Official World Golf Ranking 17/2025 - Golf Today

Week 17 – 27/04/2025

Simon Bale|April 28, 2025

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

Andrew Novak and Ben Griffin have won the Zurich Classic of New Orleans, Nicolai and Rasmus Højgaard came second and Jake Knapp and Frankie Capan III finished third.

Novak moves up one place to 33 this week, Griffin stays at 56, Nicolai Højgaard down one place to 89 , Rasmus Højgaard stays at 57, Knapp up one place to 87 and Capan down two to 179.

Marco Penge has won the Hainan Classic, Kristoffer Reitan and Sean Crocker came second, Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen third and Martin Couvra finished fifth.

Penge moves up to 194 from 344, Reitan to 285 from 382, Crocker to 235 from 315, Neergaard-Petersen up six places to 72 and Couvra to 252 from 290.

Related: Joint first win for Andrew Novak & Ben Griffin

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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	13.89	569.43	-196.24	110.46
2	2	Northern Ireland	Rory McIlroy	11.47	539.25	-113.71	292.26
3	3	United States	Xander Schauffele	7.76	310.26	-113.50	26.99
4	4	United States	Collin Morikawa	6.38	267.85	-69.10	98.78
5	6	United States	Justin Thomas	5.64	248.31	-34.91	158.52
6	5	Sweden	Ludvig Aberg	5.61	252.61	-60.81	100.72
7	7	Japan	Hideki Matsuyama	5.15	231.68	-60.19	79.36
8	8	United States	Russell Henley	4.95	202.97	-43.50	113.94
9	9	Norway	Viktor Hovland	4.21	168.57	-74.95	69.80
10	10	United States	Maverick McNealy	4.05	182.40	-20.24	98.29
11	11	England	Tommy Fleetwood	3.63	185.19	-63.46	51.44
12	12	United States	Bryson DeChambeau	3.58	143.16	-39.00	31.39
13	13	Ireland	Shane Lowry	3.52	172.24	-37.13	77.91
14	14	England	Justin Rose	3.51	158.00	-29.82	94.95
15	17	United States	Wyndham Clark	3.45	158.55	-82.80	27.59
16	15	United States	Patrick Cantlay	3.43	137.37	-52.92	49.53
17	16	Austria	Sepp Straka	3.42	177.89	-44.41	105.96
18	18	England	Tyrrell Hatton	3.30	131.89	-47.40	46.86
19	19	United States	Keegan Bradley	3.29	147.88	-50.02	39.93
20	20	Korea; Republic of	Sungjae Im	3.25	169.04	-43.97	69.98
21	21	Scotland	Robert MacIntyre	3.18	165.42	-49.88	39.78
22	22	United States	Brian Harman	3.12	162.02	-52.98	82.82
23	23	Canada	Corey Conners	3.10	145.63	-35.03	80.38
24	24	United States	Billy Horschel	3.03	157.39	-40.35	32.31
25	25	Australia	Min Woo Lee	2.83	144.24	-33.27	80.06
26	26	United States	Akshay Bhatia	2.80	145.81	-36.94	49.54
27	29	United States	Daniel Berger	2.77	110.60	-7.13	76.43
28	30	United States	J.J. Spaun	2.76	143.39	-16.36	103.74
29	27	England	Aaron Rai	2.75	143.13	-39.50	33.84
30	28	United States	Sahith Theegala	2.74	142.39	-54.31	18.00
31	31	Belgium	Thomas Detry	2.73	141.78	-26.17	80.76
32	32	Australia	Jason Day	2.55	109.45	-37.22	53.70
33	34	United States	Andrew Novak	2.49	129.27	-14.07	88.94
34	33	Canada	Nick Taylor	2.47	123.34	-32.45	77.33
35	35	United States	Lucas Glover	2.45	127.25	-36.98	62.79
36	36	United States	Harris English	2.44	114.71	-28.37	70.96
37	40	Korea; Republic of	Byeong Hun An	2.40	115.39	-39.09	26.57
38	37	Korea; Republic of	Tom Kim	2.40	124.54	-46.38	20.62
