Official World Golf Ranking 52/2025 - Golf Today

Week 52 – 29/12/2025

Simon Bale|December 29, 2025

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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	16.31	684.96	-612.76	642.52
2	2	Northern Ireland	Rory McIlroy	9.10	436.72	-379.92	455.94
3	3	England	Tommy Fleetwood	5.44	283.00	-187.96	273.75
4	4	United States	Xander Schauffele	5.15	206.08	-310.57	119.88
5	5	United States	Russell Henley	4.91	196.36	-156.26	220.09
6	6	United States	J.J. Spaun	4.77	248.04	-101.16	293.19
7	7	Scotland	Robert MacIntyre	4.64	241.34	-156.85	222.67
8	8	United States	Ben Griffin	4.55	236.35	-105.88	257.48
9	9	United States	Justin Thomas	4.50	189.15	-152.60	217.05
10	10	England	Justin Rose	4.02	180.82	-106.42	194.38
11	11	Sweden	Alex Noren	3.91	156.28	-80.57	143.79
12	12	Austria	Sepp Straka	3.88	190.09	-158.44	232.19
13	13	United States	Harris English	3.80	190.01	-107.97	225.86
14	14	Norway	Viktor Hovland	3.78	151.19	-178.02	155.49
15	15	United States	Keegan Bradley	3.70	166.44	-151.64	160.11
16	16	United States	Collin Morikawa	3.65	153.36	-216.79	131.97
17	17	Japan	Hideki Matsuyama	3.64	178.53	-193.55	159.57
18	18	Sweden	Ludvig Aberg	3.56	160.00	-210.14	157.45
19	19	United States	Cameron Young	3.28	160.90	-110.19	167.31
20	20	England	Tyrrell Hatton	3.26	130.27	-119.68	117.52
21	21	United States	Maverick McNealy	3.08	160.15	-106.35	162.14
22	22	England	Matt Fitzpatrick	3.00	150.15	-110.83	153.44
23	23	England	Aaron Rai	2.92	151.60	-122.04	124.84
24	24	United States	Patrick Cantlay	2.84	113.42	-138.33	110.99
25	25	United States	Sam Burns	2.80	134.46	-124.16	128.47
26	26	Ireland	Shane Lowry	2.77	144.05	-133.01	145.62
27	27	United States	Bryson DeChambeau	2.72	108.98	-129.01	87.22
28	28	United States	Chris Gotterup	2.64	137.28	-48.64	150.86
29	29	England	Marco Penge	2.59	134.51	-29.08	147.59
30	30	Canada	Corey Conners	2.49	119.40	-109.13	128.27
31	31	Norway	Kristoffer Reitan	2.27	113.63	-23.43	123.31
32	32	United States	Max Greyserman	2.23	115.82	-90.00	94.07
33	33	United States	Andrew Novak	2.22	115.64	-70.69	131.94
34	34	United States	Michael Brennan	2.22	88.88	-8.08	90.54
35	35	United States	Brian Harman	2.19	113.65	-143.09	124.55
36	36	United States	Michael Kim	2.15	111.92	-65.96	132.91
37	37	United States	Kurt Kitayama	2.13	95.88	-64.89	93.89
38	38	Finland	Sami Valimaki	2.11	109.69	-50.33	116.22
39	39	New Zealand	Ryan Fox	2.09	108.57	-82.59	123.69
40	40	Denmark	Rasmus Hojgaard	2.07	105.65	-83.04	84.36
41	41	South Korea	Sungjae Im	2.01	104.52	-133.50	94.99
42	44	United States	Patrick Reed	2.01	80.25	-47.07	86.13
43	43	Australia	Min Woo Lee	2.00	98.15	-106.28	106.98
44	46	United States	Ryan Gerard	2.00	103.92	-48.46	118.57
45	45	United States	Akshay Bhatia	1.98	103.16	-121.60	91.55
46	42	United States	Wyndham Clark	1.98	95.17	-197.09	78.50
47	47	South Korea	Si Woo Kim	1.96	102.00	-86.92	102.26
48	48	United States	John Keefer	1.96	78.28	-30.91	84.09
