Official World Golf Ranking 50/2025 - Golf Today

Week 50 – 14/12/2025

Simon Bale|December 15, 2025

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

Jayden Schaper has won the Alfred Dunhill Championship in a playoff, Shaun Norris came second, Eugenio Chacarra third and Oliver Bekker tied for fourth place with Christiaan Burke and Louis Oosthuizen.

Schaper moves up to 94 from 127 this week, Norris up fifteen places to 101, Chacarra to 126 from 150, Bekker to 526 from 660, Burke to 530 from 713 and Oosthuizen to 348 from 442.

Related: Jayden Schaper wins maiden DP World Tour title on home soil

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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	17.01	714.57	-583.14	642.52
2	2	Northern Ireland	Rory McIlroy	9.45	453.46	-363.18	455.94
3	3	England	Tommy Fleetwood	5.61	291.67	-179.30	273.75
4	4	United States	Xander Schauffele	5.44	217.50	-299.15	119.88
5	5	United States	Russell Henley	5.10	204.06	-148.56	220.09
6	6	United States	J.J. Spaun	4.91	255.22	-93.98	293.19
7	7	Scotland	Robert MacIntyre	4.79	248.98	-149.21	222.67
8	8	United States	Justin Thomas	4.68	196.67	-145.08	217.05
9	9	United States	Ben Griffin	4.67	242.62	-99.61	257.48
10	10	England	Justin Rose	4.15	186.83	-100.42	194.38
11	12	Sweden	Alex Noren	4.02	160.97	-75.88	143.79
12	11	Austria	Sepp Straka	4.02	196.84	-151.69	232.19
13	13	United States	Harris English	3.93	196.35	-101.63	225.86
14	14	Norway	Viktor Hovland	3.92	156.72	-172.50	155.49
15	16	United States	Keegan Bradley	3.85	173.24	-144.84	160.11
16	15	United States	Collin Morikawa	3.84	161.47	-208.68	131.97
17	17	Japan	Hideki Matsuyama	3.81	186.53	-185.55	159.57
18	18	Sweden	Ludvig Aberg	3.73	168.03	-202.11	157.45
19	19	United States	Cameron Young	3.41	166.93	-104.17	167.31
20	20	England	Tyrrell Hatton	3.36	134.42	-115.53	117.52
21	21	United States	Maverick McNealy	3.20	166.27	-100.22	162.14
22	22	England	Matt Fitzpatrick	3.09	154.34	-106.63	153.44
23	23	England	Aaron Rai	3.01	156.75	-116.89	124.84
24	24	United States	Patrick Cantlay	2.97	118.67	-133.09	110.99
25	25	United States	Sam Burns	2.92	140.09	-118.54	128.47
26	27	Ireland	Shane Lowry	2.88	149.97	-127.09	145.62
27	26	United States	Bryson DeChambeau	2.87	114.77	-123.22	87.22
28	28	United States	Chris Gotterup	2.72	141.36	-44.56	150.86
29	29	England	Marco Penge	2.64	137.06	-26.53	147.59
30	30	Canada	Corey Conners	2.59	124.21	-104.33	128.27
31	33	Norway	Kristoffer Reitan	2.32	115.84	-21.22	123.31
32	31	United States	Max Greyserman	2.31	119.88	-85.95	94.07
33	32	United States	Andrew Novak	2.30	119.67	-66.66	131.94
34	34	United States	Brian Harman	2.28	118.50	-138.24	124.55
35	35	United States	Michael Brennan	2.25	90.09	-6.87	90.54
36	36	United States	Michael Kim	2.22	115.23	-62.65	132.91
37	37	United States	Kurt Kitayama	2.20	99.20	-61.58	93.89
38	38	New Zealand	Ryan Fox	2.16	112.07	-79.10	123.69
39	41	Finland	Sami Valimaki	2.15	111.75	-48.27	116.22
40	40	Denmark	Rasmus Hojgaard	2.14	109.25	-79.43	84.36
41	39	United States	Wyndham Clark	2.12	101.62	-190.65	78.50
