Official World Golf Ranking 11/2026 - Golf Today

Week 11 – 15/03/2026

Simon Bale|March 16, 2026

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

Cameron Young has won The Players Championship, Matt Fitzpatrick came second, Xander Schauffele third, Robert MacIntyre fourth and Jacob Bridgeman tied for fifth place with Ludvig Åberg and Sudarshan Yellamaraju.

Young moves up eleven places to number 4 this week, Fitzpatrick up nine to 15, Schauffele up three to number 7, MacIntyre down one place to number 9, Bridgeman up two to 20, Åberg up four to 17 and Yellamaraju to 145 from 216.

Related: Cameron Young wins second PGA Tour title

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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	15.65	641.74	-158.76	115.54
2	2	Northern Ireland	Rory McIlroy	8.41	395.05	-89.95	48.28
3	3	England	Tommy Fleetwood	5.39	274.80	-49.90	41.69
4	15	United States	Cameron Young	5.35	251.32	-31.12	121.54
5	5	England	Justin Rose	4.94	217.27	-32.56	69.01
6	4	United States	Collin Morikawa	4.93	206.86	-43.35	96.84
7	10	United States	Xander Schauffele	4.79	191.67	-63.46	49.05
8	6	United States	Russell Henley	4.74	189.50	-40.72	33.87
9	8	Scotland	Robert MacIntyre	4.60	239.25	-48.28	46.19
10	7	United States	Chris Gotterup	4.59	238.50	-22.37	123.59
11	9	Austria	Sepp Straka	4.37	209.75	-36.61	56.26
12	11	United States	J.J. Spaun	4.13	214.80	-39.91	6.66
13	12	Japan	Hideki Matsuyama	4.11	197.18	-41.52	60.18
14	14	United States	Justin Thomas	4.06	162.41	-38.74	12.00
15	24	England	Matt Fitzpatrick	4.01	192.57	-24.28	66.70
16	13	United States	Ben Griffin	3.98	207.07	-40.73	11.46
17	21	Sweden	Ludvig Aberg	3.71	163.38	-40.97	44.35
18	18	Norway	Viktor Hovland	3.62	144.86	-30.37	24.05
19	17	Sweden	Alex Noren	3.60	143.96	-25.80	13.48
20	22	United States	Jacob Bridgeman	3.60	187.11	-15.20	121.09
21	16	United States	Harris English	3.55	173.77	-33.15	16.90
22	19	United States	Akshay Bhatia	3.50	181.91	-29.45	108.20
23	20	United States	Patrick Reed	3.39	135.74	-14.54	70.03
24	23	United States	Keegan Bradley	3.13	137.54	-34.35	5.45
25	25	United States	Maverick McNealy	2.96	154.08	-32.76	26.69
26	27	United States	Ryan Gerard	2.94	152.79	-18.80	67.68
27	26	England	Tyrrell Hatton	2.90	115.99	-24.60	10.31
28	28	South Korea	Si Woo Kim	2.88	149.75	-20.19	67.94
29	29	Ireland	Shane Lowry	2.79	145.23	-32.98	34.16
30	30	Australia	Min Woo Lee	2.78	136.32	-21.15	59.32
31	32	United States	Sam Burns	2.73	128.19	-28.06	21.79
32	31	United States	Kurt Kitayama	2.68	120.79	-17.55	42.46
33	41	United States	Bryson DeChambeau	2.68	107.14	-31.83	29.99
34	36	Spain	Jon Rahm	2.58	103.15	-12.41	54.90
35	33	United States	Patrick Cantlay	2.56	102.50	-26.91	15.98
36	34	United States	Daniel Berger	2.45	124.87	-16.74	56.64
37	37	Colombia	Nicolas Echavarria	2.43	126.39	-18.88	46.44
38	35	England	Aaron Rai	2.42	126.06	-30.43	4.89
39	38	England	Marco Penge	2.33	121.41	-17.86	4.76
40	39	Canada	Corey Conners	2.29	105.54	-25.88	12.02
41	40	Australia	Jason Day	2.19	87.46	-17.73	31.02
