World Golf Ranking 31/2026 August 3, 2026 - Golf Today

Week 31 – 02/08/26

Simon Bale|August 3, 2026

Keywords: European Tour, golf trivia, Number 1, Official World Golf Ranking, PGA Tour, rankings, Tournaments

Michael Thorbjornsen has won the Rocket Classic, Xander Schauffele came second, Davis Riley third, Rasmus Højgaard fourth and Hideki Matsuyama tied for fifth place with Matt Wallace and Kristoffer Ventura.

Thorbjornsen moves up to 40 from 68 this week, Schauffele up six places to number 9, Riley to 116 from 180, Højgaard to 77 from 95, Matsuyama up one to 24, Wallace up twelve to 62 and Ventura to 192 from 262.

Related: Michael Thorbjornsen Claims First PGA Tour Title With Closing 63 at Rocket Classic

The 24-year-old produced a bogey-free final round and holed a 26-foot birdie putt at the last to beat Xander Schauffele in Detroit.

Related: How the Official World Golf Ranking Works: OWGR Points, Field Rating and Time Decay Explained

The OWGR system is built on field rating, finishing position, and a two-year rolling average. Here's how the mechanics actually work, from Strokes Gained to the minimum divisor.

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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	16.47	691.58	-384.38	391.00
2	2	Northern Ireland	Rory McIlroy	9.12	392.01	-241.47	196.76
3	3	United States	Cameron Young	8.13	373.77	-86.93	299.80
4	4	England	Matt Fitzpatrick	7.19	345.28	-75.88	271.01
5	5	United States	Russell Henley	5.69	227.60	-107.59	138.84
6	6	England	Tommy Fleetwood	5.57	283.86	-137.48	138.34
7	7	United States	Chris Gotterup	5.39	280.38	-78.41	221.50
8	8	United States	Collin Morikawa	5.20	208.11	-116.22	170.97
9	15	United States	Xander Schauffele	5.20	207.85	-147.51	149.28
10	9	United States	Wyndham Clark	5.19	254.39	-58.92	218.14
11	10	United States	Sam Burns	5.06	237.88	-74.90	178.31
12	11	England	Justin Rose	4.91	210.99	-99.58	129.75
13	12	Spain	Jon Rahm	4.75	189.81	-42.64	171.80
14	13	Norway	Viktor Hovland	4.71	197.78	-82.31	128.90
15	14	United States	J.J. Spaun	4.58	238.09	-116.79	106.84
16	16	Sweden	Ludvig Aberg	4.32	194.60	-98.63	133.23
17	17	Scotland	Robert MacIntyre	4.23	219.76	-130.96	109.37
18	18	South Korea	Si Woo Kim	4.20	218.39	-62.03	178.42
19	20	England	Aaron Rai	4.14	202.99	-82.74	134.13
20	19	United States	Ben Griffin	4.12	214.20	-107.55	85.40
21	21	England	Tyrrell Hatton	4.06	162.28	-69.53	101.54
22	22	United States	Justin Thomas	4.02	160.73	-101.52	73.10
23	23	New Zealand	Ryan Fox	3.93	200.30	-53.69	145.42
24	25	Japan	Hideki Matsuyama	3.68	187.50	-112.51	121.48
25	24	United States	Ryan Gerard	3.66	190.20	-59.81	146.10
26	26	Austria	Sepp Straka	3.53	166.00	-103.30	79.21
27	27	Sweden	Alex Noren	3.47	138.69	-68.87	51.28
28	29	Australia	Min Woo Lee	3.46	173.12	-60.28	135.24
29	28	Norway	Kristoffer Reitan	3.45	179.26	-45.01	110.64
30	31	United States	Jacob Bridgeman	3.37	175.30	-56.93	151.01
31	30	United States	Patrick Reed	3.34	133.78	-49.21	102.75
32	32	United States	Akshay Bhatia	3.26	169.46	-72.32	138.62
33	35	South Korea	Tom Kim	3.20	156.69	-47.09	136.03
34	33	United States	Bryson DeChambeau	3.15	126.06	-76.66	93.74
35	36	United States	J.T. Poston	3.10	149.00	-50.56	109.75
36	34	United States	Harris English	3.05	152.31	-90.68	52.97
