Official World Golf Rankings

Week 34 – 23/08/26

Updated: August 24, 2026

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Wyndham Clark has won the BMW Championship, Patrick Cantlay came second, Rory McIlroy third and Gary Woodland tied for fourth place with Collin Morikawa and Chris Gotterup.

Clark moves up three places to number 5 this week, Cantlay up twelve to 26, McIlroy stays at number 2, Woodland up five to 42, Morikawa up one to 10 and Gotterup up one to number 8.

Wyndham Clark will defend his US Open title at Pinehurst

Related: Wyndham Clark Holds Off Rory McIlroy to Win BMW Championship

Clark recovered after losing a five-shot advantage, making three closing birdies to secure his third victory of the season and a Presidents Cup place.

Scott Jamieson has won the Nexo Championship, Matthew Jordan came second, Andy Sullivan third and Quim Vidal tied for fourth place with Marcus Kinhult and Keita Nakajima.

Jamieson moves up to 267 from 465, Jordan to 220 from 278, Sullivan to 122 from 135, Vidal to 493 from 583, Kinhult to 347 from 388 and Nakajima up three places to 92.

Related: Scott Jamieson Ends 14-Year Wait for Second DP World Tour Title

The Scot won by two shots on home soil, securing his tour card for two years and lifting his weekly earnings beyond $700,000.

Related: How the Official World Golf Ranking Works: OWGR Points, Field Rating and Time Decay Explained

The OWGR system is built on field rating, finishing position, and a two-year rolling average. Here's how the mechanics actually work, from Strokes Gained to the minimum divisor.