42	42	United States	Jake Knapp	2.14	94.11	-14.74	48.45
43	43	United States	Matt McCarty	2.10	109.22	-20.94	34.02
44	45	United States	Michael Brennan	2.10	83.83	-10.23	5.18
45	44	New Zealand	Ryan Fox	2.08	108.33	-19.18	18.93
46	46	Norway	Kristoffer Reitan	2.07	107.73	-13.69	7.79
47	52	Denmark	Nicolai Hojgaard	2.05	106.66	-14.73	38.73
48	58	United States	Brian Harman	2.04	104.15	-25.24	15.74
49	47	United States	Andrew Novak	2.04	106.05	-21.71	12.11
50	50	Australia	Adam Scott	2.04	97.72	-21.63	35.61
51	49	United States	Samuel Stevens	2.03	105.71	-19.21	25.19
52	48	United States	Pierceson Coody	2.01	104.27	-13.61	46.34
53	51	Denmark	Rasmus Hojgaard	1.95	97.54	-20.11	12.01
54	53	Finland	Sami Valimaki	1.94	100.82	-13.53	4.66
55	59	United States	Michael Thorbjornsen	1.93	82.96	-10.73	25.72
56	54	United States	Max Greyserman	1.92	99.87	-24.67	8.71
57	55	United States	Michael Kim	1.92	99.83	-19.45	7.36
58	57	South Africa	Jayden Schaper	1.88	97.86	-8.16	14.17
59	60	United States	Rickie Fowler	1.88	78.76	-12.34	25.28
60	56	England	Harry Hall	1.87	97.29	-17.85	22.67
61	65	Japan	Ryo Hisatsune	1.81	94.17	-12.74	51.39
62	62	Canada	Nick Taylor	1.80	89.94	-21.02	18.21
63	61	Belgium	Thomas Detry	1.79	93.06	-22.43	19.81
64	64	United States	Jordan Spieth	1.75	73.42	-13.76	20.79
65	63	Denmark	Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen	1.74	90.35	-16.23	6.67
66	66	Canada	Taylor Pendrith	1.67	82.01	-23.10	13.73
67	68	United States	Wyndham Clark	1.67	78.55	-29.76	13.14
68	70	United States	J.T. Poston	1.65	77.57	-19.67	7.43
69	69	South Africa	Casey Jarvis	1.64	85.35	-5.36	55.29
70	85	United States	Patrick Rodgers	1.63	84.82	-13.31	38.47
71	72	United States	Max McGreevy	1.61	83.88	-16.17	11.45
72	67	United States	John Keefer	1.61	72.29	-12.95	6.96
73	76	United States	Sahith Theegala	1.59	76.09	-21.58	42.04
74	73	Australia	Elvis Smylie	1.57	64.56	-6.89	25.68
75	71	South Africa	Aldrich Potgieter	1.56	79.42	-12.61	15.63
76	74	South Africa	Garrick Higgo	1.56	69.99	-11.61	1.36
77	75	China	Haotong Li	1.55	80.82	-12.16	17.38
78	77	England	Daniel Brown(Oct1994)	1.53	73.38	-13.24	6.51
79	81	United States	Bud Cauley	1.53	65.63	-11.85	11.04
80	80	Philippines	Richard Hoey	1.52	78.81	-14.48	6.02
81	78	United States	Lucas Glover	1.50	69.04	-18.74	2.53
82	79	South Korea	Sungjae Im	1.49	77.39	-27.13	-
83	82	United States	Billy Horschel	1.49	63.97	-25.49	9.95
84	83	England	John Parry	1.46	75.98	-15.05	11.28
85	84	Spain	David Puig	1.46	58.39	-8.52	18.98
86	90	Germany	Matti Schmid	1.46	75.67	-13.90	13.45
87	86	New Zealand	Daniel Hillier	1.45	75.42	-7.84	31.79
88	100	United States	Austin Smotherman	1.45	75.40	-9.18	31.71
89	87	South Africa	Thriston Lawrence	1.43	74.26	-18.69	3.22
90	95	United States	Ricky Castillo	1.41	73.45	-6.47	36.93
91	89	South Africa	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	1.41	73.42	-17.91	9.11
92	99	United States	Chris Kirk	1.40	63.18	-14.90	5.13
93	92	France	Adrien Saddier	1.40	72.91	-13.05	2.22
94	88	England	Laurie Canter	1.39	61.11	-13.29	1.21
