Official World Golf Ranking 16/2025 - Golf Today

Week 16 – 20/04/2025

Simon Bale|April 21, 2025

Keywords: golf rankings, Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR)

Justin Thomas has won the RBC Heritage in a playoff, Andrew Novak came second, Daniel Berger, Mackenzie Hughes, Brian Harman and Maverick McNealy finished third.

Thomas moves up two places to number 6, Novak to 36 from 62, Berger to 29 from 40, Hughes to 53 from 65, Harman up two places to 22 and McNealy stays at number 10.

Garrick Higgo has won the Corales Puntacana Championship, Alejandro Tosti, Keith Mitchell, Jeremy Paul, Michael Thorbjornsen and Joel Dahmen finished second.

Higgo moves up to 139 from 262, Tosti to 125 from 148, Mitchell up seven places to 91, Thorbjornsen to 151 from 191 and Dahmen to 140 from 176.

Ashun Wu has won the Volvo China Open, Jordan Smith came second, Yannik Paul third, Haotong Li, Eugenio Chacarra and Zecheng Dou finished fourth.

Wu moves up to 262 from 603, Smith to 107 from 123, Paul to 204 from 240, Li to 133 from 149, Chacarra to 145 from 167 and Dou to 395 from 497.

Related: Playoff win for Justin Thomas

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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	14.15	579.96	-185.70	110.46
2	2	Northern Ireland	Rory McIlroy	11.61	545.72	-107.24	292.26
3	3	United States	Xander Schauffele	7.91	316.44	-107.33	26.99
4	4	United States	Collin Morikawa	6.47	271.85	-65.11	98.78
5	5	Sweden	Ludvig Aberg	5.70	256.30	-57.11	100.72
6	8	United States	Justin Thomas	5.70	250.58	-32.64	158.52
7	6	Japan	Hideki Matsuyama	5.23	235.49	-56.37	79.36
8	7	United States	Russell Henley	5.01	205.26	-41.21	113.94
9	9	Norway	Viktor Hovland	4.31	172.55	-70.97	69.80
10	10	United States	Maverick McNealy	4.00	183.83	-18.82	98.29
11	12	England	Tommy Fleetwood	3.70	188.72	-59.93	51.44
12	11	United States	Bryson DeChambeau	3.64	145.45	-36.71	31.39
13	15	Ireland	Shane Lowry	3.56	174.28	-35.08	77.91
14	12	England	Justin Rose	3.54	159.45	-28.37	94.95
15	16	United States	Patrick Cantlay	3.50	139.99	-50.30	49.53
16	17	Austria	Sepp Straka	3.48	180.72	-41.59	105.96
17	14	United States	Wyndham Clark	3.47	163.26	-78.09	27.59
18	18	England	Tyrrell Hatton	3.37	134.61	-44.68	46.86
19	19	United States	Keegan Bradley	3.35	150.78	-47.12	39.93
20	22	Korea; Republic of	Sungjae Im	3.30	171.45	-41.56	69.98
21	20	Scotland	Robert MacIntyre	3.22	167.62	-47.67	39.78
22	24	United States	Brian Harman	3.17	165.03	-49.97	82.82
23	21	Canada	Corey Conners	3.14	147.40	-33.26	80.38
24	23	United States	Billy Horschel	3.07	159.71	-38.03	32.31
25	25	Australia	Min Woo Lee	2.86	146.10	-31.40	80.06
26	26	United States	Akshay Bhatia	2.84	147.89	-34.87	49.54
27	28	England	Aaron Rai	2.80	145.36	-37.27	33.84
28	27	United States	Sahith Theegala	2.79	145.21	-51.49	18.00
29	40	United States	Daniel Berger	2.78	111.13	-6.60	76.43
30	29	United States	J.J. Spaun	2.78	144.46	-15.29	103.74
31	30	Belgium	Thomas Detry	2.76	143.28	-24.68	80.76
32	31	Australia	Jason Day	2.59	111.52	-35.15	53.70
33	32	Canada	Nick Taylor	2.51	125.52	-30.27	77.33
34	62	United States	Andrew Novak	2.50	130.25	-13.09	88.94
35	34	United States	Lucas Glover	2.49	129.42	-34.80	62.79