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This Week	Last Week	Country	Player	Avg. Points	Total Points	Points Lost (2026)	Points Won (2026)
1	1	United States	Scottie Scheffler	17.57	737.74	-415.85	468.64
2	2	Northern Ireland	Rory McIlroy	9.09	390.90	-264.60	218.78
3	3	United States	Cameron Young	7.91	363.68	-99.95	302.72
4	4	England	Matt Fitzpatrick	7.10	340.85	-87.40	278.11
5	8	United States	Wyndham Clark	6.64	325.23	-63.28	293.34
6	6	United States	Russell Henley	5.61	224.58	-117.47	145.70
7	5	England	Tommy Fleetwood	5.51	280.95	-150.10	148.05
8	9	United States	Chris Gotterup	5.49	285.28	-88.37	236.37
9	7	United States	Sam Burns	5.43	255.04	-82.06	202.64
10	11	United States	Collin Morikawa	5.28	211.38	-126.54	184.56
11	10	United States	Xander Schauffele	5.27	210.84	-155.67	160.42
12	15	Spain	Jon Rahm	4.87	194.96	-49.52	183.82
13	13	South Korea	Si Woo Kim	4.84	251.94	-69.58	219.51
14	12	England	Justin Rose	4.76	204.70	-109.60	133.48
15	14	Norway	Viktor Hovland	4.65	195.43	-89.54	133.77
16	16	United States	J.J. Spaun	4.42	229.60	-129.28	110.84
17	17	Sweden	Ludvig Aberg	4.39	197.63	-108.19	145.82
18	19	Scotland	Robert MacIntyre	4.19	218.11	-141.22	118.00
19	20	England	Aaron Rai	4.10	200.90	-90.66	139.97
20	18	Sweden	Alex Noren	4.09	163.73	-75.12	82.57
21	21	United States	Ben Griffin	3.91	203.23	-120.27	87.15
22	23	United States	Justin Thomas	3.90	159.72	-111.28	81.85
23	22	England	Tyrrell Hatton	3.87	154.76	-77.05	101.54
24	25	Japan	Hideki Matsuyama	3.77	196.28	-122.05	139.80
25	24	New Zealand	Ryan Fox	3.77	196.20	-58.79	146.42
26	38	United States	Patrick Cantlay	3.68	151.05	-73.12	110.74
27	26	United States	Ryan Gerard	3.62	188.25	-67.80	152.14
28	31	United States	Jacob Bridgeman	3.39	176.45	-65.08	160.31
29	28	South Korea	Tom Kim	3.37	171.99	-49.87	154.11
30	29	Norway	Kristoffer Reitan	3.35	174.44	-52.73	113.54
31	27	Australia	Min Woo Lee	3.35	167.51	-66.99	136.34
32	30	Austria	Sepp Straka	3.30	158.34	-113.70	81.95
33	33	United States	Akshay Bhatia	3.28	167.27	-79.70	143.80
34	34	United States	Michael Brennan	3.22	151.27	-35.97	98.35
35	32	United States	Patrick Reed	3.20	128.13	-55.47	103.35
36	36	United States	Bryson DeChambeau	3.20	127.86	-81.70	100.58
37	35	United States	J.T. Poston	3.12	149.58	-55.04	114.82
38	37	United States	Kurt Kitayama	2.93	137.74	-56.44	98.30
39	39	United States	Harris English	2.82	144.03	-99.93	53.95
40	40	Denmark	Nicolai Hojgaard	2.81	146.05	-51.10	114.49
41	41	United States	Michael Thorbjornsen	2.76	137.83	-37.65	107.50
42	47	United States	Gary Woodland	2.75	132.02	-35.25	115.67
43	43	Chile	Joaquin Niemann	2.72	108.87	-25.95	95.20
44	46	United States	Maverick McNealy	2.71	141.07	-97.60	78.52
45	42	United States	Bud Cauley	2.69	129.13	-37.86	100.56
46	45	United States	Alex Smalley	2.66	138.28	-35.94	115.99
47	44	United States	Rickie Fowler	2.58	116.27	-40.08	90.53
48	49	United States	Keegan Bradley	2.54	111.75	-99.11	44.42
49	48	United States	Jake Knapp	2.53	101.39	-43.39	84.38
50	50	Australia	Lucas Herbert	2.37	94.78	-15.44	85.76
51	51	Australia	Adam Scott	2.27	106.57	-65.14	87.97
52	52	Canada	Corey Conners	2.20	103.40	-72.10	56.09
53	53	Ireland	Shane Lowry	2.18	111.07	-92.82	59.84
54	54	England	Marco Penge	2.12	110.28	-58.86	34.64
55	55	United States	Jordan Spieth	2.10	88.15	-41.61	63.37
56	56	Colombia	Nicolas Echavarria	2.04	105.99	-69.00	76.16
57	62	South Korea	Sungjae Im	2.02	105.24	-78.05	78.76
58	58	United States	Samuel Stevens	2.01	104.65	-61.10	66.01
59	57	United States	Daniel Berger	2.01	94.32	-57.95	67.30
60	59	England	Matt Wallace	1.99	103.46	-53.09	73.67
61	61	United States	Brian Harman	1.97	100.62	-66.03	53.00
62	60	United States	Michael Kim	1.95	101.63	-71.84	61.56
63	69	Japan	Ryo Hisatsune	1.91	99.45	-43.25	87.19
64	64	Spain	Eugenio Chacarra	1.89	98.53	-22.64	76.99
65	65	United States	Jackson Koivun	1.89	75.43	-13.05	56.78
66	63	Australia	Jason Day	1.87	74.74	-52.89	53.45
