Official World Golf Ranking 04/2026 - Golf Today

Week 04 – 25/01/2026

Simon Bale|January 26, 2026

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Scottie Scheffler has won The American Express, Jason Day, Ryan Gerard, Matt McCarty and Andrew Putnam tied for second place.

Scheffler remains at number 1, Day moves up to 33 from 62, Gerard up six places to 24, McCarty to 34 from 58 and Putnam up to 114 from 185.

Related: Scottie Scheffler wins 20th PGA Tour title

The American Express R4

Patrick Reed has won the Hero Dubai Desert Classic, Andy Sullivan came second, Julien Guerrier third and Francesco Molinari tied for fourth place with Nicolai Højgaard and Jayden Schaper.

Reed moves up to 29 from 44, Sullivan to 100 from 142, Guerrier to 138 from 176, Molinari to 278 from 418, Højgaard up eleven places to 70 and Schaper up nine to 50.

Patrick Reed of the United States acknowledges the crowd on the 18th green following victory on day four of the Hero Dubai Desert Classic

Related: Patrick Reed wins first Rolex Series event

Hero Dubai Desert Classic 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	16.96	695.32	-58.86	69.23
2	2	Northern Ireland	Rory McIlroy	8.56	411.04	-32.94	7.26
3	3	England	Tommy Fleetwood	5.24	267.35	-17.56	1.92
4	5	United States	Russell Henley	4.84	193.45	-15.12	12.21
5	6	Scotland	Robert MacIntyre	4.60	239.36	-16.90	14.93
6	4	United States	Xander Schauffele	4.56	182.39	-23.69	-
7	7	United States	J.J. Spaun	4.52	235.10	-14.37	1.43
8	8	United States	Ben Griffin	4.41	229.51	-13.44	6.60
9	9	United States	Justin Thomas	4.25	174.30	-14.85	-
10	10	England	Justin Rose	3.93	168.86	-11.96	-
11	11	United States	Harris English	3.76	180.43	-12.41	2.82
12	12	Austria	Sepp Straka	3.68	176.77	-13.32	-
13	13	Sweden	Alex Noren	3.67	146.94	-9.34	-
14	14	Norway	Viktor Hovland	3.57	142.90	-11.06	2.78
15	16	United States	Keegan Bradley	3.57	153.41	-13.03	-
16	15	Japan	Hideki Matsuyama	3.55	166.85	-16.06	4.38
17	17	United States	Chris Gotterup	3.46	180.06	-8.17	50.95
18	19	United States	Collin Morikawa	3.35	137.37	-15.99	-
19	18	Sweden	Ludvig Aberg	3.35	144.01	-15.99	-
20	20	United States	Cameron Young	3.17	149.03	-11.87	-
21	21	England	Tyrrell Hatton	3.06	122.52	-8.94	1.19
22	23	United States	Maverick McNealy	2.95	150.25	-12.25	2.35
23	22	England	Matt Fitzpatrick	2.91	142.66	-8.33	0.85
24	30	United States	Ryan Gerard	2.90	151.05	-6.15	53.28
25	24	England	Aaron Rai	2.74	142.38	-10.30	1.08
26	27	United States	Patrick Cantlay	2.73	109.39	-10.29	6.26
27	25	United States	Sam Burns	2.68	126.19	-11.10	2.82
28	26	Ireland	Shane Lowry	2.68	139.55	-12.02	7.52
29	44	United States	Patrick Reed	2.67	106.76	-5.20	31.72
30	29	England	Marco Penge	2.47	128.36	-6.15	-
31	28	United States	Bryson DeChambeau	2.44	97.41	-11.57	-
32	31	Canada	Corey Conners	2.39	112.21	-9.55	2.35
33	62	Australia	Jason Day	2.31	92.38	-6.90	25.11
34	58	United States	Matt McCarty	2.21	114.74	-7.34	25.94
35	34	United States	Michael Brennan	2.18	87.07	-2.88	1.07
