Official World Golf Ranking 08/2026 - Golf Today

Week 08 – 22/02/2026

Simon Bale|February 23, 2026

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

Jacob Bridgeman has won the Genesis Invitational, Kurt Kitayama and Rory McIlroy came second, Adam Scott fourth and Aldrich Potgieter finished fifth.

Bridgeman moves up to 20 from 52 this week, Kitayama to 29 from 42, McIlroy stays at number 2, Scott to 52 from 71 and Potgieter to 71 from 95.

Related: Jacob Bridgeman wins first PGA Tour title

The Genesis Invitational R4

Casey Jarvis has won the Kenya Magical Open, Davis Bryant came second, Hennie Du Plessis third, Francesco Laporta fourth and Nathan Kimsey tied for fifth place with Jacob Skov Olesen.

Jarvis moves up to 128 from 195, Bryant to 192 from 289, Du Plessis to 283 from 425, Laporta to 196 from 221, Kimsey to 312 from 395 and Olesen up ten places to 122.

Casey Jarvis of South Africa tees off on the 17th hole on day one of the Alfred Dunhill Championship 2026 at Royal Johannesburg

Related: Wire-to-wire maiden DP World Tour title for Casey Jarvis

Magical Kenya Open 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	16.51	676.83	-116.62	108.49
2	2	Northern Ireland	Rory McIlroy	8.70	417.44	-65.36	46.08
3	3	England	Tommy Fleetwood	5.41	275.99	-35.96	28.95
4	4	England	Justin Rose	4.87	219.31	-23.69	62.17
5	5	United States	Collin Morikawa	4.84	203.25	-31.70	81.59
6	7	United States	Chris Gotterup	4.60	239.34	-16.31	118.37
7	6	United States	Russell Henley	4.56	182.38	-29.91	15.93
8	9	Scotland	Robert MacIntyre	4.37	227.40	-33.80	19.86
9	13	United States	Xander Schauffele	4.35	174.15	-46.65	14.72
10	8	United States	J.J. Spaun	4.34	221.53	-28.85	2.34
11	11	United States	Ben Griffin	4.24	220.59	-27.22	11.46
12	10	Japan	Hideki Matsuyama	4.22	202.71	-31.18	55.37
13	12	Austria	Sepp Straka	4.13	202.45	-26.49	38.85
14	14	United States	Justin Thomas	4.01	160.50	-28.65	-
15	15	United States	Harris English	3.68	180.18	-24.41	14.58
16	17	Sweden	Alex Noren	3.64	145.76	-18.60	8.07
17	16	Norway	Viktor Hovland	3.52	140.83	-22.15	11.79
18	18	United States	Patrick Reed	3.42	136.75	-10.52	67.03
19	19	United States	Keegan Bradley	3.29	144.87	-25.22	3.65
20	52	United States	Jacob Bridgeman	3.29	170.86	-11.18	100.82
21	22	United States	Cameron Young	3.18	152.45	-23.11	14.66
22	20	England	Matt Fitzpatrick	3.07	150.54	-17.23	17.62
23	21	Sweden	Ludvig Aberg	3.06	134.50	-30.44	4.93
24	23	England	Tyrrell Hatton	3.01	120.44	-17.81	7.98
25	24	United States	Maverick McNealy	2.97	154.20	-24.15	18.20
26	25	United States	Ryan Gerard	2.96	153.72	-12.32	62.12
27	26	South Korea	Si Woo Kim	2.84	147.42	-15.31	60.73
28	27	United States	Sam Burns	2.73	128.34	-21.07	14.95
29	42	United States	Kurt Kitayama	2.70	121.67	-12.94	38.72
30	28	United States	Patrick Cantlay	2.66	106.28	-20.05	12.90
31	29	Ireland	Shane Lowry	2.66	138.11	-24.37	18.43
32	30	England	Aaron Rai	2.56	132.99	-21.68	3.07
33	31	Australia	Min Woo Lee	2.55	127.58	-15.72	45.14
34	33	England	Marco Penge	2.43	126.48	-12.79	4.76
35	32	United States	Bryson DeChambeau	2.32	92.62	-23.15	6.79
