World Golf Ranking 33/2026 August 17, 2026 - Golf Today

Week 33 – 16/08/26

Simon Bale|August 17, 2026

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

Scottie Scheffler has won the FedEx St. Jude Championship, Si Woo Kim came second, Alex Noren and Sam Burns tied for third place and Wyndham Clark finished fifth alongside Sungjae Im.

Scheffler stays at number 1, Kim moves up five places to 13, Noren to 18 from 26, Burns up four to number 7, Clark stays at number 8 and Im up eleven to 62.

Scottie Scheffler in action at the US PGA Championship

Related: Scottie Scheffler Opens FedExCup Playoffs With Record Eight-Shot Win

World No. 1 ended a seven-month wait for his second title of 2026, setting a TPC Southwind victory record.

Jeff Winther has won the Danish Golf Championship while Filippo Celli, Oliver Lindell, Rasmus Højgaard, Matthew Jordan and Yanhan Zhou tied for second place.

Winther moves up to 180 from 312, to 341 from 438, Lindell to 111 from 125, Højgaard up six to 73, Jordan to 278 from 340 and Zhou to 204 from 247.

Andalucía Masters 2023 R3. Pictured: Jeff Winther

Related: Jeff Winther Claims Home Victory at Danish Golf Championship

A 31-foot eagle putt at the 16th carried the 38-year-old Dane through a crowded leaderboard and delivered his second DP World Tour title.

