Official World Golf Ranking 20/2025 - Golf Today

Week 20 – 18/05/2025

Simon Bale|May 19, 2025

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

Scottie Scheffler has won the PGA Championship, Harris English, Bryson DeChambeau and Davis Riley came second while Taylor Pendrith, Jhonattan Vegas and J.T. Poston finished fifth.

Scheffler stays at number 1, English moves up to 34 from 73, DeChambeau up five places to number 10, Riley to 53 from 100, Pendrith to 38 from 49, Vegas to 49 from 70 and Poston to 35 from 46.

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Wins PGA Championship by five shots at Quail Hollow.

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This Week	Last Week	Country	Player	Avg. Points	Total Points	Points Lost (2025)	Points Won (2025)
1	1	United States	Scheffler	16.87	691.50	-228.35	264.64
2	2	Northern Ireland	McIlroy	11.25	528.97	-135.59	303.87
3	3	United States	Schauffele	7.58	303.29	-131.19	37.71
4	4	United States	Morikawa	6.23	261.72	-81.26	104.80
5	5	United States	Thomas	6.19	272.39	-41.94	189.63
6	6	Sweden	Aberg	5.13	241.06	-72.63	101.00
7	7	Japan	Matsuyama	4.97	223.82	-71.77	83.08
8	8	United States	Henley	4.68	196.35	-50.86	114.68
9	9	Austria	Straka	4.57	237.65	-53.48	174.78
10	15	United States	DeChambeau	4.48	179.30	-46.19	74.72
11	12	United States	McNealy	4.04	181.82	-25.15	102.61
12	11	Norway	Hovland	4.04	161.53	-86.92	74.73
13	10	Ireland	Lowry	4.00	195.83	-44.64	109.03
14	13	England	Fleetwood	3.77	192.52	-73.97	69.28
15	14	United States	Cantlay	3.60	144.09	-60.89	64.22
16	19	United States	Bradley	3.40	153.13	-58.68	53.83
17	34	United States	English	3.38	158.94	-33.67	120.49
18	16	England	Rose	3.32	152.88	-34.93	94.95
19	21	Canada	Conners	3.25	152.67	-40.18	92.58
20	17	United States	Clark	3.22	148.05	-95.60	29.89
21	18	Korea; Republic of	Im	3.19	165.70	-51.59	74.26
22	20	England	Hatton	3.14	125.69	-55.00	48.26
23	22	Scotland	MacIntyre	3.11	161.80	-57.47	43.75
24	23	United States	Harman	2.98	155.00	-62.15	84.96
25	25	United States	Berger	2.96	118.54	-9.44	86.68
26	24	United States	Horschel	2.94	150.14	-47.60	32.31
27	26	United States	Spaun	2.83	147.41	-19.72	111.11
28	29	England	Rai	2.77	144.29	-46.80	42.30
29	27	Australia	Lee	2.72	138.91	-39.17	80.63
30	28	United States	Bhatia	2.69	140.09	-43.40	50.27
31	30	Belgium	Detry	2.65	137.72	-31.97	82.50
32	31	United States	Theegala	2.57	133.87	-62.83	18.00
33	35	United States	Burns	2.53	119.09	-49.89	38.83
34	32	Australia	Day	2.52	103.42	-43.25	53.70
35	46	United States	Poston	2.52	130.84	-40.50	54.08
36	37	United States	Finau	2.49	112.22	-44.05	37.25
37	33	United States	Novak	2.49	129.65	-17.41	92.66
38	49	Canada	Pendrith	2.49	129.60	-33.27	58.13
39	40	Australia	Scott	2.42	116.28	-47.28	18.35
