Official World Golf Ranking 12/2026 - Golf Today

Week 12 – 22/03/2026

Simon Bale|March 23, 2026

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Matt Fitzpatrick has won the Valspar Championship, David Lipsky came second, Jordan Smith third and Xander Schauffele tied for fourth place with Marco Penge and Sungjae Im.

Fitzpatrick moves up nine places to number 6 this week, Lipsky up to 88 from 154, Smith up thirty to 65, Schauffele up two to number 5, Penge up three to 36 and Im to 67 from 82

Matt Fitzpatrick watches his drive at the Scottish Open

Related: Matt Fitzpatrick wins third PGA Tour title

Valspar Championship R4

Jordan Gumberg has won the Hainan Classic, Jorge Campillo came second and Marcus Armitage tied for third place with Yanhan Zhou and Adrian Otaegui.

Gumberg moves up to 303 from 568, Campillo up to 152 from 177, Armitage up ten places to 163, Zhou to 225 from 269 and Otaegui to 294 from 333.

Related: Wire-to-wire win for Jordan Gumberg

Hainan Classic 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	15.34	629.11	-171.39	115.54
2	2	Northern Ireland	Rory McIlroy	8.23	386.93	-98.07	48.28
3	4	United States	Cameron Young	5.41	248.70	-33.75	121.54
4	3	England	Tommy Fleetwood	5.30	270.18	-54.51	41.69
5	7	United States	Xander Schauffele	4.96	198.44	-68.67	61.03
6	15	England	Matt Fitzpatrick	4.96	243.02	-26.42	119.29
7	5	England	Justin Rose	4.87	214.30	-35.54	69.01
8	6	United States	Collin Morikawa	4.83	202.99	-47.21	96.84
9	8	United States	Russell Henley	4.65	186.03	-44.19	33.87
10	10	United States	Chris Gotterup	4.55	236.51	-24.36	123.59
11	9	Scotland	Robert MacIntyre	4.52	235.14	-52.39	46.19
12	11	Austria	Sepp Straka	4.39	206.42	-39.94	56.26
13	12	United States	J.J. Spaun	4.06	211.09	-43.61	6.66
14	13	Japan	Hideki Matsuyama	4.04	193.81	-44.89	60.18
15	14	United States	Justin Thomas	4.03	161.05	-42.07	13.97
16	16	United States	Ben Griffin	3.92	203.90	-43.91	11.46
17	20	United States	Jacob Bridgeman	3.66	190.25	-16.56	125.59
18	17	Sweden	Ludvig Aberg	3.64	160.03	-44.33	44.35
19	19	Sweden	Alex Noren	3.54	141.57	-28.19	13.48
20	21	United States	Harris English	3.49	170.92	-36.00	16.90
21	18	Norway	Viktor Hovland	3.47	142.13	-33.10	24.05
22	22	United States	Akshay Bhatia	3.46	180.16	-31.20	108.20
23	23	United States	Patrick Reed	3.36	134.44	-15.83	70.03
24	33	United States	Bryson DeChambeau	3.31	132.38	-34.72	58.12
25	24	United States	Keegan Bradley	3.07	135.29	-37.40	6.25
26	25	United States	Maverick McNealy	2.97	151.34	-35.50	26.69
27	26	United States	Ryan Gerard	2.91	151.34	-20.25	67.68
28	34	Spain	Jon Rahm	2.90	116.01	-13.54	68.89
29	28	South Korea	Si Woo Kim	2.85	148.25	-21.70	67.94
30	27	England	Tyrrell Hatton	2.84	113.72	-26.86	10.31
31	30	Australia	Min Woo Lee	2.80	134.62	-22.85	59.32
32	29	Ireland	Shane Lowry	2.74	142.62	-35.60	34.16
33	31	United States	Sam Burns	2.74	125.89	-30.37	21.79
34	35	United States	Patrick Cantlay	2.70	107.88	-29.18	23.63
35	32	United States	Kurt Kitayama	2.65	119.31	-19.03	42.46
36	39	England	Marco Penge	2.53	131.69	-19.56	16.74
37	36	United States	Daniel Berger	2.47	123.37	-18.25	56.64