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

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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	17.70	743.21	-405.36	463.61
2	2	Northern Ireland	Rory McIlroy	8.76	376.83	-256.83	196.94
3	3	United States	Cameron Young	7.98	366.96	-95.60	301.66
4	4	England	Matt Fitzpatrick	7.15	343.02	-83.56	276.42
5	6	England	Tommy Fleetwood	5.58	284.48	-145.91	147.40
6	5	United States	Russell Henley	5.57	222.83	-114.19	140.67
7	11	United States	Sam Burns	5.44	255.66	-79.76	200.95
8	8	United States	Wyndham Clark	5.42	265.41	-61.62	231.86
9	7	United States	Chris Gotterup	5.30	275.61	-85.01	223.34
10	9	United States	Xander Schauffele	5.28	211.29	-153.13	158.34
11	10	United States	Collin Morikawa	5.04	201.78	-123.12	171.53
12	12	England	Justin Rose	4.89	205.51	-106.23	130.92
13	18	South Korea	Si Woo Kim	4.87	253.49	-66.72	218.21
14	14	Norway	Viktor Hovland	4.67	196.29	-87.37	132.47
15	13	Spain	Jon Rahm	4.64	185.41	-47.05	171.80
16	15	United States	J.J. Spaun	4.45	231.27	-125.05	108.28
17	16	Sweden	Ludvig Aberg	4.39	197.37	-104.92	142.29
18	26	Sweden	Alex Noren	4.12	164.75	-73.03	81.50
19	17	Scotland	Robert MacIntyre	4.09	212.90	-137.81	109.37
20	19	England	Aaron Rai	4.09	200.18	-87.86	136.44
21	20	United States	Ben Griffin	3.99	207.63	-115.09	86.37
22	21	England	Tyrrell Hatton	3.93	157.27	-74.55	101.54
23	23	United States	Justin Thomas	3.89	159.52	-107.95	78.33
24	22	New Zealand	Ryan Fox	3.87	197.26	-57.08	145.77
25	24	Japan	Hideki Matsuyama	3.79	197.25	-119.39	138.12
26	25	United States	Ryan Gerard	3.60	187.39	-65.14	148.61
27	27	Australia	Min Woo Lee	3.45	169.09	-64.75	135.69
28	30	South Korea	Tom Kim	3.42	171.23	-48.94	152.42
29	28	Norway	Kristoffer Reitan	3.36	174.84	-49.78	110.98
30	29	Austria	Sepp Straka	3.34	160.50	-110.24	80.65
31	31	United States	Jacob Bridgeman	3.30	171.78	-62.28	152.84
32	32	United States	Patrick Reed	3.24	129.66	-53.34	102.75
33	33	United States	Akshay Bhatia	3.23	164.65	-77.28	138.77
34	35	United States	Michael Brennan	3.10	145.83	-34.79	91.74
35	36	United States	J.T. Poston	3.09	148.51	-53.56	112.26
36	34	United States	Bryson DeChambeau	3.07	122.70	-80.02	93.74
37	37	United States	Kurt Kitayama	2.99	137.67	-54.43	96.22
38	41	United States	Patrick Cantlay	2.92	119.59	-71.23	77.40
39	38	United States	Harris English	2.89	147.14	-96.82	53.95
40	40	Denmark	Nicolai Hojgaard	2.83	147.25	-49.00	113.59
41	39	United States	Michael Thorbjornsen	2.82	137.95	-36.47	106.44
42	43	United States	Bud Cauley	2.76	129.69	-36.53	99.78
43	42	Chile	Joaquin Niemann	2.74	109.64	-25.19	95.20
44	44	United States	Rickie Fowler	2.66	116.86	-38.43	89.47
45	46	United States	Alex Smalley	2.62	136.44	-34.25	112.46
46	47	United States	Maverick McNealy	2.60	135.26	-94.78	69.90
47	45	United States	Gary Woodland	2.56	120.50	-33.74	102.64
48	50	United States	Jake Knapp	2.55	101.99	-41.89	83.48
49	48	United States	Keegan Bradley	2.54	114.47	-96.39	44.42
50	49	Australia	Lucas Herbert	2.39	95.54	-14.68	85.76
51	54	Australia	Adam Scott	2.23	104.73	-63.46	84.44
52	52	Canada	Corey Conners	2.19	105.18	-70.31	56.09
53	51	Ireland	Shane Lowry	2.18	113.52	-90.37	59.84
54	53	England	Marco Penge	2.16	112.18	-56.96	34.64
55	57	United States	Jordan Spieth	2.13	89.59	-40.16	63.37
56	56	Colombia	Nicolas Echavarria	2.07	107.59	-66.83	75.59
57	55	United States	Daniel Berger	2.05	96.37	-55.90	67.30
58	58	United States	Samuel Stevens	2.05	106.39	-59.36	66.01
59	60	England	Matt Wallace	2.01	104.60	-51.94	73.67
60	59	United States	Michael Kim	1.98	103.10	-70.37	61.56
61	61	United States	Brian Harman	1.97	102.37	-64.29	53.00
62	73	South Korea	Sungjae Im	1.92	99.81	-76.86	72.15
63	62	Australia	Jason Day	1.91	76.23	-51.40	53.45
64	63	Spain	Eugenio Chacarra	1.90	98.77	-21.78	76.38
65	69	United States	Jackson Koivun	1.90	75.81	-12.67	56.78
66	64	United States	Pierceson Coody	1.87	97.49	-47.01	72.96
67	65	United States	John Keefer	1.85	96.13	-42.03	59.88
