World Golf Ranking 09/2023 - Golf Today

Week 09 – 05/03/2023

Simon Bale|March 6, 2023

Keywords: DP World Tour, European Tour, golf news, news, Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR), PGA Tour

Kurt Kitayama has won the Arnold Palmer Invitational with a final round 72 for a 9-under, 279 total.
Rory McIlroy and Harris English came second at 8-under followed by Patrick Cantlay, Jordan Spieth, Scottie Scheffler and Tyrrell Hatton in fourth at 7-under.

Kitayama moves up to 19 from 46 this week, McIlroy stays at number 3, English up forty places to 39, Cantlay stays at number 4, Spieth up two to 15, Scheffler stays at number 2 and Hatton up two to 24.

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Nico Echavarria has won the Puerto Rico Open with a final round 68 for a 21-under, 267 total.
Akshay Bhatia came second at 19-under, Nate Lashley and Carson Young tied for third at 16-under and Michael Kim came fifth at 15-under.

Echavarria moves up to 287 from 406, Bhatia to 274 from 357, Lashley to 238 from 264, Young to 389 from 453 and Kim to 272 from 291.

This Week	Last Week	Country	Player	Avg. Points	Total Points	Points Lost (2023)	Points Won (2023)	Events
1	1	Spain	Jon Rahm	9.50	427.70	-53.36	193.61	45
2	2	United States	Scottie Scheffler	9.18	468.39	-69.04	100.25	51
3	3	Northern Ireland	Rory McIlroy	9.04	406.87	-59.56	68.73	45
4	4	United States	Patrick Cantlay	7.24	289.77	-48.90	48.15	39
5	5	Australia	Cameron Smith	6.36	254.32	-48.29	-	35
6	6	United States	Xander Schauffele	5.83	256.68	-45.14	35.71	44
7	8	United States	Max Homa	5.59	262.75	-32.99	108.57	47
8	7	United States	Will Zalatoris	5.50	242.04	-41.33	28.06	44
9	9	United States	Justin Thomas	5.14	231.23	-44.16	31.79	45
10	10	United States	Collin Morikawa	4.96	228.24	-52.50	54.20	46
11	11	Norway	Viktor Hovland	4.71	244.87	-47.62	20.64	52
12	13	England	Matt Fitzpatrick	4.65	236.98	-41.06	14.59	51
13	12	United States	Tony Finau	4.61	239.69	-40.84	30.28	52
14	14	United States	Sam Burns	4.00	196.19	-42.41	18.72	49
15	17	United States	Jordan Spieth	3.97	182.55	-42.31	31.04	46
16	16	United States	Cameron Young	3.96	205.73	-25.96	34.11	54
17	15	Korea; Republic of	Tom Kim	3.91	187.88	-22.78	22.97	48
18	18	Korea; Republic of	Sungjae Im	3.68	191.37	-31.60	36.80	58
19	46	United States	Kurt Kitayama	3.24	168.30	-14.11	72.66	53
20	21	United States	Keegan Bradley	3.18	149.59	-19.95	42.44	47
21	19	Ireland	Shane Lowry	3.09	157.49	-28.77	14.02	51
22	20	United States	Billy Horschel	3.05	155.59	-37.51	5.22	51
23	22	Japan	Hideki Matsuyama	2.99	140.63	-36.42	12.98	47
24	26	England	Tyrrell Hatton	2.98	145.91	-22.48	34.10	49
25	23	Chile	Joaquin Niemann	2.96	130.12	-27.84	6.10	44
26	25	England	Tommy Fleetwood	2.70	140.16	-22.53	6.09	53
27	24	United States	Brian Harman	2.64	137.35	-22.86	6.76	52
28	27	Mexico	Abraham Ancer	2.64	110.70	-28.96	24.42	42
29	31	United States	Sahith Theegala	2.60	135.34	-12.87	34.89	59
30	28	Ireland	Seamus Power	2.58	128.82	-17.90	17.58	50
31	29	Austria	Sepp Straka	2.56	132.89	-18.48	9.94	63
32	33	New Zealand	Ryan Fox	2.49	122.00	-15.71	11.16	49
33	30	United States	Tom Hoge	2.49	129.36	-18.71	23.64	63
34	32	United States	Chris Kirk	2.45	125.10	-13.50	67.40	51
35	35	Australia	Adam Scott	2.27	95.46	-16.67	7.74	42