95	93	England	Jordan Smith	1.38	71.95	-14.43	10.31
96	94	United States	Denny McCarthy	1.37	63.08	-19.74	5.09
97	91	Northern Ireland	Tom McKibbin	1.36	55.94	-11.59	2.33
98	97	England	Matt Wallace	1.36	70.59	-17.96	5.67
99	96	United States	Brian Campbell	1.35	67.31	-15.12	1.07
100	98	United States	Tom Hoge	1.33	69.27	-17.83	16.52
101	103	Spain	Angel Ayora	1.26	65.45	-8.95	13.58
102	102	Denmark	Thorbjorn Olesen	1.26	65.44	-13.85	8.21
103	104	United States	Tony Finau	1.25	53.62	-19.27	13.25
104	101	Venezuela	Jhonattan Vegas	1.25	56.08	-14.78	4.72
105	105	United States	Chandler Blanchet	1.24	58.31	-7.38	13.28
106	108	United States	Ian Holt	1.23	50.49	-3.17	36.75
107	109	Germany	Stephan Jaeger	1.22	62.43	-19.07	16.36
108	114	United States	Keith Mitchell	1.22	62.42	-12.32	20.83
109	107	United States	Davis Riley	1.21	63.03	-16.30	9.51
110	112	England	Andy Sullivan	1.21	62.87	-8.52	20.01
111	106	United States	McClure Meissner	1.20	61.10	-12.74	7.54
112	123	United States	Alex Smalley	1.19	62.10	-10.23	14.09
113	111	United States	Davis Thompson	1.19	61.94	-19.94	9.64
114	110	Canada	Mackenzie Hughes	1.19	61.93	-18.42	6.82
115	113	Argentina	Emiliano Grillo	1.19	59.31	-12.76	2.85
116	122	United States	Andrew Putnam	1.19	60.48	-8.86	29.13
117	121	United States	Eric Cole	1.18	61.20	-13.08	9.98
118	126	United States	William Mouw	1.17	55.06	-9.72	11.35
119	115	Taiwan (Chinese Taipei)	Chun-an Yu	1.17	60.64	-14.91	-
120	116	South Africa	Shaun Norris	1.16	60.43	-11.33	1.65
121	117	Spain	Nacho Elvira	1.15	59.88	-7.10	28.55
122	118	Japan	Keita Nakajima	1.13	53.15	-11.68	1.40
123	119	South Korea	Byeong Hun An	1.12	54.98	-18.84	2.76
124	120	United States	Vincent Whaley	1.12	58.25	-12.03	2.42
125	125	England	Dan Bradbury	1.11	57.69	-6.43	22.34
126	127	Japan	Takumi Kanaya	1.11	57.65	-9.60	6.16
127	124	South Korea	Tom Kim	1.09	56.71	-18.96	7.92
128	129	Scotland	Calum Hill	1.08	56.24	-7.77	24.43
129	128	United States	Steven Fisk	1.08	54.82	-12.53	2.73
130	130	Japan	Kazuki Higa	1.07	55.71	-8.73	0.69
131	132	United States	Joe Highsmith	1.07	55.53	-12.76	4.62
132	131	Denmark	Jacob Skov Olesen	1.05	43.93	-4.84	12.81
133	133	United States	Lee Hodges	1.04	50.91	-10.88	10.09
134	138	United States	Kevin Roy	1.02	53.26	-9.66	13.34
135	135	Sweden	Joakim Lagergren	1.02	52.83	-9.19	3.37
136	134	United States	Neal Shipley	1.01	48.64	-10.29	0.67
137	136	France	Martin Couvra	1.01	52.47	-8.65	6.01
138	140	United States	Taylor Moore	1.01	52.39	-12.45	20.85
139	137	United States	Peter Uihlein	1.01	40.21	-6.02	15.54
140	139	United States	Mark Hubbard	0.99	51.67	-11.95	3.71
141	142	South Africa	JC Ritchie	0.98	51.08	-6.97	3.18
142	149	United States	Max Homa	0.98	44.97	-13.09	11.51
143	143	Spain	Eugenio Chacarra	0.97	41.67	-6.07	3.56
144	141	United States	Adam Schenk	0.97	50.34	-10.56	6.49
145	216	Canada	Sudarshan Yellamaraju	0.97	48.33	-4.51	26.44
146	155	United States	Chad Ramey	0.95	49.21	-6.71	12.32
147	144	France	Julien Guerrier	0.94	49.01	-7.51	21.31
148	210	Canada	Richard T. Lee	0.93	47.22	-7.85	13.46
