2.34	1.88
115	110	United States	Eric Cole	1.17	60.62	-3.68	-
117	117	Spain	Angel Ayora	1.17	60.60	-2.19	1.98
118	190	Spain	Nacho Elvira	1.14	59.38	-1.95	22.91
119	118	United States	Chandler Blanchet	1.12	50.52	-1.89	-
120	114	South Africa	Erik van Rooyen	1.12	58.37	-4.16	-
121	115	United States	William Mouw	1.12	51.32	-2.61	0.50
122	119	United States	Mark Hubbard	1.10	57.29	-3.19	0.57
123	122	United States	Alex Smalley	1.10	57.05	-2.62	1.43
124	141	United States	Lee Hodges	1.09	56.62	-2.87	7.79
125	120	United States	Sahith Theegala	1.09	51.09	-6.43	1.88
126	124	Spain	Eugenio Chacarra	1.08	44.22	-1.56	1.60
127	125	Australia	Elvis Smylie	1.05	43.92	-1.85	-
128	123	United States	Gary Woodland	1.04	48.87	-2.73	-
129	129	France	Martin Couvra	1.02	53.08	-2.37	0.34
130	128	South Africa	JC Ritchie	1.02	53.06	-1.81	-
131	126	United States	Austin Eckroat	1.02	52.94	-5.18	-
132	130	United States	Keith Mitchell	1.02	50.85	-3.63	0.57
133	127	United States	Patrick Fishburn	1.01	52.72	-3.14	-
134	135	United States	Matt Kuchar	1.01	41.51	-2.36	-
135	131	Japan	Ryo Hisatsune	1.01	52.49	-3.02	-
136	133	United States	Adam Schenk	1.01	52.28	-2.14	-
137	147	United States	Kevin Roy	0.99	51.37	-2.60	4.38
138	134	United States	Beau Hossler	0.99	51.34	-3.12	-
139	132	United States	Austin Smotherman	0.99	50.31	-2.56	-
140	136	France	Victor Perez	0.98	50.89	-3.73	-
141	137	Australia	Cameron Davis	0.97	45.67	-4.10	-
142	139	England	Andy Sullivan	0.94	48.82	-2.56	-
143	140	United States	Max Homa	0.93	42.88	-3.67	-
144	142	Chile	Joaquin Niemann	0.92	36.89	-2.73	-
145	143	United States	David Lipsky	0.92	47.60	-2.64	-
146	144	Sweden	Jesper Svensson	0.91	47.35	-3.06	-
147	146	Australia	Karl Vilips	0.91	36.29	-2.10	-
148	156	United States	Chandler Phillips	0.90	46.76	-2.41	3.08
149	148	United States	Doug Ghim	0.90	46.60	-3.13	0.82
150	164	South Korea	Seonghyeon Kim	0.89	46.46	-2.51	4.38
151	145	South Africa	Christo Lamprecht	0.89	36.54	-1.62	-
152	155	Belgium	Adrien Dumont de Chassart	0.89	46.22	-2.13	2.35
153	150	Denmark	Jacob Skov Olesen	0.88	35.37	-1.22	0.63
154	154	Japan	Kensei Hirata	0.88	45.91	-2.98	2.35
155	161	France	Antoine Rozner	0.87	44.32	-2.48	2.52
156	153	Mexico	Emilio Gonzalez	0.87	45.14	-2.07	1.08
157	151	Zimbabwe	Scott Vincent	0.87	34.67	-1.43	-
158	149	Mexico	Carlos Ortiz	0.86	34.59	-2.00	-
159	152	Denmark	Niklas Norgaard	0.85	44.37	-3.03	0.51
160	163	Ireland	Seamus Power	0.85	44.11	-2.62	1.88
161	162	Scotland	Grant Forrest	0.84	41.23	-1.85	1.12
162	160	Scotland	Ewen Ferguson	0.84	42.90	-2.58	1.12
163	157	England	Richard Mansell	0.83	43.30	-2.19	-
164	167	Finland	Oliver Lindell	0.83	43.23	-1.89	1.60
165	170	United States	Ricky Castillo	0.83	43.17	-1.69	1.88
166	158	United States	Justin Lower	0.83	43.17	-2.54	-
167	159	Spain	Jorge Campillo	0.83	43.02	-2.18	-
168	165	China	Ding Wenyi	0.82	32.73	-0.79	-
169	166	United States	Chad Ramey	0.82	42.49	-1.61	0.50
170	169	Netherlands	Joost Luiten	0.82	42.40	-1.84	1.12
171	168	Japan	Kota Kaneko	0.80	38.99	-1.30	0.47
172	171	Canada	Richard T. Lee	0.79	39.48	-2.13	-
173	175	England	Dan Bradbury	0.78	40.78	-1.63	0.63
174	172	United States	Taylor Moore	0.78	40.58	-3.42	-
175	173	United States	Carson Young	0.78	40.31	-2.33	0.15
176	211	France	Julien Guerrier	0.77	39.19	-2.08	6.07
177	174	United States	Nick Dunlap	0.77	38.42	-4.81	0.66
178	179	South Africa	Jacques Kruyswijk	0.77	39.87	-1.87	1.60
179	192	England	Marcus Armitage	0.77	39.86	-1.63	3.28
180	178	United States	Jackson Koivun(Am)	0.76	30.54	-1.16	-
181	177	South Korea	Taehoon Ok	0.76	35.04	-1.58	-
182	176	United States	Luke Clanton	0.76	30.30	-2.25	-
183	181	United States	Lanto Griffin	0.75	36.51	-1.88	-
184	183	New Zealand	Kazuma Kobori	0.74	35.70	-1.78	-
185	182	United States	Andrew Putnam	0.74	37.76	-2.46	-
186	184	Spain	Jose Luis Ballester	0.74	29.59	-0.08	-
187	186	United States	Jackson Suber	0.74	36.18	-1.89	-
188	187	United States	Trace Crowe(Oct1996)	0.74	33.88	-1.96	-
189	180	United States	Peter Uihlein	0.73	29.24	-1.45	-
190	185	Scotland	Calum Hill	0.73	37.93	-1.89	0.25
191	188	Japan	Tatsunori Shogenji	0.72	37.58	-1.47	-
192	189	United States	Taylor Montgomery	0.72	33.73	-2.04	0.18
193	191	Germany	Nicolai Von Dellingshausen	0.71	36.92	-1.71	0.25
194	194	England	Matthew Jordan	0.71	35.97	-2.44	-
195	197	South Africa	Barend Botha	0.70	28.18	-1.25	0.80
196	193	United States	Hank Lebioda	0.70	32.86	-1.75	-
197	195	South Korea	Junghwan Lee	0.69	35.30	-0.92	0.51
198	198	South Africa	Richard Sterne	0.69	27.51	-0.80	-
199	196	Scotland	David Law	0.69	35.73	-1.57	-
200	200	United States	Harry Higgs	0.68	35.27	-2.50	0.66

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Updated: January 19, 2026