Official World Golf Ranking 09/2025

Week 09 – 03/03/2025

The Editorial Team|March 3, 2025

Joe Highsmith has won the Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches, Jacob Bridgeman came second, J.J. Spaun third and Max McGreevy tied for fourth alongside Ben Griffin.

Highsmith moves up to 59 from 170 this week, Bridgeman to 112 from 205, Spaun to 56 from 81, McGreevy to 81 from 93 and Griffin up nine places to 48.

Dylan Naidoo has won the Investec South African Open Championship in a playoff, Laurie Canter came second, Marco Penge third and Darren Fichardt, Branden Grace and Christiaan Maas tied for fourth place.

Naidoo moves up to 246 from 466, Canter up eleven places to 42, Penge to 344 from 445, Fichardt to 376 from 448, Grace to 392 from 526 and Maas to 843 from 2351.

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Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches R4

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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	14.50	579.87	-109.39	34.06
2	3	Northern Ireland	Rory McIlroy	8.43	387.56	-61.86	88.72
3	2	United States	Xander Schauffele	8.41	336.44	-61.80	1.47
4	4	Sweden	Ludvig Aberg	6.35	260.54	-31.79	79.64
5	5	United States	Collin Morikawa	5.69	238.90	-37.46	38.18
6	6	Japan	Hideki Matsuyama	5.60	251.78	-31.65	70.92
7	7	United States	Wyndham Clark	3.88	178.64	-44.77	9.65
8	9	United States	Justin Thomas	3.68	158.08	-18.48	51.86
9	8	England	Tyrrell Hatton	3.59	143.68	-27.11	38.36
10	10	England	Tommy Fleetwood	3.59	179.38	-34.37	16.54
11	11	United States	Bryson DeChambeau	3.49	139.51	-20.65	9.39
12	13	United States	Maverick McNealy	3.47	152.79	-9.20	57.64
13	12	United States	Patrick Cantlay	3.46	138.28	-30.25	27.76
14	17	United States	Russell Henley	3.42	140.21	-23.75	31.43
15	14	Norway	Viktor Hovland	3.39	135.48	-41.83	3.60
16	15	United States	Keegan Bradley	3.36	147.62	-27.22	16.88
17	18	Ireland	Shane Lowry	3.31	159.04	-20.18	47.77
18	19	Austria	Sepp Straka	3.28	170.81	-22.89	77.36
19	16	Scotland	Robert MacIntyre	3.27	170.20	-23.78	18.47
20	20	United States	Billy Horschel	3.10	158.04	-21.65	14.26
21	21	United States	Sahith Theegala	3.09	157.68	-30.05	9.03
22	22	Korea; Republic of	Sungjae Im	2.95	153.55	-24.81	35.34
23	23	Belgium	Thomas Detry	2.85	148.29	-13.75	74.85
24	26	Australia	Adam Scott	2.75	131.96	-21.47	8.22
25	24	England	Aaron Rai	2.72	141.69	-21.16	14.05
26	25	Korea; Republic of	Tom Kim	2.69	140.10	-24.19	13.98
27	27	United States	Tony Finau	2.69	118.45	-21.45	20.87
28	28	United States	Sam Burns	2.66	119.67	-25.30	14.81
29	30	Canada	Nick Taylor	2.64	132.03	-17.86	71.43
30	29	United States	Akshay Bhatia	2.58	134.26	-19.40	20.44
31	31	United States	Nick Dunlap	2.41	96.38	-12.34	12.68
32	32	Korea; Republic of	Byeong Hun An	2.37	111.42	-20.91	4.42
33	34	United States	Harris English	2.35	108.16	-16.51	52.56
34	33	Australia	Jason Day	2.35	98.51	-21.39	26.93
35	35	United States	Max Greyserman	2.29	118.90	-13.10	20.25
36	38	England	Justin Rose	2.25	99.05	-17.44	23.64
37	37	United States	Brian Harman	2.23	115.82	-28.19	11.83
