Official World Golf Ranking 51/2025 - Golf Today

Week 51 – 21/12/2025

Simon Bale|December 22, 2025

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

Jayden Schaper has won the AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open in a playoff, Ryan Gerard came second, Casey Jarvis third, Andreas Halvorsen fourth and John Parry tied for fifth place with Zander Lombard.

Schaper moves up to 63 from 94 this week, Gerard to 46 from 57, Jarvis to 213 from 261, Halvorsen to 357 from 441, Parry up four places to 82 and Lombard to 489 from 570.

Jayden Schaper of South Africa reacts after a birdie putt on the 17th green during the continuation of the weather delayed third round on day four of the Alfred Dunhill Championship 2026

Related: Jayden Schaper wins playoff for second consecutive title

AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open 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	16.66	699.76	-597.95	642.52
2	2	Northern Ireland	Rory McIlroy	9.27	445.09	-371.55	455.94
3	3	England	Tommy Fleetwood	5.53	287.33	-183.63	273.75
4	4	United States	Xander Schauffele	5.29	211.79	-304.86	119.88
5	5	United States	Russell Henley	5.01	200.21	-152.41	220.09
6	6	United States	J.J. Spaun	4.84	251.63	-97.57	293.19
7	7	Scotland	Robert MacIntyre	4.71	245.16	-153.03	222.67
8	9	United States	Ben Griffin	4.61	239.49	-102.75	257.48
9	8	United States	Justin Thomas	4.59	192.91	-148.84	217.05
10	10	England	Justin Rose	4.09	183.83	-103.42	194.38
11	11	Sweden	Alex Noren	3.97	158.62	-78.22	143.79
12	12	Austria	Sepp Straka	3.95	193.47	-155.07	232.19
13	13	United States	Harris English	3.86	193.18	-104.80	225.86
14	14	Norway	Viktor Hovland	3.85	153.95	-175.26	155.49
15	15	United States	Keegan Bradley	3.77	169.84	-148.24	160.11
16	16	United States	Collin Morikawa	3.75	157.42	-212.74	131.97
17	17	Japan	Hideki Matsuyama	3.73	182.53	-189.55	159.57
18	18	Sweden	Ludvig Aberg	3.64	164.02	-206.12	157.45
19	19	United States	Cameron Young	3.35	163.91	-107.18	167.31
20	20	England	Tyrrell Hatton	3.31	132.35	-117.60	117.52
21	21	United States	Maverick McNealy	3.14	163.21	-103.28	162.14
22	22	England	Matt Fitzpatrick	3.04	152.24	-108.73	153.44
23	23	England	Aaron Rai	2.96	154.17	-119.46	124.84
24	24	United States	Patrick Cantlay	2.90	116.05	-135.71	110.99
25	25	United States	Sam Burns	2.86	137.28	-121.35	128.47
26	26	Ireland	Shane Lowry	2.83	147.01	-130.05	145.62
27	27	United States	Bryson DeChambeau	2.80	111.88	-126.11	87.22
28	28	United States	Chris Gotterup	2.68	139.32	-46.60	150.86
29	29	England	Marco Penge	2.61	135.79	-27.81	147.59
30	30	Canada	Corey Conners	2.54	121.80	-106.73	128.27
31	31	Norway	Kristoffer Reitan	2.29	114.73	-22.32	123.31
32	32	United States	Max Greyserman	2.27	117.85	-87.98	94.07
33	33	United States	Andrew Novak	2.26	117.66	-68.68	131.94
34	35	United States	Michael Brennan	2.24	89.50	-7.47	90.54
35	34	United States	Brian Harman	2.23	116.08	-140.66	124.55
36	36	United States	Michael Kim	2.18	113.58	-64.30	132.91
37	37	United States	Kurt Kitayama	2.17	97.54	-63.23	93.89
38	39	Finland	Sami Valimaki	2.13	110.72	-49.30	116.22
