Official World Golf Ranking 49/2025 - Golf Today

Week 49 – 07/12/2025

Simon Bale|December 7, 2025

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

Kristoffer Reitan has won the Nedbank Golf Challenge in honour of Gary Player, Jayden Schaper and Dan Bradbury came second, Christiaan Bezuidenhout came fourth and Shaun Norris finished in fifth place.

Reitan moves up to 33 from 59 this week, Schaper to 127 from 153, Bradbury to 176 from 240, Bezuidenhout up eight places to 80 and Norris to 116 from 125.

Related: Kristoffer Reitan struggles to wire-to-wire victory

Nedbank Golf Challenge R4

Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen has won the Crown Australian Open, Cam Smith finished second, Michael Hollick third and Adam Scott fifth.

Neergaard-Petersen moves up to 51 from 82, Smith to 201 from 354, Hollick to 291 from 402 and Scott up two places to 60.

Related: Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen wins maiden DP World Tour title

Crown Australian Open R4

Hideki Matsuyama has won the Hero World Challenge in a playoff, Alex Noren came second, Sepp Straka third and J.J. Spaun tied for fourth place with Scottie Scheffler.

Matsuyamamoves up three places to 17, Noren up five to 12, Straka up four to 11, Spaun stays at number 6 and Scheffler remains number 1.