36	33	United States	Max Greyserman	2.16	108.05	-8.83	1.07
37	42	South Korea	Si Woo Kim	2.16	112.28	-7.98	18.26
38	32	United States	Andrew Novak	2.15	107.58	-8.06	-
39	35	Norway	Kristoffer Reitan	2.14	108.92	-4.71	-
40	50	United States	Samuel Stevens	2.06	107.34	-6.67	14.27
41	36	United States	Brian Harman	2.06	104.98	-9.33	0.66
42	38	United States	Michael Kim	2.06	107.02	-6.77	1.88
43	40	Denmark	Rasmus Hojgaard	2.03	99.61	-7.70	1.66
44	39	Finland	Sami Valimaki	2.03	105.52	-4.16	-
45	37	United States	Kurt Kitayama	2.02	90.74	-6.57	1.43
46	41	New Zealand	Ryan Fox	1.98	103.17	-7.03	1.64
47	45	Australia	Min Woo Lee	1.93	92.47	-7.93	2.25
48	43	Canada	Taylor Pendrith	1.93	90.49	-8.69	7.79
49	49	United States	Wyndham Clark	1.89	88.61	-12.82	6.26
50	59	South Africa	Jayden Schaper	1.89	98.02	-2.56	8.73
51	46	United States	John Keefer	1.88	77.13	-4.63	3.48
52	54	England	Harry Hall	1.87	97.17	-6.61	11.32
53	47	Denmark	Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen	1.86	96.91	-5.22	2.22
54	53	United States	Daniel Berger	1.83	87.67	-6.16	8.86
55	48	South Korea	Sungjae Im	1.82	94.68	-9.84	-
56	51	Canada	Nick Taylor	1.82	90.99	-8.97	7.20
57	63	United States	Jacob Bridgeman	1.82	94.48	-5.67	18.94
58	57	United States	Billy Horschel	1.79	73.49	-9.30	3.27
59	52	United States	Akshay Bhatia	1.79	93.10	-10.07	-
60	55	Colombia	Nicolas Echavarria	1.77	92.17	-6.66	-
61	56	United States	J.T. Poston	1.76	84.44	-7.61	2.25
62	61	Belgium	Thomas Detry	1.74	90.57	-7.89	2.78
63	60	England	Laurie Canter	1.74	69.66	-4.42	0.88
64	64	South Africa	Garrick Higgo	1.73	76.22	-4.02	-
65	65	United States	Lucas Glover	1.67	78.36	-6.88	-
66	70	United States	Max McGreevy	1.67	86.63	-4.79	2.82
67	68	Australia	Adam Scott	1.64	80.56	-8.15	4.95
68	67	England	Daniel Brown(Oct1994)	1.64	78.50	-4.68	3.08
69	86	China	Haotong Li	1.62	81.12	-4.42	9.96
70	81	Denmark	Nicolai Hojgaard	1.62	84.20	-6.07	7.61
71	66	South Africa	Thriston Lawrence	1.62	84.06	-8.18	2.52
72	69	United States	Bud Cauley	1.61	64.42	-4.37	2.35
73	71	Philippines	Richard Hoey	1.61	83.64	-4.71	1.08
74	72	United States	Michael Thorbjornsen	1.61	64.23	-3.74	-
75	75	Northern Ireland	Tom McKibbin	1.59	63.62	-3.90	2.33
76	73	United States	Denny McCarthy	1.55	72.88	-7.34	2.50
77	74	United States	Brian Campbell	1.54	75.64	-5.73	-
78	76	England	Matt Wallace	1.54	79.92	-6.24	3.28
79	78	France	Adrien Saddier	1.53	79.75	-4.71	0.72
80	83	United States	Rickie Fowler	1.53	65.71	-4.54	4.44
81	80	England	John Parry	1.51	78.54	-5.36	4.15
82	79	United States	Jordan Spieth	1.51	63.34	-5.40	2.35
83	82	South Africa	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	1.50	77.95	-6.52	2.25
84	77	United States	Chris Kirk	1.49	66.96	-5.99	-
85	87	United States	Patrick Rodgers	1.47	76.20	-3.90	20.44
86	90	United States	Pierceson Coody	1.46	76.07	-4.29	8.82
87	84	South Africa	Aldrich Potgieter	1.46	71.48	-4.92	-
88	85	Venezuela	Jhonattan Vegas	1.45	60.69	-5.44	-
89	88	United States	Davis Riley	1.43	72.75	-5.93	8.86
89	101	United States	Tom Hoge	1.43	74.18	-6.97	10.56