68	67	South Africa	Casey Jarvis	1.84	95.84	-23.89	84.32
69	66	Japan	Ryo Hisatsune	1.84	95.76	-41.91	82.16
70	68	England	Alex Fitzpatrick	1.83	95.21	-22.51	81.59
71	70	United States	Matt McCarty	1.76	91.36	-70.39	65.60
72	72	England	Jordan Smith	1.74	90.73	-44.99	59.65
73	79	Denmark	Rasmus Hojgaard	1.74	90.65	-60.49	45.50
74	71	United States	Andrew Novak	1.74	90.62	-63.74	38.72
75	75	United States	Eric Cole	1.74	90.32	-40.50	66.52
76	77	England	Harry Hall	1.73	90.02	-55.15	52.71
77	74	United States	Keith Mitchell	1.73	89.89	-34.88	70.86
78	76	Spain	David Puig	1.72	68.72	-28.36	49.15
79	78	Canada	Nick Taylor	1.71	88.68	-55.76	51.69
80	80	United States	Max Homa	1.67	80.16	-29.84	63.46
81	82	Finland	Sami Valimaki	1.61	78.69	-45.00	14.00
82	81	Denmark	Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen	1.58	82.18	-49.90	32.16
83	85	United States	Steven Fisk	1.56	79.65	-32.67	47.71
84	83	Germany	Matti Schmid	1.54	80.23	-43.85	47.96
85	133	United States	Ross Steelman	1.54	70.72	-10.93	60.09
86	84	United States	Sahith Theegala	1.53	76.56	-52.41	73.33
87	86	United States	McClure Meissner	1.53	76.39	-35.60	45.69
88	87	United States	Max Greyserman	1.51	78.74	-70.65	33.57
89	88	Belgium	Thomas Detry	1.50	77.92	-60.43	42.67
90	89	South Africa	Aldrich Potgieter	1.48	75.36	-39.68	38.64
91	90	United States	Denny McCarthy	1.47	69.18	-48.49	39.95
92	91	South Africa	Jayden Schaper	1.44	74.95	-35.95	19.06
93	92	United States	Beau Hossler	1.44	74.87	-32.03	52.44
94	93	England	John Parry	1.41	73.45	-45.42	39.11
95	95	Japan	Keita Nakajima	1.40	65.62	-30.82	33.02
96	98	Canada	Taylor Pendrith	1.39	69.56	-59.86	38.04
97	94	Taiwan (Chinese Taipei)	Chun-an Yu	1.39	72.26	-42.86	39.58
98	96	United States	Ricky Castillo	1.39	69.43	-24.91	51.36
99	105	United States	Patrick Rodgers	1.38	71.65	-41.18	53.18
100	97	South Africa	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	1.38	71.59	-46.89	36.26
101	102	Argentina	Emiliano Grillo	1.37	67.17	-34.61	32.56
102	101	United States	Blades Brown	1.36	61.11	-8.71	58.26
103	99	South Africa	Shaun Norris	1.35	70.35	-36.30	36.53
104	100	United States	Andrew Putnam	1.35	70.21	-28.61	58.60
105	104	Philippines	Richard Hoey	1.33	69.18	-46.08	28.00
106	107	United States	Jackson Suber	1.33	65.07	-21.18	48.17
107	103	United States	Lucas Glover	1.32	63.47	-50.24	28.47
108	106	United States	Ben Kohles	1.31	68.11	-19.76	58.38
109	108	Canada	Sudarshan Yellamaraju	1.30	63.61	-17.82	55.03
110	109	Germany	Stephan Jaeger	1.28	65.26	-45.79	45.91
111	125	Finland	Oliver Lindell	1.27	66.07	-23.65	46.20
112	110	United States	Doc Redman	1.27	52.05	-11.23	45.18
113	113	United States	Chris Kirk	1.26	56.83	-38.47	22.34
114	114	United States	Davis Thompson	1.26	61.71	-51.38	40.86
115	111	United States	Austin Smotherman	1.25	63.57	-30.81	41.51
116	112	United States	Kevin Roy	1.24	64.48	-28.68	43.57
117	115	Japan	Kota Kaneko	1.24	64.28	-18.98	43.44
118	116	United States	Max McGreevy	1.22	63.30	-50.26	24.96
119	117	United States	Brooks Koepka	1.21	48.38	-15.32	39.46
120	118	New Zealand	Daniel Hillier	1.20	62.50	-30.21	41.23
121	119	China	Haotong Li	1.19	62.06	-39.51	25.98
122	120	South Africa	Garrick Higgo	1.19	53.68	-34.58	8.01
123	121	United States	Davis Riley	1.19	61.76	-42.53	34.46
124	122	United States	David Lipsky	1.18	61.34	-31.74	42.85
125	123	United States	Tom Hoge	1.17	61.07	-46.97	37.45
126	127	United States	Chandler Blanchet	1.17	57.31	-23.82	28.72
127	124	South Africa	Hennie Du Plessis	1.17	46.70	-6.31	44.40
128	126	Spain	Angel Ayora	1.16	60.18	-30.87	30.25
129	128	United States	Brandt Snedeker	1.15	51.76	-13.45	39.05
130	129	United States	Chandler Phillips	1.11	57.97	-25.48	37.36
131	132	England	Daniel Brown(Oct1994)	1.11	54.34	-40.33	14.57
132	130	Australia	Cameron Smith	1.11	44.30	-16.16	32.67
133	131	United States	Lee Hodges	1.10	51.91	-30.73	30.94
134	134	Spain	Jose Luis Ballester	1.08	43.33	-9.88	23.54
135	135	England	Andy Sullivan	1.08	56.10	-29.00	33.73
