World Golf Ranking 44/2026 November 2, 2026 - Golf Today

Week 44 – 01/11/26

Simon Bale|November 2, 2026

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

American Andrew Novak has won the VidantaWorld Mexico Open and moves up from 90 to 58 in the Official World Golf Ranking.

Compatriot Steven Fisk tied for second place with Norway’s Kristoffer Ventura. Fisk moves up to 65 from 80 and Ventura to 138 from 205.

Canadian Mackenzie Hughes finished fourth alongside American Ben Griffin. Hughes moves up to 156 from 185 and Griffin up three places to 25.

Related: Andrew Novak Wins by Five for First Individual PGA Tour Title

A bogey at the 10th cut his lead to three, before birdies at the 12th, 13th and 14th settled it.

What is the OWGR?

The Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR) is the weekly ranking of golfers on eligible men’s tours. Players earn points at eligible tournaments based on how strong the field was and where they finished, and their position is decided by their average points per event over a rolling two-year period.

The OWGR describes its mission as being “to administer and publish, on a weekly basis, a transparent, credible, and accurate Ranking based on the relative performances of players participating in male Eligible Golf Tours worldwide.”

Where did the world ranking come from?

The idea was born in the early 1980s, the work of Mark H McCormack and Tony Greer.

The first official world Number 1 was Bernhard Langer, who took the position on April 6, 1986.

For more in depth answers on how the OWGR is calculated and the number 1 position, its history and records, see links below.

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.

Related: Official World Golf Ranking – Number 1

History of the Official World Golf Ranking Number 1 Position

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The top-200 in the ranking this week