91	91	England	Jordan Smith	1.42	74.00	-5.47	3.40
92	95	Denmark	Thorbjorn Olesen	1.41	73.12	-5.10	7.14
93	89	Spain	Jon Rahm	1.40	56.17	-4.49	-
94	99	Spain	David Puig	1.40	55.99	-3.05	11.11
95	92	Germany	Matti Schmid	1.37	71.08	-5.05	-
96	94	United States	Jake Knapp	1.36	59.92	-6.35	5.87
97	93	Taiwan (Chinese Taipei)	Chun-an Yu	1.35	70.14	-5.41	-
98	97	South Africa	Shaun Norris	1.29	67.18	-4.06	1.12
99	96	Canada	Mackenzie Hughes	1.29	66.88	-6.65	-
100	142	England	Andy Sullivan	1.28	66.66	-3.24	18.52
101	103	United States	McClure Meissner	1.28	64.02	-4.56	2.28
102	98	United States	Davis Thompson	1.27	64.81	-7.42	-
103	102	Japan	Keita Nakajima	1.26	59.40	-4.03	-
104	106	Argentina	Emiliano Grillo	1.26	64.15	-5.07	-
105	107	United States	Vincent Whaley	1.25	65.14	-4.16	1.43
106	105	South Korea	Byeong Hun An	1.25	63.76	-7.29	-
107	104	United States	Tony Finau	1.24	52.18	-7.45	-
108	100	United States	Neal Shipley	1.24	54.55	-3.70	-
109	125	United States	Sahith Theegala	1.24	58.18	-8.46	11.01
110	108	United States	Steven Fisk	1.23	60.09	-4.52	-
111	110	New Zealand	Daniel Hillier	1.23	63.74	-2.47	14.73
112	109	South Korea	Tom Kim	1.22	63.49	-7.17	2.91
113	115	United States	Eric Cole	1.20	62.16	-4.96	2.82
114	185	United States	Andrew Putnam	1.19	62.06	-3.26	25.11
115	117	Spain	Angel Ayora	1.17	61.08	-3.15	3.42
116	112	Japan	Kazuki Higa	1.17	60.82	-2.94	-
117	139	United States	Austin Smotherman	1.15	58.59	-3.41	9.13
118	111	Sweden	Joakim Lagergren	1.15	56.13	-3.27	0.76
119	115	Japan	Takumi Kanaya	1.14	59.51	-3.46	1.88
120	113	United States	Joe Highsmith	1.14	59.38	-4.86	0.57
121	114	Germany	Stephan Jaeger	1.13	57.67	-7.48	-
122	118	Spain	Nacho Elvira	1.13	58.77	-2.57	22.91
123	123	United States	Alex Smalley	1.11	57.81	-3.52	3.10
124	119	United States	Chandler Blanchet	1.11	49.83	-2.58	-
125	120	South Africa	Erik van Rooyen	1.09	56.79	-5.74	-
126	129	France	Martin Couvra	1.08	56.10	-3.21	4.20
127	122	United States	Mark Hubbard	1.08	56.02	-4.46	0.57
128	121	United States	William Mouw	1.07	50.44	-3.48	0.50
129	124	United States	Lee Hodges	1.07	55.66	-3.83	7.79
130	126	Spain	Eugenio Chacarra	1.04	43.68	-2.10	1.60
131	128	United States	Gary Woodland	1.04	48.64	-3.64	0.68
132	130	South Africa	JC Ritchie	1.03	53.64	-2.42	1.19
133	127	Australia	Elvis Smylie	1.03	43.30	-2.46	-
134	132	United States	Keith Mitchell	1.03	51.39	-4.76	2.24
135	135	Japan	Ryo Hisatsune	1.01	52.57	-4.61	1.66
136	134	United States	Matt Kuchar	1.01	42.39	-3.14	1.66
137	147	Australia	Karl Vilips	1.00	40.01	-2.81	4.44
138	176	France	Julien Guerrier	1.00	50.85	-2.77	18.41
139	133	United States	Patrick Fishburn	0.99	51.67	-4.19	-
140	131	United States	Austin Eckroat	0.99	51.24	-6.88	-
141	136	United States	Adam Schenk	0.98	51.18	-3.24	-
142	233	United States	Taylor Dickson	0.97	47.69	-2.16	33.15
143	137	United States	Kevin Roy	0.97	50.50	-3.47	4.38
144	138	United States	Beau Hossler	0.97	50.25	-4.21	-
145	143	United States	Max Homa	0.97	44.44	-4.93	2.82
146	140	France	Victor Perez	0.96	50.05	-4.98	0.41