38	37	Colombia	Nicolas Echavarria	2.40	124.68	-20.59	46.44
39	38	England	Aaron Rai	2.37	123.18	-33.31	4.89
40	40	Canada	Corey Conners	2.29	107.83	-28.09	16.52
41	41	Australia	Jason Day	2.15	86.02	-19.18	31.02
42	42	United States	Jake Knapp	2.12	93.22	-15.63	48.45
43	44	United States	Michael Brennan	2.07	82.77	-11.29	5.18
44	43	United States	Matt McCarty	2.07	107.38	-22.78	34.02
45	45	New Zealand	Ryan Fox	2.05	106.59	-20.91	18.93
46	48	United States	Brian Harman	2.05	102.30	-27.10	15.74
47	47	Denmark	Nicolai Hojgaard	2.04	106.20	-15.99	39.53
48	46	Norway	Kristoffer Reitan	2.04	105.94	-15.48	7.79
49	49	United States	Andrew Novak	2.02	104.96	-23.60	12.91
50	51	United States	Samuel Stevens	2.00	104.17	-20.75	25.19
51	52	United States	Pierceson Coody	2.00	103.89	-14.80	47.15
52	50	Australia	Adam Scott	2.00	95.81	-23.54	35.61
53	53	Denmark	Rasmus Hojgaard	1.93	96.31	-21.89	12.55
54	57	United States	Michael Kim	1.92	100.03	-21.21	9.33
55	54	Finland	Sami Valimaki	1.91	99.42	-14.93	4.66
56	55	United States	Michael Thorbjornsen	1.91	81.94	-11.76	25.72
57	63	Belgium	Thomas Detry	1.89	98.34	-24.23	26.89
58	56	United States	Max Greyserman	1.88	97.66	-26.88	8.71
59	58	South Africa	Jayden Schaper	1.86	96.70	-9.32	14.17
59	64	United States	Jordan Spieth	1.86	78.11	-14.90	26.62
61	59	United States	Rickie Fowler	1.85	77.69	-13.41	25.28
62	60	England	Harry Hall	1.84	95.73	-19.41	22.67
63	61	Japan	Ryo Hisatsune	1.83	95.27	-13.62	53.36
64	62	Canada	Nick Taylor	1.77	88.50	-22.47	18.21
65	95	England	Jordan Smith	1.73	90.20	-15.62	29.74
66	65	Denmark	Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen	1.72	89.46	-17.93	7.47
67	82	South Korea	Sungjae Im	1.67	86.98	-29.53	11.99
68	70	United States	Patrick Rodgers	1.64	85.26	-14.45	40.05
69	69	South Africa	Casey Jarvis	1.63	84.91	-5.79	55.29
70	66	Canada	Taylor Pendrith	1.63	79.96	-25.16	13.73
71	68	United States	J.T. Poston	1.61	75.89	-21.35	7.43
72	67	United States	Wyndham Clark	1.60	76.97	-31.35	13.14
73	71	United States	Max McGreevy	1.59	82.44	-17.61	11.45
74	72	United States	John Keefer	1.55	71.07	-14.16	6.96
75	85	Spain	David Puig	1.54	61.77	-9.24	23.08
76	80	Philippines	Richard Hoey	1.54	79.85	-15.83	8.40
77	75	South Africa	Aldrich Potgieter	1.54	78.30	-13.73	15.63
78	77	China	Haotong Li	1.53	79.70	-13.28	17.38
79	74	Australia	Elvis Smylie	1.52	63.90	-7.55	25.68
80	73	United States	Sahith Theegala	1.52	74.50	-23.17	42.04
81	79	United States	Bud Cauley	1.51	65.05	-12.90	11.51
82	78	England	Daniel Brown(Oct1994)	1.50	72.17	-14.44	6.51
83	76	South Africa	Garrick Higgo	1.50	68.93	-12.68	1.36
84	81	United States	Lucas Glover	1.46	67.38	-20.39	2.53
85	86	Germany	Matti Schmid	1.46	75.99	-15.16	15.03
86	84	England	John Parry	1.45	75.63	-16.20	12.08
87	83	United States	Billy Horschel	1.45	62.23	-27.77	10.49
88	154	United States	David Lipsky	1.45	75.25	-10.73	35.74
89	87	New Zealand	Daniel Hillier	1.44	74.63	-8.64	31.79
90	88	United States	Austin Smotherman	1.43	74.58	-9.99	31.71
91	90	United States	Ricky Castillo	1.42	74.01	-7.12	38.14
92	91	South Africa	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	1.42	73.83	-19.46	11.08
