Official World Golf Ranking 18/2025 - Golf Today

Week 18 – 04/05/2025

Simon Bale|May 5, 2025

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

Scottie Scheffler has won the The CJ Cup Byron Nelson, Erik van Rooyen came second, Sam Stevens third and Jordan Spieth finished fourth.

Scheffler remains number 1, van Rooyen moves up to 66 from 101, Stevens to 62 from 78 and Spieth to 46 from 58.

Related: Scottie Scheffler completes wire-to-wire victory

The CJ Cup Byron Nelson R4

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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	14.50	608.98	-206.86	160.64
2	2	Northern Ireland	Rory McIlroy	11.56	531.95	-121.00	292.26
3	3	United States	Xander Schauffele	7.60	304.09	-119.68	26.99
4	4	United States	Collin Morikawa	6.43	263.82	-73.14	98.78
5	5	United States	Justin Thomas	5.72	246.03	-37.19	158.52
6	6	Sweden	Ludvig Aberg	5.53	248.92	-64.50	100.72
7	7	Japan	Hideki Matsuyama	5.06	227.85	-64.01	79.36
8	8	United States	Russell Henley	4.89	200.52	-45.95	113.94
9	9	Norway	Viktor Hovland	4.11	164.57	-78.95	69.80
10	10	United States	Maverick McNealy	4.02	180.97	-21.67	98.29
11	11	England	Tommy Fleetwood	3.63	181.63	-67.02	51.44
12	13	Ireland	Shane Lowry	3.54	169.73	-39.63	77.91
13	12	United States	Bryson DeChambeau	3.52	140.76	-41.40	31.39
14	14	England	Justin Rose	3.47	156.29	-31.52	94.95
15	15	United States	Wyndham Clark	3.42	153.87	-87.48	27.59
16	16	United States	Patrick Cantlay	3.37	134.73	-55.57	49.53
17	17	Austria	Sepp Straka	3.36	174.94	-47.36	105.96
18	19	United States	Keegan Bradley	3.30	144.98	-52.92	39.93
19	20	Korea; Republic of	Sungjae Im	3.23	168.20	-46.63	71.80
20	18	England	Tyrrell Hatton	3.23	129.17	-50.12	46.86
21	21	Scotland	Robert MacIntyre	3.14	163.20	-52.10	39.78
22	23	Canada	Corey Conners	3.13	143.86	-36.80	80.38
23	22	United States	Brian Harman	3.12	159.00	-56.00	82.82
24	24	United States	Billy Horschel	2.98	154.97	-42.77	32.31
25	25	Australia	Min Woo Lee	2.79	142.32	-35.19	80.06
26	26	United States	Akshay Bhatia	2.76	143.71	-39.04	49.54
27	27	United States	Daniel Berger	2.75	110.07	-7.66	76.43
28	28	United States	J.J. Spaun	2.74	142.30	-17.45	103.74
29	29	England	Aaron Rai	2.71	140.89	-41.74	33.84
30	31	Belgium	Thomas Detry	2.70	140.28	-27.67	80.76
31	30	United States	Sahith Theegala	2.68	139.57	-57.13	18.00
32	32	Australia	Jason Day	2.56	107.31	-39.36	53.70
33	39	United States	Sam Burns	2.51	115.53	-45.72	31.09
34	33	United States	Andrew Novak	2.47	128.24	-15.10	88.94
35	36	United States	Harris English	2.45	112.79	-30.29	70.96
36	34	Canada	Nick Taylor	2.42	121.15	-34.64	77.33
37	35	United States	Lucas Glover	2.40	124.81	-39.42	62.79
38	40	United States	Tony Finau	2.39	105.05	-40.36	26.39
39	37	Korea; Republic of	Byeong Hun An	2.37	113.81	-41.35	27.25
40	41	Australia	Adam Scott	2.36	113.42	-42.87	11.08
41	38	Korea; Republic of	Tom Kim	2.34	121.76	-49.16	20.62
42	42	United States	Tom Hoge	2.26	117.31	-27.73	61.38
43	43	United States	Denny McCarthy	2.22	102.11	-38.29	42.49