39	38	United States	Sam Burns	2.39	109.97	-43.66	23.47
40	41	United States	Tony Finau	2.37	106.87	-38.55	26.39
41	39	Australia	Adam Scott	2.36	115.80	-40.49	11.08
42	42	United States	Tom Hoge	2.28	118.70	-26.34	61.38
43	43	United States	Denny McCarthy	2.22	104.14	-36.27	42.49
44	44	United States	Max Greyserman	2.21	115.17	-25.70	29.12
45	45	Canada	Taylor Pendrith	2.20	114.43	-27.78	37.46
46	46	United States	J.T. Poston	2.19	113.91	-34.31	30.95
47	47	Germany	Stephan Jaeger	2.16	112.15	-30.43	42.57
48	48	United States	Nick Dunlap	2.13	85.00	-23.72	12.68
49	49	United States	Davis Thompson	2.10	109.24	-26.88	28.16
50	51	United States	Patrick Reed	2.10	83.81	-13.41	56.04
51	50	Colombia	Nicolas Echavarria	2.09	108.53	-15.78	41.10
52	52	United States	Michael Kim	2.07	107.46	-15.68	78.17
53	54	England	Laurie Canter	1.99	79.68	-10.80	49.10
54	53	Canada	Mackenzie Hughes	1.99	103.55	-25.52	33.97
55	55	United States	Matt McCarty	1.98	103.14	-22.76	20.51
56	56	United States	Ben Griffin	1.90	98.91	-25.77	39.92
57	57	Denmark	Rasmus Hojgaard	1.89	98.27	-25.94	19.89
58	59	United States	Jordan Spieth	1.88	78.89	-33.95	43.42
59	58	United States	Austin Eckroat	1.87	97.48	-31.84	13.07
60	60	France	Matthieu Pavon	1.86	96.89	-37.98	7.54
61	61	South Africa	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	1.82	94.66	-28.15	25.27
62	62	Australia	Cameron Davis	1.81	93.87	-34.06	27.68
63	63	United States	Eric Cole	1.79	92.89	-34.04	32.55
64	65	United States	Joe Highsmith	1.77	88.27	-9.50	59.30
65	64	United States	Cameron Young	1.71	83.95	-37.26	17.42
66	66	Korea; Republic of	Si Woo Kim	1.68	87.12	-30.17	30.64
67	68	Sweden	Alex Noren	1.66	66.46	-26.60	-
68	67	United States	Will Zalatoris	1.64	65.42	-18.88	18.03
69	70	United States	Jacob Bridgeman	1.59	82.81	-10.62	57.89
70	71	Venezuela	Jhonattan Vegas	1.58	63.24	-13.06	19.01
71	69	United States	Max Homa	1.56	73.51	-40.12	13.83
72	78	Denmark	Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen	1.56	77.89	-11.68	38.56
73	72	Spain	Jon Rahm	1.56	62.31	-54.98	8.50
74	73	United States	Patrick Rodgers	1.54	79.83	-20.95	36.79
75	74	South Africa	Thriston Lawrence	1.52	78.80	-28.94	0.86
76	76	United States	Max McGreevy	1.49	77.56	-14.64	21.99
77	80	United States	Ryan Gerard	1.49	77.34	-9.95	53.48
78	77	United States	Samuel Stevens	1.49	77.28	-17.31	44.31
79	75	United States	Chris Kirk	1.48	69.70	-30.83	11.95
80	81	Taiwan (Chinese Taipei)	Chun-an Yu	1.47	74.93	-17.50	19.69
81	84	United States	Bud Cauley	1.46	58.58	-3.72	44.37
82	79	England	Matt Fitzpatrick	1.46	71.64	-46.80	10.89
83	82	Chile	Joaquin Niemann	1.46	58.33	-13.72	9.97
84	83	Denmark	Thorbjorn Olesen	1.45	75.30	-23.02	13.60
85	85	Japan	Ryo Hisatsune	1.45	75.19	-19.95	32.82
86	86	England	Matt Wallace	1.42	73.70	-22.16	8.23
87	88	United States	Jake Knapp	1.41	71.90	-19.16	31.01
88	87	United States	Taylor Moore	1.40	69.96	-26.45	25.51
89	88	Denmark	Nicolai Hojgaard	1.37	71.32	-31.39	10.86
89	90	Canada	Adam Hadwin	1.37	67.20	-27.55	13.70
91	91	United States	Keith Mitchell	1.36	69.44	-19.57	27.96
92	154	United States	John Keefer	1.34	53.70	-5.07	33.67