This Week	Last Week	Country	Player	Avg. Points	Total Points	Points Lost (2026)	Points Won (2026)
1	1	United States	Scottie Scheffler	Scheffler	16.13	677.27	-525.32	517.63
2	2	Northern Ireland	Rory McIlroy	McIlroy	7.95	342.02	-340.11	245.41
3	3	England	Matt Fitzpatrick	Fitzpatrick	6.92	338.88	-130.66	319.39
4	4	United States	Cameron Young	Young	6.86	322.48	-145.65	307.22
5	5	United States	Wyndham Clark	Clark	5.99	299.68	-90.98	295.48
6	6	United States	Chris Gotterup	Gotterup	5.02	256.13	-125.43	244.27
7	8	United States	Xander Schauffele	Schauffele	4.91	196.59	-181.06	171.56
8	7	England	Tommy Fleetwood	Fleetwood	4.90	255.02	-193.75	165.78
9	10	United States	Sam Burns	Burns	4.88	229.55	-110.19	205.28
10	9	United States	Russell Henley	Henley	4.87	194.98	-154.98	153.61
11	11	United States	Collin Morikawa	Morikawa	4.60	183.92	-158.19	188.75
12	12	United States	J.J. Spaun	Spaun	4.50	234.12	-172.61	158.69
13	13	Norway	Viktor Hovland	Hovland	4.48	197.32	-116.71	162.85
14	14	South Korea	Si Woo Kim	Kim	4.42	229.79	-98.52	226.31
15	15	Spain	Jon Rahm	Rahm	4.29	171.53	-74.62	185.49
16	16	United States	Jacob Bridgeman	Bridgeman	4.10	212.95	-91.39	223.12
17	17	England	Aaron Rai	Rai	4.07	191.13	-119.04	158.57
18	18	United States	Michael Brennan	Brennan	3.93	184.76	-48.83	144.71
19	19	Scotland	Robert MacIntyre	MacIntyre	3.87	200.99	-177.04	136.69
20	20	Sweden	Ludvig Aberg	Aberg	3.83	183.66	-139.44	163.10
21	21	England	Justin Rose	Rose	3.78	174.04	-144.66	137.87
22	22	New Zealand	Ryan Fox	Fox	3.75	187.34	-80.33	159.10
23	23	United States	Ryan Gerard	Gerard	3.65	189.85	-96.23	182.16
24	24	Sweden	Alex Noren	Noren	3.62	148.33	-96.04	88.09
25	28	United States	Ben Griffin	Griffin	3.38	175.88	-155.71	95.24
26	25	Japan	Hideki Matsuyama	Matsuyama	3.32	172.44	-150.03	143.94
27	27	United States	Patrick Cantlay	Cantlay	3.27	134.13	-92.17	112.88
28	26	England	Tyrrell Hatton	Hatton	3.25	130.19	-104.23	104.15
29	30	South Korea	Tom Kim	Kim	3.23	164.51	-65.69	162.46
30	29	United States	Justin Thomas	Thomas	3.18	127.18	-145.37	83.40
31	31	Australia	Min Woo Lee	Lee	3.12	155.83	-91.13	148.81
32	32	United States	Patrick Reed	Reed	3.11	127.53	-76.98	124.26
33	33	Norway	Kristoffer Reitan	Reitan	3.08	160.22	-77.49	124.08
34	34	Chile	Joaquin Niemann	Niemann	2.89	115.49	-38.23	114.10
35	35	United States	Akshay Bhatia	Bhatia	2.83	144.36	-105.24	146.44
36	36	United States	J.T. Poston	Poston	2.79	133.82	-77.82	121.83
37	39	Spain	Eugenio Chacarra	Chacarra	2.74	142.67	-40.89	139.38
38	37	United States	Bryson DeChambeau	DeChambeau	2.74	109.62	-99.94	100.58
39	38	Austria	Sepp Straka	Straka	2.70	129.66	-147.99	87.56
40	40	United States	Michael Thorbjornsen	Thorbjornsen	2.61	125.37	-50.93	108.32
41	41	United States	Kurt Kitayama	Kitayama	2.60	117.21	-77.13	98.46
42	42	United States	Gary Woodland	Woodland	2.58	116.24	-52.42	117.06
43	43	Ireland	Shane Lowry	Lowry	2.55	127.51	-116.35	99.81
44	44	Australia	Adam Scott	Scott	2.49	117.06	-79.23	112.54
45	46	United States	Bud Cauley	Cauley	2.42	111.23	-55.77	100.56
46	47	Denmark	Nicolai Hojgaard	Hojgaard	2.40	124.94	-72.21	114.49
47	45	United States	Harris English	English	2.40	112.75	-131.21	53.95
48	48	United States	Alex Smalley	Smalley	2.35	122.27	-54.11	118.15
49	49	United States	Rickie Fowler	Fowler	2.31	99.50	-56.85	90.53
