Golf Rankings

Year-end world ranking

Japan Golf Tour — 1996

Final published week of 1996, December 29, 1996.

Fred Couples led the tour at world #5.

World ranking as at 1996-12-29, limited to players who earned ranking points on the Japan Golf Tour in 1996.

  1. 5Fred Couples
  2. 6Nick Faldo
  3. 7Phil Mickelson
  4. 8Masashi Ozaki
  5. 13Nick Price
  6. 14Steve Elkington
  7. 17Tom Watson
  8. 18Mark Brooks
  9. 20Vijay Singh
  10. 24Costantino Rocca
  11. 28Steve Jones
  12. 31Frank Nobilo
  13. 32Lee Janzen
  14. 34Payne Stewart
  15. 38Mark Calcavecchia
  16. 42Craig Stadler
  17. 46Peter Senior
  18. 49Jim Furyk
  19. 50Brian Watts
  20. 51Fred Funk
  21. 52Craig Parry
  22. 53Jeff Sluman
  23. 56Shigeki Maruyama
  24. 57David Frost
  25. 59Paul Stankowski
  26. 64Lee Westwood
  27. 66Naomichi Joe Ozaki
  28. 67Yoshinori Kaneko
  29. 71Miguel A Jimenez
  30. 73Brandt Jobe
  31. 74Frankie Minoza
  32. 76Hidemichi Tanaka
  33. 77Todd Hamilton
  34. 80Stephen Ames
  35. 86Carlos Franco
  36. 87Paul Goydos
  37. 88Larry Mize
  38. 91John Daly
  39. 95Kazuhiko Hosokawa
  40. 109Seve Ballesteros
  41. 112Thomas Bjorn
  42. 116Larry Nelson
  43. 117Hajime Meshiai
  44. 118Masahiro Kuramoto
  45. 120Tommy Nakajima
  46. 121David Ishii
  47. 123Robert Gamez
  48. 124Andrew Magee
  49. 126Masanobu Kimura
  50. 129Nobuo Serizawa
  51. 130Hisayuki Sasaki
  52. 131Katsuyoshi Tomori
  53. 132Rick Gibson
  54. 135Satoshi Higashi
  55. 139Russ Cochran
  56. 146Eduardo Herrera
  57. 153Peter Teravainen
  58. 166Toshimitsu Izawa
  59. 174Philip Walton
  60. 176Peter McWhinney
  61. 177Toru Suzuki
  62. 181Shoichi Kuwabara
  63. 183Katsunori Kuwabara
  64. 184Hideki Kase
  65. 195Hideyuki Sato
  66. 201Tsukasa Watanabe
  67. 203Hirofumi Miyase
  68. 204Ryoken Kawagishi
  69. 207Kaname Yokoo
  70. 208Kazuhiro Takami
  71. 209Wayne Grady
  72. 212Yoshikazu Sakamoto
  73. 214Kiyoshi Maita
  74. 224Wayne Levi
  75. 225Roger Mackay
  76. 230Seiki Okuda
  77. 238Nobumitsu Yuhara
  78. 238Shinichi Yokota
  79. 251Tomohiro Maruyama
  80. 252Wayne Smith
  81. 253Taichi Teshima
  82. 259Yoshi Mizumaki
  83. 268Tateo Jet Ozaki
  84. 269Masayuki Kawamura
  85. 270Shigenori Mori
  86. 271Stewart Ginn
  87. 273Rick Todd
  88. 279Lin Keng-Chi
  89. 283Tsuyoshi Yoneyama
  90. 287Katsunari Takahashi
  91. 289Kevin Wentworth
  92. 304Kazuhiro Fukunaga
  93. 304Takaaki Fukuzawa
  94. 323Gohei Sato
  95. 331Bob Gilder
  96. 332Mitsutaka Kusakabe
  97. 343Chen Tze-Chung
  98. 344Jack Nicklaus
  99. 350Tsutomu Higa
  100. 355Keiichiro Fukabori

1996 by tour

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