World Golf Ranking 37/2026 September 14, 2026 - Golf Today

Week 37 – 13/09/26

Simon Bale|September 14, 2026

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Shane Lowry has won the Amgen Irish Open, Patrick Reed and Joaquín Niemann came second Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen fourth while Gregorio de Leo tied for fifth place with Tom McKibbin.

Lowry moves up to 41 from 53 in the World Golf Ranking this week, Reed to 28 from 35, Niemann to 37 from 42, Neergaard-Petersen to 76 from 85, de Leo to 220 from 282 and McKibbin to 116 from 135.

Related: Shane Lowry Wins Amgen Irish Open by Record 11 Shots

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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	17.99	755.56	-447.03	517.63
2	2	Northern Ireland	Rory McIlroy	8.76	376.74	-287.71	227.73
3	3	United States	Cameron Young	7.56	355.16	-112.96	307.22
4	4	England	Matt Fitzpatrick	6.90	331.18	-99.21	280.24
5	5	United States	Wyndham Clark	6.71	322.03	-68.63	295.48
6	6	United States	Russell Henley	5.54	221.45	-128.51	153.61
7	7	United States	Chris Gotterup	5.44	282.97	-98.58	244.27
8	8	England	Tommy Fleetwood	5.35	272.86	-162.69	152.55
9	9	United States	Sam Burns	5.35	251.27	-88.47	205.28
10	10	United States	Xander Schauffele	5.18	207.00	-162.88	163.80
11	11	United States	Collin Morikawa	5.14	205.63	-135.67	187.93
12	12	Norway	Viktor Hovland	5.12	215.03	-96.03	159.87
13	13	South Korea	Si Woo Kim	4.76	247.32	-77.56	222.88
14	14	Spain	Jon Rahm	4.72	188.91	-57.25	185.49
15	15	England	Justin Rose	4.48	197.12	-119.82	136.12
16	16	Sweden	Ludvig Aberg	4.37	196.45	-117.27	153.72
17	17	United States	J.J. Spaun	4.17	216.79	-142.09	110.84
18	19	England	Aaron Rai	4.10	192.49	-99.07	139.97
19	18	Scotland	Robert MacIntyre	4.07	211.88	-151.65	122.18
20	20	Sweden	Alex Noren	3.94	157.51	-81.34	82.57
21	21	United States	Ryan Gerard	3.82	198.59	-75.55	170.23
22	22	United States	Justin Thomas	3.74	149.69	-121.31	81.85
23	23	United States	Ben Griffin	3.71	192.97	-130.53	87.15
24	25	New Zealand	Ryan Fox	3.70	192.61	-64.07	148.11
25	24	England	Tyrrell Hatton	3.69	147.41	-85.06	102.20
26	26	Japan	Hideki Matsuyama	3.66	190.32	-130.14	141.94
27	27	United States	Patrick Cantlay	3.60	147.63	-78.67	112.88
28	35	United States	Patrick Reed	3.53	141.27	-61.86	122.89
29	28	United States	Jacob Bridgeman	3.40	176.83	-72.61	168.22
30	29	Australia	Min Woo Lee	3.37	168.69	-73.71	144.25
31	30	South Korea	Tom Kim	3.32	172.51	-52.72	157.48
32	31	United States	Michael Brennan	3.28	147.53	-39.70	98.35
33	32	Norway	Kristoffer Reitan	3.25	169.05	-59.93	115.34
34	33	United States	Akshay Bhatia	3.19	162.66	-86.94	146.44
35	34	Austria	Sepp Straka	3.09	148.46	-124.02	82.39
36	36	United States	Bryson DeChambeau	3.06	122.54	-87.02	100.58
37	42	Chile	Joaquin Niemann	3.05	122.18	-29.02	111.57
38	37	United States	J.T. Poston	2.99	143.61	-61.01	114.82
39	38	United States	Kurt Kitayama	2.80	131.65	-62.53	98.30
40	40	United States	Michael Thorbjornsen	2.74	134.14	-41.34	107.50
41	53	Ireland	Shane Lowry	2.73	136.65	-99.99	92.59