50	51	United States	Jake Knapp	Knapp	2.16	86.28	-58.50	84.38
51	50	United States	Maverick McNealy	McNealy	2.15	112.02	-126.84	78.71
52	52	Australia	Lucas Herbert	Herbert	2.14	85.74	-24.48	85.76
53	54	United States	Austin Smotherman	Smotherman	2.10	105.19	-43.07	95.40
54	53	England	Marco Penge	Penge	2.08	103.93	-78.04	47.46
55	55	United States	Keegan Bradley	Bradley	2.05	90.41	-120.99	44.95
56	56	England	Matt Wallace	Wallace	2.00	104.06	-66.26	87.44
57	57	South Africa	Casey Jarvis	Jarvis	2.00	104.05	-36.17	104.80
58	90	United States	Andrew Novak	Novak	1.96	102.01	-85.15	71.52
59	59	United States	Jackson Koivun	Koivun	1.94	77.61	-18.29	64.20
60	58	United States	Keith Mitchell	Mitchell	1.94	95.04	-48.74	89.87
61	60	England	Alex Fitzpatrick	Fitzpatrick	1.93	100.61	-34.98	99.46
62	61	South Korea	Sungjae Im	Im	1.92	99.80	-92.82	88.09
63	62	Canada	Corey Conners	Conners	1.87	91.54	-90.72	62.85
64	63	United States	Jordan Spieth	Spieth	1.78	76.72	-56.23	66.56
65	80	United States	Steven Fisk	Fisk	1.78	90.99	-43.47	69.85
66	64	United States	Brian Harman	Harman	1.77	90.14	-84.28	60.77
67	68	England	Jordan Smith	Smith	1.75	90.79	-59.24	73.96
68	65	United States	John Keefer	Keefer	1.73	89.89	-58.33	69.94
69	66	United States	Daniel Berger	Berger	1.72	73.98	-78.29	67.30
70	67	Colombia	Nicolas Echavarria	Echavarria	1.70	88.62	-87.19	76.97
71	69	United States	Michael Kim	Kim	1.69	88.02	-93.57	69.67
72	73	United States	Pierceson Coody	Coody	1.69	87.79	-62.56	78.80
73	71	England	Harry Hall	Hall	1.69	87.64	-72.71	67.89
74	70	United States	Samuel Stevens	Stevens	1.65	85.87	-79.87	66.01
75	72	Japan	Ryo Hisatsune	Hisatsune	1.64	85.14	-58.10	87.72
76	75	United States	Ross Steelman	Steelman	1.60	75.15	-16.33	69.92
77	74	New Zealand	Daniel Hillier	Hillier	1.60	82.94	-42.35	73.81
78	83	United States	Benjamin James	James	1.59	63.79	-2.00	64.10
79	76	United States	Max Homa	Homa	1.56	74.91	-40.14	68.51
80	77	Denmark	Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen	Neergaard-Petersen	1.55	80.67	-65.18	45.94
81	79	Finland	Sami Valimaki	Valimaki	1.52	65.39	-60.75	16.45
82	83	United States	Eric Cole	Cole	1.51	78.65	-56.58	70.93
83	81	Spain	David Puig	Puig	1.51	60.48	-40.68	53.22
84	85	United States	Matt McCarty	McCarty	1.50	78.16	-85.86	67.87
85	82	Australia	Jason Day	Day	1.50	59.97	-67.66	53.45
86	78	Denmark	Rasmus Hojgaard	Hojgaard	1.50	77.93	-77.30	49.59
87	86	United States	Ricky Castillo	Castillo	1.48	70.87	-35.75	63.64
88	87	Denmark	Jacob Skov Olesen	Olesen	1.47	76.64	-25.98	66.65
89	88	Scotland	Sandy Scott	Scott	1.43	64.18	-12.67	61.69
90	89	Belgium	Thomas Detry	Detry	1.39	72.46	-80.40	57.19
91	97	United States	Doug Ghim	Ghim	1.39	69.46	-38.45	59.00
92	91	Canada	Nick Taylor	Taylor	1.37	70.10	-76.01	53.35
93	92	United States	Ben Kohles	Kohles	1.37	71.36	-27.46	69.32
94	93	United States	Sahith Theegala	Theegala	1.36	65.52	-64.34	74.22
95	95	United States	Blades Brown	Brown	1.35	68.92	-16.10	73.47
96	94	United States	McClure Meissner	Meissner	1.33	66.53	-47.74	47.97
97	96	United States	Beau Hossler	Hossler	1.31	66.70	-42.07	54.31
98	102	United States	Max Greyserman	Greyserman	1.29	67.24	-89.57	40.99
99	98	South Africa	Jayden Schaper	Schaper	1.29	66.91	-50.27	25.33
100	99	Germany	Matti Schmid	Schmid	1.27	66.18	-57.90	47.96
