Official World Golf Ranking 49/2024 - Golf Today

Week 49 – 08/12/2024

Simon Bale|December 9, 2024

Keywords: golf rankings, Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR)

Scottie Scheffler has won the Hero World Challenge, Tom Kim came second, Justin Thomas third, Akshay Bhatia fourth and Keegan Bradley finished fifth.

Scheffler stays at number 1, Kim moves up six places to 21, Thomas up three to 22, Bhatia up two to 29 and Keegan up one to 12.

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Johannes Veerman has won the Nedbank Golf Challenge, Aldrich Potgieter, Matthew Jordan and Romain Langasque tied for second place and Thorbjørn Olesen finished fifth.

Veerman moves up to 131 from 209 this week, Potgieter to 226 from 332, Jordan to 120 from 146, Langasque up six places to 79 and Olesen up six to 66.

Scottie Scheffler hits from a bunker in the US Open

Related: Scottie Scheffler successfully defends title in the Bahamas

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This Week	Last Week	Country	Player	Avg. Points	Total Points	Points Lost (2024)	Points Won (2024)
1	1	United States	Scottie Scheffler	16.49	692.73	-475.99	727.45
2	2	United States	Xander Schauffele	9.72	417.95	-252.90	444.25
3	3	Northern Ireland	Rory McIlroy	8.11	381.19	-337.79	347.89
4	4	United States	Collin Morikawa	5.72	251.75	-155.73	243.96
5	5	Sweden	Ludvig Aberg	5.58	223.27	-103.55	221.63
6	6	United States	Wyndham Clark	4.98	228.85	-202.37	222.34
7	7	Japan	Hideki Matsuyama	4.96	223.25	-111.79	249.34
8	8	Norway	Viktor Hovland	4.70	187.84	-239.49	104.15
9	9	England	Tommy Fleetwood	4.00	207.97	-164.35	185.44
10	10	United States	Bryson DeChambeau	3.94	157.65	-52.28	179.00
11	11	United States	Patrick Cantlay	3.78	151.19	-195.38	130.35
12	13	United States	Keegan Bradley	3.73	167.65	-137.24	155.21
13	12	United States	Sahith Theegala	3.71	189.11	-143.91	199.88
14	15	Scotland	Robert MacIntyre	3.52	183.06	-80.96	182.41
15	16	England	Tyrrell Hatton	3.50	140.09	-146.76	100.47
16	17	United States	Billy Horschel	3.45	172.31	-82.30	182.00
17	14	United States	Russell Henley	3.43	140.54	-114.89	134.17
18	19	Australia	Adam Scott	3.17	152.38	-84.97	146.52
19	20	United States	Sam Burns	3.09	138.89	-135.55	133.59
20	18	Spain	Jon Rahm	3.08	123.08	-278.37	55.28
21	27	Korea; Republic of	Tom Kim	3.05	158.38	-162.58	122.37
22	25	United States	Justin Thomas	3.04	130.78	-119.57	128.95
23	21	England	Aaron Rai	2.99	155.67	-68.65	148.98
24	23	Korea; Republic of	Sungjae Im	2.90	150.79	-134.76	147.09
25	22	Korea; Republic of	Byeong Hun An	2.87	134.68	-85.37	144.17
26	26	United States	Tony Finau	2.81	126.66	-151.30	127.06
27	24	United States	Brian Harman	2.78	141.70	-175.30	102.04
28	28	Ireland	Shane Lowry	2.76	137.94	-102.55	141.20
29	31	United States	Akshay Bhatia	2.69	139.62	-64.75	151.14
30	29	France	Matthieu Pavon	2.58	133.99	-81.74	156.56
31	30	United States	Maverick McNealy	2.55	107.18	-40.33	120.39
32	33	United States	Nick Dunlap	2.50	100.10	-28.21	128.31
33	34	United States	J.T. Poston	2.40	122.62	-96.48	116.17
34	32	Australia	Jason Day	2.39	100.55	-110.53	85.10
35	39	Austria	Sepp Straka	2.38	123.93	-130.29	89.90