37	37	United States	Kurt Kitayama	2.96	136.13	-50.55	90.81
38	38	Denmark	Nicolai Hojgaard	2.88	149.94	-44.87	112.15
39	39	United States	Patrick Cantlay	2.88	118.04	-67.37	71.99
40	68	United States	Michael Thorbjornsen	2.85	139.58	-34.10	105.71
41	41	United States	Rickie Fowler	2.76	118.71	-35.14	88.03
42	40	United States	Bud Cauley	2.74	125.99	-33.92	93.47
43	43	United States	Gary Woodland	2.61	122.56	-30.70	101.66
44	42	United States	Maverick McNealy	2.59	134.84	-89.09	63.78
45	44	United States	Keegan Bradley	2.58	118.75	-90.92	43.22
46	45	United States	Alex Smalley	2.50	129.91	-30.69	102.37
47	46	Australia	Lucas Herbert	2.43	97.05	-13.17	85.76
48	47	United States	Jake Knapp	2.40	95.94	-38.89	74.43
49	48	Ireland	Shane Lowry	2.27	117.84	-85.49	59.28
50	50	Canada	Corey Conners	2.25	108.01	-66.75	55.35
51	55	United States	Michael Kim	2.21	115.06	-57.06	60.21
52	51	England	Marco Penge	2.20	114.39	-53.16	33.04
53	49	Australia	Adam Scott	2.19	102.76	-60.01	79.03
54	52	Chile	Joaquin Niemann	2.13	85.06	-23.72	69.15
55	53	United States	Samuel Stevens	2.10	109.34	-55.44	65.04
56	54	United States	Daniel Berger	2.09	100.44	-51.83	67.30
57	57	United States	Jordan Spieth	2.03	85.30	-37.39	56.30
58	60	United States	Michael Brennan	2.03	93.33	-32.42	36.87
59	56	Colombia	Nicolas Echavarria	2.02	105.05	-58.22	64.43
60	58	United States	Brian Harman	2.00	104.03	-60.79	51.17
61	59	Australia	Jason Day	1.98	79.26	-48.37	53.45
62	74	England	Matt Wallace	1.94	100.66	-48.30	66.08
63	61	Spain	Eugenio Chacarra	1.93	100.21	-20.12	76.15
64	62	United States	Pierceson Coody	1.91	99.30	-41.63	69.38
65	63	United States	John Keefer	1.90	98.70	-39.46	59.88
66	65	Japan	Ryo Hisatsune	1.89	98.32	-38.80	81.59
67	64	South Africa	Casey Jarvis	1.88	97.78	-21.95	84.32
68	66	England	Alex Fitzpatrick	1.85	96.11	-20.64	80.62
69	67	United States	Matt McCarty	1.84	95.42	-64.01	63.29
70	73	United States	Jackson Koivun	1.80	71.96	-11.91	52.18
71	69	Spain	David Puig	1.77	70.96	-26.13	49.15
72	71	United States	Keith Mitchell	1.74	88.93	-32.80	67.82
73	72	Canada	Nick Taylor	1.74	90.58	-52.21	50.04
74	70	United States	Eric Cole	1.74	90.29	-38.08	64.07
75	79	South Korea	Sungjae Im	1.72	89.33	-69.14	53.94
76	76	England	Jordan Smith	1.72	89.27	-41.52	54.71
77	95	Denmark	Rasmus Hojgaard	1.68	87.28	-56.58	38.21
78	75	United States	Andrew Novak	1.68	87.10	-59.68	31.13
79	78	United States	Max Homa	1.65	79.21	-28.29	60.95
80	77	Denmark	Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen	1.65	85.70	-46.38	32.16
81	80	Finland	Sami Valimaki	1.63	81.58	-42.10	14.00
82	81	United States	Sahith Theegala	1.59	77.71	-49.89	71.97
83	84	Germany	Matti Schmid	1.56	81.36	-41.50	46.74
84	83	United States	Max Greyserman	1.56	81.36	-67.61	33.15
85	87	United States	McClure Meissner	1.56	78.22	-33.77	45.69
86	85	United States	Steven Fisk	1.56	81.27	-31.05	47.71
87	82	Belgium	Thomas Detry	1.56	81.24	-57.11	42.67
88	86	England	Harry Hall	1.55	80.36	-51.33	39.22
89	88	South Africa	Aldrich Potgieter	1.53	77.85	-36.92	38.36
90	89	South Africa	Jayden Schaper	1.49	77.51	-33.39	19.06
91	91	England	John Parry	1.45	75.54	-41.72	37.51
92	90	United States	Denny McCarthy	1.45	69.49	-46.09	37.85
93	100	Japan	Keita Nakajima	1.43	67.30	-29.15	33.02