44	46	United States	J.T. Poston	2.19	111.88	-36.34	30.95
45	44	United States	Max Greyserman	2.18	113.55	-27.33	29.12
46	58	United States	Jordan Spieth	2.18	91.63	-35.07	57.27
47	45	Canada	Taylor Pendrith	2.17	112.61	-29.60	37.46
48	47	Germany	Stephan Jaeger	2.14	111.10	-32.29	43.38
49	51	Colombia	Nicolas Echavarria	2.11	109.58	-17.07	43.46
50	48	United States	Nick Dunlap	2.09	83.52	-25.20	12.68
51	50	United States	Patrick Reed	2.08	83.16	-14.06	56.04
52	49	United States	Davis Thompson	2.07	107.72	-28.39	28.16
53	52	United States	Michael Kim	2.05	106.81	-16.33	78.17
54	55	United States	Matt McCarty	2.02	105.18	-24.11	23.90
55	53	England	Laurie Canter	1.97	78.61	-11.87	49.10
56	54	Canada	Mackenzie Hughes	1.96	102.15	-26.92	33.97
57	57	Denmark	Rasmus Hojgaard	1.88	97.89	-27.57	21.14
58	56	United States	Ben Griffin	1.88	97.75	-26.93	39.92
59	63	United States	Eric Cole	1.87	97.03	-37.51	40.17
60	59	United States	Austin Eckroat	1.83	95.26	-34.06	13.07
61	60	France	Matthieu Pavon	1.82	94.76	-40.11	7.54
62	78	United States	Samuel Stevens	1.82	94.63	-18.43	62.79
63	61	South Africa	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	1.79	93.14	-29.67	25.27
64	62	Australia	Cameron Davis	1.78	92.51	-36.09	28.36
65	64	United States	Joe Highsmith	1.75	87.71	-10.07	59.30
66	101	South Africa	Erik van Rooyen	1.75	90.87	-24.18	39.09
67	65	United States	Cameron Young	1.71	82.24	-38.98	17.42
68	66	Korea; Republic of	Si Woo Kim	1.71	88.81	-31.87	34.03
69	70	Venezuela	Jhonattan Vegas	1.68	67.20	-13.96	23.86
70	67	Sweden	Alex Noren	1.62	64.94	-28.12	-
71	68	United States	Will Zalatoris	1.61	64.35	-19.96	18.03
72	74	United States	Patrick Rodgers	1.58	82.24	-21.93	40.18
73	69	United States	Jacob Bridgeman	1.58	82.13	-11.30	57.89
74	71	United States	Max Homa	1.56	71.62	-42.00	13.83
75	72	Denmark	Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen	1.54	77.14	-12.43	38.56
76	76	United States	Max McGreevy	1.54	80.01	-15.58	25.38
77	73	Spain	Jon Rahm	1.52	60.78	-56.50	8.50
78	75	South Africa	Thriston Lawrence	1.49	77.40	-30.34	0.86
79	79	United States	Chris Kirk	1.48	68.20	-32.33	11.95
80	77	United States	Ryan Gerard	1.48	76.77	-10.51	53.48
81	84	Denmark	Thorbjorn Olesen	1.46	75.96	-24.41	15.66
82	80	Taiwan (Chinese Taipei)	Chun-an Yu	1.46	75.94	-18.54	21.74
83	81	United States	Bud Cauley	1.46	58.33	-3.97	44.37
84	82	England	Matt Fitzpatrick	1.45	69.68	-48.75	10.89
85	83	Chile	Joaquin Niemann	1.44	57.40	-14.65	9.97
86	85	Japan	Ryo Hisatsune	1.43	74.21	-20.94	32.82
87	87	United States	Jake Knapp	1.39	72.35	-20.25	32.56
88	86	England	Matt Wallace	1.39	72.27	-23.59	8.23
89	88	United States	Taylor Moore	1.37	68.72	-27.69	25.51
90	91	United States	Keith Mitchell	1.37	68.41	-20.60	27.96
91	89	Canada	Adam Hadwin	1.37	65.66	-29.09	13.70
92	89	Denmark	Nicolai Hojgaard	1.35	70.45	-33.06	11.67
93	92	United States	John Keefer	1.33	53.34	-5.44	33.67
94	93	United States	Gary Woodland	1.33	57.31	-12.11	39.97
95	112	United States	Kurt Kitayama	1.31	56.42	-26.82	16.36
96	99	England	Harry Hall	1.27	65.89	-18.65	25.49
