Official World Golf Ranking 12/2023

Week 12 – 26/03/2023

The Editorial Team|March 27, 2023

Sam Burns has won the World Golf Championships-Dell Technologies Match Play beating Cameron Young in the final.
Rory McIlroy beat Scottie Scheffler and finished third.

Burns moves up five places to number 10 this week, Young up three to 14, Scheffler stays at number 1 and McIlroy moves up one to number 2.

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Matt Wallace won the Corales Puntacana Championship with a final round 66 for a 19-under, 269 total.
Nicolai Højgaard came second at 18-under, Tyler Duncan and Sam Stevens tied for third at 17-under and Austin Eckroat finished fifth at 16-under.

Wallace moves up to 117 from 175, Højgaard to 118 from 140, Duncan to 191 from 227, Stevens to 278 from 335 and Eckroat to 200 from 224.

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Nick Bachem won the Jonsson Workwear Open with a final round 64 for a 24-under, 264 total.
Hennie Du Plessis and Zander Lombard came second at 20-under and Ewen Ferguson tied for fourth with Ockie Strydom at 19-under.

Bachem moves up to 273 from 464, Du Plessis to 175 from 219, Lombard to 187 from 231, Ferguson up nine places to 130 and Strydom to 133 from 146.

This Week	Last Week	Country	Player	Avg. Points	Total Points	Points Lost (2023)	Points Won (2023)	Events
1	1	United States	Scottie Scheffler	10.41	541.16	-91.99	195.98	52
2	3	Northern Ireland	Rory McIlroy	9.08	408.38	-79.01	89.70	45
3	2	Spain	Jon Rahm	8.95	411.78	-71.06	195.39	46
4	4	United States	Patrick Cantlay	7.13	285.30	-64.39	59.18	40
5	5	Australia	Cameron Smith	5.97	238.89	-63.72	-	34
6	6	United States	Max Homa	5.80	272.60	-41.61	127.04	47
7	7	United States	Xander Schauffele	5.73	257.78	-59.16	50.82	45
8	8	United States	Will Zalatoris	5.24	230.60	-54.35	29.63	44
9	9	Norway	Viktor Hovland	4.99	259.68	-62.59	50.42	52
10	15	United States	Sam Burns	4.91	245.48	-55.82	81.42	50
11	10	United States	Justin Thomas	4.85	223.10	-57.74	37.24	46
12	11	United States	Collin Morikawa	4.74	223.00	-67.63	64.09	47
13	12	United States	Tony Finau	4.54	235.90	-52.89	38.54	53
14	17	United States	Cameron Young	4.42	229.95	-35.03	67.40	55
15	13	England	Matt Fitzpatrick	4.34	225.81	-54.01	16.37	52
16	14	United States	Jordan Spieth	4.02	189.07	-55.44	50.70	47
17	16	England	Tyrrell Hatton	3.84	188.01	-29.15	82.87	49
18	18	Korea; Republic of	Sungjae Im	3.80	197.39	-41.28	52.50	57
19	19	Korea; Republic of	Tom Kim	3.67	183.56	-30.72	26.59	50
20	21	United States	Kurt Kitayama	3.34	173.82	-18.81	82.88	53
21	20	Japan	Hideki Matsuyama	3.19	149.87	-48.16	33.96	47
22	22	United States	Keegan Bradley	3.16	145.36	-26.62	44.86	46