Related: Hideki Matsuyama wins in playoff

Hero World Challenge 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	17.37	729.38	-568.33	642.52
2	2	Northern Ireland	Rory McIlroy	9.62	461.84	-354.80	455.94
3	3	England	Tommy Fleetwood	5.69	296.00	-174.96	273.75
4	4	United States	Xander Schauffele	5.58	223.22	-293.43	119.88
5	5	United States	Russell Henley	5.20	207.91	-144.71	220.09
6	6	United States	J.J. Spaun	4.98	258.82	-90.39	293.19
7	7	Scotland	Robert MacIntyre	4.86	252.79	-145.39	222.67
8	8	United States	Justin Thomas	4.77	200.43	-141.31	217.05
9	9	United States	Ben Griffin	4.73	245.76	-96.47	257.48
10	10	England	Justin Rose	4.22	189.83	-97.41	194.38
11	15	Austria	Sepp Straka	4.09	200.22	-148.31	232.19
12	17	Sweden	Alex Noren	4.08	163.31	-73.54	143.79
13	11	United States	Harris English	3.99	199.52	-98.46	225.86
14	13	Norway	Viktor Hovland	3.99	159.48	-169.73	155.49
15	12	United States	Collin Morikawa	3.94	165.52	-204.63	131.97
16	14	United States	Keegan Bradley	3.93	176.63	-141.45	160.11
17	20	Japan	Hideki Matsuyama	3.89	190.53	-181.54	159.57
18	16	Sweden	Ludvig Aberg	3.82	172.05	-198.10	157.45
19	18	United States	Cameron Young	3.47	169.94	-101.16	167.31
20	19	England	Tyrrell Hatton	3.41	136.50	-113.45	117.52
21	21	United States	Maverick McNealy	3.26	169.33	-97.16	162.14
22	22	England	Matt Fitzpatrick	3.13	156.44	-104.54	153.44
23	23	England	Aaron Rai	3.06	159.32	-114.31	124.84
24	24	United States	Patrick Cantlay	3.03	121.29	-130.46	110.99
25	25	United States	Sam Burns	2.98	142.90	-115.72	128.47
26	26	United States	Bryson DeChambeau	2.94	117.66	-120.33	87.22
27	27	Ireland	Shane Lowry	2.94	152.93	-124.13	145.62
28	28	United States	Chris Gotterup	2.76	143.40	-42.52	150.86
29	29	England	Marco Penge	2.66	138.34	-25.26	147.59
30	30	Canada	Corey Conners	2.64	126.60	-101.93	128.27
31	32	United States	Max Greyserman	2.34	121.91	-83.92	94.07
32	31	United States	Andrew Novak	2.34	121.69	-64.65	131.94
33	59	Norway	Kristoffer Reitan	2.34	116.89	-20.17	123.31
34	33	United States	Brian Harman	2.33	120.93	-135.81	124.55
35	35	United States	Michael Brennan	2.27	90.67	-6.29	90.54
36	36	United States	Michael Kim	2.24	116.61	-61.27	132.91
37	34	United States	Kurt Kitayama	2.24	100.86	-59.92	93.89
38	41	New Zealand	Ryan Fox	2.19	113.79	-77.37	123.69
39	38	United States	Wyndham Clark	2.18	104.84	-187.43	78.50
40	37	Denmark	Rasmus Hojgaard	2.18	111.05	-77.63	84.36
41	40	Finland	Sami Valimaki	2.17	112.78	-47.23	116.22
42	39	South Korea	Sungjae Im	2.15	111.85	-126.17	94.99
43	43	United States	Akshay Bhatia	2.13	110.71	-114.05	91.55
44	42	Australia	Min Woo Lee	2.12	103.97	-100.46	106.98
45	44	United States	Patrick Reed	2.10	84.05	-43.27	86.13
46	45	United States	Billy Horschel	2.06	86.50	-117.73	38.80
47	54	South Korea	Si Woo Kim	2.06	106.99	-81.94	102.26
48	46	Canada	Taylor Pendrith	2.04	98.01	-92.38	85.65
49	47	United States	John Keefer	2.04	81.65	-27.53	84.09
50	48	United States	Samuel Stevens	2.01	104.63	-60.42	114.78
51	82	Denmark	Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen	1.99	103.66	-45.80	98.45
52	50	Colombia	Nicolas Echavarria	1.99	103.65	-63.15	83.60
53	49	Australia	Jason Day	1.99	79.52	-94.36	80.92
54	51	Canada	Nick Taylor	1.95	99.61	-101.13	122.28
55	56	Belgium	Thomas Detry	1.95	101.53	-96.15	110.50
56	55	United States	Matt McCarty	1.95	101.48	-71.74	67.84
57	53	United States	Ryan Gerard	1.92	100.01	-43.84	110.05
58	52	United States	J.T. Poston	1.92	95.92	-99.13	77.78
59	57	England	Harry Hall	1.87	97.36	-54.38	92.68
60	62	Australia	Adam Scott	1.87	89.84	-106.77	51.40
61	58	United States	Daniel Berger	1.87	89.61	-48.65	96.96
62	61	United States	Lucas Glover	1.85	90.44	-103.73	92.73
63	60	England	Laurie Canter	1.82	76.49	-46.84	81.96
64	64	South Africa	Thriston Lawrence	1.79	92.82	-78.12	64.07
65	63	United States	Denny McCarthy	1.77	83.29	-93.85	79.23
66	65	United States	Max McGreevy	1.77	92.06	-52.71	74.56