36	34	Australia	Jason Day	2.27	90.69	-13.28	29.80
37	35	Canada	Corey Conners	2.22	104.12	-18.93	3.64
38	37	United States	Akshay Bhatia	2.21	115.11	-20.06	32.01
39	36	United States	Matt McCarty	2.19	114.04	-15.04	32.93
40	49	New Zealand	Ryan Fox	2.14	111.20	-13.98	16.61
41	38	United States	Andrew Novak	2.13	110.51	-16.00	10.86
42	39	United States	Michael Brennan	2.11	84.32	-7.05	2.49
43	55	United States	Jake Knapp	2.11	96.96	-11.88	48.45
44	41	United States	Samuel Stevens	2.11	109.54	-14.03	23.83
45	46	United States	Pierceson Coody	2.09	108.80	-9.08	46.34
46	40	Norway	Kristoffer Reitan	2.08	108.28	-9.52	4.16
47	47	Finland	Sami Valimaki	2.02	105.09	-9.26	4.66
48	44	Denmark	Rasmus Hojgaard	2.00	97.97	-14.78	7.11
49	45	United States	Michael Kim	2.00	103.77	-13.98	5.83
50	48	United States	Michael Thorbjornsen	1.99	79.78	-7.66	19.47
51	51	United States	Max Greyserman	1.98	102.89	-17.91	4.98
52	71	Australia	Adam Scott	1.97	94.71	-15.88	26.84
53	43	United States	Brian Harman	1.97	100.25	-18.45	5.05
54	50	Spain	Jon Rahm	1.96	78.43	-9.01	26.78
55	53	Denmark	Nicolai Hojgaard	1.92	97.83	-10.97	26.14
56	54	South Africa	Jayden Schaper	1.89	98.37	-5.39	11.91
57	56	Canada	Nick Taylor	1.82	90.75	-16.45	14.44
58	57	Denmark	Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen	1.81	94.30	-10.95	5.33
59	58	Colombia	Nicolas Echavarria	1.80	93.50	-13.53	8.20
60	59	England	Harry Hall	1.80	93.45	-13.02	14.00
61	61	United States	John Keefer	1.77	75.92	-9.32	6.96
62	60	United States	Daniel Berger	1.73	86.70	-12.22	13.94
63	64	Canada	Taylor Pendrith	1.73	84.74	-16.93	10.28
64	62	United States	Wyndham Clark	1.72	82.73	-23.07	10.62
65	65	Japan	Ryo Hisatsune	1.71	88.85	-9.68	43.02
66	63	United States	J.T. Poston	1.69	80.88	-14.56	5.63
67	66	Belgium	Thomas Detry	1.66	86.08	-16.06	6.46
68	69	United States	Rickie Fowler	1.65	70.86	-9.05	14.09
69	67	United States	Max McGreevy	1.64	85.23	-11.96	8.58
70	68	South Korea	Sungjae Im	1.63	84.78	-19.75	-
71	95	South Africa	Aldrich Potgieter	1.62	82.72	-9.31	15.63
72	70	China	Haotong Li	1.62	82.70	-8.78	15.90
73	82	United States	Jordan Spieth	1.58	66.52	-10.29	10.42
74	72	Philippines	Richard Hoey	1.57	81.73	-10.46	4.92
75	74	South Africa	Garrick Higgo	1.57	72.15	-8.38	0.29
76	77	Australia	Elvis Smylie	1.56	63.87	-4.94	23.04
77	76	England	Daniel Brown(Oct1994)	1.55	75.95	-9.60	5.44
78	75	England	Laurie Canter	1.55	65.00	-9.41	1.21
79	73	United States	Lucas Glover	1.53	71.74	-13.71	0.21
80	80	South Africa	Thriston Lawrence	1.51	78.77	-14.17	3.22
81	78	United States	Billy Horschel	1.51	64.91	-18.61	4.01
82	79	United States	Bud Cauley	1.48	61.98	-8.69	4.23
82	88	United States	Patrick Rodgers	1.48	76.74	-9.06	26.14
84	83	England	John Parry	1.46	76.17	-11.59	8.00
85	84	France	Adrien Saddier	1.46	75.84	-9.46	1.57
86	86	Spain	David Puig	1.45	58.20	-6.07	16.33
87	81	United States	Denny McCarthy	1.45	68.34	-14.48	5.09
88	87	Northern Ireland	Tom McKibbin	1.44	59.21	-8.32	2.33
89	89	South Africa	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	1.43	74.27	-12.93	4.98
90	91	England	Jordan Smith	1.43	74.14	-10.41	8.48