23	23	Ireland	Shane Lowry	3.05	152.72	-38.21	18.68	50
24	24	United States	Billy Horschel	2.95	150.21	-49.01	11.35	51
25	25	United States	Tom Hoge	2.92	151.66	-25.17	52.41	62
26	27	Chile	Joaquin Niemann	2.90	121.59	-36.37	6.10	42
27	26	England	Tommy Fleetwood	2.88	149.89	-30.41	23.70	54
28	28	United States	Brian Harman	2.59	134.46	-31.35	12.36	54
29	29	United States	Sahith Theegala	2.55	132.85	-17.91	37.44	60
30	30	Mexico	Abraham Ancer	2.47	101.44	-38.22	24.42	41
31	31	England	Justin Rose	2.46	98.34	-16.87	54.50	39
32	32	Austria	Sepp Straka	2.45	127.47	-25.68	11.74	62
33	37	Australia	Jason Day	2.45	98.00	-9.90	60.42	40
34	33	United States	Chris Kirk	2.44	122.23	-17.42	68.45	50
35	35	Ireland	Seamus Power	2.43	123.99	-24.51	19.36	51
36	34	New Zealand	Ryan Fox	2.42	123.66	-21.01	18.11	51
37	36	United States	Russell Henley	2.28	104.83	-21.92	12.72	46
38	38	Australia	Adam Scott	2.21	92.62	-22.16	10.38	42
39	39	Korea; Republic of	Si Woo Kim	2.20	114.58	-18.96	57.09	59
40	41	Canada	Corey Conners	2.12	110.17	-32.76	16.33	54
41	40	Korea; Republic of	Kyoung-Hoon Lee	2.08	108.23	-27.66	13.95	56
42	44	Sweden	Alex Noren	2.07	101.44	-23.19	7.71	49
43	42	Belgium	Thomas Pieters	2.05	82.07	-21.61	5.60	38
44	43	United States	Harris English	2.04	87.75	-25.04	43.54	43
45	46	United States	Aaron Wise	2.02	97.15	-22.19	5.86	48
46	45	United States	Keith Mitchell	2.02	103.02	-20.03	36.92	51
47	47	Australia	Min Woo Lee	1.97	96.37	-18.80	31.65	49
48	48	United States	Kevin Kisner	1.94	93.12	-26.56	3.91	48
49	52	United States	J.T. Poston	1.93	100.18	-17.50	24.02	57
50	49	United States	Taylor Moore	1.92	99.75	-15.12	56.48	60
51	56	Australia	Lucas Herbert	1.84	91.97	-19.42	30.21	50
52	50	United States	Talor Gooch	1.83	73.26	-25.42	2.44	36
53	53	Chile	Guillermo Mito Pereira	1.82	89.25	-23.02	5.99	49
54	60	Canada	Mackenzie Hughes	1.82	94.62	-22.66	14.94	55
55	54	Canada	Adam Svensson	1.81	94.12	-13.13	24.68	64
56	55	Poland	Adrian Meronk	1.80	93.55	-17.14	15.54	54
57	51	United States	Harold Varner III	1.79	71.72	-24.23	0.64	39
58	57	United States	Taylor Montgomery	1.77	92.24	-12.12	25.78	53
59	59	United States	Rickie Fowler	1.76	75.52	-12.47	32.52	43
60	58	United States	Denny McCarthy	1.71	89.07	-16.26	28.34	58
61	62	United States	Scott Stallings	1.65	85.95	-17.46	11.06	56
62	63	Canada	Adam Hadwin	1.65	85.95	-16.62	23.38	53
63	64	United States	Davis Riley	1.65	85.90	-15.26	17.06	61
64	61	France	Victor Perez	1.64	76.92	-14.00	31.52	47
65	68	United States	Andrew Putnam	1.61	83.93	-14.38	20.41	60
66	71	United States	Matt Kuchar	1.60	71.88	-15.87	25.47	45
67	67	Canada	Nick Taylor	1.59	82.75	-7.42	55.83	56
