Official World Golf Ranking 45/2025 - Golf Today

Week 45 – 09/11/2025

Simon Bale|November 10, 2025

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

Ben Griffin has won the World Wide Technology Championship, Chad Ramey and Sami Välimäki came second and Garrick Higgo tied for fourth place with Trevor Cone.

Griffin moves up three places to number 9 this week, Ramey up to 163 from 260, Välimäki to 103 from 126, Higgo up ten places to 67 and Cone to 283 from 419.

Ben Griffin of the United States watches his shot from the fourth tee during the third round of the Rocket Classic 2025 at Detroit Golf Club

Related: Ben Griffin wins third PGA Tour title

World Wide Technology Championship R4

Aaron Rai has won the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship in a playoff, Tommy Fleetwood came second, Nicolai Højgaard and Rory McIlroy tied for third while Daniel Hillier and Richard Mansell finished fifth.

Rai moves up seven places to 23, Fleetwood up one place to number 4, Højgaard to 70 from 95, McIlroy stays at number 2, Hillier up to 165 from 199 and Mansell to 150 from 177

Aaron Rai of England plays his third shot on the 18th hole in the play-off on day four of the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship 2025 at Yas Links Golf Course

Related: Aaron Rai ends five year drought in playoff

Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship R4

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This Week	Last Week	Country	Player	Avg. Points	Total Points	Points Lost (2025)	Points Won (2025)
1	1	United States	Scottie Scheffler	18.56	779.70	-510.44	634.94
2	2	Northern Ireland	Rory McIlroy	10.07	473.34	-322.71	435.35
3	3	United States	Xander Schauffele	6.15	246.06	-270.59	119.88
4	5	England	Tommy Fleetwood	5.85	304.39	-158.04	265.22
5	4	United States	Russell Henley	5.57	222.99	-129.63	220.09
6	6	United States	J.J. Spaun	5.10	265.18	-76.44	285.62
7	7	Scotland	Robert MacIntyre	5.02	261.07	-129.90	215.46
8	8	United States	Justin Thomas	5.02	215.78	-125.97	217.05
9	12	United States	Ben Griffin	4.94	257.04	-85.20	257.48
10	9	England	Justin Rose	4.41	193.91	-85.31	186.35
11	11	Norway	Viktor Hovland	4.24	169.51	-158.85	154.65
12	10	United States	Collin Morikawa	4.23	181.83	-188.32	131.97
13	13	United States	Harris English	4.22	206.98	-85.87	220.73
14	14	United States	Keegan Bradley	4.17	187.53	-127.82	157.38
15	16	Austria	Sepp Straka	4.06	202.80	-134.22	220.68
16	15	Sweden	Ludvig Aberg	4.00	179.81	-181.80	148.92
17	17	Sweden	Alex Noren	3.76	150.36	-66.82	124.11
18	19	United States	Cameron Young	3.56	178.04	-89.42	163.67
19	18	Japan	Hideki Matsuyama	3.55	170.49	-165.73	123.71
20	20	United States	Maverick McNealy	3.49	181.37	-85.12	162.14
21	21	England	Tyrrell Hatton	3.45	138.18	-105.54	111.29
22	22	United States	Patrick Cantlay	3.29	131.47	-120.29	110.99
23	30	England	Aaron Rai	3.24	168.40	-104.71	124.32
24	23	United States	Bryson DeChambeau	3.23	129.24	-108.75	87.22
25	24	United States	Sam Burns	3.14	150.65	-104.65	125.14
26	25	Ireland	Shane Lowry	3.10	161.39	-112.46	142.40
27	26	United States	Chris Gotterup	2.91	151.49	-34.43	150.86
28	27	Canada	Corey Conners	2.73	131.25	-92.44	123.42
29	29	England	Marco Penge	2.70	140.62	-20.36	144.98
30	28	England	Matt Fitzpatrick	2.59	132.32	-96.45	121.24