101	100	United States	Jackson Suber	Suber	1.26	61.94	-30.00	53.86
102	101	Japan	Keita Nakajima	Nakajima	1.26	61.91	-41.33	39.82
103	103	Finland	Oliver Lindell	Lindell	1.23	64.08	-33.37	53.94
104	107	Poland	Adrian Meronk	Meronk	1.23	49.29	-5.01	46.59
105	112	South Africa	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	Bezuidenhout	1.23	64.00	-60.14	41.92
106	104	Germany	Stephan Jaeger	Jaeger	1.22	61.14	-59.67	55.66
107	106	United States	Chris Kirk	Kirk	1.21	54.56	-49.11	30.71
108	108	Philippines	Richard Hoey	Hoey	1.21	62.82	-57.93	33.48
109	109	Northern Ireland	Tom McKibbin	McKibbin	1.21	51.92	-42.28	29.01
110	111	South Africa	Thriston Lawrence	Lawrence	1.20	62.58	-62.87	35.73
111	114	United States	Denny McCarthy	McCarthy	1.19	60.69	-61.22	44.18
112	115	United States	Brooks Koepka	Koepka	1.19	47.55	-22.42	45.72
113	105	England	John Parry	Parry	1.19	61.78	-60.99	43.02
114	113	Taiwan (Province of China)	Chun-an Yu	Yu	1.19	61.68	-56.41	42.55
115	110	South Africa	Aldrich Potgieter	Potgieter	1.17	59.53	-55.51	38.64
116	116	United States	Kevin Roy	Roy	1.16	60.44	-38.90	49.75
117	117	Spain	Nacho Elvira	Elvira	1.15	60.01	-33.06	54.63
118	119	United States	Doc Redman	Redman	1.14	45.64	-17.92	45.46
119	118	United States	Andrew Putnam	Putnam	1.14	59.30	-40.73	59.81
120	121	South Africa	Hennie Du Plessis	Du Plessis	1.13	45.39	-11.32	48.10
121	120	Canada	Sudarshan Yellamaraju	Yellamaraju	1.13	55.59	-27.82	57.01
122	122	France	Victor Perez	Perez	1.13	53.05	-41.28	39.71
123	124	Spain	Angel Ayora	Ayora	1.12	58.37	-41.85	39.40
124	127	England	Joe Dean	Dean	1.12	58.22	-24.22	52.98
125	126	England	Andy Sullivan	Sullivan	1.12	58.07	-39.38	46.07
126	128	South Africa	Shaun Norris	Norris	1.11	57.62	-53.84	41.34
127	123	Argentina	Emiliano Grillo	Grillo	1.11	57.56	-46.02	34.36
128	129	Japan	Kota Kaneko	Kaneko	1.11	57.50	-28.76	46.45
129	125	Canada	Taylor Pendrith	Pendrith	1.09	55.59	-74.09	38.29
130	130	England	Daniel Brown(Oct1994)	Brown(Oct1994)	1.09	49.98	-52.23	22.11
131	131	United States	Patrick Rodgers	Rodgers	1.08	56.12	-58.66	55.12
132	134	China	Haotong Li	Li	1.06	55.13	-57.14	36.68
133	132	United States	Chandler Blanchet	Blanchet	1.05	51.65	-33.43	32.67
134	142	Mexico	Alvaro Ortiz Becerra	Ortiz Becerra	1.05	54.35	-18.20	48.24
135	133	United States	Davis Thompson	Thompson	1.04	53.25	-61.14	42.16
136	136	Spain	Jose Luis Ballester	Ballester	1.04	41.42	-16.10	27.86
137	140	Scotland	Grant Forrest	Forrest	1.03	51.31	-28.50	37.85
138	205	Norway	Kristoffer Ventura	Ventura	1.03	50.26	-24.37	39.89
139	141	United States	Zachary Bauchou	Bauchou	1.02	53.10	-28.02	45.13
140	139	United States	Brandt Snedeker	Snedeker	1.02	43.90	-21.32	39.05
141	144	Austria	Bernd Wiesberger	Wiesberger	1.02	53.06	-20.37	51.23
142	137	United States	Lucas Glover	Glover	1.02	48.90	-65.75	29.41
143	146	Spain	Sergio Garcia	Garcia	1.02	40.63	-13.25	42.66
144	147	United States	Zac Blair	Blair	1.01	52.61	-22.17	47.07
145	145	United States	Davis Riley	Riley	1.01	52.47	-52.98	35.63
146	135	United States	Max McGreevy	McGreevy	1.01	52.43	-64.38	28.20
147	151	United States	Chandler Phillips	Phillips	1.01	52.30	-33.65	39.86
148	148	South Africa	Garrick Higgo	Higgo	1.00	43.06	-46.51	9.33
149	138	United States	Lee Hodges	Hodges	1.00	45.94	-40.70	34.94
150	143	United States	David Lipsky	Lipsky	0.99	51.67	-43.15	44.58