68	65	United States	Dustin Johnson	1.58	63.31	-25.06	-	27
69	75	United States	J.J. Spaun	1.57	81.78	-14.58	20.64	59
70	66	United States	Patrick Reed	1.54	69.09	-24.81	18.96	45
71	69	United States	Davis Thompson	1.53	67.24	-5.57	36.81	44
72	70	United States	Maverick McNealy	1.52	75.93	-19.35	11.44	50
73	72	South Africa	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	1.50	78.04	-18.74	16.09	54
74	79	Australia	Cameron Davis	1.49	77.73	-19.21	17.24	52
75	73	United States	Brendon Todd	1.47	73.57	-13.13	25.15	50
76	77	United States	Ben Griffin	1.46	61.15	-6.74	20.87	42
77	78	United States	Justin Suh	1.46	74.24	-7.22	31.49	51
78	74	South Africa	Dean Burmester	1.45	75.21	-20.35	3.65	53
79	76	Spain	Adri Arnaus	1.44	75.07	-15.92	15.66	53
80	82	Belgium	Thomas Detry	1.43	74.50	-15.35	13.62	57
81	81	Japan	Kazuki Higa	1.40	73.01	-14.95	6.81	57
82	90	United States	Wyndham Clark	1.40	72.60	-8.37	31.94	57
83	80	United States	Jason Kokrak	1.39	55.63	-27.79	2.88	35
84	83	Thailand	Sadom Kaewkanjana	1.39	55.58	-10.22	14.90	33
85	84	United States	Trey Mullinax	1.39	72.16	-10.71	16.08	59
86	85	Spain	Adrian Otaegui	1.37	71.40	-12.45	4.59	57
87	86	South Africa	Thriston Lawrence	1.37	71.19	-12.61	2.72	55
88	87	United States	Cameron Tringale	1.36	55.79	-20.54	0.77	41
89	91	United States	Adam Schenk	1.34	69.45	-13.17	35.68	64
90	89	England	Callum Shinkwin	1.33	57.33	-9.68	8.85	43
91	92	England	Danny Willett	1.32	68.47	-14.80	13.75	54
92	88	United States	Kevin Na	1.31	52.28	-24.94	-	30
93	93	Spain	Pablo Larrazabal	1.30	56.11	-12.64	4.81	43
94	95	Denmark	Thorbjorn Olesen	1.30	61.08	-7.75	26.41	47
95	98	England	Jordan Smith	1.28	66.65	-14.14	4.36	52
96	96	Scotland	Robert MacIntyre	1.28	66.44	-18.82	5.27	52
97	94	United States	Daniel Berger	1.27	50.96	-24.50	-	26
98	97	India	Anirban Lahiri	1.27	50.79	-12.46	2.44	39
99	99	United States	Gary Woodland	1.26	61.69	-15.21	14.36	49
100	100	United States	Joel Dahmen	1.24	63.15	-15.12	4.56	51
101	101	Australia	Marc Leishman	1.22	48.98	-19.57	4.40	38
102	103	United States	Luke List	1.22	63.62	-16.35	10.01	56
103	102	England	Paul Casey	1.22	48.81	-26.02	5.86	26
104	105	United States	Brandon Wu	1.21	62.92	-7.49	26.35	61
105	110	England	Richard Bland	1.20	49.12	-16.49	8.12	41
106	107	England	Benjamin Taylor	1.20	62.19	-6.95	17.85	53
107	109	United States	Alex Smalley	1.19	61.72	-10.16	7.75	54
108	108	Colombia	Sebastian Munoz	1.18	60.12	-19.06	2.35	51
109	111	Denmark	Rasmus Hojgaard	1.17	56.30	-13.03	4.87	48
110	112	United States	Hayden Buckley	1.17	60.77	-8.76	26.57	63
111	106	United States	Brooks Koepka	1.16	46.58	-29.45	0.64	30
112	104	South Africa	Louis Oosthuizen	1.16	46.56	-31.07	1.08	29
113	114	Argentina	Emiliano Grillo	1.16	60.33	-19.72	4.27	55