36	35	United States	Max Homa	2.38	109.54	-184.83	80.86
37	36	United States	Austin Eckroat	2.38	121.22	-63.70	128.40
38	38	United States	Cameron Young	2.37	111.45	-148.67	113.30
39	37	United States	Max Greyserman	2.36	115.63	-26.07	115.40
40	40	England	Matt Fitzpatrick	2.33	116.44	-189.19	74.23
41	42	Canada	Corey Conners	2.33	106.96	-101.65	97.49
42	44	Denmark	Rasmus Hojgaard	2.31	108.40	-53.60	101.83
43	41	United States	Denny McCarthy	2.28	104.79	-101.60	92.32
44	43	United States	Davis Thompson	2.27	113.40	-57.63	122.00
45	45	England	Justin Rose	2.16	99.22	-80.27	89.94
46	47	South Africa	Thriston Lawrence	2.14	111.28	-58.35	104.48
47	49	Australia	Min Woo Lee	2.12	103.80	-95.48	82.84
48	46	Canada	Taylor Pendrith	2.11	109.61	-55.90	117.49
49	50	United States	Matt McCarty	2.08	108.37	-18.00	110.90
50	48	United States	Chris Kirk	2.08	95.58	-103.53	115.44
51	51	United States	Lucas Glover	2.06	107.30	-95.69	66.72
52	52	Australia	Cameron Davis	2.05	106.44	-86.31	87.75
53	53	Germany	Stephan Jaeger	2.02	104.93	-67.42	116.81
54	54	Sweden	Alex Noren	2.00	97.82	-77.25	94.54
55	55	South Africa	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	1.96	101.94	-70.37	116.86
56	57	Canada	Mackenzie Hughes	1.91	99.47	-67.86	93.21
57	56	United States	Eric Cole	1.91	99.41	-88.69	77.83
58	58	Denmark	Nicolai Hojgaard	1.87	97.32	-77.19	77.70
59	59	Canada	Adam Hadwin	1.84	86.33	-81.84	81.81
60	60	Korea; Republic of	Si Woo Kim	1.83	93.28	-97.56	89.63
61	61	Belgium	Thomas Detry	1.76	91.72	-68.84	100.67
62	63	United States	Will Zalatoris	1.75	70.16	-106.05	89.23
63	62	England	Matt Wallace	1.75	91.04	-58.91	78.24
64	64	United States	Jordan Spieth	1.74	76.56	-137.48	60.44
65	66	United States	Tom Hoge	1.71	88.68	-83.87	95.59
66	72	Denmark	Thorbjorn Olesen	1.70	88.46	-57.83	84.52
67	65	Canada	Nick Taylor	1.70	84.96	-95.84	89.20
68	68	United States	Ben Griffin	1.70	88.20	-59.64	89.91
69	67	United States	Kurt Kitayama	1.68	72.25	-110.24	61.96
70	69	Taiwan (Chinese Taipei)	Chun-an Yu	1.66	74.90	-35.27	85.13
71	73	Colombia	Nicolas Echavarria	1.62	84.36	-19.36	86.28
72	70	United States	Harris English	1.61	77.38	-78.85	70.82
73	71	United States	Rickie Fowler	1.61	73.84	-100.34	38.84
74	124	Chile	Joaquin Niemann	1.61	64.20	-51.60	58.17
75	74	South Africa	Erik van Rooyen	1.53	79.45	-53.49	73.56
76	75	United States	Taylor Moore	1.49	76.21	-81.82	68.04
77	77	Venezuela	Jhonattan Vegas	1.49	59.47	-15.61	63.81
77	76	France	Victor Perez	1.49	75.83	-60.73	73.29
79	85	France	Romain Langasque	1.48	76.78	-40.49	69.87
80	101	Australia	Cameron Smith	1.47	58.68	-101.02	45.29
81	78	United States	Beau Hossler	1.46	75.95	-55.08	65.24
82	82	United States	Max McGreevy	1.39	72.38	-17.11	78.35
83	80	New Zealand	Ryan Fox	1.39	72.12	-103.19	42.36
84	79	United States	Brooks Koepka	1.38	55.32	-93.72	20.08
85	81	Argentina	Emiliano Grillo	1.38	70.42	-95.91	49.93
86	86	England	Jordan Smith	1.36	70.50	-55.44	59.20
87	83	United States	Jake Knapp	1.35	63.50	-42.37	78.59
88	84	United States	Lee Hodges	1.31	68.31	-62.09	51.48
89	87	United States	Patrick Rodgers	1.30	67.44	-57.55	66.32
90	88	Italy	Matteo Manassero	1.29	67.32	-20.69	69.97
91	90	United States	Luke Clanton(Am)	1.28	51.13	-3.52	54.65