42	42	South Korea	Sungjae Im	2.10	109.40	-128.61	94.99
43	44	Australia	Min Woo Lee	2.08	102.07	-102.36	106.98
44	43	United States	Akshay Bhatia	2.08	108.19	-116.57	91.55
45	45	United States	Patrick Reed	2.07	82.78	-44.54	86.13
46	47	South Korea	Si Woo Kim	2.03	105.32	-83.60	102.26
47	49	United States	John Keefer	2.01	80.53	-28.66	84.09
48	46	United States	Billy Horschel	2.00	84.17	-120.06	38.80
49	48	Canada	Taylor Pendrith	2.00	95.80	-94.59	85.65
50	50	United States	Samuel Stevens	1.98	103.00	-62.05	114.78
51	51	Denmark	Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen	1.97	102.41	-47.05	98.45
52	52	Colombia	Nicolas Echavarria	1.96	102.04	-64.75	83.60
53	53	Australia	Jason Day	1.94	77.74	-96.15	80.92
54	56	United States	Matt McCarty	1.92	99.70	-73.52	67.84
55	55	Belgium	Thomas Detry	1.92	99.59	-98.10	110.50
56	54	Canada	Nick Taylor	1.91	97.32	-103.41	122.28
57	57	United States	Ryan Gerard	1.89	98.51	-45.34	110.05
58	58	United States	J.T. Poston	1.88	93.88	-101.17	77.78
59	59	England	Harry Hall	1.84	95.73	-56.01	92.68
60	63	England	Laurie Canter	1.84	75.36	-47.98	81.96
61	61	United States	Daniel Berger	1.83	88.06	-50.19	96.96
62	60	Australia	Adam Scott	1.83	87.81	-108.80	51.40
63	62	United States	Lucas Glover	1.81	88.71	-105.46	92.73
64	64	South Africa	Thriston Lawrence	1.78	92.69	-79.61	65.42
65	66	United States	Max McGreevy	1.75	90.91	-53.86	74.56
66	67	United States	Michael Thorbjornsen	1.74	69.59	-24.90	64.77
67	68	South Africa	Garrick Higgo	1.74	81.67	-26.41	84.60
68	65	United States	Denny McCarthy	1.73	81.44	-95.71	79.23
69	69	United States	Brian Campbell	1.72	84.20	-42.08	93.01
70	71	Philippines	Richard Hoey	1.72	89.32	-45.21	77.60
71	70	United States	Bud Cauley	1.72	68.61	-29.41	80.09
72	74	England	Daniel Brown(Oct1994)	1.69	81.32	-40.31	76.48
73	72	United States	Chris Kirk	1.67	77.04	-85.23	73.69
74	75	France	Adrien Saddier	1.66	86.09	-28.24	84.83
75	73	United States	Jordan Spieth	1.65	69.46	-80.91	80.94
76	76	England	Matt Wallace	1.65	85.79	-67.79	65.94
77	77	Denmark	Nicolai Hojgaard	1.65	85.67	-85.70	79.53
78	80	South Africa	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	1.64	85.24	-90.21	77.91
79	78	Northern Ireland	Tom McKibbin	1.63	66.97	-46.28	55.10
80	79	United States	Jacob Bridgeman	1.61	83.96	-48.23	96.65
81	83	South Africa	Aldrich Potgieter	1.58	78.85	-31.95	85.87
82	81	Spain	Jon Rahm	1.57	62.85	-94.73	48.79
83	82	Venezuela	Jhonattan Vegas	1.56	68.85	-49.78	61.33
84	84	United States	Rickie Fowler	1.55	68.09	-65.67	65.68
85	85	China	Haotong Li	1.53	77.83	-29.41	87.74
86	92	England	John Parry	1.52	78.79	-42.17	59.61
87	86	England	Jordan Smith	1.51	78.42	-57.06	67.96
88	87	Germany	Matti Schmid	1.51	78.38	-57.63	75.06
89	88	Taiwan (Chinese Taipei)	Chun-an Yu	1.50	78.11	-63.78	69.14
90	90	Canada	Mackenzie Hughes	1.48	76.86	-81.63	63.38
91	89	United States	Tony Finau	1.47	63.39	-101.43	45.79
92	91	United States	Davis Thompson	1.46	75.92	-84.12	52.08
93	93	South Korea	Byeong Hun An	1.44	74.81	-109.36	56.26
94	127	South Africa	Jayden Schaper	1.44	74.78	-24.70	75.53