39	38	New Zealand	Ryan Fox	2.12	110.32	-80.84	123.69
40	40	Denmark	Rasmus Hojgaard	2.11	107.45	-81.24	84.36
41	42	South Korea	Sungjae Im	2.06	106.96	-131.05	94.99
42	41	United States	Wyndham Clark	2.05	98.39	-193.87	78.50
43	43	Australia	Min Woo Lee	2.04	100.11	-104.32	106.98
44	45	United States	Patrick Reed	2.04	81.51	-45.80	86.13
45	44	United States	Akshay Bhatia	2.03	105.68	-119.09	91.55
46	57	United States	Ryan Gerard	2.03	105.41	-46.96	118.57
47	46	South Korea	Si Woo Kim	1.99	103.66	-85.26	102.26
48	47	United States	John Keefer	1.99	79.40	-29.78	84.09
49	49	Canada	Taylor Pendrith	1.95	93.59	-96.80	85.65
50	50	United States	Samuel Stevens	1.95	101.37	-63.68	114.78
51	48	United States	Billy Horschel	1.95	81.84	-122.39	38.80
52	51	Denmark	Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen	1.95	101.16	-48.30	98.45
53	52	Colombia	Nicolas Echavarria	1.93	100.44	-66.36	83.60
54	53	Australia	Jason Day	1.90	75.96	-97.93	80.92
55	54	United States	Matt McCarty	1.88	97.92	-75.30	67.84
56	55	Belgium	Thomas Detry	1.88	97.63	-100.05	110.50
57	56	Canada	Nick Taylor	1.86	95.04	-105.70	122.28
58	58	United States	J.T. Poston	1.84	91.84	-103.21	77.78
59	60	England	Laurie Canter	1.81	74.28	-49.06	81.96
60	59	England	Harry Hall	1.81	94.10	-57.64	92.68
61	61	United States	Daniel Berger	1.80	86.52	-51.74	96.96
62	62	Australia	Adam Scott	1.79	85.78	-110.83	51.40
63	94	South Africa	Jayden Schaper	1.78	92.40	-25.28	93.74
64	63	United States	Lucas Glover	1.78	86.97	-107.19	92.73
65	64	South Africa	Thriston Lawrence	1.75	91.20	-81.09	65.42
66	65	United States	Max McGreevy	1.73	89.76	-55.01	74.56
67	67	South Africa	Garrick Higgo	1.72	80.96	-27.12	84.60
68	66	United States	Michael Thorbjornsen	1.72	68.78	-25.71	64.77
69	70	Philippines	Richard Hoey	1.70	88.30	-46.24	77.60
70	68	United States	Denny McCarthy	1.69	79.58	-97.56	79.23
71	69	United States	Brian Campbell	1.69	82.78	-43.50	93.01
72	71	United States	Bud Cauley	1.69	67.52	-30.50	80.09
73	72	England	Daniel Brown(Oct1994)	1.66	81.13	-41.35	77.33
74	74	France	Adrien Saddier	1.63	84.92	-29.42	84.83
75	73	United States	Chris Kirk	1.63	75.00	-87.28	73.69
76	76	England	Matt Wallace	1.62	84.33	-69.24	65.94
77	77	Denmark	Nicolai Hojgaard	1.62	84.17	-87.20	79.53
78	75	United States	Jordan Spieth	1.62	67.93	-82.45	80.94
79	79	Northern Ireland	Tom McKibbin	1.61	66.08	-47.16	55.10
80	78	South Africa	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	1.61	83.73	-91.72	77.91
81	80	United States	Jacob Bridgeman	1.59	82.59	-49.60	96.65
82	86	England	John Parry	1.55	80.78	-43.30	62.74
83	81	South Africa	Aldrich Potgieter	1.55	77.62	-33.17	85.87
84	82	Spain	Jon Rahm	1.54	61.75	-95.82	48.79
85	83	Venezuela	Jhonattan Vegas	1.53	67.49	-51.14	61.33
86	84	United States	Rickie Fowler	1.52	66.96	-66.81	65.68
87	85	China	Haotong Li	1.50	76.71	-30.53	87.74
88	88	Germany	Matti Schmid	1.49	77.25	-58.76	75.06
89	87	England	Jordan Smith	1.49	77.25	-58.23	67.96
90	89	Taiwan (Chinese Taipei)	Chun-an Yu	1.48	76.83	-65.06	69.14
91	90	Canada	Mackenzie Hughes	1.45	75.19	-83.29	63.38
92	91	United States	Tony Finau	1.43	61.51	-103.31	45.79
93	92	United States	Davis Thompson	1.42	74.08	-85.96	52.08