97	98	United States	Davis Riley	1.27	65.84	-16.67	25.58
98	94	United States	Beau Hossler	1.26	65.74	-23.75	16.92
99	97	South Africa	Shaun Norris	1.26	65.65	-9.67	21.29
100	96	United States	Justin Lower	1.26	65.28	-16.12	23.47
101	95	United States	Lee Hodges	1.25	62.43	-24.32	22.26
102	103	United States	Brian Campbell	1.22	63.67	-9.13	39.53
103	102	United States	Luke Clanton(Am)	1.22	48.94	-9.50	8.54
104	100	Japan	Keita Nakajima	1.22	59.77	-18.13	25.81
105	109	Denmark	Niklas Norgaard	1.21	63.06	-16.13	15.39
106	108	Finland	Sami Valimaki	1.21	62.89	-15.39	34.48
107	104	Spain	David Puig	1.20	48.03	-13.63	14.60
108	105	England	John Parry	1.20	62.32	-11.11	12.08
109	107	France	Victor Perez	1.19	62.06	-22.01	12.55
110	106	United States	Patrick Fishburn	1.19	61.75	-14.59	20.82
111	111	United States	Doug Ghim	1.18	61.30	-18.26	15.75
112	110	England	Jordan Smith	1.17	61.05	-20.53	14.06
113	120	Australia	Karl Vilips	1.14	45.75	-4.93	27.81
114	114	Sweden	Jesper Svensson	1.13	58.86	-17.89	16.68
115	119	Northern Ireland	Tom McKibbin	1.12	53.99	-17.60	13.46
116	118	Japan	Kensei Hirata	1.12	58.29	-16.39	17.75
117	130	United States	Mark Hubbard	1.12	58.11	-22.70	19.57
118	112	United States	Charley Hoffman	1.12	54.74	-15.31	21.98
119	116	New Zealand	Ryan Fox	1.12	57.99	-27.29	17.81
120	117	France	Romain Langasque	1.11	57.77	-21.80	4.70
121	115	Germany	Matti Schmid	1.11	57.60	-18.02	14.66
122	121	Ireland	Seamus Power	1.08	54.22	-15.04	18.33
123	122	Philippines	Richard Hoey	1.08	56.27	-18.05	17.39
124	124	Italy	Matteo Manassero	1.06	55.04	-17.38	7.77
125	123	United States	Rickie Fowler	1.04	46.71	-33.11	11.74
126	127	United States	Alex Smalley	1.02	53.05	-15.46	30.28
127	125	Argentina	Alejandro Tosti	1.01	52.68	-15.47	29.17
128	144	France	Antoine Rozner	1.00	52.19	-13.57	16.82
129	126	England	Matthew Jordan	1.00	51.86	-14.47	10.83
130	132	United States	Neal Shipley	0.99	39.56	-5.35	20.75
131	131	China	Haotong Li	0.99	46.44	-4.89	31.83
132	143	United States	Vincent Whaley	0.98	51.12	-12.39	13.66
133	128	United States	Chan Kim	0.98	50.89	-15.79	21.92
134	160	United States	Adam Schenk	0.97	50.69	-30.01	21.87
135	133	United States	Matt Kuchar	0.97	46.56	-18.79	12.77
136	129	South Africa	Aldrich Potgieter	0.96	43.40	-5.38	23.85
137	137	South Africa	Garrick Higgo	0.96	47.22	-8.25	31.99
138	134	Spain	Jorge Campillo	0.95	49.43	-16.63	5.08
139	138	Spain	Eugenio Chacarra	0.95	37.83	-4.25	25.94
140	139	England	Paul Waring	0.93	48.60	-12.77	-
141	141	France	Julien Guerrier	0.93	46.64	-15.97	6.28
142	135	Australia	Cameron Smith	0.93	37.29	-18.64	-
143	145	United States	John Catlin	0.92	41.51	-13.22	2.03
144	142	United States	Joel Dahmen	0.92	47.96	-9.02	26.80
145	136	United States	Hayden Springer	0.92	40.52	-8.14	19.27
146	153	United States	Michael Thorbjornsen	0.92	36.80	-6.58	13.67
147	140	England	Daniel Brown(Oct1994)	0.92	47.73	-12.94	15.53
148	156	United States	Andrew Putnam	0.92	46.81	-19.01	17.19
149	147	United States	Patton Kizzire	0.92	46.73	-14.92	2.62