95	95	United States	Neal Shipley	1.43	60.03	-23.63	59.50
96	94	United States	Tom Hoge	1.42	73.86	-85.08	75.28
97	96	Japan	Keita Nakajima	1.42	65.26	-49.51	62.68
98	97	United States	Pierceson Coody	1.41	73.53	-36.25	74.33
99	99	Denmark	Thorbjorn Olesen	1.41	73.13	-69.35	57.76
100	98	United States	Davis Riley	1.40	72.78	-56.63	72.48
101	116	South Africa	Shaun Norris	1.39	72.04	-41.02	59.03
102	100	United States	Jake Knapp	1.38	63.58	-64.18	67.71
103	101	Argentina	Emiliano Grillo	1.38	71.84	-65.49	72.22
104	103	United States	McClure Meissner	1.37	68.48	-37.80	62.90
105	102	South Korea	Tom Kim	1.37	71.18	-120.01	40.89
106	104	United States	Steven Fisk	1.35	66.10	-33.41	58.98
107	106	United States	Vincent Whaley	1.34	69.65	-39.87	59.67
108	105	Germany	Stephan Jaeger	1.32	68.85	-92.86	61.70
109	111	Sweden	Joakim Lagergren	1.29	59.52	-18.48	56.14
110	108	United States	Eric Cole	1.28	66.43	-90.75	62.81
111	109	United States	Joe Highsmith	1.27	65.98	-47.29	74.80
112	107	United States	Sahith Theegala	1.26	60.41	-141.47	23.17
113	110	South Africa	Erik van Rooyen	1.26	65.30	-74.02	63.37
114	113	Japan	Kazuki Higa	1.25	65.15	-20.02	63.88
115	112	Spain	David Puig	1.23	49.39	-40.30	42.62
116	114	United States	William Mouw	1.23	55.13	-27.21	50.59
117	117	Japan	Takumi Kanaya	1.20	62.41	-43.21	54.53
118	118	United States	Mark Hubbard	1.19	61.87	-59.06	59.70
119	120	United States	Chandler Blanchet	1.19	53.38	-10.37	56.15
120	115	United States	Austin Eckroat	1.18	61.57	-88.43	33.75
121	119	United States	Patrick Rodgers	1.18	61.46	-65.61	63.08
122	121	Spain	Angel Ayora	1.18	61.39	-19.67	52.96
123	122	United States	Alex Smalley	1.15	59.87	-42.65	64.29
124	123	United States	Gary Woodland	1.14	53.42	-35.71	59.68
125	124	United States	Patrick Fishburn	1.11	57.93	-43.46	45.88
126	150	Spain	Eugenio Chacarra	1.11	44.52	-18.90	47.28
127	126	Japan	Ryo Hisatsune	1.11	57.52	-61.68	56.88
128	125	United States	Keith Mitchell	1.10	56.29	-56.74	51.98
129	128	France	Victor Perez	1.10	57.01	-58.24	43.72
130	131	Australia	Elvis Smylie	1.09	47.00	-15.45	35.93
131	129	United States	Austin Smotherman	1.09	54.56	-26.12	59.61
132	138	France	Martin Couvra	1.09	56.62	-22.25	63.15
133	130	United States	Beau Hossler	1.09	56.50	-64.66	48.59
134	133	United States	Adam Schenk	1.07	55.80	-59.07	56.04
135	132	Australia	Cameron Davis	1.07	52.51	-87.18	39.45
136	134	United States	Matt Kuchar	1.06	45.38	-44.63	37.43
137	139	South Africa	JC Ritchie	1.04	54.31	-11.74	56.30
138	135	United States	Max Homa	1.04	48.98	-90.14	39.33
139	136	Chile	Joaquin Niemann	1.04	41.44	-46.44	25.80
140	137	United States	Lee Hodges	1.03	53.58	-58.84	47.93
141	141	England	Andy Sullivan	1.01	52.69	-28.59	45.42
142	142	New Zealand	Daniel Hillier	1.01	52.63	-35.26	55.41
143	140	Sweden	Jesper Svensson	1.01	52.44	-52.68	45.05
144	143	United States	David Lipsky	1.00	51.98	-34.05	39.93
145	144	Australia	Karl Vilips	0.99	39.78	-23.51	40.42
146	145	United States	Kevin Roy	0.99	51.24	-31.70	51.81
147	146	United States	Doug Ghim	0.98	50.95	-50.00	37.13
148	147	South Africa	Christo Lamprecht	0.97	38.83	-12.02	40.25