92	89	United States	Keith Mitchell	1.27	64.86	-62.08	64.80
92	93	Denmark	Niklas Norgaard	1.27	66.13	-21.77	66.61
94	91	United States	Doug Ghim	1.27	66.09	-32.72	66.78
95	92	Japan	Ryo Hisatsune	1.26	65.42	-54.93	53.27
96	95	Denmark	Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen	1.25	52.50	-11.28	54.33
97	94	United States	Brendon Todd	1.25	64.79	-69.08	56.98
98	96	United States	Mark Hubbard	1.24	64.43	-56.24	63.11
99	98	England	Paul Waring	1.23	62.66	-24.41	60.49
100	99	United States	Vincent Whaley	1.23	51.50	-19.05	47.83
101	97	United States	Adam Schenk	1.22	63.67	-84.86	46.98
102	100	Spain	David Puig	1.22	48.77	-20.79	47.76
103	104	United States	Patton Kizzire	1.21	61.62	-22.87	59.83
104	103	Sweden	Jesper Svensson	1.21	62.80	-27.12	65.78
105	102	Germany	Matti Schmid	1.21	62.76	-35.65	51.07
106	107	Spain	Jorge Campillo	1.20	62.64	-48.82	57.47
107	105	Taiwan (Chinese Taipei)	C.T. Pan	1.19	47.66	-26.88	47.09
108	106	England	Harry Hall	1.19	61.75	-36.54	58.70
109	109	Northern Ireland	Tom McKibbin	1.15	60.00	-35.53	56.74
110	108	United States	Davis Riley	1.15	59.94	-48.94	64.29
111	110	United States	Justin Lower	1.15	59.93	-33.64	63.15
112	111	Japan	Keita Nakajima	1.14	54.92	-39.64	43.59
113	112	Philippines	Richard Hoey	1.14	59.42	-26.91	53.68
114	114	Japan	Kensei Hirata	1.14	59.24	-18.78	51.53
115	113	United States	J.J. Spaun	1.13	58.99	-49.45	48.81
116	117	United States	Patrick Fishburn	1.13	57.63	-19.45	53.04
117	115	United States	Matt Kuchar	1.12	56.18	-56.65	39.95
118	116	United States	Luke List	1.12	58.22	-55.13	51.10
119	120	South Africa	Dean Burmester	1.12	44.74	-39.76	31.84
120	146	England	Matthew Jordan	1.11	57.48	-26.46	53.03
121	118	Poland	Adrian Meronk	1.10	43.87	-79.40	24.16
122	128	France	Julien Guerrier	1.10	57.01	-30.10	48.31
123	127	United States	Patrick Reed	1.09	43.79	-45.50	37.22
124	121	United States	Andrew Novak	1.09	56.66	-27.15	60.35
125	119	Sweden	Sebastian Soderberg	1.09	53.17	-41.84	50.48
126	122	United States	Charley Hoffman	1.08	50.64	-29.62	59.34
127	123	United States	Ben Kohles	1.07	55.71	-38.71	49.09
128	125	Ireland	Seamus Power	1.07	53.56	-59.70	54.45
129	126	United States	Peter Malnati	1.07	55.49	-41.73	68.65
130	131	England	Laurie Canter	1.07	42.64	-21.57	36.97
131	209	United States	Johannes Veerman	1.05	53.79	-17.80	55.76
132	129	United States	John Catlin	1.05	54.60	-19.65	60.39
133	132	United States	Daniel Berger	1.05	41.93	-11.80	45.95
134	130	Canada	Adam Svensson	1.04	54.25	-72.57	46.09
135	138	Korea; Republic of	Yubin Jang	1.03	41.33	-10.14	39.84
136	133	Japan	Takumi Kanaya	1.03	53.60	-39.30	43.05
137	135	Scotland	Ewen Ferguson	1.02	53.16	-38.37	46.26
138	134	United States	Samuel Stevens	1.02	53.13	-42.88	49.46
139	161	New Zealand	Ben Campbell	1.01	40.58	-14.29	33.43
140	136	Italy	Guido Migliozzi	1.00	52.11	-30.46	53.71
141	137	United States	Andrew Putnam	1.00	52.08	-68.53	44.72
142	142	United States	Peter Uihlein	1.00	39.84	-8.46	39.90
143	141	Japan	Rikuya Hoshino	0.99	50.37	-47.78	38.24
144	139	France	Antoine Rozner	0.98	50.91	-40.85	43.85
145	140	United States	Carson Young	0.98	50.76	-26.98	47.38
146	145	United States	Frankie Capan	0.95	46.59	-14.42	46.41