93	93	France	Adrien Saddier	1.38	71.71	-14.25	2.22
94	92	United States	Chris Kirk	1.38	61.98	-16.10	5.13
95	98	England	Matt Wallace	1.36	70.65	-19.48	7.25
96	96	United States	Denny McCarthy	1.36	63.74	-21.45	7.47
97	97	Northern Ireland	Tom McKibbin	1.34	54.86	-12.66	2.33
98	89	South Africa	Thriston Lawrence	1.34	69.49	-25.75	5.52
99	94	England	Laurie Canter	1.33	59.82	-14.59	1.21
100	107	Germany	Stephan Jaeger	1.32	68.50	-20.66	24.01
101	100	United States	Tom Hoge	1.31	67.94	-19.16	16.52
102	99	United States	Brian Campbell	1.29	66.03	-16.41	1.07
103	115	Argentina	Emiliano Grillo	1.29	65.99	-13.73	10.51
104	103	United States	Tony Finau	1.28	55.13	-20.89	16.40
105	105	United States	Chandler Blanchet	1.27	60.78	-8.05	16.42
106	101	Spain	Angel Ayora	1.25	65.19	-9.80	14.17
107	104	Venezuela	Jhonattan Vegas	1.24	54.75	-16.10	4.72
108	102	Denmark	Thorbjorn Olesen	1.24	64.32	-14.97	8.21
109	108	United States	Keith Mitchell	1.23	61.41	-13.33	20.83
110	106	United States	Ian Holt	1.22	50.20	-3.46	36.75
111	110	England	Andy Sullivan	1.22	63.26	-9.85	21.73
112	116	United States	Andrew Putnam	1.21	61.75	-9.57	31.10
113	112	United States	Alex Smalley	1.20	62.14	-11.40	15.30
114	109	United States	Davis Riley	1.18	61.55	-17.78	9.51
115	113	United States	Davis Thompson	1.18	61.39	-21.70	10.86
116	114	Canada	Mackenzie Hughes	1.18	61.29	-19.87	7.62
117	119	Taiwan (Chinese Taipei)	Chun-an Yu	1.18	61.25	-16.26	1.97
118	111	United States	McClure Meissner	1.18	59.94	-13.90	7.54
119	117	United States	Eric Cole	1.15	60.05	-14.23	9.98
120	118	United States	William Mouw	1.15	54.19	-10.59	11.35
121	120	South Africa	Shaun Norris	1.14	59.34	-12.42	1.65
122	122	Japan	Keita Nakajima	1.13	52.05	-12.78	1.40
123	127	South Korea	Tom Kim	1.12	58.19	-20.62	11.07
124	126	Japan	Takumi Kanaya	1.11	57.97	-10.49	7.37
125	125	England	Dan Bradbury	1.11	57.88	-7.23	23.33
126	121	Spain	Nacho Elvira	1.10	57.44	-9.54	28.55
127	124	United States	Vincent Whaley	1.10	57.42	-13.40	2.96
128	133	United States	Lee Hodges	1.08	53.10	-11.84	13.24
129	123	South Korea	Byeong Hun An	1.07	53.45	-20.37	2.76
130	130	Japan	Kazuki Higa	1.06	54.89	-9.56	0.69
131	128	Scotland	Calum Hill	1.05	54.59	-9.77	24.78
132	131	United States	Joe Highsmith	1.05	54.46	-13.83	4.62
133	132	Denmark	Jacob Skov Olesen	1.03	43.45	-5.32	12.81
134	129	United States	Steven Fisk	1.03	53.68	-13.67	2.73
135	137	France	Martin Couvra	1.03	53.31	-9.52	7.73
136	135	Sweden	Joakim Lagergren	1.02	51.98	-10.04	3.37
137	134	United States	Kevin Roy	1.02	52.97	-10.44	13.83
138	157	South Korea	Seonghyeon Kim	1.01	52.73	-10.85	19.00
139	152	United States	Gary Woodland	0.99	46.72	-10.84	5.95
140	139	United States	Peter Uihlein	0.99	39.65	-6.59	15.54
141	138	United States	Taylor Moore	0.99	51.32	-13.52	20.85
142	136	United States	Neal Shipley	0.97	47.69	-11.23	0.67
143	140	United States	Mark Hubbard	0.97	50.49	-13.13	3.71
144	141	South Africa	JC Ritchie	0.97	50.40	-7.65	3.18
145	145	Canada	Sudarshan Yellamaraju	0.96	47.92	-4.93	26.44
146	144	United States	Adam Schenk	0.96	49.71	-11.20	6.49