31	31	United States	Max Greyserman	2.50	130.02	-75.81	94.07
32	32	United States	Brian Harman	2.47	128.56	-125.98	122.36
33	35	United States	Andrew Novak	2.41	122.85	-56.60	125.06
34	34	United States	Kurt Kitayama	2.39	107.49	-53.28	93.89
35	36	South Korea	Sungjae Im	2.34	121.59	-116.43	94.99
36	37	United States	Michael Kim	2.33	121.24	-55.39	131.66
37	33	United States	Wyndham Clark	2.32	113.71	-174.46	74.41
38	39	New Zealand	Ryan Fox	2.27	118.26	-70.41	121.19
39	38	United States	Akshay Bhatia	2.27	117.98	-104.28	89.05
40	42	United States	Michael Brennan	2.24	89.46	-4.86	87.90
41	40	United States	Billy Horschel	2.23	93.47	-108.41	36.45
42	43	Denmark	Rasmus Hojgaard	2.21	112.87	-70.66	79.21
43	45	Canada	Taylor Pendrith	2.18	106.84	-83.55	85.65
44	44	United States	Patrick Reed	2.17	86.65	-38.97	84.43
45	41	Canada	Nick Taylor	2.15	107.49	-92.01	121.04
46	46	Australia	Min Woo Lee	2.13	106.30	-92.60	101.45
47	47	Australia	Jason Day	2.12	86.78	-87.10	80.92
48	48	United States	Samuel Stevens	2.05	106.58	-53.63	109.94
49	51	United States	Ryan Gerard	2.04	105.95	-37.90	110.05
50	49	Belgium	Thomas Detry	2.04	105.90	-88.21	106.92
51	50	United States	Matt McCarty	2.03	105.56	-64.67	64.83
52	53	United States	John Keefer	2.03	81.14	-23.22	79.25
53	52	United States	Daniel Berger	2.02	95.04	-42.46	96.21
54	55	England	Harry Hall	1.99	103.65	-48.09	92.68
55	54	United States	J.T. Poston	1.99	99.26	-90.96	72.95
56	56	Norway	Kristoffer Reitan	1.98	95.03	-16.10	97.39
57	58	United States	Lucas Glover	1.95	97.49	-96.68	92.73
58	61	Colombia	Nicolas Echavarria	1.92	99.82	-56.64	73.26
59	57	United States	Denny McCarthy	1.92	90.06	-86.34	78.48
60	62	Australia	Adam Scott	1.88	90.15	-98.54	43.48
61	59	United States	Chris Kirk	1.87	86.04	-75.00	72.46
62	60	United States	Brian Campbell	1.86	91.29	-34.99	93.01
63	64	South Africa	Thriston Lawrence	1.86	96.74	-72.49	62.35
64	62	South Korea	Si Woo Kim	1.85	96.31	-74.68	84.34
65	66	United States	Bud Cauley	1.85	74.05	-23.98	80.09
66	65	United States	Jordan Spieth	1.84	77.34	-73.03	80.94
67	77	South Africa	Garrick Higgo	1.81	83.43	-23.18	83.13
68	67	England	Matt Wallace	1.77	92.00	-60.83	65.19
69	69	United States	Jacob Bridgeman	1.75	90.80	-41.39	96.65
70	95	Denmark	Nicolai Hojgaard	1.73	89.91	-78.24	76.31
71	68	England	Laurie Canter	1.73	72.54	-42.26	73.43
72	70	South Africa	Aldrich Potgieter	1.72	82.39	-25.83	83.28
73	74	United States	Michael Thorbjornsen	1.71	68.60	-21.06	59.94
74	71	Spain	Jon Rahm	1.70	68.18	-89.39	48.79
75	76	Philippines	Richard Hoey	1.69	88.08	-40.21	71.36
76	75	France	Adrien Saddier	1.69	87.89	-23.96	82.35
77	80	England	Daniel Brown(Oct1994)	1.68	85.92	-35.29	76.06
78	73	United States	Tony Finau	1.66	73.05	-91.77	45.79
79	72	Taiwan (Chinese Taipei)	Chun-an Yu	1.65	85.71	-56.18	69.14
80	83	Venezuela	Jhonattan Vegas	1.64	75.64	-42.98	61.33
81	79	United States	Rickie Fowler	1.64	73.86	-59.91	65.68
82	78	South Africa	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	1.64	85.14	-82.24	69.84
83	81	Canada	Mackenzie Hughes	1.62	84.16	-73.58	62.63
84	85	Northern Ireland	Tom McKibbin	1.62	66.31	-42.14	50.32
85	82	South Korea	Byeong Hun An	1.61	83.78	-98.54	54.42
86	87	United States	Tom Hoge	1.61	83.48	-75.46	75.28
87	84	United States	Davis Thompson	1.60	83.23	-74.96	50.24