36	33	United States	Harris English	2.48	116.63	-26.45	70.96
37	36	Korea; Republic of	Tom Kim	2.45	127.20	-43.72	20.62
38	39	United States	Sam Burns	2.43	112.00	-41.63	23.47
39	35	Australia	Adam Scott	2.41	118.15	-38.14	11.08
40	37	Korea; Republic of	Byeong Hun An	2.40	117.63	-36.85	26.57
41	38	United States	Tony Finau	2.37	108.94	-36.47	26.39
42	42	United States	Tom Hoge	2.31	120.05	-24.99	61.38
43	41	United States	Denny McCarthy	2.26	106.16	-34.25	42.49
44	44	United States	Max Greyserman	2.25	116.80	-24.07	29.12
45	43	Canada	Taylor Pendrith	2.23	116.16	-26.05	37.46
46	47	United States	J.T. Poston	2.23	115.93	-32.29	30.95
47	45	Germany	Stephan Jaeger	2.19	113.95	-28.63	42.57
48	46	United States	Nick Dunlap	2.16	86.48	-22.24	12.68
49	50	United States	Davis Thompson	2.13	110.75	-25.36	28.16
50	48	Colombia	Nicolas Echavarria	2.11	109.82	-14.48	41.10
51	49	United States	Patrick Reed	2.11	84.47	-12.76	56.04
52	51	United States	Michael Kim	2.08	108.11	-15.03	78.17
53	65	Canada	Mackenzie Hughes	2.02	104.94	-24.13	33.97
54	53	England	Laurie Canter	2.01	80.46	-10.02	49.10
55	52	United States	Matt McCarty	2.01	104.42	-21.49	20.51
56	55	United States	Ben Griffin	1.92	100.07	-24.61	39.92
57	54	Denmark	Rasmus Hojgaard	1.92	99.87	-24.34	19.89
58	57	United States	Austin Eckroat	1.91	99.43	-29.89	13.07
59	58	United States	Jordan Spieth	1.91	80.01	-32.84	43.42
60	56	France	Matthieu Pavon	1.90	99.02	-35.85	7.54
61	59	South Africa	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	1.85	96.17	-26.64	25.27
62	60	Australia	Cameron Davis	1.84	95.75	-32.18	27.68
63	63	United States	Eric Cole	1.82	94.40	-32.53	32.55
64	61	United States	Cameron Young	1.75	85.67	-35.54	17.42
65	64	United States	Joe Highsmith	1.74	88.85	-8.93	59.30
66	72	Korea; Republic of	Si Woo Kim	1.71	88.74	-28.55	30.64
67	68	United States	Will Zalatoris	1.66	66.49	-17.82	18.03
68	66	Sweden	Alex Noren	1.66	67.97	-25.09	-
69	67	United States	Max Homa	1.60	75.39	-38.24	13.83
70	71	United States	Jacob Bridgeman	1.60	83.40	-10.02	57.89
71	70	Venezuela	Jhonattan Vegas	1.60	64.13	-12.18	19.01
72	69	Spain	Jon Rahm	1.60	64.02	-53.26	8.50
73	74	United States	Patrick Rodgers	1.55	80.78	-20.00	36.79
74	73	South Africa	Thriston Lawrence	1.54	80.20	-27.54	0.86
75	77	United States	Chris Kirk	1.51	71.20	-29.33	11.95
76	76	United States	Max McGreevy	1.51	78.46	-13.74	21.99
77	78	United States	Samuel Stevens	1.51	78.27	-16.32	44.31
78	80	Denmark	Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen	1.50	73.73	-10.93	33.65
79	75	England	Matt Fitzpatrick	1.50	73.59	-44.85	10.89
80	83	United States	Ryan Gerard	1.50	77.90	-9.38	53.48
81	79	Taiwan (Chinese Taipei)	Chun-an Yu	1.49	75.96	-16.47	19.69
82	81	Chile	Joaquin Niemann	1.48	59.21	-12.85	9.97
83	82	Denmark	Thorbjorn Olesen	1.47	76.56	-21.76	13.60
84	86	United States	Bud Cauley	1.47	58.83	-3.47	44.37
85	90	Japan	Ryo Hisatsune	1.46	76.18	-18.96	32.82
86	89	England	Matt Wallace	1.44	74.99	-20.88	8.23
87	85	United States	Taylor Moore	1.42	71.18	-25.24	25.51
88	88	United States	Jake Knapp	1.40	72.99	-18.07	31.01
88	87	Denmark	Nicolai Hojgaard	1.40	72.99	-29.71	10.86
90	84	Canada	Adam Hadwin	1.40	68.74	-26.01	13.70