147	150	South Korea	Seonghyeon Kim	0.95	49.64	-3.76	8.82
148	145	United States	David Lipsky	0.93	48.36	-3.54	1.66
149	141	Australia	Cameron Davis	0.92	44.32	-5.45	-
150	144	Chile	Joaquin Niemann	0.90	36.06	-3.57	-
151	148	United States	Chandler Phillips	0.90	46.83	-3.19	3.93
152	146	Sweden	Jesper Svensson	0.89	46.28	-4.14	-
153	152	Belgium	Adrien Dumont de Chassart	0.89	46.26	-2.84	3.11
154	149	United States	Doug Ghim	0.87	45.49	-4.24	0.82
155	153	Denmark	Jacob Skov Olesen	0.87	34.96	-1.64	0.63
156	154	Japan	Kensei Hirata	0.86	44.92	-3.97	2.35
157	168	China	Ding Wenyi	0.86	34.38	-1.08	1.93
158	151	South Africa	Christo Lamprecht	0.86	36.00	-2.17	-
159	156	Mexico	Emilio Gonzalez	0.85	44.45	-2.76	1.08
160	157	Zimbabwe	Scott Vincent	0.85	34.18	-1.92	-
161	179	England	Marcus Armitage	0.85	44.32	-2.21	8.32
162	165	United States	Ricky Castillo	0.85	44.26	-2.27	3.54
163	167	Spain	Jorge Campillo	0.85	44.18	-2.96	1.93
164	161	Scotland	Grant Forrest	0.85	41.62	-2.46	2.13
165	158	Mexico	Carlos Ortiz	0.85	33.92	-2.66	-
166	162	Scotland	Ewen Ferguson	0.85	43.23	-3.43	2.31
167	164	Finland	Oliver Lindell	0.85	44.00	-2.57	3.05
168	160	Ireland	Seamus Power	0.84	43.92	-3.66	2.73
169	155	France	Antoine Rozner	0.84	43.52	-3.28	2.52
170	163	England	Richard Mansell	0.84	42.59	-2.90	-
171	159	Denmark	Niklas Norgaard	0.83	43.38	-4.02	0.51
172	169	United States	Chad Ramey	0.82	42.85	-2.10	1.35
173	170	Netherlands	Joost Luiten	0.81	42.26	-2.50	1.65
174	166	United States	Justin Lower	0.81	42.15	-3.55	-
175	173	England	Dan Bradbury	0.79	41.21	-2.20	1.63
176	178	South Africa	Jacques Kruyswijk	0.79	41.16	-2.51	3.53
177	175	United States	Carson Young	0.79	41.15	-3.31	1.97
178	171	Japan	Kota Kaneko	0.79	38.55	-1.74	0.47
179	202	United States	Zachary Bauchou	0.78	40.54	-2.24	6.79
180	174	United States	Taylor Moore	0.78	40.50	-4.57	1.07
181	172	Canada	Richard T. Lee	0.78	38.77	-2.85	-
182	180	United States	Jackson Koivun(Am)	0.75	30.15	-1.54	-
183	181	South Korea	Taehoon Ok	0.75	34.51	-2.11	-
184	186	Spain	Jose Luis Ballester	0.74	29.56	-0.11	-
185	182	United States	Luke Clanton	0.74	29.54	-3.01	-
186	188	United States	Trace Crowe(Oct1996)	0.74	33.22	-2.61	-
187	177	United States	Nick Dunlap	0.73	37.42	-5.81	0.66
188	183	United States	Lanto Griffin	0.73	35.91	-2.49	-
189	184	New Zealand	Kazuma Kobori	0.73	35.13	-2.36	-
190	187	United States	Jackson Suber	0.73	35.53	-2.55	-
191	193	Germany	Nicolai Von Dellingshausen	0.72	37.53	-2.28	1.43
192	189	United States	Peter Uihlein	0.72	28.75	-1.95	-
193	190	Scotland	Calum Hill	0.72	37.23	-2.60	0.25
194	195	South Africa	Barend Botha	0.71	28.53	-1.70	1.60
195	191	Japan	Tatsunori Shogenji	0.71	37.09	-1.95	-
196	192	United States	Taylor Montgomery	0.71	33.27	-2.67	0.35
197	212	United States	Sam Ryder	0.69	36.03	-2.68	2.82
198	205	England	Alex Fitzpatrick	0.69	35.87	-2.19	1.93
199	194	England	Matthew Jordan	0.69	35.16	-3.25	-
200	196	United States	Hank Lebioda	0.69	32.28	-2.33	-

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Updated: January 26, 2026