88	97	Germany	Matti Schmid	1.60	83.19	-51.85	74.08
89	86	China	Haotong Li	1.57	77.02	-23.92	81.44
90	98	England	Jordan Smith	1.56	81.37	-51.32	65.18
91	89	United States	Neal Shipley	1.56	63.79	-19.18	58.82
92	88	United States	Jake Knapp	1.56	71.53	-56.23	67.71
93	91	South Korea	Tom Kim	1.53	79.75	-111.45	40.89
94	92	United States	Davis Riley	1.53	79.72	-49.22	72.01
95	93	Denmark	Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen	1.53	79.32	-40.91	69.22
96	99	England	John Parry	1.52	79.11	-36.84	54.59
97	90	United States	Sahith Theegala	1.52	71.45	-129.60	22.35
98	94	Germany	Stephan Jaeger	1.51	78.43	-83.28	61.70
99	96	Argentina	Emiliano Grillo	1.50	77.83	-59.50	72.22
100	103	Denmark	Thorbjorn Olesen	1.47	76.36	-64.30	55.94
101	102	United States	Pierceson Coody	1.47	76.29	-31.33	72.18
102	100	United States	Steven Fisk	1.46	68.59	-29.78	57.83
103	126	Finland	Sami Valimaki	1.46	75.86	-43.16	75.22
104	101	United States	McClure Meissner	1.45	70.94	-32.40	59.96
105	106	Japan	Keita Nakajima	1.44	67.52	-44.92	60.35
106	104	South Africa	Erik van Rooyen	1.39	72.08	-67.24	63.37
107	105	United States	Joe Highsmith	1.38	71.75	-41.52	74.80
108	112	United States	Eric Cole	1.34	69.74	-85.11	60.48
109	107	United States	Austin Eckroat	1.32	68.85	-79.92	32.52
110	110	United States	Max McGreevy	1.30	67.50	-46.92	44.21
111	108	United States	William Mouw	1.30	57.05	-22.96	48.25
112	109	Sweden	Joakim Lagergren	1.28	61.37	-15.57	55.08
113	111	United States	Mark Hubbard	1.27	66.00	-53.45	58.22
114	116	United States	Vincent Whaley	1.26	65.65	-35.49	51.29
115	113	Japan	Kazuki Higa	1.26	65.64	-16.33	60.68
116	115	United States	Chandler Blanchet	1.23	55.54	-8.22	56.15
117	114	United States	Gary Woodland	1.23	57.83	-31.30	59.68
118	129	United States	Patrick Rodgers	1.23	63.90	-58.33	58.24
119	117	South Africa	Shaun Norris	1.21	63.08	-34.92	43.96
120	120	France	Victor Perez	1.21	62.93	-52.31	43.72
121	123	United States	Beau Hossler	1.21	62.86	-57.78	48.07
122	118	Australia	Cameron Davis	1.19	58.49	-80.26	38.51
123	121	Japan	Ryo Hisatsune	1.19	61.78	-56.40	55.86
124	124	United States	Patrick Fishburn	1.16	60.56	-38.36	43.41
125	119	United States	Keith Mitchell	1.16	59.26	-50.83	49.05
126	122	Chile	Joaquin Niemann	1.16	46.39	-41.49	25.80
127	128	United States	Austin Smotherman	1.15	58.79	-21.90	59.61
128	127	United States	Max Homa	1.15	55.05	-84.08	39.33
129	131	United States	Matt Kuchar	1.14	47.83	-41.02	36.27
130	125	Japan	Takumi Kanaya	1.11	57.89	-39.71	46.51
131	139	Spain	Angel Ayora	1.09	56.84	-16.79	45.52
132	136	France	Martin Couvra	1.09	56.62	-18.53	59.42
133	142	United States	Nick Dunlap	1.09	53.28	-66.94	24.18
134	130	United States	Alex Smalley	1.09	56.52	-38.56	56.85
135	137	United States	David Lipsky	1.08	56.32	-29.70	39.93
136	133	Australia	Elvis Smylie	1.07	44.74	-13.18	31.40
137	132	Sweden	Jesper Svensson	1.06	55.28	-46.29	41.50
138	134	Australia	Karl Vilips	1.06	42.46	-20.08	39.67
139	135	United States	Kevin Roy	1.06	55.14	-26.83	50.83
140	141	United States	Justin Lower	1.02	53.22	-43.67	38.97
141	138	South Africa	Christo Lamprecht	1.02	40.88	-9.50	39.79
142	153	England	Andy Sullivan	1.02	52.98	-24.75	41.88
143	140	Japan	Kensei Hirata	1.01	52.59	-40.26	35.92
144	143	United States	Taylor Moore	1.00	52.22	-60.57	41.88