67	66	United States	Pierceson Coody	1.85	96.20	-48.30	72.96
68	70	England	Alex Fitzpatrick	1.83	95.04	-23.45	82.36
69	67	United States	John Keefer	1.82	94.84	-43.32	59.88
70	68	South Africa	Casey Jarvis	1.82	94.53	-25.21	84.32
71	71	United States	Matt McCarty	1.76	91.27	-71.78	66.91
72	72	England	Jordan Smith	1.72	89.54	-46.18	59.65
73	73	Denmark	Rasmus Hojgaard	1.71	88.93	-62.22	45.50
74	77	United States	Keith Mitchell	1.71	88.77	-36.00	70.86
75	74	United States	Andrew Novak	1.71	88.73	-65.63	38.72
76	76	England	Harry Hall	1.70	88.61	-56.57	52.71
77	75	United States	Eric Cole	1.70	88.52	-43.98	68.20
78	78	Spain	David Puig	1.69	67.57	-29.52	49.15
79	80	United States	Max Homa	1.69	79.39	-30.62	63.46
80	79	Canada	Nick Taylor	1.67	86.88	-57.56	51.69
81	81	Finland	Sami Valimaki	1.58	77.25	-46.44	14.00
82	83	United States	Steven Fisk	1.58	78.82	-33.50	47.71
83	82	Denmark	Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen	1.56	80.92	-51.16	32.16
84	85	United States	Ross Steelman	1.54	70.96	-11.26	60.65
85	86	United States	Sahith Theegala	1.52	76.20	-53.67	74.22
86	84	Germany	Matti Schmid	1.52	78.98	-45.10	47.96
87	89	Belgium	Thomas Detry	1.51	78.67	-62.07	45.05
88	88	United States	Max Greyserman	1.51	77.13	-72.26	33.57
89	87	United States	McClure Meissner	1.51	75.48	-36.51	45.69
90	91	United States	Denny McCarthy	1.48	68.07	-49.60	39.95
91	90	South Africa	Aldrich Potgieter	1.48	73.96	-41.08	38.64
92	95	Japan	Keita Nakajima	1.43	68.41	-31.66	36.64
93	93	United States	Beau Hossler	1.42	73.90	-33.00	52.44
94	92	South Africa	Jayden Schaper	1.42	73.66	-37.24	19.06
95	98	United States	Ricky Castillo	1.40	68.47	-25.87	51.36
96	96	Canada	Taylor Pendrith	1.39	68.25	-61.18	38.04
97	94	England	John Parry	1.39	72.38	-46.48	39.11
98	100	South Africa	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	1.38	70.44	-48.04	36.26
99	103	South Africa	Shaun Norris	1.37	71.35	-37.69	38.93
100	97	Taiwan (Chinese Taipei)	Chun-an Yu	1.37	70.98	-44.14	39.58
101	102	United States	Blades Brown	1.36	62.64	-9.32	60.41
102	99	United States	Patrick Rodgers	1.36	70.50	-42.34	53.18
103	101	Argentina	Emiliano Grillo	1.35	66.21	-35.56	32.56
104	106	United States	Jackson Suber	1.34	64.40	-21.84	48.17
105	104	United States	Andrew Putnam	1.33	69.15	-29.67	58.60
106	108	United States	Ben Kohles	1.32	68.62	-20.17	59.30
107	105	Philippines	Richard Hoey	1.31	68.16	-47.10	28.00
108	109	Canada	Sudarshan Yellamaraju	1.31	62.77	-18.66	55.03
109	107	United States	Lucas Glover	1.29	62.06	-51.65	28.47
110	110	Germany	Stephan Jaeger	1.28	63.96	-47.09	45.91
111	114	United States	Davis Thompson	1.27	60.86	-52.24	40.86
112	113	United States	Chris Kirk	1.27	55.78	-39.51	22.34
113	111	Finland	Oliver Lindell	1.26	65.35	-24.37	46.20
114	112	United States	Doc Redman	1.25	51.41	-11.88	45.18
115	115	United States	Austin Smotherman	1.25	62.43	-31.95	41.51
116	116	United States	Kevin Roy	1.25	63.52	-29.63	43.57
117	117	Japan	Kota Kaneko	1.22	63.64	-19.61	43.44
118	118	United States	Max McGreevy	1.20	62.33	-51.23	24.96
119	119	United States	Brooks Koepka	1.19	47.73	-15.97	39.46
120	120	New Zealand	Daniel Hillier	1.18	61.42	-31.28	41.23
121	126	United States	Chandler Blanchet	1.18	56.45	-24.68	28.72
122	135	England	Andy Sullivan	1.17	61.08	-29.89	39.60
123	123	United States	Davis Riley	1.17	60.84	-43.44	34.46
124	122	South Africa	Garrick Higgo	1.17	52.60	-35.66	8.01
125	121	China	Haotong Li	1.16	60.36	-41.22	25.98
126	127	South Africa	Hennie Du Plessis	1.16	46.34	-6.67	44.40
127	124	United States	David Lipsky	1.16	60.17	-32.92	42.85
128	125	United States	Tom Hoge	1.15	59.94	-48.10	37.45
129	128	Spain	Angel Ayora	1.14	59.35	-31.70	30.25
130	129	United States	Brandt Snedeker	1.13	51.07	-14.14	39.05
131	131	England	Daniel Brown(Oct1994)	1.11	54.26	-41.48	15.64
132	130	United States	Chandler Phillips	1.10	57.31	-26.15	37.36