91	90	England	Matt Wallace	1.43	74.11	-13.37	4.60
92	85	United States	Brian Campbell	1.42	71.21	-11.23	1.07
93	92	United States	Tom Hoge	1.42	73.65	-13.45	16.52
94	94	United States	Sahith Theegala	1.40	67.32	-16.18	27.86
95	93	United States	Chris Kirk	1.39	62.43	-11.11	0.58
96	96	United States	Tony Finau	1.34	57.71	-14.31	12.38
97	97	Denmark	Thorbjorn Olesen	1.31	68.25	-9.97	7.14
98	101	United States	Davis Riley	1.31	66.82	-11.86	8.86
99	100	Venezuela	Jhonattan Vegas	1.31	56.31	-10.81	0.99
100	98	New Zealand	Daniel Hillier	1.31	67.89	-5.29	21.71
101	99	Germany	Matti Schmid	1.30	67.83	-10.06	1.77
102	102	Germany	Stephan Jaeger	1.27	66.11	-14.29	15.25
103	105	United States	McClure Meissner	1.27	64.63	-9.21	7.54
104	103	Canada	Mackenzie Hughes	1.25	65.19	-13.33	4.99
105	104	Taiwan (Chinese Taipei)	Chun-an Yu	1.24	64.56	-10.98	-
106	106	England	Andy Sullivan	1.24	64.48	-6.15	19.25
107	107	United States	Ian Holt	1.24	49.59	-2.31	34.98
108	112	Spain	Angel Ayora	1.24	64.44	-6.41	10.04
109	109	Argentina	Emiliano Grillo	1.24	61.82	-9.60	2.20
110	108	South Africa	Shaun Norris	1.22	63.29	-8.01	1.19
111	111	Japan	Keita Nakajima	1.20	56.46	-8.37	1.40
112	110	South Korea	Byeong Hun An	1.20	59.79	-14.03	2.76
113	113	Spain	Nacho Elvira	1.19	61.83	-5.15	28.55
114	116	United States	Davis Thompson	1.18	60.05	-14.64	2.46
115	114	United States	Andrew Putnam	1.18	58.83	-6.50	25.11
116	118	South Korea	Tom Kim	1.18	61.11	-13.97	7.34
117	115	United States	Vincent Whaley	1.17	60.81	-8.49	1.43
118	117	United States	Eric Cole	1.16	60.38	-9.48	5.56
119	119	United States	Alex Smalley	1.15	59.94	-7.28	8.99
120	120	United States	Steven Fisk	1.14	55.82	-9.08	0.29
121	121	United States	Neal Shipley	1.12	51.47	-7.45	0.67
122	132	Denmark	Jacob Skov Olesen	1.11	44.52	-3.43	11.98
123	122	Japan	Kazuki Higa	1.11	57.61	-6.14	-
124	125	United States	Keith Mitchell	1.11	55.28	-9.19	10.56
125	123	Scotland	Calum Hill	1.10	57.41	-5.39	23.22
126	124	Japan	Takumi Kanaya	1.10	57.15	-6.66	2.73
127	128	United States	Austin Smotherman	1.08	55.31	-6.68	9.13
128	195	South Africa	Casey Jarvis	1.08	56.21	-2.87	23.66
129	126	United States	Joe Highsmith	1.07	55.79	-9.53	1.65
130	127	Sweden	Joakim Lagergren	1.06	55.38	-6.64	3.37
131	129	United States	Peter Uihlein	1.05	41.92	-4.31	15.54
132	130	France	Martin Couvra	1.04	54.12	-6.24	5.25
133	131	United States	Lee Hodges	1.03	51.70	-7.79	7.79
134	134	United States	Kevin Roy	1.01	52.73	-7.14	10.29
135	133	United States	Mark Hubbard	1.01	52.70	-8.44	1.23
136	136	United States	Adam Schenk	1.00	52.18	-8.18	5.94
137	137	United States	Chandler Blanchet	1.00	47.08	-5.34	-
138	135	United States	William Mouw	1.00	46.88	-7.04	0.50
139	138	South Africa	JC Ritchie	1.00	51.86	-4.99	1.98
140	139	South Africa	Erik van Rooyen	0.98	51.11	-11.43	-
141	144	Spain	Eugenio Chacarra	0.98	42.13	-4.31	2.26
142	141	Australia	Karl Vilips	0.98	39.17	-5.64	6.43
143	140	United States	Matt Kuchar	0.98	39.13	-6.40	1.66
144	142	United States	Gary Woodland	0.97	45.80	-7.26	1.46
145	143	France	Julien Guerrier	0.96	49.96	-5.45	20.20
146	145	United States	David Lipsky	0.94	48.85	-7.19	5.79