91	98	United States	Keith Mitchell	1.38	70.46	-18.55	27.96
92	92	United States	Beau Hossler	1.30	67.78	-21.11	16.32
93	91	United States	Gary Woodland	1.30	58.41	-11.01	39.97
94	93	United States	Justin Lower	1.29	67.26	-14.14	23.47
95	100	South Africa	Shaun Norris	1.28	66.70	-8.13	20.80
96	94	United States	Lee Hodges	1.28	65.26	-21.49	22.26
97	97	United States	Davis Riley	1.27	66.16	-15.01	24.24
98	95	England	Harry Hall	1.27	65.92	-16.80	23.67
99	96	South Africa	Erik van Rooyen	1.27	65.82	-21.51	11.38
100	99	United States	Luke Clanton(Am)	1.26	50.20	-8.23	8.54
101	107	United States	Brian Campbell	1.24	64.72	-8.08	39.53
102	101	Spain	David Puig	1.24	49.78	-11.88	14.60
103	103	England	John Parry	1.23	63.86	-9.58	12.08
104	102	Japan	Keita Nakajima	1.22	59.98	-16.10	23.99
105	105	United States	Patrick Fishburn	1.22	63.47	-12.86	20.82
106	104	France	Victor Perez	1.22	63.41	-19.98	11.88
107	123	England	Jordan Smith	1.22	63.31	-18.27	14.06
108	106	Denmark	Niklas Norgaard	1.21	63.15	-14.22	13.57
109	112	Finland	Sami Valimaki	1.21	63.07	-13.66	32.93
110	108	United States	Kurt Kitayama	1.19	50.96	-24.67	8.74
111	109	United States	Doug Ghim	1.18	61.53	-16.20	13.92
112	110	Sweden	Jesper Svensson	1.17	60.78	-15.97	16.68
113	111	New Zealand	Ryan Fox	1.16	60.12	-24.49	17.14
114	115	United States	Charley Hoffman	1.16	56.63	-13.42	21.98
115	113	France	Romain Langasque	1.15	59.86	-19.50	4.47
116	120	Germany	Matti Schmid	1.15	59.80	-15.82	14.66
117	117	Australia	Karl Vilips	1.13	45.15	-4.38	26.66
118	115	Japan	Kensei Hirata	1.12	58.39	-13.90	15.36
119	119	Northern Ireland	Tom McKibbin	1.12	56.10	-15.50	13.46
120	118	Ireland	Seamus Power	1.12	55.77	-13.50	18.33
121	122	Philippines	Richard Hoey	1.09	56.77	-16.56	16.40
122	114	United States	Rickie Fowler	1.09	50.02	-29.80	11.74
123	121	Italy	Matteo Manassero	1.07	55.53	-15.55	6.43
124	125	England	Matthew Jordan	1.03	53.59	-12.74	10.83
125	148	Argentina	Alejandro Tosti	1.03	53.53	-14.06	28.62
126	126	United States	Alex Smalley	1.02	53.11	-13.85	28.74
127	134	United States	Chan Kim	1.01	52.72	-13.96	21.92
128	130	United States	Mark Hubbard	1.01	52.28	-20.91	11.95
129	124	South Africa	Aldrich Potgieter	1.00	44.18	-4.60	23.85
130	129	United States	Matt Kuchar	0.99	47.44	-17.10	11.96
131	127	Australia	Cameron Smith	0.99	39.50	-16.43	-
132	128	Spain	Jorge Campillo	0.98	50.85	-14.59	4.47
133	149	China	Haotong Li	0.97	46.65	-4.32	31.46
134	131	United States	Hayden Springer	0.97	41.63	-7.02	19.27
135	132	England	Paul Waring	0.97	50.21	-11.16	-
136	223	United States	Neal Shipley	0.96	38.59	-4.74	19.16
137	133	England	Daniel Brown(Oct1994)	0.95	49.24	-11.43	15.53
138	151	United States	Vincent Whaley	0.95	49.21	-10.91	10.27
139	262	South Africa	Garrick Higgo	0.94	48.12	-7.35	31.99
140	176	United States	Joel Dahmen	0.94	49.03	-7.95	26.80
141	136	France	Julien Guerrier	0.94	48.02	-14.05	5.74
142	135	France	Antoine Rozner	0.94	48.81	-12.10	11.97
143	137	Sweden	Sebastian Soderberg	0.92	43.30	-14.20	7.27
144	139	Taiwan (Chinese Taipei)	C.T. Pan	0.92	38.47	-12.78	5.76
145	167	Spain	Eugenio Chacarra	0.91	36.58	-3.68	24.12
146	140	United States	John Catlin	0.91	42.98	-11.75	2.03