136	147	United States	Zac Blair	1.08	54.98	-16.06	43.33
137	139	United States	Tony Finau	1.07	47.08	-45.98	33.43
138	136	Australia	Elvis Smylie	1.05	50.47	-25.53	30.24
139	138	United States	William Mouw	1.05	48.22	-29.14	23.94
140	145	Denmark	Jacob Skov Olesen	1.04	54.20	-17.58	35.82
141	137	South Africa	Richard Sterne	1.04	44.79	-11.02	27.50
142	140	France	Adrien Saddier	1.04	54.00	-39.27	9.52
143	144	Northern Ireland	Tom McKibbin	1.04	45.68	-33.34	13.82
144	141	United States	Mark Hubbard	1.03	53.71	-32.10	25.90
145	143	Sweden	Mikael Lindberg	1.03	53.63	-13.84	38.92
146	142	Zimbabwe	Scott Vincent	1.03	43.25	-16.27	23.42
147	146	United States	Zachary Bauchou	1.00	52.03	-20.24	36.28
148	149	Canada	Mackenzie Hughes	0.99	50.60	-45.93	22.99
149	148	United States	Doug Ghim	0.99	50.47	-29.03	30.59
150	150	Scotland	Calum Hill	0.97	50.55	-25.04	36.02
151	155	United States	Cole Sherwood	0.97	44.53	-8.79	38.72
152	151	Spain	Nacho Elvira	0.97	50.33	-24.55	36.45
153	152	United States	Ian Holt	0.96	45.30	-15.95	44.34
154	153	United States	Billy Horschel	0.96	43.09	-64.56	28.14
155	160	South Africa	Michael Hollick	0.95	46.77	-9.60	31.98
156	161	France	Victor Perez	0.95	45.52	-34.02	24.92
157	159	United States	Taylor Moore	0.94	43.47	-30.98	30.45
158	156	United States	Brian Campbell	0.94	48.14	-42.62	9.40
159	154	England	Laurie Canter	0.94	44.13	-38.93	9.86
160	163	England	Marcus Armitage	0.93	48.58	-21.02	31.39
161	158	South Africa	JC Ritchie	0.93	48.28	-22.45	15.86
162	162	United States	Alistair Docherty	0.93	43.60	-17.34	40.50
163	157	Denmark	Thorbjorn Olesen	0.92	47.90	-41.11	17.92
164	166	Austria	Bernd Wiesberger	0.92	47.84	-14.25	39.89
165	167	United States	Benjamin James	0.91	36.27	-1.00	35.59
166	165	Australia	Travis Smyth	0.90	37.10	-12.26	33.15
167	164	South Korea	Seonghyeon Kim	0.90	46.98	-26.96	29.35
168	170	United States	Tommy Morrison	0.90	35.84	-0.45	35.84
169	178	France	Jeremy Gandon	0.90	42.08	-13.32	32.80
170	169	England	Dan Bradbury	0.89	46.37	-24.20	28.79
171	168	Mexico	Carlos Ortiz	0.88	35.31	-18.17	16.90
172	171	United States	Davis Bryant	0.88	39.54	-9.70	28.70
173	173	United States	Dylan Menante	0.87	39.10	-8.01	32.86
174	172	United States	Davis Lamb	0.87	34.65	-9.95	27.60
175	174	Sweden	Jesper Svensson	0.86	44.89	-29.53	24.01
176	175	Japan	Takumi Kanaya	0.86	44.49	-31.00	14.40
177	177	Spain	Sergio Garcia	0.85	33.97	-8.46	31.21
178	176	Sweden	Joakim Lagergren	0.85	44.13	-28.04	13.53
179	180	Venezuela	Jhonattan Vegas	0.83	36.62	-42.42	12.91
180	312	Denmark	Jeff Winther	0.83	39.90	-14.05	27.74
181	179	South Africa	Thriston Lawrence	0.82	42.84	-53.82	6.94
182	181	France	Martin Couvra	0.81	42.28	-27.13	14.31
183	182	Japan	Kazuki Higa	0.81	42.25	-27.35	5.84
184	183	Belgium	Adrien Dumont de Chassart	0.81	42.19	-23.50	19.70
185	184	United States	Austin Eckroat	0.81	40.47	-40.05	22.40
186	188	Norway	Kristoffer Ventura	0.80	38.48	-18.81	22.55
187	190	Canada	A.J. Ewart	0.80	32.07	-8.20	29.09
188	208	United States	Hunter Eichhorn	0.80	31.97	-2.92	33.03
189	185	United States	Matt Kuchar	0.80	31.92	-25.53	13.58
190	192	China	Marty Dou Zecheng	0.79	38.74	-16.11	23.41
190	187	Spain	Jorge Campillo	0.79	41.11	-29.13	25.03
192	186	United States	Chad Ramey	0.79	41.06	-22.51	19.97
193	191	United States	Carson Young	0.79	40.86	-25.77	24.15
194	189	United States	Vincent Whaley	0.78	40.70	-35.57	8.41
195	195	Mexico	Abraham Ancer	0.77	30.91	-5.90	28.72
196	193	United States	Adam Schenk	0.77	40.05	-26.00	11.63
197	194	Ireland	Seamus Power	0.77	40.04	-28.43	23.61
198	196	South Korea	Byeong Hun An	0.76	34.19	-45.07	8.21
199	210	Scotland	Ewen Ferguson	0.75	38.92	-26.30	20.86
200	202	Australia	Karl Vilips	0.74	32.75	-24.54	18.91

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Official World Golf Ranking 33/2026

Related: Scottie Scheffler Opens FedExCup Playoffs With Record Eight-Shot Win

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

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