49	52	Denmark	Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen	1.92	99.92	-49.55	98.45
50	50	United States	Samuel Stevens	1.92	99.74	-65.31	114.78
51	49	Canada	Taylor Pendrith	1.90	91.39	-99.01	85.65
52	53	Colombia	Nicolas Echavarria	1.90	98.83	-67.97	83.60
53	51	United States	Billy Horschel	1.89	79.51	-124.72	38.80
54	54	Australia	Jason Day	1.85	74.17	-99.71	80.92
55	55	United States	Matt McCarty	1.85	96.14	-77.08	67.84
56	56	Belgium	Thomas Detry	1.84	95.68	-102.01	110.50
57	57	Canada	Nick Taylor	1.82	92.75	-107.98	122.28
58	58	United States	J.T. Poston	1.80	89.80	-105.25	77.78
59	59	England	Laurie Canter	1.79	73.20	-50.14	81.96
60	60	England	Harry Hall	1.78	92.47	-59.27	92.68
61	61	United States	Daniel Berger	1.77	84.97	-53.28	96.96
62	63	South Africa	Jayden Schaper	1.77	91.84	-25.84	93.74
63	62	Australia	Adam Scott	1.74	83.75	-112.86	51.40
64	64	United States	Lucas Glover	1.74	85.24	-108.93	92.73
65	65	South Africa	Thriston Lawrence	1.73	89.72	-82.57	65.42
66	67	South Africa	Garrick Higgo	1.71	80.24	-27.83	84.60
67	66	United States	Max McGreevy	1.70	88.60	-56.16	74.56
68	68	United States	Michael Thorbjornsen	1.70	67.98	-26.51	64.77
69	69	Philippines	Richard Hoey	1.68	87.27	-47.26	77.60
70	72	United States	Bud Cauley	1.66	66.43	-31.59	80.09
71	71	United States	Brian Campbell	1.66	81.36	-44.92	93.01
72	70	United States	Denny McCarthy	1.65	77.72	-99.42	79.23
73	73	England	Daniel Brown(Oct1994)	1.63	80.10	-42.38	77.33
74	74	France	Adrien Saddier	1.61	83.74	-30.59	84.83
75	76	England	Matt Wallace	1.59	82.88	-70.70	65.94
76	79	Northern Ireland	Tom McKibbin	1.59	65.19	-48.05	55.10
77	77	Denmark	Nicolai Hojgaard	1.59	82.66	-88.71	79.53
78	75	United States	Chris Kirk	1.59	72.95	-89.32	73.69
79	80	South Africa	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	1.58	82.21	-93.23	77.91
80	78	United States	Jordan Spieth	1.58	66.39	-83.98	80.94
81	81	United States	Jacob Bridgeman	1.56	81.22	-50.97	96.65
82	82	England	John Parry	1.53	79.75	-44.34	62.74
83	83	South Africa	Aldrich Potgieter	1.53	76.40	-34.39	85.87
84	84	Spain	Jon Rahm	1.52	60.66	-96.92	48.79
85	85	Venezuela	Jhonattan Vegas	1.50	66.13	-52.50	61.33
86	86	United States	Rickie Fowler	1.50	65.82	-67.95	65.68
87	87	China	Haotong Li	1.48	75.59	-31.65	87.74
88	88	Germany	Matti Schmid	1.46	76.13	-59.89	75.06
89	89	England	Jordan Smith	1.46	76.07	-59.40	67.96
90	90	Taiwan (Chinese Taipei)	Chun-an Yu	1.45	75.54	-66.34	69.14
91	91	Canada	Mackenzie Hughes	1.41	73.53	-84.95	63.38
92	93	United States	Davis Thompson	1.39	72.23	-87.80	52.08
93	94	United States	Neal Shipley	1.39	58.25	-25.41	59.50
94	92	United States	Tony Finau	1.39	59.63	-105.18	45.79
95	96	Japan	Keita Nakajima	1.38	63.42	-51.35	62.68
96	97	United States	Pierceson Coody	1.38	71.54	-38.23	74.33
97	99	Denmark	Thorbjorn Olesen	1.37	71.08	-71.40	57.76
98	95	South Korea	Byeong Hun An	1.37	71.05	-113.11	56.26
99	98	United States	Tom Hoge	1.36	70.58	-88.35	75.28