145	145	Mexico	Emilio Gonzalez	0.98	50.75	-11.69	50.76
146	147	Spain	Eugenio Chacarra	0.97	38.99	-16.41	39.26
147	144	Denmark	Niklas Norgaard	0.97	50.39	-42.49	29.09
148	146	Spain	Jorge Campillo	0.97	50.23	-43.05	32.30
149	148	Belgium	Adrien Dumont de Chassart	0.96	49.99	-21.68	44.82
150	177	England	Richard Mansell	0.95	49.50	-29.13	46.29
151	149	United States	Lee Hodges	0.95	48.28	-54.14	37.92
152	150	Zimbabwe	Scott Vincent	0.95	37.82	-7.86	35.53
153	152	United States	Luke Clanton	0.94	37.70	-28.09	15.89
154	155	South Africa	Jayden Schaper	0.94	48.80	-22.01	46.86
155	154	South Korea	Seonghyeon Kim	0.93	48.40	-36.77	47.25
156	157	United States	Doug Ghim	0.93	48.24	-45.00	29.43
157	151	Mexico	Carlos Ortiz	0.93	37.00	-16.92	38.30
158	156	South Africa	JC Ritchie	0.92	47.94	-9.94	48.14
159	182	United States	Carson Young	0.92	47.78	-34.70	33.77
160	158	France	Antoine Rozner	0.90	46.07	-35.36	32.49
161	159	Scotland	Ewen Ferguson	0.90	46.91	-38.42	34.81
162	160	Canada	Richard T. Lee	0.90	44.88	-24.37	36.84
163	260	United States	Chad Ramey	0.90	46.62	-21.88	42.53
164	162	Scotland	Grant Forrest	0.89	44.26	-25.88	36.02
165	199	New Zealand	Daniel Hillier	0.88	45.91	-32.33	45.76
166	161	Spain	David Puig	0.87	34.95	-36.62	24.51
167	179	United States	Jackson Suber	0.87	41.75	-23.49	38.25
168	167	Finland	Oliver Lindell	0.87	45.20	-13.77	36.87
169	165	France	Matthieu Pavon	0.86	44.82	-98.46	15.95
170	169	Netherlands	Joost Luiten	0.86	44.82	-28.89	41.73
171	168	South Korea	Taehoon Ok	0.86	39.61	-10.78	37.50
172	164	United States	Trace Crowe(Oct1996)	0.86	40.39	-23.83	36.28
173	166	United States	Andrew Putnam	0.86	44.50	-43.29	39.16
174	180	England	Matthew Jordan	0.85	43.54	-36.74	24.79
175	178	Denmark	Jacob Skov Olesen	0.85	34.04	-5.35	32.94
176	163	South Africa	Jacques Kruyswijk	0.85	43.28	-19.66	46.01
177	172	United States	Jackson Koivun(Am)	0.85	33.85	-1.55	34.89
178	173	United States	Lanto Griffin	0.84	41.99	-16.64	39.16
179	174	France	Romain Langasque	0.83	43.17	-48.36	16.65
180	170	United States	Taylor Montgomery	0.83	38.94	-24.34	36.45
181	171	United States	Will Zalatoris	0.83	33.06	-51.65	18.44
182	184	Ireland	Seamus Power	0.82	42.88	-36.98	28.93
183	176	United States	Peter Uihlein	0.82	32.87	-20.51	14.27
184	175	United States	Harry Higgs	0.82	41.75	-28.91	31.08
185	189	Scotland	Calum Hill	0.81	42.15	-26.82	40.91
186	185	United States	Hank Lebioda	0.80	38.54	-15.65	45.54
187	181	New Zealand	Kazuma Kobori	0.80	40.08	-11.56	37.51
188	183	Italy	Matteo Manassero	0.79	41.33	-42.59	19.26
189	222	Spain	Nacho Elvira	0.79	41.19	-29.46	32.19
190	187	United States	Danny Walker	0.78	37.65	-17.07	35.32
191	188	Germany	Nicolai Von Dellingshausen	0.78	40.65	-12.92	37.94
192	197	United States	Joel Dahmen	0.77	40.02	-27.50	37.33
193	192	Scotland	David Law	0.77	39.83	-13.48	36.97
194	193	South Korea	Junghwan Lee	0.77	36.73	-14.13	31.54
195	186	United States	Hayden Springer	0.76	35.92	-24.68	31.23
196	194	United States	Jeffrey Kang	0.76	36.55	-9.09	35.76
197	191	United States	Sam Ryder	0.76	39.51	-32.48	38.38
198	196	England	Todd Clements	0.76	39.28	-20.69	34.62
199	190	United States	Isaiah Salinda	0.75	34.53	-24.78	33.30
200	198	United States	Zachary Bauchou	0.75	38.98	-14.84	33.93

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Updated: November 10, 2025