94	98	United States	Blades Brown	1.41	62.23	-7.59	58.26
95	92	Canada	Taylor Pendrith	1.41	70.61	-57.21	36.44
96	102	United States	Ricky Castillo	1.40	70.06	-22.86	49.94
97	94	South Africa	Shaun Norris	1.40	72.72	-33.84	36.45
98	99	South Africa	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	1.39	72.32	-44.56	34.67
99	101	Argentina	Emiliano Grillo	1.38	69.09	-32.68	32.56
100	93	United States	Lucas Glover	1.38	66.29	-47.42	28.47
101	96	United States	Andrew Putnam	1.37	71.49	-26.43	57.70
102	97	United States	Patrick Rodgers	1.37	71.10	-38.16	49.60
103	112	Philippines	Richard Hoey	1.32	68.87	-43.85	25.45
104	106	Germany	Stephan Jaeger	1.30	67.71	-43.34	45.91
105	120	United States	Chris Kirk	1.30	58.39	-36.42	21.86
106	103	Canada	Sudarshan Yellamaraju	1.29	64.56	-16.14	54.30
107	104	United States	Austin Smotherman	1.28	65.27	-28.53	40.93
108	114	United States	Ben Kohles	1.28	66.53	-19.03	56.07
109	105	United States	Jackson Suber	1.27	63.28	-20.07	45.27
110	108	Japan	Kota Kaneko	1.26	65.40	-17.86	43.44
111	107	United States	Max McGreevy	1.25	65.25	-48.31	24.96
112	109	China	Haotong Li	1.24	64.62	-36.95	25.98
113	111	New Zealand	Daniel Hillier	1.24	64.61	-28.10	41.23
114	113	United States	Brooks Koepka	1.23	49.01	-14.11	38.88
115	115	United States	David Lipsky	1.22	63.69	-29.39	42.85
116	180	United States	Davis Riley	1.22	63.59	-40.69	34.46
117	110	South Africa	Garrick Higgo	1.21	55.79	-32.47	8.01
118	121	United States	Kevin Roy	1.21	62.89	-26.77	40.08
119	123	United States	Chandler Blanchet	1.20	59.01	-22.12	28.72
120	119	South Africa	Hennie Du Plessis	1.19	47.42	-5.59	44.40
121	117	Finland	Oliver Lindell	1.18	61.61	-22.03	40.12
122	116	Spain	Angel Ayora	1.18	61.53	-29.08	29.79
123	136	United States	Davis Thompson	1.18	59.01	-49.59	36.37
124	118	United States	Tom Hoge	1.18	61.14	-44.81	35.36
125	125	United States	Doc Redman	1.16	47.62	-10.34	39.86
126	127	Taiwan (Chinese Taipei)	Chun-an Yu	1.15	59.86	-40.29	24.61
127	129	United States	Brandt Snedeker	1.14	52.49	-12.03	38.36
128	126	Australia	Cameron Smith	1.13	45.34	-15.12	32.67
129	124	England	Daniel Brown(Oct1994)	1.13	56.60	-38.07	14.57
130	122	United States	Lee Hodges	1.13	53.11	-29.04	30.46
131	128	England	Andy Sullivan	1.11	57.87	-27.24	33.73
132	141	United States	Ross Steelman	1.11	50.06	-10.32	38.81
133	131	Spain	Jose Luis Ballester	1.11	44.45	-8.76	23.54
134	130	United States	Tony Finau	1.09	48.08	-44.30	32.74
135	132	United States	Chandler Phillips	1.09	56.60	-23.96	34.47
136	133	United States	William Mouw	1.09	49.91	-27.45	23.94
137	135	South Africa	Richard Sterne	1.08	45.33	-10.30	27.32
138	137	United States	Mark Hubbard	1.07	55.72	-30.09	25.90
139	134	Australia	Elvis Smylie	1.07	52.37	-23.63	30.24
140	139	France	Adrien Saddier	1.07	55.45	-37.12	8.84
141	138	Sweden	Mikael Lindberg	1.05	54.71	-12.43	38.59
142	140	Denmark	Jacob Skov Olesen	1.04	53.20	-16.23	33.46
143	142	United States	Zac Blair	1.02	50.98	-15.18	38.46
144	143	England	Laurie Canter	1.00	46.13	-36.93	9.86
145	150	United States	Ian Holt	1.00	46.09	-14.63	43.81
146	145	Scotland	Calum Hill	1.00	51.93	-23.45	35.81
147	144	Northern Ireland	Tom McKibbin	1.00	43.87	-31.62	10.30
148	147	Spain	Nacho Elvira	1.00	51.77	-23.11	36.45
149	148	United States	Brian Campbell	0.99	50.53	-40.23	9.40
