Golf Rankings

Year-end world ranking

1988 World Golf Rankings

Final published week of 1988, December 25, 1988.

Seve Ballesteros finished world number one.

World number one in 1988

The top of the ranking changed hands 3 times during 1988.

  1. Greg NormanJan 3, 1988 – Oct 23, 1988 · 43 weeks
  2. Seve BallesterosOct 30, 1988 – Oct 30, 1988 · 1 week
  3. Greg NormanNov 6, 1988 – Nov 6, 1988 · 1 week
  4. Seve BallesterosNov 13, 1988 – Dec 25, 1988 · 7 weeks · finished the year
  1. 1Seve Ballesteros
  2. 2Greg Norman
  3. 3Sandy Lyle
  4. 4Nick Faldo
  5. 5Curtis Strange
  6. 6Ian Woosnam
  7. 7Ben Crenshaw
  8. 8Paul Azinger
  9. 9Mark Calcavecchia
  10. 10Lanny Wadkins
  11. 11David Frost
  12. 12Masashi Ozaki
  13. 13Tom Kite
  14. 14Chip Beck
  15. 15Jose M Olazabal
  16. 16Bernhard Langer
  17. 17Tom Watson
  18. 18Larry Nelson
  19. 19Payne Stewart
  20. 20Fred Couples
  21. 21Ken Green
  22. 22Mark McNulty
  23. 23Mark McCumber
  24. 24Larry Mize
  25. 25Scott Simpson
  26. 26David Ishii
  27. 27Joey Sindelar
  28. 28Dan Pohl
  29. 29Mark O'Meara
  30. 30Mike Reid
  31. 31Rodger Davis
  32. 32Craig Stadler
  33. 33Nick Price
  34. 34Don Pooley
  35. 35Bruce Lietzke
  36. 36Tommy Nakajima
  37. 37Isao Aoki
  38. 38Steve Pate
  39. 39Fuzzy Zoeller
  40. 40Jeff Sluman
  41. 41Scott Hoch
  42. 42Bob Tway
  43. 43Jose Rivero
  44. 44Jay Haas
  45. 45Ian Baker-Finch
  46. 46Peter Senior
  47. 47Mark James
  48. 48Corey Pavin
  49. 49Des Smyth
  50. 50Gordon Brand-Jr
  51. 51Hal Sutton
  52. 52Jodie Mudd
  53. 53Graham Marsh
  54. 54Fulton Allem
  55. 55Howard Clark
  56. 56Ronan Rafferty
  57. 57D A Weibring
  58. 58Gil Morgan
  59. 59Masahiro Kuramoto
  60. 60John Mahaffey
  61. 61Peter Jacobsen
  62. 62Gary Koch
  63. 63Naomichi Joe Ozaki
  64. 64Craig Parry
  65. 65Andy Bean
  66. 66Dave Barr
  67. 67Tateo Jet Ozaki
  68. 68Brian Jones
  69. 69Mark Wiebe
  70. 70Mac O'Grady
  71. 71Doug Tewell
  72. 72Bobby Wadkins
  73. 73Donnie Hammond
  74. 74David Graham
  75. 75Steve Jones
  76. 76Gene Sauers
  77. 77Anders Forsbrand
  78. 78Calvin Peete
  79. 79Chen Tze-Chung
  80. 80Tom Purtzer
  81. 81Sam Torrance
  82. 82Hale Irwin
  83. 83Christy O'Connor-Jnr
  84. 84Wayne Grady
  85. 85Scott Verplank
  86. 86Eamonn Darcy
  87. 87Kariem Baraka
  88. 88Roger Mackay
  89. 89Jim Benepe
  90. 90Davis Love III
  91. 91John Cook
  92. 92John Bland
  93. 93Bill Glasson
  94. 94Curt Byrum
  95. 95Hajime Meshiai
  96. 96Wayne Levi
  97. 97Ken Brown
  98. 98Tony Johnstone
  99. 99Peter Baker
  100. 100Gordon J Brand

1988 by tour

How many ranked players earned points on each tour that season.