42	41	United States	Harris English	2.69	134.62	-109.34	53.95
43	39	Denmark	Nicolai Hojgaard	2.69	139.76	-57.39	114.49
44	43	United States	Gary Woodland	2.68	128.60	-40.06	117.06
45	44	United States	Bud Cauley	2.65	124.56	-42.44	100.56
46	45	United States	Alex Smalley	2.58	134.37	-41.43	117.56
47	46	United States	Maverick McNealy	2.55	132.45	-106.22	78.52
48	47	United States	Rickie Fowler	2.47	111.32	-45.03	90.53
49	48	United States	Keegan Bradley	2.45	105.43	-105.43	44.42
50	49	United States	Jake Knapp	2.42	96.89	-47.89	84.38
51	50	Australia	Lucas Herbert	2.31	92.41	-17.80	85.76
52	51	Australia	Adam Scott	2.28	106.94	-69.28	92.47
53	52	England	Marco Penge	2.17	110.63	-64.57	40.70
54	54	Canada	Corey Conners	2.13	98.12	-77.37	56.09
55	55	England	Matt Wallace	2.07	107.63	-57.06	81.81
56	61	England	Alex Fitzpatrick	2.03	105.34	-26.63	95.84
57	56	United States	Jordan Spieth	2.00	83.82	-45.94	63.37
58	57	Spain	Eugenio Chacarra	1.98	102.81	-26.10	84.73
59	58	South Korea	Sungjae Im	1.95	101.65	-81.64	78.76
60	59	Colombia	Nicolas Echavarria	1.94	100.83	-74.16	76.16
61	62	United States	Daniel Berger	1.92	88.18	-64.10	67.30
62	60	United States	Samuel Stevens	1.91	99.38	-66.37	66.01
63	63	United States	Brian Harman	1.87	95.39	-71.26	53.00
64	64	United States	Michael Kim	1.87	97.08	-76.39	61.56
65	65	United States	Jackson Koivun	1.86	74.29	-14.19	56.78
66	66	Japan	Ryo Hisatsune	1.83	95.41	-47.29	87.19
67	67	England	Harry Hall	1.79	92.82	-63.21	63.56
68	71	United States	John Keefer	1.78	90.92	-47.24	59.88
69	69	South Africa	Casey Jarvis	1.77	92.27	-28.46	85.31
70	68	United States	Pierceson Coody	1.77	92.25	-52.25	72.96
71	70	Australia	Jason Day	1.76	70.32	-57.31	53.45
72	73	Denmark	Rasmus Hojgaard	1.69	87.82	-67.41	49.59
73	72	United States	Matt McCarty	1.67	87.08	-75.97	66.91
74	75	United States	Keith Mitchell	1.67	85.38	-39.39	70.86
75	77	United States	Max Homa	1.67	76.99	-33.01	63.46
76	85	Denmark	Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen	1.67	86.81	-55.10	41.99
77	74	England	Jordan Smith	1.65	85.70	-50.02	59.65
78	76	United States	Eric Cole	1.64	85.04	-47.46	68.20
79	78	Spain	David Puig	1.63	65.01	-33.06	50.14
80	83	United States	Ross Steelman	1.61	73.92	-12.50	64.86
81	80	Canada	Nick Taylor	1.60	81.46	-62.99	51.69
82	79	United States	Andrew Novak	1.60	83.02	-71.34	38.72
83	82	United States	Steven Fisk	1.55	76.17	-36.15	47.71
84	81	Finland	Sami Valimaki	1.55	72.87	-50.82	14.00
85	84	United States	Sahith Theegala	1.52	72.97	-56.89	74.22
86	88	United States	McClure Meissner	1.47	72.26	-39.73	45.69
87	86	Germany	Matti Schmid	1.45	75.22	-48.86	47.96
88	87	Belgium	Thomas Detry	1.44	74.64	-67.09	46.05
89	91	South Africa	Aldrich Potgieter	1.42	69.75	-45.29	38.64
90	89	United States	Max Greyserman	1.42	72.35	-77.03	33.57
91	90	United States	Denny McCarthy	1.41	64.79	-52.89	39.95
92	94	United States	Beau Hossler	1.39	70.97	-35.93	52.44
93	92	South Africa	Jayden Schaper	1.38	72.01	-41.25	21.41
94	93	Japan	Keita Nakajima	1.37	67.04	-34.26	37.87
95	97	United States	Ricky Castillo	1.37	65.55	-28.80	51.36