93	93	United States	Gary Woodland	1.32	57.87	-11.55	39.97
94	92	United States	Beau Hossler	1.28	66.50	-22.40	16.32
95	96	United States	Lee Hodges	1.28	63.85	-22.90	22.26
96	94	United States	Justin Lower	1.27	66.29	-15.11	23.47
97	95	South Africa	Shaun Norris	1.27	66.21	-8.90	21.08
98	97	United States	Davis Riley	1.26	65.33	-15.84	24.24
99	98	England	Harry Hall	1.25	65.04	-17.68	23.67
100	104	Japan	Keita Nakajima	1.24	60.78	-17.12	25.81
101	99	South Africa	Erik van Rooyen	1.24	64.50	-22.84	11.38
102	100	United States	Luke Clanton(Am)	1.24	49.57	-8.86	8.54
103	101	United States	Brian Campbell	1.23	64.21	-8.59	39.53
104	102	Spain	David Puig	1.22	48.93	-12.73	14.60
105	103	England	John Parry	1.21	63.09	-10.35	12.08
106	105	United States	Patrick Fishburn	1.20	62.62	-13.71	20.82
107	106	France	Victor Perez	1.20	62.40	-20.99	11.88
108	109	Finland	Sami Valimaki	1.20	62.25	-14.48	32.93
109	108	Denmark	Niklas Norgaard	1.20	62.21	-15.16	13.57
110	107	England	Jordan Smith	1.20	62.19	-19.40	14.06
111	111	United States	Doug Ghim	1.16	60.51	-17.22	13.92
112	110	United States	Kurt Kitayama	1.16	49.88	-25.75	8.74
112	114	United States	Charley Hoffman	1.16	55.68	-14.37	21.98
114	112	Sweden	Jesper Svensson	1.15	59.84	-16.91	16.68
115	116	Germany	Matti Schmid	1.13	58.92	-16.70	14.66
116	113	New Zealand	Ryan Fox	1.13	58.76	-25.85	17.14
117	115	France	Romain Langasque	1.13	58.74	-20.83	4.70
118	118	Japan	Kensei Hirata	1.12	58.50	-14.76	16.32
119	119	Northern Ireland	Tom McKibbin	1.12	55.05	-16.55	13.46
120	117	Australia	Karl Vilips	1.12	44.87	-4.66	26.66
121	120	Ireland	Seamus Power	1.10	55.02	-14.25	18.33
122	121	Philippines	Richard Hoey	1.08	56.08	-17.25	16.40
123	122	United States	Rickie Fowler	1.05	48.37	-31.45	11.74
124	123	Italy	Matteo Manassero	1.05	54.61	-16.47	6.43
125	125	Argentina	Alejandro Tosti	1.02	52.85	-14.74	28.62
126	124	England	Matthew Jordan	1.01	52.72	-13.61	10.83
127	126	United States	Alex Smalley	1.01	52.31	-14.66	28.74
128	127	United States	Chan Kim	1.00	51.85	-14.82	21.92
129	129	South Africa	Aldrich Potgieter	1.00	43.79	-4.99	23.85
130	128	United States	Mark Hubbard	0.99	51.38	-21.80	11.95
131	133	China	Haotong Li	0.97	46.73	-4.60	31.83
132	136	United States	Neal Shipley	0.97	38.93	-5.03	19.80
133	130	United States	Matt Kuchar	0.97	46.59	-17.94	11.96
134	132	Spain	Jorge Campillo	0.97	50.25	-15.80	5.08
135	131	Australia	Cameron Smith	0.96	38.40	-17.54	-
136	134	United States	Hayden Springer	0.96	41.08	-7.58	19.27
137	139	South Africa	Garrick Higgo	0.95	47.67	-7.80	31.99
138	145	Spain	Eugenio Chacarra	0.95	38.13	-3.95	25.94
139	135	England	Paul Waring	0.95	49.41	-11.97	-
140	137	England	Daniel Brown(Oct1994)	0.93	48.55	-12.13	15.53
141	141	France	Julien Guerrier	0.93	47.61	-15.00	6.28
142	140	United States	Joel Dahmen	0.93	48.49	-8.49	26.80
143	138	United States	Vincent Whaley	0.93	48.47	-11.65	10.27
144	142	France	Antoine Rozner	0.92	48.08	-12.83	11.97
145	146	United States	John Catlin	0.92	42.24	-12.48	2.03
146	153	New Zealand	Daniel Hillier	0.92	47.70	-12.28	27.50
147	147	United States	Patton Kizzire	0.91	46.34	-14.16	1.46