150	148	Sweden	Sebastian Soderberg	0.91	41.77	-16.04	7.58
151	149	United States	Johannes Veerman	0.90	46.06	-10.50	4.05
152	164	United States	Chandler Phillips	0.90	46.95	-12.84	14.53
153	146	New Zealand	Daniel Hillier	0.90	46.82	-13.16	27.50
154	150	Taiwan (Chinese Taipei)	C.T. Pan	0.90	36.79	-14.45	5.76
155	151	South Africa	Daniel van Tonder	0.88	45.94	-5.13	34.98
156	154	England	Richard Mansell	0.87	45.40	-10.03	23.08
157	152	Argentina	Emiliano Grillo	0.86	43.75	-31.58	10.22
158	155	Korea; Republic of	Seonghyeon Kim	0.86	44.55	-12.72	19.36
159	157	United States	Sam Ryder	0.86	44.53	-12.92	23.84
160	159	United States	Isaiah Salinda	0.85	42.64	-8.06	24.69
161	161	England	Joe Dean	0.85	33.93	-7.80	7.90
162	158	United States	McClure Meissner	0.85	43.97	-12.34	12.92
163	162	United States	Steven Fisk	0.84	42.12	-11.04	12.62
164	163	United States	Peter Uihlein	0.84	33.65	-7.17	1.70
165	191	Japan	Takumi Kanaya	0.84	43.69	-17.14	9.74
166	167	Italy	Guido Migliozzi	0.83	42.36	-13.46	5.78
167	171	Sweden	Henrik Norlander	0.83	43.13	-9.90	17.54
168	165	United States	Carson Young	0.83	43.02	-14.68	8.99
169	166	South Africa	Dean Burmester	0.82	32.68	-11.63	0.53
170	173	South Africa	Jacques Kruyswijk	0.82	38.34	-5.54	26.95
171	170	United States	Zach Johnson	0.81	32.29	-6.24	23.07
172	169	Spain	Alejandro del Rey	0.80	41.82	-7.87	25.92
173	172	United States	Brendon Todd	0.80	37.70	-22.74	-
174	184	United States	Pierceson Coody	0.80	41.69	-11.58	17.82
175	175	Canada	Richard T. Lee	0.79	40.33	-8.54	16.46
176	174	Scotland	Calum Hill	0.79	41.07	-10.14	23.16
177	177	United States	Ben Kohles	0.79	41.04	-18.85	7.41
178	168	Canada	Adam Svensson	0.78	40.74	-18.57	7.81
179	176	England	Sam Bairstow	0.78	40.51	-9.82	13.68
180	189	United States	Danny Walker	0.77	36.95	-5.01	22.57
181	178	Scotland	Ewen Ferguson	0.77	39.94	-16.19	5.60
182	179	United States	Frankie Capan	0.77	39.86	-12.60	7.75
183	180	Korea; Republic of	Yubin Jang	0.76	30.55	-9.88	0.33
184	181	New Zealand	Ben Campbell	0.76	30.45	-9.04	0.13
185	182	United States	Luke List	0.75	38.96	-20.04	4.09
186	197	United States	Kevin Roy	0.75	38.88	-8.91	16.66
187	186	United States	Hank Lebioda	0.74	34.92	-3.26	29.53
188	187	France	Adrien Saddier	0.74	38.54	-8.06	17.09
189	183	United States	Brice Garnett	0.74	31.02	-8.77	11.73
190	188	United States	Greyson Sigg	0.73	38.21	-11.14	12.62
191	185	United States	Peter Malnati	0.73	37.98	-17.10	2.36
192	190	United States	David Lipsky	0.71	36.87	-12.78	3.55
193	241	United States	Ricky Castillo	0.71	34.55	-7.08	21.02
194	209	United States	Chris Gotterup	0.70	36.47	-11.30	12.71
195	198	Japan	Rikuya Hoshino	0.70	36.44	-16.69	5.49
196	196	France	Frederic LaCroix	0.70	34.33	-12.22	3.20
197	194	England	Marco Penge	0.70	36.29	-5.38	25.66
198	193	Korea; Republic of	Kyoung-Hoon Lee	0.69	36.07	-15.39	6.81
199	192	United States	Harry Higgs	0.68	34.82	-10.68	5.93
200	205	United States	Nate Lashley	0.68	35.40	-12.97	11.77

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Updated: May 5, 2025