40	38	United States	Glover	2.38	123.50	-44.38	66.44
41	47	United States	McCarthy	2.36	110.93	-42.38	55.40
42	36	Canada	Taylor	2.36	120.33	-39.18	81.05
43	39	Korea; Republic of	An	2.28	111.55	-45.83	29.47
44	42	Germany	Jaeger	2.26	117.47	-35.95	53.41
45	41	Korea; Republic of	Kim	2.25	117.10	-55.43	22.22
46	45	United States	Greyserman	2.21	114.69	-30.64	33.58
47	43	United States	Hoge	2.20	114.17	-30.88	61.38
48	44	Canada	Hughes	2.18	113.16	-29.78	47.84
49	70	Venezuela	Vegas	2.15	86.08	-15.74	44.53
50	51	Colombia	Echavarria	2.12	110.12	-19.69	46.61
51	48	United States	Spieth	2.10	90.32	-37.65	58.54
52	58	United States	Griffin	2.07	107.78	-29.81	52.83
53	100	United States	Riley	2.07	107.51	-18.33	68.91
54	50	United States	Thompson	2.06	107.05	-31.53	30.62
55	54	United States	Kim	2.05	106.47	-18.47	79.97
56	52	United States	Reed	2.05	81.84	-15.38	56.04
57	53	United States	Dunlap	2.01	80.50	-28.22	12.68
58	55	United States	McCarty	1.97	102.63	-26.67	23.90
59	66	Korea; Republic of	Kim	1.95	101.44	-35.14	49.92
60	69	United States	Highsmith	1.94	98.74	-11.21	71.47
61	56	England	Canter	1.91	76.47	-14.01	49.10
62	57	Denmark	Hojgaard	1.89	98.09	-31.03	24.80
63	59	United States	Cole	1.85	96.14	-42.82	44.59
64	61	United States	Stevens	1.84	95.83	-21.09	66.65
65	62	United States	Young	1.84	90.30	-42.53	29.04
66	60	United States	Bridgeman	1.84	95.66	-12.45	72.58
67	68	Australia	Davis	1.82	94.86	-40.14	34.77
68	64	France	Pavon	1.81	93.95	-44.48	11.10
69	63	United States	Eckroat	1.79	93.28	-37.81	14.84
70	65	South Africa	Bezuidenhout	1.79	92.94	-33.12	28.52
71	72	Sweden	Noren	1.77	70.73	-31.15	8.82
72	82	Spain	Rahm	1.75	69.90	-59.55	20.67
73	67	South Africa	van Rooyen	1.72	89.39	-26.92	40.36
74	81	United States	Gerard	1.70	88.64	-11.75	66.59
75	87	Chile	Niemann	1.69	67.71	-16.51	22.14
76	71	New Zealand	Fox	1.68	87.37	-30.16	50.06
77	85	England	Fitzpatrick	1.64	80.43	-52.63	25.52
78	73	Taiwan (Chinese Taipei)	Yu	1.62	84.24	-20.86	32.36
79	74	United States	Zalatoris	1.56	62.57	-22.14	18.44
80	79	Denmark	Olesen	1.56	81.34	-27.14	23.77
81	75	United States	Rodgers	1.53	79.58	-25.53	41.12
82	76	United States	McGreevy	1.52	78.79	-17.55	26.13
83	78	United States	Homa	1.51	71.17	-45.59	16.97
84	89	England	Wallace	1.50	77.80	-26.31	16.48
85	77	Denmark	Neergaard-Petersen	1.48	75.38	-14.19	38.56
86	80	United States	Mitchell	1.47	75.21	-22.71	36.87
87	83	United States	Cauley	1.47	58.78	-4.54	45.39
88	84	United States	Kirk	1.45	67.97	-35.30	14.69
89	90	United States	Moore	1.44	73.59	-30.30	32.97
90	86	South Africa	Lawrence	1.41	73.11	-34.63	0.86
91	91	Japan	Hisatsune	1.40	72.75	-27.00	37.43
92	98	England	Hall	1.38	71.80	-20.46	33.20
93	88	United States	Knapp	1.35	70.07	-22.53	32.56