114	113	South Africa	Oliver Bekker	1.16	60.26	-12.39	7.79	64
115	115	Germany	Yannik Paul	1.16	60.10	-9.28	16.11	57
116	116	United States	Matthew NeSmith	1.14	59.37	-12.65	2.64	53
117	175	England	Matt Wallace	1.13	58.53	-14.13	27.05	60
118	140	Denmark	Nicolai Hojgaard	1.11	57.48	-14.06	18.62	55
119	120	United States	Brendan Steele	1.10	43.93	-12.15	6.06	40
120	118	Canada	Taylor Pendrith	1.10	55.99	-10.48	9.28	51
121	117	South Africa	Erik van Rooyen	1.10	52.59	-16.13	15.20	48
122	121	Zimbabwe	Scott Vincent	1.09	50.02	-14.42	1.67	46
123	119	United States	Robby Shelton IV	1.09	56.49	-6.85	15.11	58
124	122	England	Aaron Rai	1.05	54.63	-12.92	12.70	60
125	123	Italy	Francesco Molinari	1.04	41.68	-8.67	12.58	39
126	125	United States	William Gordon	1.04	54.08	-7.81	6.26	56
127	126	Sweden	David Lingmerth	1.03	53.81	-5.57	19.48	53
128	124	United States	Lucas Glover	1.03	53.65	-16.55	5.42	53
129	127	France	Antoine Rozner	1.01	52.57	-10.94	10.67	56
130	139	Scotland	Ewen Ferguson	1.00	52.18	-11.52	10.02	61
131	128	United States	Troy Merritt	1.00	51.86	-16.92	0.51	57
132	129	Japan	Takumi Kanaya	0.99	49.59	-12.98	14.39	50
133	146	South Africa	Ockie Strydom	0.98	51.22	-4.30	20.63	54
134	131	Korea; Republic of	Seonghyeon Kim	0.98	51.01	-10.57	13.50	56
135	130	Japan	Rikuya Hoshino	0.98	50.80	-15.09	3.16	54
136	134	Germany	Stephan Jaeger	0.97	50.20	-12.35	13.40	63
137	133	United States	Webb Simpson	0.96	40.30	-14.55	10.80	42
138	135	United States	Sam Ryder	0.95	49.64	-7.74	24.19	60
139	132	Australia	Matt Jones	0.95	38.12	-17.02	2.37	36
140	137	United States	Beau Hossler	0.94	48.99	-9.36	11.29	53
141	138	Sweden	Alexander Bjork	0.94	42.17	-9.58	13.57	45
142	150	Sweden	Sebastian Soderberg	0.93	48.48	-8.04	14.84	56
143	136	United States	Patrick Rodgers	0.93	48.38	-10.19	7.01	62
144	142	Japan	Yuki Inamori	0.92	47.79	-12.20	0.36	55
145	147	Venezuela	Jhonattan Vegas	0.92	40.28	-14.69	8.85	44
146	145	United States	Chez Reavie	0.91	47.55	-11.28	2.71	55
147	141	England	Sam Horsfield	0.91	36.57	-12.37	0.43	35
148	144	United States	Hudson Swafford	0.91	36.26	-12.95	-	38
149	143	United States	Bryson DeChambeau	0.90	36.12	-26.84	-	25
150	154	United States	Eric Cole	0.89	46.04	-3.58	27.79	59
151	151	England	Ian Poulter	0.88	35.29	-15.42	7.07	40
152	157	China	Yechun Carl Yuan	0.88	41.45	-9.79	2.73	47
153	149	Spain	Sergio Garcia	0.88	35.26	-16.07	3.89	33
154	156	United States	Mark Hubbard	0.88	45.84	-9.53	6.48	59
155	148	Japan	Yuto Katsuragawa	0.88	43.99	-8.87	0.75	50
156	153	United States	Lee Hodges	0.88	45.69	-8.14	8.38	62
157	152	South Africa	MJ Daffue	0.88	40.32	-5.96	6.46	46
158	158	Spain	Jorge Campillo	0.87	45.28	-8.23	18.55	63