133	132	Australia	Cameron Smith	1.09	43.69	-16.77	32.67
134	133	United States	Lee Hodges	1.09	51.06	-31.58	30.94
135	146	Zimbabwe	Scott Vincent	1.08	46.56	-16.83	27.29
136	137	United States	Tony Finau	1.07	46.22	-46.84	33.43
137	134	Spain	Jose Luis Ballester	1.07	42.77	-10.44	23.54
138	139	United States	William Mouw	1.05	47.37	-29.99	23.94
139	140	Denmark	Jacob Skov Olesen	1.05	54.52	-18.34	36.89
140	136	United States	Zac Blair	1.05	54.49	-16.55	43.33
141	138	Australia	Elvis Smylie	1.03	49.51	-26.49	30.24
142	143	Northern Ireland	Tom McKibbin	1.02	44.82	-34.20	13.82
143	145	Sweden	Mikael Lindberg	1.02	52.93	-14.54	38.92
144	142	France	Adrien Saddier	1.02	52.92	-40.34	9.52
145	144	United States	Mark Hubbard	1.01	52.72	-33.09	25.90
146	141	South Africa	Richard Sterne	1.01	44.50	-11.61	27.80
147	177	Spain	Sergio Garcia	1.01	40.43	-8.84	38.05
148	147	United States	Zachary Bauchou	0.99	51.36	-20.92	36.28
149	159	England	Laurie Canter	0.98	47.01	-39.93	13.73
150	149	United States	Doug Ghim	0.97	49.65	-29.85	30.59
151	148	Canada	Mackenzie Hughes	0.97	49.55	-46.98	22.99
152	153	United States	Ian Holt	0.97	45.57	-16.61	45.26
153	151	United States	Cole Sherwood	0.96	44.98	-9.27	39.64
154	150	Scotland	Calum Hill	0.96	49.75	-25.84	36.02
155	154	United States	Billy Horschel	0.96	42.06	-65.59	28.14
156	152	Spain	Nacho Elvira	0.95	49.62	-25.27	36.45
157	155	South Africa	Michael Hollick	0.95	46.46	-9.91	31.98
158	158	United States	Brian Campbell	0.94	46.95	-43.81	9.40
159	162	United States	Alistair Docherty	0.94	43.99	-17.88	41.43
160	156	France	Victor Perez	0.94	44.92	-34.62	24.92
161	160	England	Marcus Armitage	0.93	48.30	-21.83	31.91
162	157	United States	Taylor Moore	0.93	42.61	-31.84	30.45
163	161	South Africa	JC Ritchie	0.91	47.48	-23.24	15.86
164	164	Austria	Bernd Wiesberger	0.91	47.39	-14.70	39.89
165	165	United States	Benjamin James	0.91	36.25	-1.02	35.59
166	163	Denmark	Thorbjorn Olesen	0.90	46.92	-42.09	17.92
167	168	United States	Tommy Morrison	0.90	35.99	-0.45	35.99
168	167	South Korea	Seonghyeon Kim	0.89	46.36	-27.81	29.58
169	169	France	Jeremy Gandon	0.89	41.71	-13.91	33.02
170	174	United States	Davis Lamb	0.88	35.09	-10.44	28.53
171	170	England	Dan Bradbury	0.87	45.44	-25.13	28.79
172	183	Japan	Kazuki Higa	0.87	45.40	-28.17	9.81
173	166	Australia	Travis Smyth	0.87	36.53	-12.83	33.15
174	171	Mexico	Carlos Ortiz	0.87	34.76	-18.72	16.90
175	173	United States	Dylan Menante	0.86	38.89	-8.41	33.05
176	172	United States	Davis Bryant	0.86	39.49	-10.11	29.06
177	175	Sweden	Jesper Svensson	0.85	44.22	-30.20	24.01
178	178	Sweden	Joakim Lagergren	0.84	43.80	-28.74	13.89
178	176	Japan	Takumi Kanaya	0.84	43.79	-31.69	14.40
180	180	Denmark	Jeff Winther	0.84	39.46	-14.50	27.74
181	182	France	Martin Couvra	0.83	43.13	-28.05	16.07
182	179	Venezuela	Jhonattan Vegas	0.81	35.73	-43.32	12.91
183	356	Japan	Yuta Sugiura	0.81	42.15	-18.07	28.42
184	186	Norway	Kristoffer Ventura	0.81	38.00	-19.29	22.55
185	181	South Africa	Thriston Lawrence	0.81	42.04	-54.62	6.94
186	185	United States	Austin Eckroat	0.81	39.58	-40.94	22.40
187	201	South Africa	Dean Burmester	0.80	31.94	-15.61	24.89
188	184	Belgium	Adrien Dumont de Chassart	0.80	41.43	-24.27	19.70
189	190	China	Marty Dou Zecheng	0.80	38.19	-16.67	23.41
190	187	Canada	A.J. Ewart	0.79	31.74	-8.52	29.09
191	188	United States	Hunter Eichhorn	0.79	31.72	-3.18	33.03
192	189	United States	Matt Kuchar	0.78	31.38	-26.06	13.58
193	203	United States	Jay Card III	0.78	31.18	-11.66	18.58
194	192	United States	Chad Ramey	0.78	40.38	-23.19	19.97
195	190	Spain	Jorge Campillo	0.78	40.36	-29.88	25.03
196	194	United States	Vincent Whaley	0.77	39.87	-36.40	8.41
197	195	Mexico	Abraham Ancer	0.77	30.65	-6.16	28.72
198	197	Ireland	Seamus Power	0.76	39.36	-29.11	23.61
199	196	United States	Adam Schenk	0.76	39.32	-26.73	11.63
200	199	Scotland	Ewen Ferguson	0.75	38.98	-26.99	21.61

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