151	149	Sweden	Joakim Lagergren	Lagergren	0.99	51.64	-36.59	29.59
152	150	Denmark	Jeff Winther	Winther	0.99	45.50	-18.58	37.87
153	152	South Africa	JC Ritchie	Ritchie	0.96	50.16	-31.43	26.72
154	155	Spain	Angel Hidalgo Portillo	Hidalgo Portillo	0.96	49.83	-25.81	42.35
155	153	Zimbabwe	Scott Vincent	Vincent	0.96	43.97	-23.13	31.00
156	185	Canada	Mackenzie Hughes	Hughes	0.95	49.44	-57.50	33.41
157	156	Ireland	Seamus Power	Power	0.95	49.43	-35.93	40.51
158	154	United States	Tom Hoge	Hoge	0.95	49.34	-61.42	40.18
159	157	France	Martin Couvra	Couvra	0.95	49.21	-37.10	31.20
160	158	Sweden	Mikael Lindberg	Lindberg	0.94	48.90	-21.66	42.00
161	161	United States	Tommy Morrison	Morrison	0.93	37.33	-1.57	38.45
162	160	Australia	Cameron Smith	Smith	0.93	37.08	-23.38	32.67
163	166	United States	Neal Shipley	Shipley	0.92	46.80	-37.76	26.31
164	159	United States	William Mouw	Mouw	0.91	41.13	-37.90	25.61
165	163	United States	Alistair Docherty	Docherty	0.91	43.80	-23.02	46.38
166	215	Japan	Yuto Katsuragawa	Katsuragawa	0.91	47.35	-17.62	40.40
167	180	United States	Trace Crowe(Oct1996)	Crowe(Oct1996)	0.91	36.36	-24.88	25.41
168	162	United States	Billy Horschel	Horschel	0.90	39.78	-73.49	33.75
169	165	Denmark	Niklas Norgaard	Norgaard	0.90	46.76	-39.51	39.38
170	164	United States	Ian Holt	Holt	0.90	43.87	-23.11	50.08
171	167	United States	Austin Hitt	Hitt	0.89	46.36	-14.97	38.98
172	168	Netherlands	Joost Luiten	Luiten	0.88	45.73	-28.52	31.13
173	170	Scotland	Calum Hill	Hill	0.87	45.49	-34.64	40.55
174	172	United States	Cole Sherwood	Sherwood	0.87	42.65	-14.92	42.96
175	168	France	Adrien Saddier	Saddier	0.87	43.52	-51.06	10.84
176	171	England	Laurie Canter	Canter	0.86	39.68	-50.03	16.51
177	173	United States	Taylor Moore	Moore	0.86	40.53	-40.43	36.96
178	175	England	Marcus Armitage	Armitage	0.86	44.50	-30.03	36.32
179	197	United States	Brian Campbell	Campbell	0.84	40.52	-55.21	14.37
180	174	United States	Tony Finau	Finau	0.83	38.36	-55.24	33.96
181	178	Japan	Yuta Sugiura	Sugiura	0.83	43.30	-21.66	33.15
182	177	Scotland	Ewen Ferguson	Ferguson	0.83	43.10	-33.58	32.33
183	176	United States	Mark Hubbard	Hubbard	0.83	43.01	-44.22	27.32
184	179	South Africa	Michael Hollick	Hollick	0.83	42.90	-14.62	33.13
185	181	United States	Davis Lamb	Lamb	0.82	32.65	-15.40	31.05
186	187	Australia	Travis Smyth	Smyth	0.81	32.50	-18.27	34.56
187	183	United States	Davis Bryant	Bryant	0.81	42.18	-15.56	37.20
188	184	Spain	Manuel Elvira	Elvira	0.81	42.10	-18.27	32.30
189	182	Japan	Kazuki Higa	Higa	0.81	42.05	-36.95	15.23
190	192	Italy	Gregorio De Leo	De Leo	0.80	36.98	-13.04	33.97
191	186	United States	Dylan Menante	Menante	0.80	37.49	-12.72	35.96
192	191	Australia	Elvis Smylie	Smylie	0.80	39.79	-36.21	30.24
193	194	Japan	Yusaku Hosono	Hosono	0.79	40.41	-11.60	35.25
194	190	China	Marty Dou Zecheng	Zecheng	0.79	39.60	-22.39	30.54
195	188	England	Dan Bradbury	Bradbury	0.79	41.10	-33.60	32.91
196	189	Japan	Takumi Kanaya	Kanaya	0.79	40.97	-39.40	19.28
197	200	Sweden	Christofer Blomstrand	Blomstrand	0.78	31.27	-7.18	30.61
198	193	Canada	A.J. Ewart	Ewart	0.78	31.82	-12.44	33.08
199	198	Netherlands	Lars Van Der Vight	Van Der Vight	0.77	33.26	-4.22	31.24
200	195	Denmark	Thorbjorn Olesen	Olesen	0.77	40.04	-52.02	20.99

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