36	34	United States	Russell Henley	2.23	102.46	-16.03	4.46	46
37	36	England	Justin Rose	2.21	88.53	-13.04	40.86	38
38	40	Canada	Corey Conners	2.19	114.02	-25.56	12.97	54
39	79	United States	Harris English	2.19	91.91	-19.09	41.76	42
40	37	Belgium	Thomas Pieters	2.18	87.24	-16.44	5.60	39
41	39	Korea; Republic of	Kyoung-Hoon Lee	2.15	111.77	-21.09	10.91	56
42	42	Korea; Republic of	Si Woo Kim	2.14	111.52	-15.08	50.14	59
43	47	Australia	Jason Day	2.13	85.22	-7.56	45.30	40
44	38	Sweden	Alex Noren	2.13	106.36	-17.23	6.66	50
45	43	United States	Kevin Kisner	2.07	97.19	-19.96	1.39	47
46	41	United States	Aaron Wise	2.06	101.08	-16.48	4.08	49
47	45	United States	Keith Mitchell	2.00	104.14	-14.97	32.99	52
48	44	United States	Talor Gooch	1.98	79.24	-19.44	2.44	39
49	48	Chile	Guillermo Mito Pereira	1.90	95.17	-17.09	5.99	50
50	50	Australia	Min Woo Lee	1.85	87.16	-13.89	17.53	47
51	51	Australia	Lucas Herbert	1.85	90.69	-14.57	24.08	49
52	49	United States	Harold Varner III	1.85	77.63	-18.32	0.64	42
53	52	Poland	Adrian Meronk	1.82	94.81	-12.51	12.18	55
54	53	United States	J.T. Poston	1.81	94.06	-13.20	13.60	57
55	55	Canada	Mackenzie Hughes	1.73	89.77	-17.28	4.72	55
56	56	United States	Taylor Montgomery	1.73	89.70	-9.06	20.18	52
57	58	Canada	Adam Svensson	1.72	89.42	-9.32	16.17	63
58	54	United States	Dustin Johnson	1.71	68.38	-19.99	-	28
59	57	United States	Scott Stallings	1.69	87.80	-12.92	8.37	56
60	59	France	Victor Perez	1.65	77.42	-10.82	28.83	47
61	74	United States	Davis Riley	1.64	85.05	-11.40	12.36	59
62	65	United States	Matt Kuchar	1.58	69.68	-11.94	19.35	44
63	68	United States	Andrew Putnam	1.58	82.12	-10.06	14.29	60
64	63	United States	Patrick Reed	1.58	74.19	-19.72	18.96	47
65	61	United States	Denny McCarthy	1.57	81.75	-12.79	17.55	58
66	62	United States	Davis Thompson	1.57	65.92	-4.15	34.07	42
67	64	Canada	Adam Hadwin	1.55	80.85	-12.47	14.13	53
68	60	United States	Jason Kokrak	1.55	61.96	-21.46	2.88	37
69	66	South Africa	Dean Burmester	1.54	80.32	-15.24	3.65	56
70	67	United States	Maverick McNealy	1.54	77.06	-14.72	7.94	50
71	70	United States	Rickie Fowler	1.54	67.78	-9.39	21.69	44
72	69	United States	J.J. Spaun	1.52	79.16	-11.07	14.52	58
73	71	Canada	Nick Taylor	1.51	78.56	-5.53	49.75	56
74	72	Japan	Kazuki Higa	1.47	76.61	-11.35	6.81	57
75	80	Belgium	Thomas Detry	1.46	76.07	-11.56	11.41	56
76	73	United States	Kevin Na	1.44	57.75	-19.47	-	32
77	103	United States	Trey Mullinax	1.44	75.00	-7.87	16.08	58
78	98	United States	Benjamin Griffin(May1996)	1.44	57.42	-4.89	15.30	39
79	76	Thailand	Sadom Kaewkanjana	1.43	57.34	-7.68	14.12	31
80	82	United States	Brendon Todd	1.43	73.09	-10.03	21.56	51
81	75	South Africa	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	1.43	74.21	-14.34	7.86	54
82	78	Spain	Adrian Otaegui	1.43	74.18	-9.06	3.97	56
83	77	United States	Daniel Berger	1.41	56.25	-19.21	-	27
84	81	South Africa	Thriston Lawrence	1.40	72.90	-9.24	1.07	56
85	83	United States	Cameron Tringale	1.38	60.61	-15.72	0.77	44
86	86	Spain	Adri Arnaus	1.36	69.48	-12.01	6.15	51
87	87	England	Callum Shinkwin	1.36	59.76	-7.25	8.85	44
88	85	England	Paul Casey	1.35	54.13	-20.70	5.86	28
89	88	Spain	Pablo Larrazabal	1.35	59.28	-9.46	4.81	44
90	84	South Africa	Louis Oosthuizen	1.35	53.87	-23.76	1.08	30
91	91	Denmark	Thorbjorn Olesen	1.34	63.05	-5.78	26.41	47