148	143	Sweden	Sebastian Soderberg	0.91	42.69	-15.11	7.58
149	152	United States	Johannes Veerman	0.90	46.78	-9.78	4.05
150	144	Taiwan (Chinese Taipei)	C.T. Pan	0.90	37.63	-13.61	5.76
151	149	South Africa	Daniel van Tonder	0.89	46.44	-4.64	34.98
152	148	Argentina	Emiliano Grillo	0.89	45.32	-30.01	10.22
153	151	United States	Michael Thorbjornsen	0.88	35.36	-6.19	11.84
154	150	England	Richard Mansell	0.88	45.94	-9.49	23.08
155	167	Korea; Republic of	Seonghyeon Kim	0.87	45.29	-11.98	19.36
156	157	United States	Andrew Putnam	0.87	44.41	-18.02	13.80
157	155	United States	Sam Ryder	0.87	45.21	-12.24	23.84
158	161	United States	McClure Meissner	0.86	44.05	-11.65	12.32
159	163	United States	Isaiah Salinda	0.86	42.28	-7.61	23.88
160	156	United States	Adam Schenk	0.86	44.77	-28.30	14.25
161	158	England	Joe Dean	0.86	34.44	-7.29	7.90
162	165	United States	Steven Fisk	0.85	42.72	-10.44	12.62
163	159	United States	Peter Uihlein	0.85	34.13	-6.69	1.70
164	160	United States	Chandler Phillips	0.85	44.26	-12.13	11.14
165	162	United States	Carson Young	0.84	43.80	-13.90	8.99
166	164	South Africa	Dean Burmester	0.83	33.36	-10.95	0.53
167	166	Italy	Guido Migliozzi	0.83	43.14	-12.67	5.78
168	169	Canada	Adam Svensson	0.82	42.47	-16.84	7.81
169	170	Spain	Alejandro del Rey	0.82	42.45	-7.24	25.92
170	172	United States	Zach Johnson	0.81	32.59	-5.94	23.07
171	171	Sweden	Henrik Norlander	0.81	42.32	-9.37	16.20
172	168	United States	Brendon Todd	0.81	38.86	-21.58	-
173	176	South Africa	Jacques Kruyswijk	0.81	38.65	-5.23	26.95
174	175	Scotland	Calum Hill	0.80	41.57	-9.64	23.16
175	230	Canada	Richard T. Lee	0.80	40.74	-8.02	16.35
176	187	England	Sam Bairstow	0.79	41.08	-9.25	13.68
177	173	United States	Ben Kohles	0.79	40.92	-17.98	6.42
178	174	Scotland	Ewen Ferguson	0.78	40.76	-15.37	5.60
179	177	United States	Frankie Capan	0.78	40.56	-11.89	7.75
180	179	Korea; Republic of	Yubin Jang	0.78	31.11	-9.32	0.33
181	180	New Zealand	Ben Campbell	0.78	31.00	-8.49	0.13
182	178	United States	Luke List	0.77	40.08	-18.92	4.09
183	183	United States	Brice Garnett	0.77	31.51	-8.29	11.73
184	181	United States	Pierceson Coody	0.77	39.94	-10.97	15.46
185	182	United States	Peter Malnati	0.76	39.32	-15.76	2.36
186	186	United States	Hank Lebioda	0.75	35.27	-2.92	29.53
187	185	France	Adrien Saddier	0.75	39.02	-7.58	17.09
188	184	United States	Greyson Sigg	0.75	38.88	-10.48	12.62
189	188	United States	Danny Walker	0.74	34.88	-4.73	20.21
190	189	United States	David Lipsky	0.72	37.46	-12.20	3.55
191	190	Japan	Takumi Kanaya	0.71	36.85	-16.36	2.13
192	193	United States	Harry Higgs	0.71	35.41	-10.09	5.93
193	191	Korea; Republic of	Kyoung-Hoon Lee	0.71	36.75	-14.71	6.81
194	344	England	Marco Penge	0.70	36.57	-5.09	25.66
195	192	United States	William Mouw	0.70	31.64	-7.86	7.74
196	196	France	Frederic LaCroix	0.70	35.02	-11.53	3.20
197	195	United States	Kevin Roy	0.69	36.00	-8.40	13.27
198	194	Japan	Rikuya Hoshino	0.69	35.76	-15.82	3.94
199	208	Australia	Elvis Smylie	0.68	27.37	-3.57	4.41
200	197	England	Brandon Robinson-Thompson	0.68	32.79	-6.02	16.20

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Updated: April 28, 2025