150	146	Canada	Mackenzie Hughes	0.97	50.62	-43.81	20.90
151	151	South Africa	Michael Hollick	0.96	47.16	-8.97	31.75
152	158	Denmark	Thorbjorn Olesen	0.96	49.88	-37.85	16.66
153	149	South Africa	JC Ritchie	0.96	49.87	-20.86	15.86
154	159	United States	Cole Sherwood	0.95	43.86	-8.03	37.28
155	169	United States	Doug Ghim	0.95	48.61	-27.40	27.10
156	156	France	Victor Perez	0.95	46.63	-32.91	24.92
157	152	England	Marcus Armitage	0.95	49.22	-19.56	30.57
158	153	United States	Taylor Moore	0.94	45.10	-29.35	30.45
159	155	United States	Zachary Bauchou	0.94	48.79	-19.00	31.79
160	154	South Korea	Seonghyeon Kim	0.94	48.63	-25.31	29.35
161	157	Australia	Travis Smyth	0.93	38.23	-11.13	33.15
162	160	Austria	Bernd Wiesberger	0.93	48.19	-13.33	39.31
163	161	England	Dan Bradbury	0.91	47.53	-22.35	28.10
164	162	Mexico	Carlos Ortiz	0.91	36.40	-17.09	16.90
165	163	United States	Beau Hossler	0.90	46.92	-30.04	22.50
166	165	United States	Davis Bryant	0.90	40.34	-8.90	28.70
167	167	United States	Davis Lamb	0.89	35.61	-8.99	27.60
168	172	United States	Dylan Menante	0.89	39.12	-7.23	32.09
169	168	Sweden	Jesper Svensson	0.89	46.12	-28.31	24.01
170	170	Zimbabwe	Scott Vincent	0.88	37.10	-15.14	16.15
171	166	Japan	Takumi Kanaya	0.88	45.89	-29.60	14.40
172	207	United States	Tommy Morrison	0.88	35.23	-0.45	35.23
173	171	Sweden	Joakim Lagergren	0.88	45.52	-26.65	13.53
174	179	France	Jeremy Gandon	0.87	39.93	-12.17	29.51
175	173	Spain	Sergio Garcia	0.87	34.72	-7.71	31.21
176	164	United States	Billy Horschel	0.86	39.67	-62.24	22.40
177	174	South Africa	Thriston Lawrence	0.85	44.37	-52.11	6.76
178	175	France	Martin Couvra	0.85	44.03	-25.39	14.31
179	176	Japan	Kazuki Higa	0.84	43.80	-25.79	5.84
180	177	Belgium	Adrien Dumont de Chassart	0.84	43.78	-21.92	19.70
181	178	Venezuela	Jhonattan Vegas	0.84	38.41	-40.63	12.91
182	185	United States	Matt Kuchar	0.83	33.04	-24.41	13.58
183	182	Canada	A.J. Ewart	0.82	32.81	-7.45	29.09
184	181	United States	Vincent Whaley	0.82	42.50	-33.52	8.16
185	183	Spain	Jorge Campillo	0.81	42.30	-27.95	25.03
186	188	United States	Carson Young	0.80	41.80	-24.28	23.59
187	187	United States	Austin Eckroat	0.80	40.82	-38.10	20.80
187	190	United States	Adam Schenk	0.80	41.62	-24.43	11.63
189	189	China	Marty Dou Zecheng	0.80	39.87	-14.98	23.41
190	184	Ireland	Seamus Power	0.80	41.44	-27.02	23.61
191	186	United States	Chad Ramey	0.79	41.02	-20.95	18.38
192	262	Norway	Kristoffer Ventura	0.79	38.57	-17.82	21.65
193	191	Mexico	Abraham Ancer	0.79	31.40	-5.41	28.72
194	193	United States	Joe Highsmith	0.78	40.35	-36.93	13.60
195	192	United States	Peter Uihlein	0.77	30.79	-19.04	19.13
196	194	South Africa	Dean Burmester	0.76	30.59	-14.07	21.99
197	196	Australia	Karl Vilips	0.76	33.99	-23.31	18.91
198	195	South Africa	Erik van Rooyen	0.75	39.17	-33.45	10.09
199	197	England	Todd Clements	0.75	38.80	-17.21	19.99
200	198	New Zealand	Kazuma Kobori	0.74	38.67	-16.58	17.77

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Official World Golf Ranking 31/2026

Related: Michael Thorbjornsen Claims First PGA Tour Title With Closing 63 at Rocket Classic

Related: How the Official World Golf Ranking Works: OWGR Points, Field Rating and Time Decay Explained

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