100	101	South Africa	Shaun Norris	1.35	70.11	-42.95	59.03
101	100	United States	Davis Riley	1.34	69.82	-59.59	72.48
102	102	Argentina	Emiliano Grillo	1.33	69.22	-68.11	72.22
103	103	United States	McClure Meissner	1.33	66.30	-39.98	62.90
104	106	United States	Steven Fisk	1.32	64.61	-34.90	58.98
105	104	United States	Jake Knapp	1.31	60.40	-67.36	67.71
106	107	United States	Vincent Whaley	1.31	67.87	-41.65	59.67
107	105	South Korea	Tom Kim	1.30	67.75	-123.45	40.89
108	108	Germany	Stephan Jaeger	1.25	65.15	-96.56	61.70
109	109	Sweden	Joakim Lagergren	1.25	58.64	-19.94	56.72
110	110	United States	Eric Cole	1.24	64.30	-92.89	62.81
111	112	Japan	Kazuki Higa	1.23	63.76	-21.41	63.88
112	111	United States	Joe Highsmith	1.22	63.67	-49.60	74.80
113	113	South Africa	Erik van Rooyen	1.20	62.53	-76.79	63.37
114	114	Spain	David Puig	1.20	47.93	-41.75	42.62
115	116	United States	William Mouw	1.19	53.43	-28.92	50.59
116	117	Japan	Takumi Kanaya	1.17	61.09	-44.53	54.53
117	118	Spain	Angel Ayora	1.17	60.81	-21.10	53.81
118	119	United States	Chandler Blanchet	1.16	52.41	-11.34	56.15
119	115	United States	Sahith Theegala	1.16	55.64	-146.24	23.17
120	120	United States	Mark Hubbard	1.15	59.91	-61.03	59.70
121	121	United States	Patrick Rodgers	1.15	59.66	-67.41	63.08
122	123	United States	Alex Smalley	1.12	58.23	-44.29	64.29
123	122	United States	Austin Eckroat	1.12	58.12	-91.88	33.75
124	124	Spain	Eugenio Chacarra	1.10	44.18	-19.93	47.97
125	125	United States	Gary Woodland	1.10	51.60	-37.53	59.68
126	126	United States	Patrick Fishburn	1.07	55.86	-45.52	45.88
127	127	Japan	Ryo Hisatsune	1.07	55.52	-63.68	56.88
128	129	Australia	Elvis Smylie	1.06	45.77	-16.68	35.93
129	130	France	Martin Couvra	1.06	55.11	-23.76	63.15
130	130	United States	Austin Smotherman	1.06	52.86	-27.82	59.61
131	128	United States	Keith Mitchell	1.06	53.91	-59.11	51.98
132	134	South Africa	JC Ritchie	1.06	54.87	-12.95	58.08
133	132	France	Victor Perez	1.05	54.62	-60.63	43.72
134	133	United States	Beau Hossler	1.05	54.46	-66.70	48.59
135	135	United States	Adam Schenk	1.05	54.42	-60.46	56.04
136	137	United States	Matt Kuchar	1.02	43.87	-46.14	37.43
137	136	Australia	Cameron Davis	1.02	49.77	-89.92	39.45
138	140	United States	Lee Hodges	0.99	51.70	-60.72	47.93
139	139	Chile	Joaquin Niemann	0.99	39.63	-48.25	25.80
140	138	United States	Max Homa	0.99	46.55	-92.58	39.33
141	141	New Zealand	Daniel Hillier	0.99	51.48	-36.41	55.41
142	142	England	Andy Sullivan	0.99	51.38	-29.90	45.42
143	143	Sweden	Jesper Svensson	0.97	50.42	-54.70	45.05
144	144	United States	David Lipsky	0.97	50.24	-35.79	39.93
145	145	Australia	Karl Vilips	0.96	38.39	-24.90	40.42
146	147	South Africa	Christo Lamprecht	0.95	38.16	-13.05	40.61
147	146	United States	Kevin Roy	0.95	49.58	-33.36	51.81
148	148	United States	Doug Ghim	0.94	48.91	-52.03	37.13
149	149	Mexico	Carlos Ortiz	0.91	36.58	-21.58	42.54
150	151	Zimbabwe	Scott Vincent	0.90	36.10	-10.48	36.43