147	146	United States	Chad Ramey	0.95	49.21	-7.34	12.95
148	142	United States	Max Homa	0.93	43.92	-14.14	11.51
149	143	Spain	Eugenio Chacarra	0.93	41.02	-6.71	3.56
150	147	France	Julien Guerrier	0.93	48.31	-8.20	21.31
151	149	Australia	Karl Vilips	0.92	36.94	-8.51	7.06
152	177	Spain	Jorge Campillo	0.92	47.93	-10.55	13.28
153	164	Mexico	Carlos Ortiz	0.92	36.83	-7.28	7.52
154	155	Finland	Oliver Lindell	0.91	47.30	-8.13	11.91
155	150	Chile	Joaquin Niemann	0.90	36.16	-9.96	6.50
156	151	South Africa	Erik van Rooyen	0.90	46.83	-15.71	-
157	153	United States	Matt Kuchar	0.90	35.82	-9.72	1.66
158	148	Canada	Richard T. Lee	0.90	46.54	-8.53	13.46
159	160	Ireland	Seamus Power	0.89	46.26	-10.87	12.28
160	163	Belgium	Adrien Dumont de Chassart	0.88	45.79	-8.51	8.31
161	159	United States	Patrick Fishburn	0.87	45.44	-12.71	2.29
162	173	United States	Brooks Koepka	0.87	34.89	-5.26	15.92
163	173	England	Marcus Armitage	0.87	45.24	-6.78	13.81
164	156	United States	Beau Hossler	0.86	44.87	-12.21	2.62
165	158	Australia	Lucas Herbert	0.86	34.50	-4.82	14.85
166	166	China	Ding Wenyi	0.86	34.23	-4.05	4.74
167	162	Scotland	Grant Forrest	0.84	42.14	-7.43	7.62
168	167	United States	Joel Dahmen	0.83	43.39	-8.50	17.09
169	165	United States	Zachary Bauchou	0.83	43.08	-6.91	14.00
170	195	South Africa	Dean Burmester	0.82	32.92	-5.01	15.26
171	168	Italy	Francesco Laporta	0.82	42.63	-6.73	15.07
172	161	United States	Austin Eckroat	0.82	42.48	-18.67	3.03
173	171	South Africa	Hennie Du Plessis	0.81	32.60	-0.92	24.91
174	170	United States	Carson Young	0.81	42.31	-9.27	9.10
175	169	France	Antoine Rozner	0.81	42.30	-9.68	7.70
176	179	United States	Taylor Montgomery	0.80	35.32	-7.05	6.78
177	176	United States	Chandler Phillips	0.80	41.74	-10.31	5.95
178	172	Sweden	Jesper Svensson	0.80	41.56	-12.67	3.81
179	181	United States	Doug Ghim	0.80	41.48	-11.68	4.25
180	175	Spain	Jose Luis Ballester	0.80	31.83	-1.78	3.94
181	180	Scotland	Ewen Ferguson	0.79	40.40	-10.06	6.10
182	178	France	Victor Perez	0.77	40.15	-14.87	0.41
183	182	Mexico	Emilio Gonzalez	0.77	39.93	-8.00	1.80
184	183	South Africa	Daniel van Tonder	0.76	39.62	-6.85	10.63
185	184	Zimbabwe	Scott Vincent	0.76	30.24	-5.86	-
186	191	South Africa	Jacques Kruyswijk	0.75	38.35	-7.50	5.72
187	185	New Zealand	Kazuma Kobori	0.75	35.97	-6.43	4.92
188	192	England	Richard Mansell	0.75	36.68	-8.81	-
189	189	Netherlands	Joost Luiten	0.74	38.66	-8.04	3.58
190	187	China	Marty Dou Zecheng	0.74	37.78	-5.36	11.69
191	190	United States	Alistair Docherty	0.74	37.74	-6.01	23.32
192	186	Japan	Kensei Hirata	0.74	38.38	-13.35	5.19
193	193	South Africa	Christo Lamprecht	0.73	33.52	-6.56	1.91
194	197	Japan	Kota Kaneko	0.73	37.87	-6.18	4.23
195	196	United States	Justin Lower	0.73	37.75	-11.12	3.17
196	194	England	Alex Fitzpatrick	0.73	37.73	-7.25	8.85
197	188	Australia	Cameron Davis	0.72	35.04	-15.91	1.18
198	220	United States	Hank Lebioda	0.71	34.30	-6.87	6.56
199	200	United States	Doc Redman	0.71	30.00	-3.50	15.40
200	202	Germany	Frederik Schott	0.71	36.83	-3.65	23.34

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Updated: March 23, 2026