World Golf Ranking 38/20 September 21, 2026 - Golf Today

Week 38 – 20/09/26

Simon Bale|September 21, 2026

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

J.J. Spaun has won the BMW PGA Championship, Aaron Rai, Adam Scott, Rory McIlroy and Manuel Elvira tied for second place.

Spaum moves up five places to 12, Rai up one to 17, Scott to 45 from 52, McIlroy stays at number 2 and Elvira to 179 from 294.

FedEx St. Jude 2022 R3 - J.J. Spaun retains narrow lead

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Four birdies across the closing five holes carried the US Open champion to 17-under, before Manuel Elvira’s final-hole double bogey ended the Spaniard’s challenge.

Jacob Bridgeman has won the Biltmore Championship Asheville, Ben James came second, Ricky Castillo and Neal Shipley third and J.T. Poston tied for fifth place with Jackson Koivun.

Bridgeman moves up nine places to 20, James to 93 from 163, Castillo to 82 from 95, Shipley to 166 from 217, Poston up one to 37 and Koivun to 57 from 65.

Related: Jacob Bridgeman Shoots Career-Best 61 to Win Biltmore Championship Asheville

The Presidents Cup debutant erased a five-shot deficit at The Cliffs at Walnut Cove, claiming his second PGA Tour victory after a low-scoring final round.