96	95	Canada	Taylor Pendrith	1.34	64.51	-64.91	38.04
97	96	South Africa	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	1.34	66.98	-51.50	36.26
98	102	United States	Jackson Suber	1.33	62.28	-23.96	48.17
99	100	New Zealand	Daniel Hillier	1.31	68.30	-34.68	51.51
100	99	South Africa	Shaun Norris	1.31	68.20	-42.03	40.12
101	106	United States	Ben Kohles	1.31	67.99	-21.60	60.09
102	98	United States	Blades Brown	1.30	61.15	-11.21	60.80
103	120	Denmark	Jacob Skov Olesen	1.29	67.34	-20.52	51.89
104	103	Argentina	Emiliano Grillo	1.29	63.27	-38.51	32.56
105	101	Taiwan (Chinese Taipei)	Chun-an Yu	1.29	67.05	-48.07	39.58
106	104	United States	Patrick Rodgers	1.29	66.99	-45.84	53.18
107	105	England	John Parry	1.29	66.90	-51.96	39.11
108	107	United States	Andrew Putnam	1.27	65.85	-32.97	58.60
109	109	Finland	Oliver Lindell	1.26	65.28	-27.05	48.81
110	112	Canada	Sudarshan Yellamaraju	1.25	60.15	-21.28	55.03
111	108	Philippines	Richard Hoey	1.25	65.00	-50.27	28.00
112	116	United States	Doc Redman	1.24	49.52	-13.77	45.18
113	111	South Africa	Thriston Lawrence	1.23	64.08	-57.22	31.58
114	110	United States	Chris Kirk	1.23	52.92	-42.37	22.34
115	113	United States	Lucas Glover	1.23	57.79	-55.92	28.47
116	135	Northern Ireland	Tom McKibbin	1.23	53.92	-36.71	25.44
117	117	United States	Kevin Roy	1.22	60.88	-32.28	43.57
118	114	United States	Davis Thompson	1.21	58.26	-54.84	40.86
119	119	United States	Austin Smotherman	1.20	58.98	-35.40	41.51
120	115	Germany	Stephan Jaeger	1.20	60.08	-50.97	45.91
121	118	Spain	Angel Ayora	1.19	61.67	-35.14	36.01
122	124	China	Haotong Li	1.19	61.64	-45.12	31.17
123	121	Japan	Kota Kaneko	1.17	60.85	-22.41	43.44
124	122	United States	Brooks Koepka	1.16	46.36	-17.93	40.05
125	126	South Africa	Hennie Du Plessis	1.15	45.81	-7.79	44.99
125	127	United States	Chandler Blanchet	1.15	53.83	-27.30	28.72
127	125	Spain	Nacho Elvira	1.15	59.54	-27.48	48.60
128	128	England	Andy Sullivan	1.14	59.42	-32.77	40.81
129	122	United States	Max McGreevy	1.14	59.34	-54.22	24.96
130	130	South Africa	Garrick Higgo	1.12	49.30	-38.95	8.01
131	129	United States	Davis Riley	1.12	58.06	-46.22	34.46
132	133	United States	Brandt Snedeker	1.11	48.89	-16.32	39.05
133	131	United States	David Lipsky	1.11	56.64	-36.45	42.85
134	132	United States	Tom Hoge	1.09	56.51	-51.53	37.45
135	134	England	Daniel Brown(Oct1994)	1.08	50.83	-44.91	15.64
136	144	Spain	Sergio Garcia	1.07	42.85	-10.11	41.74
137	136	United States	Chandler Phillips	1.06	55.26	-28.20	37.36
138	139	United States	Lee Hodges	1.05	48.48	-34.16	30.94
139	138	Australia	Cameron Smith	1.04	41.78	-18.68	32.67
140	137	United States	Tony Finau	1.04	43.74	-49.32	33.43
141	145	Austria	Bernd Wiesberger	1.03	53.71	-16.29	47.79
142	140	Zimbabwe	Scott Vincent	1.03	45.38	-18.71	27.99
143	141	Spain	Jose Luis Ballester	1.03	41.10	-12.11	23.54
144	143	United States	William Mouw	1.02	45.03	-32.34	23.94
145	249	Mexico	Alvaro Ortiz Becerra	1.02	53.17	-14.67	43.53
146	142	United States	Zac Blair	1.02	53.01	-18.03	43.33
147	149	England	Joe Dean	0.99	51.36	-21.23	43.13