147	146	Finland	Oliver Lindell	0.92	47.93	-5.53	9.94
148	147	United States	Patrick Fishburn	0.91	47.43	-8.44	-
149	149	South Korea	Seonghyeon Kim	0.91	47.33	-7.95	10.69
150	148	United States	Max Homa	0.91	41.68	-9.71	4.84
151	151	Ireland	Seamus Power	0.89	46.45	-7.07	8.67
152	153	Scotland	Grant Forrest	0.89	44.49	-4.92	7.46
153	152	United States	Beau Hossler	0.89	46.21	-8.25	-
154	150	United States	Austin Eckroat	0.88	45.80	-13.63	1.31
155	154	France	Victor Perez	0.86	44.93	-10.09	0.41
156	155	United States	Chad Ramey	0.86	44.78	-4.78	5.96
157	162	France	Antoine Rozner	0.86	44.61	-6.38	6.70
158	157	United States	Carson Young	0.85	44.27	-6.25	8.04
159	166	China	Ding Wenyi	0.85	33.98	-2.32	2.78
160	156	United States	Chandler Phillips	0.85	44.15	-6.60	4.66
161	159	United States	Ricky Castillo	0.84	43.71	-4.50	5.22
162	158	Australia	Cameron Davis	0.84	40.22	-10.73	1.18
163	169	Spain	Jorge Campillo	0.83	43.36	-6.42	4.58
164	161	Belgium	Adrien Dumont de Chassart	0.83	43.34	-5.77	3.11
165	160	Sweden	Jesper Svensson	0.83	43.09	-8.36	1.03
166	164	England	Dan Bradbury	0.83	43.00	-4.48	5.70
167	167	Japan	Kensei Hirata	0.82	42.57	-7.95	3.98
168	165	United States	Doug Ghim	0.82	42.55	-8.04	1.68
169	163	Chile	Joaquin Niemann	0.82	32.73	-6.90	-
170	168	Mexico	Emilio Gonzalez	0.82	42.53	-5.40	1.80
171	170	England	Marcus Armitage	0.81	42.30	-4.52	8.62
172	171	Zimbabwe	Scott Vincent	0.80	32.20	-3.90	-
173	172	South Africa	Christo Lamprecht	0.80	35.23	-4.35	1.42
174	173	England	Richard Mansell	0.79	39.66	-5.83	-
175	174	Scotland	Ewen Ferguson	0.79	40.90	-6.79	3.34
176	181	South Africa	Jacques Kruyswijk	0.79	40.08	-5.04	4.99
177	175	United States	Justin Lower	0.78	40.78	-7.29	2.36
178	176	Mexico	Carlos Ortiz	0.78	31.26	-5.33	-
179	178	United States	Zachary Bauchou	0.78	40.58	-4.49	9.07
180	177	Netherlands	Joost Luiten	0.78	40.55	-5.27	2.70
181	180	United States	Joel Dahmen	0.78	40.30	-6.06	11.55
182	179	Denmark	Niklas Norgaard	0.77	40.02	-8.11	1.25
183	185	China	Marty Dou Zecheng	0.76	36.56	-3.58	8.69
184	182	New Zealand	Kazuma Kobori	0.76	35.77	-4.42	2.71
185	182	Japan	Kota Kaneko	0.76	38.78	-3.82	2.78
186	184	United States	Jackson Suber	0.76	37.01	-5.25	4.18
187	187	United States	Taylor Montgomery	0.74	33.28	-4.95	2.63
188	188	South Africa	Barend Botha	0.73	30.69	-3.50	5.57
189	186	United States	Taylor Moore	0.73	37.26	-9.11	2.38
190	189	Spain	Jose Luis Ballester	0.73	29.17	-0.50	-
191	192	Canada	Richard T. Lee	0.72	35.90	-5.71	-
192	289	United States	Davis Bryant	0.72	28.68	-1.71	9.85
193	193	South Africa	Richard Sterne	0.72	28.65	-2.37	2.70
194	190	United States	Johannes Veerman	0.72	37.21	-5.73	10.86
195	191	United States	Jackson Koivun(Am)	0.72	28.61	-3.09	-
196	221	Italy	Francesco Laporta	0.70	36.56	-4.50	6.76
197	194	Australia	Lucas Herbert	0.70	27.97	-3.18	6.70
198	201	United States	Lanto Griffin	0.70	33.52	-4.87	-
198	200	United States	Trace Crowe(Oct1996)	0.70	30.73	-5.10	-
200	196	Germany	Frederik Schott	0.70	36.27	-2.53	21.66

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Updated: February 23, 2026