38	36	United States	Denny McCarthy	2.19	100.75	-19.98	22.81
39	39	United States	J.T. Poston	2.19	111.53	-18.01	12.27
40	40	Canada	Taylor Pendrith	2.18	113.34	-14.73	23.32
41	43	France	Matthieu Pavon	2.13	110.91	-20.18	3.76
42	53	England	Laurie Canter	2.13	85.08	-5.40	49.10
43	42	Germany	Stephan Jaeger	2.12	110.17	-16.04	26.20
44	41	United States	Lucas Glover	2.11	109.90	-19.63	28.09
45	44	United States	Austin Eckroat	2.10	109.09	-16.05	8.89
46	45	Denmark	Rasmus Hojgaard	2.09	104.67	-13.25	13.60
47	46	Colombia	Nicolas Echavarria	2.09	108.42	-7.05	32.27
48	57	United States	Ben Griffin	2.05	106.76	-12.07	34.07
49	49	Australia	Cameron Davis	2.05	104.32	-18.53	22.61
50	50	Canada	Corey Conners	2.04	93.68	-19.47	12.88
51	48	United States	Davis Thompson	2.02	103.25	-14.76	10.05
52	47	United States	Cameron Young	2.02	94.82	-21.73	12.76
53	52	United States	Daniel Berger	2.00	79.92	-3.07	41.69
54	51	South Africa	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	1.98	102.74	-15.31	20.51
55	55	Australia	Min Woo Lee	1.97	98.45	-18.31	19.31
56	81	United States	J.J. Spaun	1.88	97.98	-8.56	50.53
57	56	United States	Matt McCarty	1.84	95.52	-12.08	2.21
58	54	Spain	Jon Rahm	1.84	73.42	-35.37	-
59	170	United States	Joe Highsmith	1.78	85.44	-4.82	51.79
60	61	Sweden	Alex Noren	1.75	78.75	-14.31	-
61	60	England	Matt Fitzpatrick	1.73	84.99	-26.15	3.61
62	58	United States	Eric Cole	1.73	90.14	-19.80	15.57
63	59	South Africa	Thriston Lawrence	1.73	90.03	-17.32	0.48
64	70	United States	Jordan Spieth	1.71	71.90	-20.65	23.12
65	62	Venezuela	Jhonattan Vegas	1.71	68.33	-6.76	17.80
66	63	United States	Max Homa	1.68	77.49	-24.64	2.33
67	64	Canada	Mackenzie Hughes	1.66	86.10	-13.52	4.52
68	79	United States	Michael Kim	1.64	85.52	-8.03	48.58
69	68	Denmark	Nicolai Hojgaard	1.64	85.49	-17.22	10.86
70	66	United States	Will Zalatoris	1.64	65.60	-10.72	10.05
71	65	Korea; Republic of	Si Woo Kim	1.64	85.22	-16.88	15.44
72	73	United States	Patrick Rodgers	1.61	83.51	-11.80	31.32
73	67	United States	Tom Hoge	1.60	83.37	-15.41	15.13
74	69	Canada	Adam Hadwin	1.60	76.65	-15.23	10.83
75	72	United States	Chris Kirk	1.57	73.93	-18.34	3.69
76	71	Taiwan (Chinese Taipei)	Chun-an Yu	1.57	73.92	-9.24	10.42
77	74	Chile	Joaquin Niemann	1.53	61.22	-6.34	5.47
78	75	England	Matt Wallace	1.52	78.97	-11.32	2.65
79	76	United States	Samuel Stevens	1.51	78.33	-10.67	38.73
80	77	United States	Andrew Novak	1.50	78.01	-7.16	30.77
81	93	United States	Max McGreevy	1.49	77.53	-7.44	14.76
82	78	United States	Taylor Moore	1.49	77.43	-15.78	22.31
83	80	Denmark	Thorbjorn Olesen	1.45	75.52	-12.40	3.20
84	87	South Africa	Erik van Rooyen	1.43	74.30	-12.34	10.69
85	82	United States	Beau Hossler	1.42	73.61	-12.03	13.06
86	83	Spain	David Puig	1.36	54.59	-6.64	14.17
87	84	United States	Justin Lower	1.36	70.58	-7.05	19.70
88	85	Denmark	Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen	1.34	61.41	-5.97	16.38
89	99	United States	Jake Knapp	1.33	69.12	-10.25	19.32
90	90	Denmark	Niklas Norgaard	1.32	68.67	-7.91	12.79
91	86	United States	Lee Hodges	1.32	68.49	-12.11	16.11
92	94	United States	Luke Clanton(Am)	1.32	52.64	-4.07	6.82