147	143	United States	Chandler Phillips	0.95	47.52	-23.96	50.44
148	144	United States	McClure Meissner	0.95	45.50	-21.51	46.30
149	147	Canada	Ben Silverman	0.93	40.86	-27.94	38.57
150	148	United States	David Lipsky	0.92	48.00	-30.57	43.88
151	149	United States	Michael Kim	0.91	47.46	-42.59	41.77
152	150	United States	Chan Kim	0.91	47.35	-39.02	40.61
153	151	Korea; Republic of	Kyoung-Hoon Lee	0.90	46.97	-65.10	45.48
154	153	England	Daniel Brown(Oct1994)	0.90	46.89	-23.82	37.78
155	155	Sweden	Tim Widing	0.90	45.03	-20.88	50.16
156	152	Finland	Sami Valimaki	0.90	46.56	-45.05	37.56
157	154	France	Frederic LaCroix	0.89	44.59	-20.30	43.40
158	156	United States	Steven Fisk	0.88	42.37	-13.81	46.95
159	157	United States	Taylor Dickson	0.87	42.78	-19.65	42.77
160	159	England	Joe Dean	0.87	34.91	-4.77	39.57
161	158	United States	Joe Highsmith	0.87	39.79	-19.10	35.85
162	160	United States	Zac Blair	0.85	41.59	-33.50	31.88
163	162	England	Alex Fitzpatrick	0.84	43.82	-26.98	32.78
164	165	England	Dan Bradbury	0.83	43.41	-21.42	32.21
165	163	United States	Harry Higgs	0.83	41.48	-20.61	45.97
166	164	United States	William Mouw	0.83	33.08	-8.29	33.51
167	166	Puerto Rico	Rafael Campos	0.82	42.72	-15.94	40.54
168	167	Japan	Yuta Sugiura	0.82	32.73	-11.45	30.20
169	171	Spain	Angel Hidalgo Portillo	0.80	41.70	-16.28	42.27
170	168	Argentina	Alejandro Tosti	0.80	41.39	-34.16	33.48
171	169	Germany	Yannik Paul	0.80	41.37	-47.94	33.30
172	174	United Arab Emirates	Adrian Otaegui	0.79	40.88	-50.67	36.45
173	170	Germany	Marcel Siem	0.78	37.54	-31.90	27.07
174	173	United States	Alex Smalley	0.78	40.44	-52.68	29.37
175	177	France	David Ravetto	0.78	40.37	-14.65	43.48
176	178	England	John Parry	0.77	39.99	-13.39	41.45
177	176	Korea; Republic of	Seonghyeon Kim	0.77	39.86	-43.89	36.83
178	179	United States	Michael Thorbjornsen	0.76	30.59	-10.17	32.92
179	180	United States	Hayden Springer	0.76	30.48	-10.99	30.84
180	172	Sweden	Alexander Bjork	0.76	34.15	-45.18	20.04
181	175	Germany	Thomas Rosenmueller	0.76	37.18	-9.65	35.70
182	182	Spain	Nacho Elvira	0.75	39.19	-23.43	37.70
183	181	United States	Nate Lashley	0.75	38.77	-35.08	40.39
184	183	Australia	Lucas Herbert	0.74	29.68	-54.80	17.13
185	184	United States	Greyson Sigg	0.74	38.42	-28.56	34.86
186	185	Sweden	Henrik Norlander	0.74	36.90	-19.77	32.54
187	188	England	Sam Bairstow	0.73	37.92	-12.95	38.13
188	186	United States	Jacob Bridgeman	0.73	37.18	-20.50	32.77
189	187	United States	Chris Gotterup	0.72	36.94	-24.33	37.21
190	188	Scotland	Connor Syme	0.72	37.51	-36.50	28.70
191	191	United States	Pierceson Coody	0.72	37.40	-33.17	33.18
192	190	United States	Gary Woodland	0.72	31.57	-41.47	23.93
193	194	Japan	Ryo Ishikawa	0.71	33.53	-22.75	25.17
194	197	Japan	Shugo Imahira	0.71	33.37	-25.71	26.46
195	204	South Africa	Louis Oosthuizen	0.71	28.34	-22.73	14.75
196	193	United States	Brian Campbell	0.71	34.66	-11.09	39.20
197	192	United States	Brice Garnett	0.70	29.59	-20.13	35.60
198	195	Scotland	Grant Forrest	0.70	36.17	-31.94	22.27
199	201	Belgium	Nicolas Colsaerts	0.69	28.35	-4.87	26.14
200	196	United States	Sam Ryder	0.69	35.91	-46.16	26.61

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Updated: December 9, 2024