92	94	Australia	Marc Leishman	1.34	53.60	-14.95	4.40	40
93	92	England	Jordan Smith	1.33	68.92	-10.41	2.91	52
94	93	Scotland	Robert MacIntyre	1.32	68.54	-14.46	3.02	53
95	99	England	Danny Willett	1.31	68.36	-11.32	10.16	54
96	95	United States	Gary Woodland	1.31	63.07	-11.45	11.97	48
97	89	United States	Joel Dahmen	1.30	65.24	-10.97	2.51	50
98	90	United States	Brooks Koepka	1.30	52.16	-23.87	0.64	30
99	96	United States	Luke List	1.30	67.62	-12.35	10.01	57
100	100	India	Anirban Lahiri	1.29	54.00	-9.25	2.44	42
101	97	Australia	Cameron Davis	1.28	66.57	-14.67	1.54	53
102	110	United States	Justin Suh	1.27	61.04	-5.39	16.46	48
103	104	Argentina	Emiliano Grillo	1.26	65.76	-14.11	4.10	55
104	101	Colombia	Sebastian Munoz	1.24	64.74	-14.44	2.35	53
105	102	England	Richard Bland	1.24	53.27	-12.34	8.12	43
106	108	England	Benjamin Taylor	1.24	64.23	-4.91	17.85	52
107	106	United States	Hayden Buckley	1.22	63.23	-6.31	26.57	63
108	111	Denmark	Rasmus Hojgaard	1.21	59.45	-9.88	4.87	49
109	112	United States	Taylor Moore	1.21	63.06	-11.86	16.53	59
110	107	South Africa	Oliver Bekker	1.21	62.73	-9.08	6.96	64
111	109	Germany	Yannik Paul	1.20	62.40	-6.98	16.11	57
112	113	United States	Matthew NeSmith	1.20	62.32	-9.70	2.64	55
113	105	United States	Alex Smalley	1.19	62.07	-7.14	5.08	52
114	114	Canada	Taylor Pendrith	1.15	57.59	-7.79	8.19	50
115	116	United States	Brandon Wu	1.15	59.76	-5.75	21.45	60
116	118	United States	Wyndham Clark	1.14	59.52	-5.80	16.29	57
117	115	Zimbabwe	Scott Vincent	1.14	53.71	-10.73	1.67	47
118	121	United States	Robby Shelton IV	1.12	58.32	-5.01	15.11	59
119	117	United States	Troy Merritt	1.09	56.58	-12.19	0.51	57
120	118	United States	Brendan Steele	1.09	46.68	-9.40	6.06	43
121	120	South Africa	Erik van Rooyen	1.08	51.98	-12.16	10.61	48
122	123	Japan	Rikuya Hoshino	1.07	55.42	-10.47	3.16	53
123	151	Italy	Francesco Molinari	1.06	42.34	-6.85	11.43	40
124	126	Japan	Takumi Kanaya	1.06	52.82	-9.74	14.39	50
125	125	United States	Lucas Glover	1.05	54.78	-12.28	2.28	54
126	124	Australia	Matt Jones	1.05	42.00	-13.14	2.37	39
127	122	United States	Bryson DeChambeau	1.04	41.43	-21.52	-	27
128	127	England	Aaron Rai	1.03	53.59	-9.07	7.80	61
129	128	United States	William Gordon	1.03	53.35	-5.77	3.48	56
130	133	Korea; Republic of	Seonghyeon Kim	1.01	52.50	-8.17	12.59	54
131	129	England	Sam Horsfield	0.99	39.71	-9.23	0.43	36
132	135	Venezuela	Jhonattan Vegas	0.99	43.57	-11.40	8.85	44
133	130	Denmark	Nicolai Hojgaard	0.99	51.48	-10.57	9.14	55
134	131	United States	Beau Hossler	0.99	51.40	-6.94	11.29	53
135	145	United States	Adam Schenk	0.98	51.14	-9.23	13.43	64
136	134	Japan	Yuki Inamori	0.98	50.80	-9.19	0.36	55
137	132	Spain	Sergio Garcia	0.97	38.86	-12.46	3.89	34
138	139	France	Antoine Rozner	0.97	50.50	-9.10	6.76	55
139	137	Sweden	Alexander Bjork	0.97	44.52	-7.23	13.57	46
140	138	United States	Chez Reavie	0.97	50.30	-8.53	2.71	56
141	140	United States	Patrick Rodgers	0.96	50.15	-7.12	5.71	62
142	136	United States	Hudson Swafford	0.96	39.47	-9.75	-	41
143	142	Austria	Bernd Wiesberger	0.95	37.84	-10.35	3.92	39
144	141	Japan	Yuto Katsuragawa	0.94	46.25	-6.60	0.75	49
145	146	South Africa	Ockie Strydom	0.94	48.79	-2.96	16.86	54
146	144	Sweden	Sebastian Soderberg	0.94	48.66	-5.99	12.97	56