159	159	England	Callum Tarren	0.87	45.02	-7.18	2.74	61
160	160	United States	David Lipsky	0.87	45.01	-9.98	12.83	58
161	154	Austria	Bernd Wiesberger	0.86	34.57	-13.61	3.92	37
162	164	Korea; Republic of	Bio Kim	0.86	44.88	-9.96	4.10	52
163	161	Japan	Shugo Imahira	0.86	43.67	-11.72	-	51
164	162	United States	Kevin Streelman	0.85	44.33	-15.44	4.34	56
165	170	Germany	Marcel Schneider	0.85	44.30	-9.95	8.71	55
166	163	Australia	Brad Kennedy	0.85	35.73	-7.96	0.17	42
167	165	France	Matthieu Pavon	0.85	44.23	-8.84	9.90	56
168	166	Japan	Mikumu Horikawa	0.84	43.51	-9.25	0.47	52
169	169	Korea; Republic of	Byeong Hun An	0.84	43.51	-7.06	12.72	54
169	168	Taiwan (Chinese Taipei)	Chun-an Yu	0.84	38.49	-6.09	8.98	46
171	167	Scotland	Richie Ramsay	0.83	43.39	-8.96	1.65	53
172	171	China	Haotong Li	0.83	33.12	-6.97	-	37
173	172	Japan	Ryo Hisatsune	0.83	42.99	-7.55	9.16	57
174	173	South Africa	Dylan Frittelli	0.82	42.69	-9.98	8.61	61
175	219	South Africa	Hennie Du Plessis	0.82	41.70	-8.98	9.80	51
175	176	United States	Tyson Alexander	0.82	42.51	-7.79	3.89	56
177	174	South Africa	Shaun Norris	0.82	42.47	-14.54	2.88	54
178	181	United States	Paul Haley-II	0.81	42.21	-9.37	2.97	57
179	178	Sweden	Henrik Stenson	0.81	32.41	-7.89	6.81	36
180	177	Italy	Guido Migliozzi	0.81	42.01	-16.03	1.51	54
181	186	United States	John Huh	0.81	37.90	-8.16	-	47
182	180	England	Daniel Gavins	0.80	41.84	-8.20	19.45	63
183	179	Japan	Tomoharu Otsuki	0.80	41.78	-11.50	0.30	54
184	185	United States	Pierceson Coody	0.80	31.97	-2.66	17.22	21
185	182	United States	Joseph Bramlett	0.80	41.54	-9.77	13.48	63
186	193	United States	Nick Hardy	0.80	41.38	-8.74	5.20	57
187	231	South Africa	Zander Lombard	0.79	41.32	-5.44	19.99	64
188	183	South Africa	Garrick Higgo	0.79	41.23	-21.26	12.80	58
189	184	Thailand	Phachara Khongwatmai	0.79	31.57	-7.55	3.11	32
190	190	France	Julien Brun	0.79	41.01	-9.20	12.49	56
191	227	United States	Tyler Duncan(Jul1989)	0.78	40.38	-4.33	23.71	57
192	187	England	Paul Waring(Feb1985)	0.78	31.83	-4.68	3.44	41
193	188	United States	Matthew Wolff	0.77	31.00	-11.31	3.30	27
194	189	United States	Cameron Champ	0.77	33.26	-11.56	1.80	43
195	195	England	Richard Mansell	0.77	37.13	-6.12	5.62	48
196	191	United States	Lanto Griffin	0.77	32.32	-11.32	3.28	42
197	192	United States	Chan Kim	0.77	38.29	-10.80	2.62	50
198	194	England	Laurie Canter	0.76	30.20	-9.20	0.64	39
199	198	Scotland	Connor Syme	0.75	38.98	-9.08	5.22	56
200	224	United States	Austin Eckroat	0.75	32.16	-5.05	7.40	43

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Updated: March 27, 2023

Official World Golf Ranking 12/2023

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