149	145	Australia	Karl Vilips	0.93	37.03	-7.79	6.43
150	182	Chile	Joaquin Niemann	0.92	36.93	-9.20	6.50
151	146	South Africa	Erik van Rooyen	0.92	47.91	-14.63	-
152	148	United States	Gary Woodland	0.92	43.11	-9.95	1.46
153	147	United States	Matt Kuchar	0.92	36.64	-8.89	1.66
154	150	United States	David Lipsky	0.90	46.96	-9.87	6.59
155	151	Finland	Oliver Lindell	0.90	46.80	-7.42	10.70
156	152	United States	Beau Hossler	0.88	45.87	-11.22	2.62
157	153	South Korea	Seonghyeon Kim	0.88	45.72	-10.21	11.34
158	156	Australia	Lucas Herbert	0.87	34.86	-4.45	14.85
159	154	United States	Patrick Fishburn	0.87	45.29	-11.64	1.07
160	157	Ireland	Seamus Power	0.87	45.10	-10.07	10.31
161	161	United States	Austin Eckroat	0.85	43.58	-17.57	3.03
162	158	Scotland	Grant Forrest	0.85	42.61	-6.80	7.46
163	159	Belgium	Adrien Dumont de Chassart	0.85	44.13	-7.79	5.92
164	160	Mexico	Carlos Ortiz	0.85	33.93	-6.80	4.14
165	172	United States	Zachary Bauchou	0.84	43.65	-6.34	14.00
166	162	China	Ding Wenyi	0.84	33.45	-3.61	3.53
167	163	United States	Joel Dahmen	0.83	43.37	-7.89	16.46
168	166	Italy	Francesco Laporta	0.83	43.18	-6.18	15.07
169	164	France	Antoine Rozner	0.83	43.05	-8.93	7.70
170	165	United States	Carson Young	0.83	43.05	-8.53	9.10
171	169	South Africa	Hennie Du Plessis	0.82	32.69	-0.83	24.91
172	167	Sweden	Jesper Svensson	0.82	42.44	-11.79	3.81
173	221	United States	Brooks Koepka	0.80	32.18	-4.83	12.77
173	171	England	Marcus Armitage	0.80	41.84	-6.19	9.82
175	198	Spain	Jose Luis Ballester	0.80	32.16	-1.45	3.94
176	168	United States	Chandler Phillips	0.80	41.68	-9.56	5.15
177	173	Spain	Jorge Campillo	0.80	41.56	-9.28	5.63
178	170	France	Victor Perez	0.80	41.34	-13.68	0.41
179	177	United States	Taylor Montgomery	0.79	35.76	-6.61	6.78
180	174	Scotland	Ewen Ferguson	0.79	41.21	-9.24	6.10
181	175	United States	Doug Ghim	0.78	40.74	-10.84	2.67
182	176	Mexico	Emilio Gonzalez	0.78	40.58	-7.35	1.80
183	197	South Africa	Daniel van Tonder	0.77	40.21	-6.25	10.63
184	181	Zimbabwe	Scott Vincent	0.77	30.73	-5.37	-
185	186	New Zealand	Kazuma Kobori	0.77	36.01	-5.93	4.46
186	180	Japan	Kensei Hirata	0.76	39.77	-10.74	3.98
187	178	China	Marty Dou Zecheng	0.76	38.22	-4.92	11.69
188	179	Australia	Cameron Davis	0.76	36.31	-14.64	1.18
189	183	Netherlands	Joost Luiten	0.75	39.24	-7.31	3.43
190	187	United States	Alistair Docherty	0.75	38.24	-5.51	23.32
191	185	South Africa	Jacques Kruyswijk	0.75	38.96	-6.89	5.72
192	184	England	Richard Mansell	0.75	37.43	-8.06	-
193	188	South Africa	Christo Lamprecht	0.74	34.07	-6.00	1.91
194	189	England	Alex Fitzpatrick	0.74	38.30	-6.68	8.85
195	208	South Africa	Dean Burmester	0.73	29.29	-4.54	11.16
196	190	United States	Justin Lower	0.73	37.92	-10.15	2.36
197	193	Japan	Kota Kaneko	0.73	37.78	-5.58	3.54
198	191	Denmark	Niklas Norgaard	0.73	37.74	-11.16	2.00
199	194	United States	Jackson Suber	0.72	35.47	-7.28	4.67
200	195	United States	Doc Redman	0.72	30.31	-3.19	15.40

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Updated: March 16, 2026