147	147	Germany	Stephan Jaeger	0.93	48.37	-10.30	9.52	62
148	149	England	Ian Poulter	0.93	38.86	-11.68	6.89	42
149	143	China	Yechun Carl Yuan	0.92	43.43	-7.29	2.22	47
150	150	Australia	Brad Kennedy	0.92	37.70	-5.99	0.17	41
151	148	Japan	Shugo Imahira	0.92	46.67	-8.73	-	51
152	174	United States	Webb Simpson	0.91	37.41	-11.39	4.74	41
153	152	United States	Lee Hodges	0.91	47.30	-6.02	7.86	61
154	154	England	Callum Tarren	0.91	47.22	-4.98	2.74	61
155	153	Korea; Republic of	Bio Kim	0.90	45.22	-7.43	1.92	50
156	155	Scotland	Ewen Ferguson	0.90	46.86	-8.81	1.99	60
157	159	United States	Sam Ryder	0.90	46.74	-6.13	19.68	60
158	158	United States	Kevin Streelman	0.89	46.19	-11.94	2.70	56
159	157	South Africa	MJ Daffue	0.88	38.94	-4.39	3.51	44
160	156	Japan	Mikumu Horikawa	0.88	46.00	-6.76	0.47	52
161	169	United States	David Lipsky	0.88	45.65	-8.05	11.53	57
162	161	Germany	Marcel Schneider	0.88	45.60	-7.28	7.34	54
163	160	Italy	Guido Migliozzi	0.88	45.53	-12.51	1.51	56
164	162	China	Haotong Li	0.87	34.88	-5.21	-	38
165	164	Taiwan (Chinese Taipei)	Chun-an Yu	0.87	40.10	-4.48	8.98	46
166	163	Scotland	Richie Ramsay	0.87	45.29	-6.60	1.18	53
167	165	South Africa	Dylan Frittelli	0.87	45.04	-7.62	8.61	62
168	168	United States	Mark Hubbard	0.86	44.74	-7.05	2.92	59
169	167	Japan	Tomoharu Otsuki	0.86	44.58	-8.70	0.30	54
170	170	Sweden	Henrik Stenson	0.86	34.27	-5.93	6.71	38
171	166	South Africa	Shaun Norris	0.85	44.45	-10.90	1.20	53
172	173	United States	Tyson Alexander	0.85	44.17	-4.88	2.63	54
173	171	United States	Matthew Wolff	0.84	33.77	-8.54	3.30	27
174	177	United States	Paul Haley-II	0.84	43.80	-7.16	2.35	56
175	175	France	Matthieu Pavon	0.84	43.69	-6.46	6.98	56
176	172	South Africa	Garrick Higgo	0.84	43.56	-16.09	9.97	59
176	176	England	Daniel Gavins	0.84	43.56	-6.36	19.33	61
178	179	United States	Eric Cole	0.83	43.37	-2.66	24.20	58
179	178	Thailand	Phachara Khongwatmai	0.83	33.00	-5.65	2.63	29
180	180	England	Paul Waring(Feb1985)	0.82	32.92	-3.42	3.26	40
181	186	United States	Chan Kim	0.82	40.23	-7.90	1.67	49
182	185	United States	Cameron Champ	0.82	36.12	-8.71	1.80	44
183	182	United States	Joseph Bramlett	0.82	42.59	-7.42	12.19	62
184	237	United States	Pierceson Coody	0.82	32.63	-1.99	17.22	19
185	183	United States	John Huh	0.82	39.95	-6.11	-	49
186	186	United States	Nick Hardy	0.81	42.09	-6.42	3.59	55
187	184	England	Laurie Canter	0.81	32.37	-7.03	0.64	39
188	189	Japan	Kaito Onishi	0.80	35.96	-4.93	0.19	45
189	190	Korea; Republic of	Byeong Hun An	0.80	41.46	-5.32	8.93	55
190	195	Sweden	David Lingmerth	0.80	41.39	-4.01	5.50	52
191	188	South Africa	Charl Schwartzel	0.80	31.83	-8.60	3.06	38
192	191	England	Richard Mansell	0.79	38.70	-4.55	5.62	49
193	181	United States	Stewart Cink	0.79	39.38	-13.22	4.66	50
194	197	United States	Lanto Griffin	0.79	33.76	-8.92	2.32	43
195	202	United States	Ryan Palmer	0.78	35.16	-9.62	5.35	45
196	193	Japan	Ryosuke Kinoshita	0.78	40.58	-9.92	2.55	55
197	194	Germany	Hurly Long	0.78	40.49	-7.02	0.72	61
198	192	United States	Bubba Watson	0.78	31.04	-8.80	-	23
199	196	Spain	Rafa Cabrera Bello	0.78	40.31	-7.09	7.85	56
200	198	Japan	Ryo Hisatsune	0.77	40.22	-5.31	4.14	54

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Updated: March 6, 2023

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