94	95	United States	Neal Shipley	1.41	59.14	-24.52	59.50
95	93	South Korea	Byeong Hun An	1.40	72.93	-111.24	56.26
96	97	Japan	Keita Nakajima	1.40	64.34	-50.43	62.68
97	98	United States	Pierceson Coody	1.40	72.54	-37.24	74.33
98	96	United States	Tom Hoge	1.39	72.22	-86.72	75.28
99	99	Denmark	Thorbjorn Olesen	1.39	72.10	-70.38	57.76
100	100	United States	Davis Riley	1.37	71.30	-58.11	72.48
101	101	South Africa	Shaun Norris	1.37	71.08	-41.98	59.03
102	103	Argentina	Emiliano Grillo	1.36	70.53	-66.80	72.22
103	104	United States	McClure Meissner	1.35	67.39	-38.89	62.90
104	102	United States	Jake Knapp	1.35	61.99	-65.77	67.71
105	105	South Korea	Tom Kim	1.34	69.47	-121.73	40.89
106	106	United States	Steven Fisk	1.33	65.36	-34.16	58.98
107	107	United States	Vincent Whaley	1.32	68.76	-40.76	59.67
108	108	Germany	Stephan Jaeger	1.29	67.00	-94.71	61.70
109	109	Sweden	Joakim Lagergren	1.26	59.37	-19.21	56.72
110	110	United States	Eric Cole	1.26	65.37	-91.82	62.81
111	111	United States	Joe Highsmith	1.25	64.83	-48.45	74.80
112	114	Japan	Kazuki Higa	1.24	64.45	-20.72	63.88
113	113	South Africa	Erik van Rooyen	1.23	63.92	-75.41	63.37
114	115	Spain	David Puig	1.22	48.66	-41.02	42.62
115	112	United States	Sahith Theegala	1.21	58.02	-143.85	23.17
116	116	United States	William Mouw	1.21	54.28	-28.07	50.59
117	117	Japan	Takumi Kanaya	1.19	61.75	-43.87	54.53
118	122	Spain	Angel Ayora	1.18	61.40	-20.51	53.81
119	119	United States	Chandler Blanchet	1.18	52.90	-10.86	56.15
120	118	United States	Mark Hubbard	1.17	60.89	-60.05	59.70
121	121	United States	Patrick Rodgers	1.16	60.56	-66.51	63.08
122	120	United States	Austin Eckroat	1.15	59.85	-90.16	33.75
123	123	United States	Alex Smalley	1.14	59.05	-43.47	64.29
124	126	Spain	Eugenio Chacarra	1.12	44.69	-19.41	47.97
125	124	United States	Gary Woodland	1.12	52.51	-36.62	59.68
126	125	United States	Patrick Fishburn	1.09	56.90	-44.49	45.88
127	127	Japan	Ryo Hisatsune	1.09	56.52	-62.68	56.88
128	128	United States	Keith Mitchell	1.08	55.10	-57.93	51.98
129	130	Australia	Elvis Smylie	1.08	46.38	-16.06	35.93
130	132	France	Martin Couvra	1.07	55.86	-23.01	63.15
130	131	United States	Austin Smotherman	1.07	53.71	-26.97	59.61
132	129	France	Victor Perez	1.07	55.81	-59.43	43.72
133	133	United States	Beau Hossler	1.07	55.48	-65.68	48.59
134	137	South Africa	JC Ritchie	1.07	55.47	-12.35	58.08
135	134	United States	Adam Schenk	1.06	55.11	-59.76	56.04
136	135	Australia	Cameron Davis	1.04	51.14	-88.55	39.45
137	136	United States	Matt Kuchar	1.04	44.63	-45.38	37.43
138	138	United States	Max Homa	1.02	47.77	-91.36	39.33
139	139	Chile	Joaquin Niemann	1.01	40.53	-47.35	25.80
140	140	United States	Lee Hodges	1.01	52.64	-59.78	47.93
141	142	New Zealand	Daniel Hillier	1.00	52.05	-35.83	55.41
142	141	England	Andy Sullivan	1.00	52.04	-29.24	45.42
143	143	Sweden	Jesper Svensson	0.99	51.43	-53.69	45.05
144	144	United States	David Lipsky	0.98	51.11	-34.92	39.93
145	145	Australia	Karl Vilips	0.98	39.08	-24.21	40.42
146	146	United States	Kevin Roy	0.97	50.41	-32.53	51.81
147	148	South Africa	Christo Lamprecht	0.97	38.68	-12.53	40.61