67	66	United States	Michael Thorbjornsen	1.76	70.40	-24.09	64.77
68	68	South Africa	Garrick Higgo	1.75	82.39	-25.69	84.60
69	67	United States	Brian Campbell	1.75	85.62	-40.67	93.01
70	69	United States	Bud Cauley	1.74	69.70	-28.33	80.09
71	72	Philippines	Richard Hoey	1.74	90.35	-44.18	77.60
72	71	United States	Chris Kirk	1.72	79.08	-83.19	73.69
73	70	United States	Jordan Spieth	1.69	71.00	-79.37	80.94
74	75	England	Daniel Brown(Oct1994)	1.68	82.36	-39.28	76.48
75	77	France	Adrien Saddier	1.68	87.26	-27.07	84.83
76	74	England	Matt Wallace	1.68	87.24	-66.33	65.94
77	73	Denmark	Nicolai Hojgaard	1.68	87.18	-84.19	79.53
78	76	Northern Ireland	Tom McKibbin	1.66	67.86	-45.39	55.10
79	78	United States	Jacob Bridgeman	1.64	85.33	-46.85	96.65
80	88	South Africa	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	1.63	84.85	-88.40	75.72
81	81	Spain	Jon Rahm	1.60	63.94	-93.63	48.79
82	80	Venezuela	Jhonattan Vegas	1.60	70.21	-48.42	61.33
83	79	South Africa	Aldrich Potgieter	1.59	77.88	-30.72	83.67
84	83	United States	Rickie Fowler	1.57	69.23	-64.54	65.68
85	85	China	Haotong Li	1.55	78.94	-28.30	87.74
86	90	England	Jordan Smith	1.53	79.59	-55.89	67.96
87	87	Germany	Matti Schmid	1.53	79.51	-56.51	75.06
88	86	Taiwan (Chinese Taipei)	Chun-an Yu	1.53	79.39	-62.50	69.14
89	84	United States	Tony Finau	1.52	65.27	-99.55	45.79
90	89	Canada	Mackenzie Hughes	1.51	78.52	-79.96	63.38
91	91	United States	Davis Thompson	1.50	77.76	-82.27	52.08
92	95	England	John Parry	1.48	77.01	-41.09	56.74
93	92	South Korea	Byeong Hun An	1.47	76.69	-107.48	56.26
94	94	United States	Tom Hoge	1.45	75.50	-83.44	75.28
95	96	United States	Neal Shipley	1.45	60.92	-22.74	59.50
96	93	Japan	Keita Nakajima	1.44	66.17	-48.60	62.68
97	98	United States	Pierceson Coody	1.43	74.52	-35.26	74.33
98	97	United States	Davis Riley	1.43	74.26	-55.15	72.48
99	101	Denmark	Thorbjorn Olesen	1.43	74.15	-68.33	57.76
100	99	United States	Jake Knapp	1.42	65.17	-62.59	67.71
101	102	Argentina	Emiliano Grillo	1.41	73.14	-64.19	72.22
102	100	South Korea	Tom Kim	1.40	72.90	-118.29	40.89
103	103	United States	McClure Meissner	1.39	69.57	-36.71	62.90
104	105	United States	Steven Fisk	1.36	66.85	-32.67	58.98
105	104	Germany	Stephan Jaeger	1.36	70.70	-91.01	61.70
106	106	United States	Vincent Whaley	1.36	70.54	-38.98	59.67
107	107	United States	Sahith Theegala	1.31	62.80	-139.08	23.17
108	108	United States	Eric Cole	1.30	67.50	-89.69	62.81
109	109	United States	Joe Highsmith	1.29	67.13	-46.14	74.80
110	110	South Africa	Erik van Rooyen	1.28	66.68	-72.64	63.37
111	111	Sweden	Joakim Lagergren	1.28	60.25	-17.75	56.14
112	112	Spain	David Puig	1.25	50.12	-39.57	42.62
113	113	Japan	Kazuki Higa	1.25	65.00	-19.38	63.09
114	114	United States	William Mouw	1.24	55.98	-26.36	50.59
115	115	United States	Austin Eckroat	1.22	63.30	-86.71	33.75
116	125	South Africa	Shaun Norris	1.21	62.96	-39.98	48.91
117	119	Japan	Takumi Kanaya	1.21	62.94	-42.68	54.53
118	116	United States	Mark Hubbard	1.21	62.85	-58.08	59.70
119	117	United States	Patrick Rodgers	1.20	62.36	-64.70	63.08
120	118	United States	Chandler Blanchet	1.20	53.82	-9.94	56.15
121	126	Spain	Angel Ayora	1.19	61.64	-19.01	52.54
122	120	United States	Alex Smalley	1.17	60.69	-41.83	64.29
123	121	United States	Gary Woodland	1.16	54.33	-34.80	59.68
124	122	United States	Patrick Fishburn	1.13	58.97	-42.42	45.88
125	123	United States	Keith Mitchell	1.13	57.48	-55.55	51.98
126	128	Japan	Ryo Hisatsune	1.13	58.51	-60.68	56.88
127	153	South Africa	Jayden Schaper	1.12	58.43	-24.18	58.67
128	127	France	Victor Perez	1.12	58.19	-57.05	43.72
129	130	United States	Austin Smotherman	1.11	55.41	-25.28	59.61
130	129	United States	Beau Hossler	1.11	57.51	-63.65	48.59
131	135	Australia	Elvis Smylie	1.10	47.47	-14.97	35.93
132	124	Australia	Cameron Davis	1.10	53.88	-85.81	39.45
133	131	United States	Adam Schenk	1.09	56.49	-58.38	56.04