148	147	Sweden	Mikael Lindberg	0.98	50.82	-16.65	38.92
149	146	Australia	Elvis Smylie	0.97	46.62	-29.38	30.24
150	150	England	Laurie Canter	0.96	44.03	-42.90	13.73
151	151	United States	Mark Hubbard	0.96	49.74	-36.06	25.90
152	152	France	Adrien Saddier	0.95	49.65	-43.61	9.52
153	148	United States	Ian Holt	0.95	43.86	-18.56	45.51
154	156	Scotland	Calum Hill	0.95	49.53	-28.43	38.38
155	154	United States	Zachary Bauchou	0.95	49.25	-23.02	36.28
156	155	United States	Cole Sherwood	0.95	43.50	-10.75	39.64
157	157	United States	Doug Ghim	0.94	47.06	-32.44	30.59
158	167	United States	Tommy Morrison	0.94	37.56	-0.46	37.57
159	153	South Africa	Richard Sterne	0.93	42.65	-13.46	27.80
160	159	Canada	Mackenzie Hughes	0.92	46.20	-50.33	22.99
161	160	Sweden	Joakim Lagergren	0.91	47.48	-30.83	19.67
162	158	United States	Billy Horschel	0.91	39.02	-68.63	28.14
163	164	United States	Benjamin James	0.90	36.18	-1.10	35.59
164	162	United States	Alistair Docherty	0.90	42.37	-19.49	41.43
165	163	France	Victor Perez	0.90	43.10	-36.44	24.92
166	166	France	Jeremy Gandon	0.89	40.87	-15.66	33.94
167	169	United States	Brian Campbell	0.89	43.44	-47.32	9.40
168	161	Denmark	Thorbjorn Olesen	0.89	46.03	-46.03	20.99
169	171	South Africa	JC Ritchie	0.88	45.91	-25.74	16.78
170	165	South Africa	Michael Hollick	0.88	45.81	-10.84	32.27
171	168	England	Marcus Armitage	0.88	45.76	-24.36	31.91
172	170	United States	Davis Bryant	0.88	43.06	-11.68	34.21
173	173	United States	Dylan Menante	0.87	38.30	-9.63	33.68
174	174	Australia	Travis Smyth	0.87	34.82	-14.54	33.15
175	172	United States	Taylor Moore	0.87	40.02	-34.43	30.45
176	179	Denmark	Jeff Winther	0.87	39.86	-15.77	29.41
177	241	Scotland	Sandy Scott	0.85	35.90	-10.43	31.18
178	183	Japan	Yuta Sugiura	0.85	44.00	-19.14	31.33
179	175	South Korea	Seonghyeon Kim	0.84	43.81	-30.36	29.58
180	193	Scotland	Ewen Ferguson	0.84	43.74	-28.99	28.38
181	176	United States	Davis Lamb	0.84	33.62	-11.91	28.53
182	177	Japan	Kazuki Higa	0.84	43.51	-30.67	10.42
183	178	Mexico	Carlos Ortiz	0.83	33.13	-20.35	16.90
184	180	England	Dan Bradbury	0.82	42.63	-27.94	28.79
185	181	Japan	Takumi Kanaya	0.81	42.18	-33.84	14.93
186	182	Sweden	Jesper Svensson	0.81	42.07	-32.35	24.01
187	185	Norway	Kristoffer Ventura	0.79	36.56	-20.73	22.55
188	200	New Zealand	Kazuma Kobori	0.78	40.61	-20.40	23.53
189	186	United States	Hunter Eichhorn	0.78	31.14	-4.00	33.28
190	184	France	Martin Couvra	0.78	40.44	-30.74	16.07
191	189	China	Marty Dou Zecheng	0.78	36.53	-18.32	23.41
192	191	Venezuela	Jhonattan Vegas	0.77	33.04	-46.00	12.91
193	187	Canada	A.J. Ewart	0.77	30.64	-9.63	29.09
194	188	South Africa	Dean Burmester	0.76	30.40	-17.16	24.89
195	190	United States	Austin Eckroat	0.75	36.92	-43.60	22.40
196	196	Sweden	Christofer Blomstrand	0.75	30.12	-6.41	28.69
197	192	Belgium	Adrien Dumont de Chassart	0.75	39.13	-26.57	19.70
198	206	United States	Carson Young	0.75	39.02	-29.83	26.37
199	195	United States	Jay Card III	0.75	29.90	-12.94	18.58
200	194	Spain	Jorge Campillo	0.75	38.78	-32.30	25.87

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