147	141	United States	Patton Kizzire	0.91	47.10	-13.39	1.46
148	138	Argentina	Emiliano Grillo	0.90	46.96	-28.37	10.22
149	144	South Africa	Daniel van Tonder	0.90	46.79	-4.29	34.98
150	143	England	Richard Mansell	0.89	46.48	-8.95	23.08
151	191	United States	Michael Thorbjornsen	0.89	35.75	-5.81	11.84
152	142	United States	Johannes Veerman	0.89	46.44	-9.06	2.98
153	146	New Zealand	Daniel Hillier	0.89	46.40	-11.21	25.13
154	155	United States	John Keefer	0.89	35.57	-4.77	15.24
155	147	United States	Sam Ryder	0.88	45.85	-11.60	23.84
156	145	United States	Adam Schenk	0.88	45.83	-27.25	14.25
157	150	United States	Andrew Putnam	0.87	45.42	-17.02	13.80
158	152	England	Joe Dean	0.87	34.92	-6.81	7.90
159	154	United States	Peter Uihlein	0.87	34.61	-6.21	1.70
160	153	United States	Chandler Phillips	0.86	44.96	-11.43	11.14
161	158	United States	McClure Meissner	0.86	44.74	-10.96	12.32
162	156	United States	Carson Young	0.86	44.51	-13.19	8.99
163	162	United States	Isaiah Salinda	0.85	42.73	-7.16	23.88
164	157	South Africa	Dean Burmester	0.85	34.04	-10.27	0.53
165	159	United States	Steven Fisk	0.85	43.33	-9.83	12.62
166	160	Italy	Guido Migliozzi	0.84	43.93	-11.89	5.78
167	163	Korea; Republic of	Seonghyeon Kim	0.84	43.56	-11.25	16.90
168	161	United States	Brendon Todd	0.83	40.01	-20.42	-
169	166	Canada	Adam Svensson	0.83	43.28	-16.03	7.81
170	164	Spain	Alejandro del Rey	0.83	43.07	-6.62	25.92
171	172	Sweden	Henrik Norlander	0.82	42.85	-8.84	16.20
172	165	United States	Zach Johnson	0.82	32.89	-5.64	23.07
173	169	United States	Ben Kohles	0.80	41.74	-17.15	6.42
174	174	Scotland	Ewen Ferguson	0.80	41.58	-14.55	5.60
175	171	Scotland	Calum Hill	0.80	41.46	-9.14	22.55
176	178	South Africa	Jacques Kruyswijk	0.79	38.95	-4.93	26.95
177	170	United States	Frankie Capan	0.79	41.27	-11.19	7.75
178	168	United States	Luke List	0.79	41.19	-17.81	4.09
179	172	Korea; Republic of	Yubin Jang	0.79	31.67	-8.76	0.33
180	175	New Zealand	Ben Campbell	0.79	31.56	-7.93	0.13
181	180	United States	Pierceson Coody	0.78	40.54	-10.37	15.46
182	177	United States	Peter Malnati	0.77	40.19	-14.89	2.36
183	179	United States	Brice Garnett	0.76	32.01	-7.79	11.73
184	182	United States	Greyson Sigg	0.76	39.54	-9.82	12.62
185	181	France	Adrien Saddier	0.76	39.49	-7.11	17.09
186	206	United States	Hank Lebioda	0.75	35.40	-2.61	29.36
187	183	England	Sam Bairstow	0.74	38.73	-8.65	10.73
188	186	United States	Danny Walker	0.73	35.17	-4.44	20.21
189	185	United States	David Lipsky	0.73	38.04	-11.61	3.55
190	184	Japan	Takumi Kanaya	0.72	37.56	-15.65	2.13
191	189	Korea; Republic of	Kyoung-Hoon Lee	0.72	37.42	-14.04	6.81
192	187	United States	William Mouw	0.71	32.11	-7.39	7.74
193	188	United States	Harry Higgs	0.71	36.00	-9.50	5.93
194	192	Japan	Rikuya Hoshino	0.70	36.59	-14.99	3.94
195	194	United States	Kevin Roy	0.70	36.51	-7.89	13.27
196	190	France	Frederic LaCroix	0.70	35.71	-10.84	3.20
197	193	England	Brandon Robinson-Thompson	0.69	33.15	-5.67	16.20
198	204	Netherlands	Joost Luiten	0.68	35.43	-11.53	14.99
199	195	United States	Justin Suh	0.68	35.26	-12.05	17.82
200	198	United States	Nate Lashley	0.68	35.13	-11.69	10.22

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Updated: April 21, 2025