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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	17.74	744.95	-457.64	517.63
2	2	Northern Ireland	Rory McIlroy	8.98	386.06	-295.28	244.62
3	3	United States	Cameron Young	7.46	350.79	-117.34	307.22
4	4	England	Matt Fitzpatrick	6.97	334.54	-103.42	287.81
5	5	United States	Wyndham Clark	6.65	319.00	-71.65	295.48
6	6	United States	Russell Henley	5.44	217.79	-132.17	153.61
7	7	United States	Chris Gotterup	5.38	279.56	-101.99	244.27
8	9	United States	Sam Burns	5.29	248.42	-91.32	205.28
9	8	England	Tommy Fleetwood	5.26	268.46	-167.09	152.55
10	10	United States	Xander Schauffele	5.11	204.48	-165.39	163.80
11	11	United States	Collin Morikawa	5.07	202.68	-138.62	187.93
12	17	United States	J.J. Spaun	5.00	260.07	-146.66	158.69
13	12	Norway	Viktor Hovland	4.99	214.69	-98.32	161.82
14	13	South Korea	Si Woo Kim	4.70	244.63	-80.26	222.88
15	14	Spain	Jon Rahm	4.66	186.28	-59.87	185.49
16	15	England	Justin Rose	4.42	194.54	-123.36	137.08
17	18	England	Aaron Rai	4.39	206.46	-101.99	156.85
18	16	Sweden	Ludvig Aberg	4.25	195.30	-120.37	155.67
19	19	Scotland	Robert MacIntyre	4.10	213.24	-155.55	127.44
20	29	United States	Jacob Bridgeman	4.04	210.13	-75.20	204.10
21	20	Sweden	Alex Noren	3.98	159.02	-83.44	86.18
22	24	New Zealand	Ryan Fox	3.81	198.30	-65.94	155.68
23	21	United States	Ryan Gerard	3.80	197.40	-78.69	172.17
24	25	England	Tyrrell Hatton	3.66	146.44	-87.98	104.15
25	22	United States	Justin Thomas	3.66	146.28	-124.72	81.85
26	23	United States	Ben Griffin	3.64	189.47	-134.03	87.15
27	26	Japan	Hideki Matsuyama	3.61	187.62	-132.85	141.94
28	27	United States	Patrick Cantlay	3.56	145.78	-80.52	112.88
29	28	United States	Patrick Reed	3.39	139.14	-63.99	122.89
30	30	Australia	Min Woo Lee	3.33	166.47	-75.94	144.25
31	31	South Korea	Tom Kim	3.29	171.09	-54.14	157.48
32	32	United States	Michael Brennan	3.25	146.27	-40.96	98.35
33	33	Norway	Kristoffer Reitan	3.23	168.09	-62.37	116.83
34	34	United States	Akshay Bhatia	3.14	160.18	-89.43	146.44
35	35	Austria	Sepp Straka	3.10	148.64	-127.46	86.00
36	37	Chile	Joaquin Niemann	3.09	123.51	-30.21	114.10
37	38	United States	J.T. Poston	3.02	148.12	-63.52	121.83
38	36	United States	Bryson DeChambeau	3.02	120.76	-88.80	100.58
39	39	United States	Kurt Kitayama	2.76	129.59	-64.60	98.30
40	41	Ireland	Shane Lowry	2.74	136.81	-102.36	95.11
41	40	United States	Michael Thorbjornsen	2.71	132.92	-42.56	107.50
42	43	Denmark	Nicolai Hojgaard	2.65	137.64	-59.51	114.49
43	44	United States	Gary Woodland	2.64	126.82	-41.84	117.06
44	42	United States	Harris English	2.63	131.47	-112.49	53.95
45	52	Australia	Adam Scott	2.61	122.46	-70.64	109.35
46	46	United States	Alex Smalley	2.56	133.08	-43.30	118.15
47	45	United States	Bud Cauley	2.56	122.68	-44.32	100.56
48	47	United States	Maverick McNealy	2.49	129.50	-109.16	78.52
49	48	United States	Rickie Fowler	2.44	109.67	-46.68	90.53
50	49	United States	Keegan Bradley	2.40	103.28	-107.58	44.42
51	50	United States	Jake Knapp	2.38	95.40	-49.39	84.38
52	51	Australia	Lucas Herbert	2.29	91.62	-18.59	85.76
53	53	England	Marco Penge	2.17	112.59	-66.44	44.52
54	55	England	Matt Wallace	2.15	111.80	-58.16	87.08
55	54	Canada	Corey Conners	2.07	97.24	-79.13	56.96
56	56	England	Alex Fitzpatrick	2.05	106.67	-27.81	98.36
57	65	United States	Jackson Koivun	2.02	80.87	-14.62	63.80
58	58	Spain	Eugenio Chacarra	2.00	103.83	-27.60	87.25
59	57	United States	Jordan Spieth	1.96	82.36	-47.40	63.37
60	59	South Korea	Sungjae Im	1.93	100.42	-82.87	78.76
61	60	Colombia	Nicolas Echavarria	1.90	99.00	-75.99	76.16
62	62	United States	Samuel Stevens	1.87	97.46	-68.29	66.01
63	61	United States	Daniel Berger	1.87	86.13	-66.15	67.30
64	64	United States	Michael Kim	1.85	96.34	-78.69	63.11
65	63	United States	Brian Harman	1.84	93.60	-73.05	53.00
66	68	United States	John Keefer	1.82	94.80	-48.56	65.09
67	66	Japan	Ryo Hisatsune	1.81	94.03	-48.67	87.19