93	91	England	John Parry	1.30	67.40	-4.60	10.65
94	88	England	Harry Hall	1.28	66.46	-8.82	16.23
95	95	United States	Rickie Fowler	1.26	58.12	-17.65	7.68
96	96	France	Victor Perez	1.26	65.55	-11.41	5.44
97	92	France	Romain Langasque	1.26	65.36	-11.38	1.85
98	89	United States	Kurt Kitayama	1.25	53.75	-16.94	3.80
99	105	United States	Doug Ghim	1.25	64.76	-8.95	9.89
100	101	United States	Charley Hoffman	1.21	57.01	-7.67	16.60
101	100	United States	Keith Mitchell	1.21	60.26	-11.53	10.75
102	97	United States	Brian Campbell	1.20	62.58	-4.59	33.89
103	106	South Africa	Shaun Norris	1.19	61.85	-3.54	11.35
104	98	Australia	Cameron Smith	1.19	47.43	-8.50	-
105	108	Sweden	Jesper Svensson	1.17	60.69	-8.59	9.21
106	102	Italy	Matteo Manassero	1.16	60.19	-8.63	4.16
107	104	England	Jordan Smith	1.15	59.70	-10.34	2.52
108	103	New Zealand	Ryan Fox	1.14	59.33	-14.27	6.13
109	109	South Africa	Aldrich Potgieter	1.13	45.37	-2.14	22.58
110	107	Japan	Kensei Hirata	1.13	58.98	-8.52	10.57
111	113	United States	Patrick Fishburn	1.12	58.30	-6.85	9.64
112	205	United States	Jacob Bridgeman	1.12	58.27	-5.70	28.43
113	110	Japan	Ryo Hisatsune	1.11	57.98	-10.53	6.18
114	118	Germany	Matti Schmid	1.11	57.70	-8.87	5.60
115	111	United States	Adam Schenk	1.10	57.28	-15.27	13.72
116	112	United States	Mark Hubbard	1.10	57.03	-12.53	8.32
117	116	Spain	Jorge Campillo	1.09	56.50	-8.04	3.57
118	115	Northern Ireland	Tom McKibbin	1.08	56.13	-8.54	6.53
119	114	England	Paul Waring	1.07	55.85	-5.52	-
120	119	Ireland	Seamus Power	1.05	51.67	-8.03	8.77
121	120	United States	Patrick Reed	1.04	41.67	-7.37	7.86
122	117	Taiwan (Chinese Taipei)	C.T. Pan	1.03	42.41	-7.05	3.98
123	126	United States	Vincent Whaley	1.02	49.17	-5.72	5.04
124	121	United States	Patton Kizzire	1.02	52.08	-7.78	0.83
125	122	France	Julien Guerrier	1.02	53.02	-7.55	4.25
126	123	England	Matthew Jordan	1.02	52.85	-6.79	4.14
127	124	England	Daniel Brown(Oct1994)	1.02	52.80	-6.53	14.17
128	125	Sweden	Sebastian Soderberg	1.01	49.33	-8.16	7.27
129	137	United States	Alex Smalley	1.00	52.12	-7.55	21.44
130	134	Philippines	Richard Hoey	0.99	51.64	-9.16	3.87
131	146	United States	Andrew Putnam	0.99	51.43	-9.92	12.72
132	127	United States	Johannes Veerman	0.99	51.28	-4.22	2.98
133	129	United States	Matt Kuchar	0.98	47.13	-10.40	4.95
134	128	Argentina	Emiliano Grillo	0.98	49.87	-16.18	0.94
135	130	France	Antoine Rozner	0.98	50.75	-6.75	8.56
136	131	United States	John Catlin	0.97	47.55	-6.56	1.41
137	132	South Africa	Dean Burmester	0.97	38.79	-5.51	0.53
138	138	New Zealand	Daniel Hillier	0.96	49.69	-6.20	23.40
139	135	England	Joe Dean	0.95	37.94	-3.79	7.90
140	133	United States	Brendon Todd	0.95	48.28	-12.15	-
141	142	United States	Davis Riley	0.94	49.02	-9.06	1.15
142	139	Italy	Guido Migliozzi	0.94	48.82	-6.54	5.33
143	136	Japan	Keita Nakajima	0.94	45.82	-8.84	2.57
144	140	United States	Luke List	0.93	48.17	-10.12	3.39
145	141	United States	Ben Kohles	0.92	47.95	-9.82	5.30
146	144	United States	Peter Uihlein	0.91	36.27	-2.84	-
147	143	United States	Frankie Capan	0.91	46.21	-6.24	7.75