151	150	Denmark	Niklas Norgaard	0.90	46.89	-49.81	32.90
152	153	Denmark	Jacob Skov Olesen	0.90	35.97	-7.53	37.06
153	152	Japan	Kensei Hirata	0.89	46.53	-46.74	36.34
154	155	Mexico	Emilio Gonzalez	0.89	46.13	-16.32	50.76
155	154	United States	Chandler Phillips	0.89	46.09	-39.03	39.88
156	157	Belgium	Adrien Dumont de Chassart	0.88	45.99	-25.67	44.82
157	156	United States	Justin Lower	0.88	45.71	-51.18	38.97
158	158	England	Richard Mansell	0.87	45.49	-34.07	47.21
159	160	Spain	Jorge Campillo	0.87	45.21	-50.36	34.59
160	161	Ireland	Seamus Power	0.86	44.85	-43.10	37.02
161	162	South Korea	Seonghyeon Kim	0.86	44.59	-42.27	48.94
162	163	Scotland	Ewen Ferguson	0.85	44.35	-44.01	37.84
163	165	France	Antoine Rozner	0.85	44.28	-41.00	36.35
164	159	United States	Nick Dunlap	0.85	42.57	-78.08	24.61
165	164	United States	Taylor Moore	0.85	44.00	-68.79	41.88
166	166	Scotland	Grant Forrest	0.84	41.96	-29.95	37.79
167	168	United States	Chad Ramey	0.84	43.60	-25.46	43.08
168	170	China	Ding Wenyi	0.84	33.53	-7.77	34.46
169	167	Finland	Oliver Lindell	0.84	43.52	-17.71	39.13
170	169	Canada	Richard T. Lee	0.83	41.62	-28.85	38.05
171	172	Japan	Kota Kaneko	0.83	39.82	-14.69	37.36
172	171	Netherlands	Joost Luiten	0.83	43.12	-33.06	44.21
173	173	United States	Ricky Castillo	0.83	42.99	-23.44	45.82
174	175	United States	Carson Young	0.82	42.48	-40.49	34.27
175	174	United States	Luke Clanton	0.81	32.55	-33.24	15.89
176	176	England	Dan Bradbury	0.80	41.78	-31.49	31.00
177	177	South Korea	Taehoon Ok	0.80	36.62	-13.78	37.50
178	178	United States	Jackson Koivun(Am)	0.79	31.70	-3.70	34.89
179	179	South Africa	Jacques Kruyswijk	0.79	40.14	-23.64	46.85
180	180	United States	Andrew Putnam	0.77	40.22	-49.73	41.31
181	181	United States	Peter Uihlein	0.77	30.69	-23.90	15.49
182	182	United States	Trace Crowe(Oct1996)	0.76	35.83	-28.40	36.28
183	183	United States	Jackson Suber	0.76	38.08	-27.91	39.00
184	184	Scotland	Calum Hill	0.76	39.58	-31.10	42.62
185	185	United States	Lanto Griffin	0.75	38.40	-20.23	39.16
186	187	Japan	Tatsunori Shogenji	0.75	39.04	-19.32	42.26
187	186	New Zealand	Kazuma Kobori	0.75	37.48	-15.43	38.78
188	194	Spain	Jose Luis Ballester	0.74	29.67	-0.76	30.42
189	188	United States	Taylor Montgomery	0.74	35.59	-28.66	37.43
190	190	Spain	Nacho Elvira	0.74	38.43	-33.51	33.49
191	189	England	Matthew Jordan	0.74	38.41	-42.29	25.21
192	191	Germany	Nicolai Von Dellingshausen	0.74	38.38	-16.72	39.47
193	192	United States	Hank Lebioda	0.74	34.61	-19.58	45.54
194	193	England	Marcus Armitage	0.73	38.21	-25.45	42.75
195	195	France	Romain Langasque	0.72	37.39	-54.61	17.12
196	197	Scotland	David Law	0.72	37.30	-16.96	37.92
197	198	South Africa	Barend Botha	0.72	28.63	-13.05	24.67
198	200	South Korea	Junghwan Lee	0.71	35.72	-16.17	32.57
199	196	United States	Harry Higgs	0.71	37.11	-34.69	32.23
200	201	South Africa	Richard Sterne	0.71	28.31	-1.76	27.94

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