68	67	England	Harry Hall	1.76	91.53	-64.50	63.56
69	70	United States	Pierceson Coody	1.76	91.40	-53.62	73.47
70	69	South Africa	Casey Jarvis	1.76	91.31	-29.42	85.31
71	71	Australia	Jason Day	1.72	68.84	-58.78	53.45
72	76	Denmark	Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen	1.67	87.04	-56.54	43.66
73	77	England	Jordan Smith	1.67	86.92	-51.32	62.17
74	72	Denmark	Rasmus Hojgaard	1.66	86.42	-68.82	49.59
75	75	United States	Max Homa	1.66	76.17	-33.83	63.46
76	73	United States	Matt McCarty	1.65	85.69	-77.36	66.91
77	74	United States	Keith Mitchell	1.65	84.02	-40.75	70.86
78	78	United States	Eric Cole	1.64	85.28	-48.77	69.75
79	79	Spain	David Puig	1.63	65.31	-34.26	51.63
80	80	United States	Ross Steelman	1.60	73.50	-12.92	64.86
81	82	United States	Andrew Novak	1.58	82.36	-74.40	41.11
82	95	United States	Ricky Castillo	1.58	75.73	-29.78	62.52
83	83	United States	Steven Fisk	1.57	77.17	-37.04	49.59
84	84	Finland	Sami Valimaki	1.55	71.44	-52.24	14.00
85	81	Canada	Nick Taylor	1.54	80.15	-64.81	52.21
86	85	United States	Sahith Theegala	1.50	71.93	-57.93	74.22
87	90	United States	Max Greyserman	1.43	74.56	-78.65	37.39
88	86	United States	McClure Meissner	1.42	71.19	-40.80	45.69
89	89	South Africa	Aldrich Potgieter	1.42	68.29	-46.75	38.64
90	87	Germany	Matti Schmid	1.42	73.97	-50.11	47.96
91	88	Belgium	Thomas Detry	1.40	72.95	-68.78	46.05
92	93	South Africa	Jayden Schaper	1.39	72.39	-42.53	23.08
93	163	United States	Benjamin James	1.38	55.22	-1.18	54.72
94	98	United States	Jackson Suber	1.37	64.45	-24.75	51.12
95	91	United States	Denny McCarthy	1.35	63.68	-53.99	39.95
96	101	United States	Ben Kohles	1.35	70.17	-22.37	63.04
97	92	United States	Beau Hossler	1.35	69.98	-36.92	52.44
98	99	New Zealand	Daniel Hillier	1.32	68.86	-35.80	53.18
99	94	Japan	Keita Nakajima	1.32	66.16	-35.14	37.87
100	102	United States	Blades Brown	1.31	62.91	-11.84	63.20
101	107	England	John Parry	1.30	67.76	-52.98	40.99
102	100	South Africa	Shaun Norris	1.30	67.58	-43.88	41.34
103	96	Canada	Taylor Pendrith	1.29	63.27	-66.15	38.04
104	97	South Africa	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	1.29	65.83	-52.65	36.26
105	103	Denmark	Jacob Skov Olesen	1.28	66.61	-21.25	51.89
105	105	Taiwan (Chinese Taipei)	Chun-an Yu	1.28	66.61	-50.06	41.13
107	114	United States	Chris Kirk	1.27	55.80	-43.32	26.17
108	106	United States	Patrick Rodgers	1.27	65.81	-47.02	53.18
109	110	Canada	Sudarshan Yellamaraju	1.26	59.22	-22.21	55.03
110	108	United States	Andrew Putnam	1.25	65.09	-34.12	58.99
111	111	Philippines	Richard Hoey	1.25	64.91	-51.45	29.10
112	104	Argentina	Emiliano Grillo	1.24	62.21	-39.56	32.56
113	109	Finland	Oliver Lindell	1.24	64.37	-27.96	48.81
114	117	United States	Kevin Roy	1.23	61.55	-33.16	45.13
115	122	China	Haotong Li	1.23	64.00	-46.59	35.00
116	128	England	Andy Sullivan	1.23	63.74	-33.71	46.07
117	112	United States	Doc Redman	1.22	48.91	-14.38	45.18
118	113	South Africa	Thriston Lawrence	1.22	63.29	-58.01	31.58
119	116	Northern Ireland	Tom McKibbin	1.21	53.10	-37.53	25.44
120	119	United States	Austin Smotherman	1.21	60.28	-36.49	43.90
121	121	Spain	Angel Ayora	1.19	61.80	-35.98	36.97
122	115	United States	Lucas Glover	1.18	56.74	-57.31	28.81
123	118	United States	Davis Thompson	1.17	57.38	-55.71	40.86
124	123	Japan	Kota Kaneko	1.16	60.49	-23.35	44.03
125	120	Germany	Stephan Jaeger	1.16	59.30	-52.27	46.42
126	127	Spain	Nacho Elvira	1.15	59.98	-28.27	49.83
127	177	Scotland	Sandy Scott	1.15	49.40	-10.75	44.99
128	124	United States	Brooks Koepka	1.14	45.70	-18.58	40.05
129	125	South Africa	Hennie Du Plessis	1.14	45.44	-8.16	44.99
130	125	United States	Chandler Blanchet	1.14	53.35	-28.17	29.11
131	129	United States	Max McGreevy	1.12	58.29	-55.27	24.96
132	131	United States	Davis Riley	1.10	57.09	-47.19	34.46
133	130	South Africa	Garrick Higgo	1.10	48.22	-40.03	8.01
134	132	United States	Brandt Snedeker	1.10	48.18	-17.03	39.05
135	133	United States	David Lipsky	1.07	55.70	-37.38	42.85