148	147	United States	Doug Ghim	0.96	49.93	-51.02	37.13
149	149	Mexico	Carlos Ortiz	0.93	37.25	-20.91	42.54
150	150	Denmark	Niklas Norgaard	0.92	47.89	-48.81	32.90
151	152	Zimbabwe	Scott Vincent	0.91	36.52	-10.06	36.43
152	151	Japan	Kensei Hirata	0.91	47.45	-45.83	36.34
153	154	Denmark	Jacob Skov Olesen	0.91	36.30	-7.19	37.06
154	153	United States	Chandler Phillips	0.90	46.88	-38.24	39.88
155	156	Mexico	Emilio Gonzalez	0.90	46.79	-15.65	50.76
156	157	United States	Justin Lower	0.90	46.55	-50.34	38.97
157	158	Belgium	Adrien Dumont de Chassart	0.90	46.55	-25.12	44.82
158	159	England	Richard Mansell	0.89	46.19	-33.37	47.21
159	155	United States	Nick Dunlap	0.88	44.16	-76.49	24.61
160	160	Spain	Jorge Campillo	0.88	45.91	-49.66	34.59
161	161	Ireland	Seamus Power	0.88	45.69	-42.27	37.02
162	163	South Korea	Seonghyeon Kim	0.87	45.37	-41.49	48.94
163	164	Scotland	Ewen Ferguson	0.87	45.21	-43.16	37.84
164	162	United States	Taylor Moore	0.87	45.13	-67.65	41.88
165	165	France	Antoine Rozner	0.87	45.11	-40.17	36.35
166	166	Scotland	Grant Forrest	0.85	42.52	-29.39	37.79
167	172	Finland	Oliver Lindell	0.85	44.14	-17.09	39.13
168	168	United States	Chad Ramey	0.85	44.09	-24.96	43.08
169	167	Canada	Richard T. Lee	0.85	42.32	-28.15	38.05
170	171	China	Ding Wenyi	0.84	33.76	-7.53	34.46
171	169	Netherlands	Joost Luiten	0.84	43.69	-32.49	44.21
172	174	Japan	Kota Kaneko	0.84	40.24	-14.27	37.36
173	173	United States	Ricky Castillo	0.84	43.55	-22.88	45.82
174	170	United States	Luke Clanton	0.83	33.29	-32.50	15.89
175	175	United States	Carson Young	0.83	43.23	-39.75	34.27
176	176	England	Dan Bradbury	0.81	42.31	-30.96	31.00
177	177	South Korea	Taehoon Ok	0.81	37.05	-13.34	37.50
178	178	United States	Jackson Koivun(Am)	0.80	32.08	-3.31	34.89
179	179	South Africa	Jacques Kruyswijk	0.80	40.75	-23.02	46.85
180	180	United States	Andrew Putnam	0.79	41.04	-48.91	41.31
181	181	United States	Peter Uihlein	0.78	31.18	-23.42	15.49
182	182	United States	Trace Crowe(Oct1996)	0.78	36.48	-27.74	36.28
183	183	United States	Jackson Suber	0.77	38.71	-27.28	39.00
184	184	Scotland	Calum Hill	0.77	40.17	-30.51	42.62
185	185	United States	Lanto Griffin	0.77	39.03	-19.61	39.16
186	186	New Zealand	Kazuma Kobori	0.76	38.07	-14.84	38.78
187	187	Japan	Tatsunori Shogenji	0.76	39.53	-18.83	42.26
188	189	United States	Taylor Montgomery	0.75	36.22	-28.04	37.43
189	188	England	Matthew Jordan	0.75	39.21	-41.50	25.21
190	191	Spain	Nacho Elvira	0.75	38.96	-32.98	33.49
191	192	Germany	Nicolai Von Dellingshausen	0.75	38.92	-16.18	39.47
192	190	United States	Hank Lebioda	0.75	35.17	-19.02	45.54
193	199	England	Marcus Armitage	0.74	38.74	-24.92	42.75
194	195	Spain	Jose Luis Ballester	0.74	29.69	-0.73	30.42
195	193	France	Romain Langasque	0.74	38.31	-53.69	17.12
196	194	United States	Harry Higgs	0.73	37.93	-33.87	32.23
197	197	Scotland	David Law	0.73	37.82	-16.44	37.92
198	198	South Africa	Barend Botha	0.72	28.97	-12.71	24.67
199	196	Italy	Matteo Manassero	0.72	36.14	-48.43	19.92
200	200	South Korea	Junghwan Lee	0.72	36.02	-15.87	32.57

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Updated: December 22, 2025