149	148	Mexico	Carlos Ortiz	0.95	37.91	-20.25	42.54
150	149	Denmark	Niklas Norgaard	0.94	48.89	-47.81	32.90
151	151	Japan	Kensei Hirata	0.93	48.36	-44.92	36.34
152	155	Zimbabwe	Scott Vincent	0.92	36.94	-9.64	36.43
153	153	United States	Chandler Phillips	0.92	47.68	-37.45	39.88
154	162	Denmark	Jacob Skov Olesen	0.92	36.64	-6.85	37.06
155	152	United States	Nick Dunlap	0.92	45.75	-74.90	24.61
156	156	Mexico	Emilio Gonzalez	0.91	47.46	-14.99	50.76
157	154	United States	Justin Lower	0.91	47.40	-49.49	38.97
158	158	Belgium	Adrien Dumont de Chassart	0.91	47.10	-24.56	44.82
159	159	England	Richard Mansell	0.90	46.89	-32.67	47.21
160	157	Spain	Jorge Campillo	0.90	46.60	-48.96	34.59
161	161	Ireland	Seamus Power	0.89	46.53	-41.43	37.02
162	160	United States	Taylor Moore	0.89	46.27	-66.52	41.88
163	163	South Korea	Seonghyeon Kim	0.89	46.15	-40.71	48.94
164	164	Scotland	Ewen Ferguson	0.89	46.06	-42.30	37.84
165	167	France	Antoine Rozner	0.88	45.94	-39.34	36.35
166	165	Scotland	Grant Forrest	0.86	43.08	-28.83	37.79
167	166	Canada	Richard T. Lee	0.86	43.00	-27.47	38.05
168	169	United States	Chad Ramey	0.86	44.59	-24.47	43.08
169	170	Netherlands	Joost Luiten	0.85	44.25	-31.93	44.21
170	168	United States	Luke Clanton	0.85	34.02	-31.77	15.89
171	173	China	Ding Wenyi	0.85	34.00	-7.29	34.46
172	175	Finland	Oliver Lindell	0.85	44.18	-16.47	38.55
173	172	United States	Ricky Castillo	0.85	44.11	-22.32	45.82
174	174	Japan	Kota Kaneko	0.85	40.65	-13.85	37.36
175	171	United States	Carson Young	0.85	43.97	-39.00	34.27
176	176	England	Dan Bradbury	0.82	42.84	-30.44	31.00
177	177	South Korea	Taehoon Ok	0.81	37.49	-12.91	37.50
178	178	United States	Jackson Koivun(Am)	0.81	32.47	-2.93	34.89
179	179	South Africa	Jacques Kruyswijk	0.81	41.30	-22.47	46.85
180	180	United States	Andrew Putnam	0.80	41.85	-48.10	41.31
181	182	United States	Peter Uihlein	0.79	31.66	-22.93	15.49
182	181	United States	Trace Crowe(Oct1996)	0.79	37.13	-27.09	36.28
183	183	United States	Jackson Suber	0.79	39.34	-26.64	39.00
184	187	Scotland	Calum Hill	0.78	40.76	-29.92	42.62
185	184	United States	Lanto Griffin	0.78	39.66	-18.98	39.16
186	185	New Zealand	Kazuma Kobori	0.77	38.65	-14.26	38.78
187	189	Japan	Tatsunori Shogenji	0.77	40.01	-18.35	42.26
188	185	England	Matthew Jordan	0.77	40.00	-40.70	25.21
189	188	United States	Taylor Montgomery	0.77	36.85	-27.41	37.43
190	190	United States	Hank Lebioda	0.76	35.74	-18.45	45.54
191	193	Spain	Nacho Elvira	0.76	39.49	-32.45	33.49
192	191	Germany	Nicolai Von Dellingshausen	0.76	39.47	-15.64	39.47
193	192	France	Romain Langasque	0.75	39.22	-52.78	17.12
194	194	United States	Harry Higgs	0.75	38.76	-33.04	32.23
195	198	Spain	Jose Luis Ballester	0.74	29.72	-0.71	30.42
196	197	Italy	Matteo Manassero	0.74	37.11	-47.46	19.92
197	196	Scotland	David Law	0.74	38.34	-15.92	37.92
198	200	South Africa	Barend Botha	0.73	29.31	-12.37	24.67
199	202	England	Marcus Armitage	0.73	38.03	-24.35	41.47
200	199	South Korea	Junghwan Lee	0.73	36.31	-15.58	32.57

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Updated: December 15, 2025