148	167	Korea; Republic of	Seonghyeon Kim	0.91	47.08	-6.64	15.81
149	145	Canada	Adam Svensson	0.90	46.88	-9.27	4.65
150	149	New Zealand	Ben Campbell	0.89	35.46	-4.03	0.13
151	147	United States	Peter Malnati	0.89	46.02	-8.39	1.70
152	148	Korea; Republic of	Yubin Jang	0.88	35.32	-4.78	-
153	150	United States	Hayden Springer	0.88	36.16	-3.85	10.64
154	153	China	Haotong Li	0.87	41.85	-2.41	24.76
155	151	Scotland	Ewen Ferguson	0.87	45.27	-8.35	3.09
156	152	United States	Carson Young	0.86	44.49	-7.40	3.17
157	158	Spain	Alejandro del Rey	0.84	43.79	-3.91	23.94
158	161	United States	John Keefer	0.84	33.50	-2.68	11.09
159	155	Japan	Takumi Kanaya	0.84	43.50	-8.93	1.35
160	165	United States	Chan Kim	0.83	43.34	-7.99	6.58
161	162	United States	Greyson Sigg	0.83	43.18	-5.49	11.93
162	154	United States	McClure Meissner	0.83	41.41	-6.29	4.32
163	188	United States	Brice Garnett	0.83	33.94	-4.45	10.33
164	157	Korea; Republic of	Kyoung-Hoon Lee	0.81	42.36	-9.10	6.81
165	163	South Africa	Daniel van Tonder	0.81	42.35	-2.69	28.95
166	159	United States	Chandler Phillips	0.81	41.86	-6.41	3.02
167	169	Finland	Sami Valimaki	0.80	41.66	-8.00	5.86
168	166	United States	Pierceson Coody	0.80	41.63	-6.02	12.20
169	168	Japan	Rikuya Hoshino	0.80	41.62	-8.61	2.60
170	164	United States	David Lipsky	0.80	41.60	-6.08	1.58
171	160	Canada	Ben Silverman	0.80	36.75	-6.94	5.32
172	156	United States	Brooks Koepka	0.80	31.88	-17.70	-
173	182	United States	Joel Dahmen	0.76	39.77	-4.47	14.06
174	171	United States	Steven Fisk	0.76	37.83	-5.54	2.84
175	179	United States	Isaiah Salinda	0.76	37.82	-4.07	15.87
176	173	United States	Harry Higgs	0.75	36.98	-5.44	2.84
177	184	England	Sam Bairstow	0.75	39.17	-4.73	7.24
178	189	United States	Ryan Gerard	0.75	38.96	-5.73	10.88
179	172	Poland	Adrian Meronk	0.75	29.95	-10.33	-
180	174	United States	Gary Woodland	0.75	32.83	-6.68	10.07
181	175	France	Frederic LaCroix	0.74	38.59	-6.06	1.30
182	287	United States	Justin Suh	0.74	38.55	-7.87	16.93
183	178	Spain	Angel Ayora	0.74	29.62	-2.17	3.68
184	177	England	Dan Bradbury	0.73	38.22	-5.67	1.61
185	183	France	David Ravetto	0.73	38.08	-5.08	4.43
186	180	Puerto Rico	Rafael Campos	0.73	37.94	-4.63	1.14
187	176	Sweden	Tim Widing	0.72	36.19	-6.61	-
188	181	United States	Zac Blair	0.72	33.22	-7.73	1.92
189	199	United States	Michael Thorbjornsen	0.72	28.88	-3.11	2.27
190	186	Spain	Angel Hidalgo Portillo	0.71	36.77	-4.93	0.99
191	185	England	Alex Fitzpatrick	0.71	36.74	-6.94	0.94
192	187	United States	William Mouw	0.71	28.22	-4.16	0.61
193	190	Argentina	Alejandro Tosti	0.70	36.56	-7.89	5.48
194	191	Norway	Kristoffer Ventura	0.70	34.42	-2.93	17.62
195	194	United States	Sam Ryder	0.70	36.25	-7.58	10.21
196	197	Australia	David Micheluzzi	0.69	32.57	-3.85	6.98
197	192	Japan	Yuta Sugiura	0.69	27.64	-3.92	-
198	193	Spain	Nacho Elvira	0.69	35.85	-5.87	3.26
199	198	Sweden	Henrik Norlander	0.68	35.45	-4.86	4.83
200	196	Sweden	Alexander Bjork	0.68	28.50	-7.75	4.87

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Updated: March 3, 2025

Official World Golf Ranking 09/2025

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