134	133	United States	Matt Kuchar	1.07	46.14	-43.87	37.43
135	132	United States	Max Homa	1.07	50.20	-88.93	39.33
136	134	Chile	Joaquin Niemann	1.06	42.35	-45.53	25.80
137	136	United States	Lee Hodges	1.05	54.52	-57.90	47.93
138	138	France	Martin Couvra	1.05	54.52	-21.49	60.28
139	139	South Africa	JC Ritchie	1.04	54.11	-11.27	55.64
140	137	Sweden	Jesper Svensson	1.03	53.45	-51.67	45.05
141	144	England	Andy Sullivan	1.03	53.35	-27.93	45.42
142	149	New Zealand	Daniel Hillier	1.02	53.21	-34.68	55.41
143	140	United States	David Lipsky	1.02	52.85	-33.18	39.93
144	141	Australia	Karl Vilips	1.01	40.47	-22.82	40.42
145	143	United States	Kevin Roy	1.00	52.07	-30.87	51.81
146	142	United States	Doug Ghim	1.00	51.97	-48.98	37.13
147	145	South Africa	Christo Lamprecht	0.98	39.33	-11.52	40.25
148	163	Mexico	Carlos Ortiz	0.96	38.58	-19.58	42.54
149	146	Denmark	Niklas Norgaard	0.96	49.86	-46.84	32.90
150	150	Spain	Eugenio Chacarra	0.96	38.29	-18.38	40.53
151	148	Japan	Kensei Hirata	0.95	49.27	-44.00	36.34
152	147	United States	Nick Dunlap	0.95	47.34	-73.30	24.61
153	151	United States	Chandler Phillips	0.93	48.47	-36.66	39.88
154	152	United States	Justin Lower	0.93	48.25	-48.65	38.97
155	155	Zimbabwe	Scott Vincent	0.93	37.06	-9.23	36.14
156	154	Mexico	Emilio Gonzalez	0.93	48.12	-14.32	50.76
157	159	Spain	Jorge Campillo	0.92	47.69	-47.03	33.75
158	157	Belgium	Adrien Dumont de Chassart	0.92	47.66	-24.01	44.82
159	160	England	Richard Mansell	0.92	47.58	-31.97	47.21
160	156	United States	Taylor Moore	0.91	47.41	-65.38	41.88
161	158	Ireland	Seamus Power	0.91	47.37	-40.59	37.02
162	162	Denmark	Jacob Skov Olesen	0.91	36.43	-6.52	36.51
163	161	South Korea	Seonghyeon Kim	0.90	46.92	-39.94	48.94
164	168	Scotland	Ewen Ferguson	0.90	46.92	-41.45	37.84
165	164	Scotland	Grant Forrest	0.89	43.64	-28.27	37.79
166	166	Canada	Richard T. Lee	0.87	43.68	-26.79	38.05
167	167	France	Antoine Rozner	0.87	45.40	-38.54	35.00
168	165	United States	Luke Clanton	0.87	34.76	-31.03	15.89
169	169	United States	Chad Ramey	0.87	45.08	-23.97	43.08
170	176	Netherlands	Joost Luiten	0.86	44.82	-31.36	44.21
171	170	United States	Carson Young	0.86	44.72	-38.26	34.27
172	171	United States	Ricky Castillo	0.86	44.67	-21.76	45.82
173	179	China	Ding Wenyi	0.86	34.23	-7.06	34.46
174	172	Japan	Kota Kaneko	0.86	41.07	-13.43	37.36
175	173	Finland	Oliver Lindell	0.85	44.41	-15.82	38.14
176	240	England	Dan Bradbury	0.83	43.12	-29.92	30.76
177	177	South Korea	Taehoon Ok	0.82	37.92	-12.48	37.50
178	178	United States	Jackson Koivun(Am)	0.82	32.85	-2.54	34.89
179	174	South Africa	Jacques Kruyswijk	0.82	41.86	-21.92	46.85
180	175	United States	Andrew Putnam	0.82	42.67	-47.28	41.31
181	180	United States	Trace Crowe(Oct1996)	0.80	37.79	-26.44	36.28
182	181	United States	Peter Uihlein	0.80	32.15	-22.45	15.49
183	183	United States	Jackson Suber	0.80	39.97	-26.01	39.00
184	185	United States	Lanto Griffin	0.79	40.28	-18.35	39.16
185	182	New Zealand	Kazuma Kobori	0.78	39.23	-13.68	38.78
185	184	England	Matthew Jordan	0.78	40.80	-39.91	25.21
187	187	Scotland	Calum Hill	0.78	40.71	-29.31	41.96
188	186	United States	Taylor Montgomery	0.78	37.47	-26.79	37.43
189	188	Japan	Tatsunori Shogenji	0.78	40.48	-17.88	42.26
190	189	United States	Hank Lebioda	0.77	36.30	-17.89	45.54
191	191	Germany	Nicolai Von Dellingshausen	0.77	40.00	-15.11	39.47
192	190	France	Romain Langasque	0.77	39.97	-51.88	16.97
193	193	Spain	Nacho Elvira	0.76	39.78	-31.75	33.07
194	192	United States	Harry Higgs	0.76	39.59	-32.21	32.23
195	200	United States	Will Zalatoris	0.75	29.94	-56.40	20.07
196	197	Scotland	David Law	0.75	38.86	-15.40	37.92
197	194	Italy	Matteo Manassero	0.75	38.08	-46.49	19.92
198	239	Spain	Jose Luis Ballester	0.74	29.74	-0.69	30.42
199	198	South Korea	Junghwan Lee	0.74	36.42	-15.28	32.39
200	196	South Africa	Barend Botha	0.74	29.65	-12.03	24.67

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Updated: December 8, 2025