94	94	Denmark	Hojgaard	1.35	70.04	-36.62	14.82
95	102	United States	Hossler	1.33	69.10	-26.39	22.92
96	93	United States	Keefer	1.31	52.51	-6.26	33.67
97	95	United States	Woodland	1.31	57.51	-13.18	41.24
98	92	Canada	Hadwin	1.31	62.69	-32.33	13.97
99	96	Denmark	Norgaard	1.29	67.24	-18.05	21.49
100	103	United States	Campbell	1.26	65.76	-10.11	42.59
101	97	United States	Kitayama	1.26	54.24	-29.00	16.36
102	99	Finland	Valimaki	1.25	65.23	-17.12	38.54
103	104	United States	Lower	1.24	64.63	-18.17	24.87
104	101	South Africa	Norris	1.23	64.10	-11.22	21.29
105	105	France	Perez	1.20	62.50	-24.09	15.07
106	106	United States	Clanton(Am)	1.19	47.67	-10.76	8.54
107	113	Spain	Puig	1.19	47.63	-15.43	16.00
108	107	England	Smith	1.19	61.64	-22.87	16.99
109	109	England	Parry	1.18	61.46	-12.69	12.80
110	120	United States	Smalley	1.18	61.43	-17.71	40.91
111	111	China	Li	1.17	55.06	-5.92	41.47
112	110	United States	Hodges	1.17	59.57	-27.18	22.26
113	112	United States	Hubbard	1.16	60.39	-24.49	23.64
114	108	Japan	Nakajima	1.15	57.73	-20.17	25.81
115	114	United States	Fishburn	1.15	59.98	-16.35	20.82
116	115	United States	Ghim	1.15	59.79	-20.39	16.37
117	116	Philippines	Hoey	1.13	58.91	-19.47	21.46
118	117	Australia	Vilips	1.13	45.20	-5.48	27.81
119	164	Korea; Republic of	Kim	1.12	58.49	-14.20	34.77
120	124	Northern Ireland	McKibbin	1.11	54.19	-19.71	15.76
121	123	Japan	Hirata	1.10	57.45	-18.00	18.51
122	118	Sweden	Svensson	1.10	57.37	-19.77	17.08
123	121	Spain	Campillo	1.10	57.27	-18.42	14.72
124	119	United States	Hoffman	1.10	52.86	-17.19	21.98
125	122	Germany	Schmid	1.09	56.91	-22.78	18.73
126	125	France	Langasque	1.08	56.04	-24.12	5.27
127	126	Ireland	Power	1.08	53.80	-16.58	19.44
128	127	United States	Fowler	1.05	48.37	-36.31	16.60
129	128	Italy	Manassero	1.03	53.61	-19.21	8.16
130	130	Argentina	Tosti	1.00	51.74	-16.93	29.70
131	129	France	Rozner	0.99	51.70	-15.17	17.93
132	143	United States	Thorbjornsen	0.99	39.57	-7.36	17.22
133	131	England	Jordan	0.99	51.41	-16.27	12.19
134	134	United States	Kuchar	0.98	44.96	-20.39	12.77
135	133	United States	Shipley	0.97	38.92	-5.99	20.75
136	132	United States	Whaley	0.97	50.58	-13.88	14.62
137	136	South Africa	Higgo	0.96	48.13	-9.14	33.79
138	135	United States	Kim	0.95	49.19	-17.49	21.92
139	142	France	Couvra	0.93	45.68	-4.97	34.93
140	137	United States	Higgs	0.93	47.50	-11.87	19.79
141	139	Spain	Chacarra	0.93	37.22	-4.86	25.94
142	140	South Africa	Potgieter	0.93	42.62	-6.16	23.85
143	138	United States	Schenk	0.92	48.00	-32.69	21.87
144	144	England	Waring	0.90	46.99	-14.38	-
145	141	United States	Kizzire	0.90	46.93	-16.44	4.33
146	145	United States	Dahmen	0.90	46.90	-10.08	26.80
147	150	England	Mansell	0.89	46.28	-11.13	25.07
148	147	France	Guerrier	0.89	45.30	-17.72	6.70