136	137	United States	Chandler Phillips	1.06	55.17	-28.94	38.02
137	136	Spain	Sergio Garcia	1.06	42.40	-10.56	41.74
138	135	England	Daniel Brown(Oct1994)	1.06	49.78	-45.96	15.64
139	134	United States	Tom Hoge	1.05	54.35	-53.69	37.45
140	145	Mexico	Alvaro Ortiz Becerra	1.04	53.98	-15.17	44.84
141	138	United States	Lee Hodges	1.04	47.61	-35.02	30.94
142	139	Australia	Cameron Smith	1.03	41.13	-19.33	32.67
143	141	Austria	Bernd Wiesberger	1.02	53.19	-16.80	47.79
144	146	United States	Zac Blair	1.02	53.15	-18.54	43.99
145	144	United States	William Mouw	1.01	44.65	-33.15	24.38
146	143	Spain	Jose Luis Ballester	1.01	40.54	-12.67	23.54
147	142	Zimbabwe	Scott Vincent	1.00	45.11	-19.34	28.35
148	161	Sweden	Joakim Lagergren	1.00	52.03	-31.55	24.93
149	140	United States	Tony Finau	1.00	42.91	-50.16	33.43
150	147	England	Joe Dean	0.99	51.68	-21.63	43.86
151	155	United States	Zachary Bauchou	0.96	50.11	-23.72	37.83
151	148	Sweden	Mikael Lindberg	0.96	50.11	-17.36	38.92
153	157	United States	Doug Ghim	0.95	48.57	-33.32	32.98
154	152	France	Adrien Saddier	0.95	49.16	-44.69	10.11
155	158	United States	Tommy Morrison	0.94	37.76	-0.48	37.80
156	154	Scotland	Calum Hill	0.94	48.72	-29.25	38.38
157	176	Denmark	Jeff Winther	0.94	43.07	-16.18	33.03
158	156	United States	Cole Sherwood	0.93	43.93	-11.26	40.59
159	149	Australia	Elvis Smylie	0.93	45.64	-30.36	30.24
160	153	United States	Ian Holt	0.93	43.77	-19.20	46.07
161	151	United States	Mark Hubbard	0.92	48.08	-37.73	25.90
162	160	Canada	Mackenzie Hughes	0.92	46.73	-51.34	24.55
163	150	England	Laurie Canter	0.92	43.04	-43.89	13.73
164	162	United States	Billy Horschel	0.90	38.86	-69.66	29.02
165	171	England	Marcus Armitage	0.90	46.94	-25.13	33.86
166	217	United States	Neal Shipley	0.90	43.92	-33.46	19.13
167	159	South Africa	Richard Sterne	0.89	42.03	-14.08	27.80
168	164	United States	Alistair Docherty	0.89	41.83	-20.03	41.43
169	172	United States	Davis Bryant	0.89	44.48	-12.21	36.15
170	182	Japan	Kazuki Higa	0.89	46.06	-31.85	14.15
171	165	France	Victor Perez	0.89	42.50	-37.04	24.92
172	167	United States	Brian Campbell	0.88	42.29	-48.47	9.40
173	173	United States	Dylan Menante	0.88	39.55	-10.03	35.34
174	191	China	Marty Dou Zecheng	0.88	41.19	-18.87	28.61
175	170	South Africa	Michael Hollick	0.87	45.50	-11.16	32.27
176	169	South Africa	JC Ritchie	0.87	45.11	-26.54	16.78
177	168	Denmark	Thorbjorn Olesen	0.87	45.09	-46.97	20.99
178	166	France	Jeremy Gandon	0.86	40.29	-16.24	33.94
179	294	Spain	Manuel Elvira	0.85	44.02	-15.14	31.10
180	174	Australia	Travis Smyth	0.85	34.65	-15.08	33.52
181	178	Japan	Yuta Sugiura	0.84	43.82	-19.51	31.53
182	180	Scotland	Ewen Ferguson	0.84	43.81	-29.65	29.11
183	175	United States	Taylor Moore	0.83	39.15	-35.30	30.45
184	181	United States	Davis Lamb	0.83	33.12	-12.40	28.53
185	179	South Korea	Seonghyeon Kim	0.83	42.96	-31.21	29.58
186	183	Mexico	Carlos Ortiz	0.81	32.59	-20.89	16.90
187	185	Japan	Takumi Kanaya	0.81	42.33	-34.56	15.81
188	210	Ireland	Seamus Power	0.80	41.64	-32.03	28.82
189	186	Sweden	Jesper Svensson	0.79	41.26	-33.16	24.01
190	235	Netherlands	Joost Luiten	0.79	41.01	-24.79	22.68
191	184	England	Dan Bradbury	0.79	40.99	-29.58	28.79
192	189	United States	Hunter Eichhorn	0.79	31.51	-4.30	33.95
193	187	Norway	Kristoffer Ventura	0.78	36.09	-21.21	22.55
194	188	New Zealand	Kazuma Kobori	0.78	40.73	-21.02	24.26
195	190	France	Martin Couvra	0.77	40.29	-31.62	16.80
196	193	Canada	A.J. Ewart	0.76	30.25	-10.01	29.09
197	195	United States	Austin Eckroat	0.75	37.58	-44.50	23.95
198	196	Sweden	Christofer Blomstrand	0.75	30.01	-6.52	28.69
199	204	United States	Chad Ramey	0.75	38.93	-25.90	21.23
200	199	United States	Jay Card III	0.75	29.95	-13.37	19.05

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Official World Golf Ranking 38/2026

Related: JJ Spaun Wins BMW PGA Championship After Late Wentworth Charge

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