149	155	United States	Putnam	0.89	45.18	-21.05	17.59
150	149	England	Brown(Oct1994)	0.89	46.05	-14.62	15.53
151	152	United States	Springer	0.88	39.77	-9.25	19.64
152	151	Taiwan (Chinese Taipei)	Pan	0.88	35.21	-16.03	5.76
153	153	United States	Ryder	0.88	45.75	-14.21	26.35
154	148	Australia	Smith	0.88	35.09	-20.84	-
155	154	United States	Phillips	0.88	45.50	-14.28	14.53
156	146	United States	Catlin	0.87	40.06	-14.66	2.03
157	160	United States	Fisk	0.87	43.44	-12.24	15.13
158	156	New Zealand	Hillier	0.87	45.05	-14.93	27.50
159	158	South Africa	van Tonder	0.86	44.91	-6.16	34.98
160	157	Sweden	Soderberg	0.86	40.50	-17.84	8.11
161	159	United States	Veerman	0.86	44.62	-11.95	4.05
162	163	United States	Salinda	0.85	41.74	-8.97	24.69
163	161	United States	Young	0.85	44.11	-16.11	11.50
164	179	Canada	Lee	0.84	42.77	-9.56	19.91
165	168	United States	Meissner	0.84	42.59	-13.71	12.92
166	162	Argentina	Grillo	0.83	42.39	-34.66	11.93
167	167	Australia	Herbert	0.82	32.92	-13.11	19.00
168	166	England	Dean	0.82	32.91	-8.82	7.90
169	165	Japan	Kanaya	0.82	42.73	-18.85	10.49
170	169	United States	Uihlein	0.82	32.68	-8.13	1.70
171	170	Italy	Migliozzi	0.81	42.15	-15.02	7.14
172	171	England	Bairstow	0.81	42.12	-11.14	16.61
173	172	Sweden	Norlander	0.81	42.06	-10.97	17.54
174	173	United States	Coody	0.80	41.05	-12.98	18.58
175	175	United States	Johnson	0.79	31.68	-6.84	23.07
176	176	South Africa	Kruyswijk	0.79	37.71	-6.17	26.95
177	174	South Africa	Burmester	0.78	31.32	-12.99	0.53
178	176	Spain	del Rey	0.78	40.57	-9.12	25.92
179	178	United States	Kohles	0.78	40.35	-20.49	8.37
180	202	England	Penge	0.77	40.24	-5.95	30.18
181	181	United States	Todd	0.77	35.57	-24.87	-
182	180	Scotland	Hill	0.77	40.07	-11.15	23.16
183	183	United States	Walker	0.77	37.48	-5.59	23.67
184	184	England	Robinson-Thompson	0.76	37.25	-7.35	21.98
185	182	Canada	Svensson	0.76	39.38	-20.36	8.24
186	185	Scotland	Ferguson	0.75	39.00	-17.83	6.31
187	186	United States	Garnett	0.74	31.23	-9.76	12.92
188	187	United States	Capan	0.74	38.45	-14.00	7.75
189	189	United States	Roy	0.74	38.39	-9.93	17.18
190	192	Japan	Sugiura	0.74	29.46	-9.02	6.91
191	188	Korea; Republic of	Jang	0.74	29.45	-10.98	0.33
192	190	New Zealand	Campbell	0.73	29.33	-10.16	0.13
193	191	France	Saddier	0.73	37.92	-9.02	17.43
194	194	United States	Lebioda	0.73	34.87	-3.96	30.17
195	193	United States	Gotterup	0.73	37.77	-12.51	15.23
196	196	Netherlands	Luiten	0.71	37.11	-14.09	19.23
197	195	United States	List	0.71	37.07	-22.27	4.43
198	197	United States	Sigg	0.71	36.79	-12.57	12.62
199	198	United States	Malnati	0.70	36.33	-18.75	2.36
200	200	United States	Castillo	0.69	34.63	-7.96	21.97

Simon Bale

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