Golf Rankings

Year-end world ranking

1997 World Golf Rankings

Final published week of 1997, December 28, 1997.

Greg Norman finished world number one.

World number one in 1997

The top of the ranking changed hands 7 times during 1997.

  1. Greg NormanJan 5, 1997 – Apr 13, 1997 · 15 weeks
  2. Tom LehmanApr 20, 1997 – Apr 20, 1997 · 1 week
  3. Greg NormanApr 27, 1997 – Jun 8, 1997 · 7 weeks
  4. Tiger WoodsJun 15, 1997 – Jun 15, 1997 · 1 week
  5. Ernie ElsJun 22, 1997 – Jun 22, 1997 · 1 week
  6. Greg NormanJun 29, 1997 – Jun 29, 1997 · 1 week
  7. Tiger WoodsJul 6, 1997 – Aug 31, 1997 · 9 weeks
  8. Greg NormanSep 7, 1997 – Dec 28, 1997 · 17 weeks · finished the year
  1. 1Greg Norman
  2. 2Tiger Woods
  3. 3Nick Price
  4. 4Ernie Els
  5. 5Davis Love III
  6. 6Phil Mickelson
  7. 7Colin Montgomerie
  8. 8Masashi Ozaki
  9. 9Tom Lehman
  10. 10Mark O'Meara
  11. 11Justin Leonard
  12. 12David Duval
  13. 13Scott Hoch
  14. 14Brad Faxon
  15. 15Vijay Singh
  16. 16Steve Elkington
  17. 17Nick Faldo
  18. 18Jesper Parnevik
  19. 19Tom Watson
  20. 20Fred Couples
  21. 21Bernhard Langer
  22. 22Jim Furyk
  23. 23Lee Westwood
  24. 24Steve Jones
  25. 25Ian Woosnam
  26. 26Frank Nobilo
  27. 27Loren Roberts
  28. 28Mark Calcavecchia
  29. 29Jeff Maggert
  30. 30Mark McNulty
  31. 31Paul Stankowski
  32. 32Tommy Tolles
  33. 33Shigeki Maruyama
  34. 34Lee Janzen
  35. 35John Cook
  36. 36Darren Clarke
  37. 37Brian Watts
  38. 38Tom Kite
  39. 39Craig Stadler
  40. 40Craig Parry
  41. 41Bill Glasson
  42. 42Jose M Olazabal
  43. 43Steve Stricker
  44. 44Scott McCarron
  45. 44Stuart Appleby
  46. 46Naomichi Joe Ozaki
  47. 47Payne Stewart
  48. 48Per-Ulrik Johansson
  49. 49Bob Tway
  50. 50Robert Allenby
  51. 51David Frost
  52. 52Costantino Rocca
  53. 53Michael Bradley
  54. 54Eduardo Romero
  55. 55Stewart Cink
  56. 56Jeff Sluman
  57. 57Jay Haas
  58. 58Duffy Waldorf
  59. 59Carlos Franco
  60. 60Retief Goosen
  61. 61David Ogrin
  62. 62Mark Brooks
  63. 63Billy Andrade
  64. 64Kenny Perry
  65. 65Peter Lonard
  66. 66Brandt Jobe
  67. 67Kirk Triplett
  68. 68Fred Funk
  69. 69Frankie Minoza
  70. 70Tim Herron
  71. 71Tateo Jet Ozaki
  72. 72Andrew Magee
  73. 73Thomas Bjorn
  74. 74Phil Blackmar
  75. 75Paul Goydos
  76. 76Corey Pavin
  77. 77Greg Turner
  78. 78Padraig Harrington
  79. 79Dudley Hart
  80. 80Robert Karlsson
  81. 81Stephen Ames
  82. 82Ignacio Garrido
  83. 83Peter O'Malley
  84. 84Andrew Coltart
  85. 85Rick Fehr
  86. 86Miguel Angel Martin
  87. 87Dan Forsman
  88. 88Rocco Mediate
  89. 89Tom Byrum
  90. 90Mark James
  91. 91Eduardo Herrera
  92. 92Yoshinori Kaneko
  93. 93Larry Nelson
  94. 94Steve Lowery
  95. 95Peter Senior
  96. 96Hal Sutton
  97. 97Jay Don Blake
  98. 98Larry Mize
  99. 99Raymond Russell
  100. 100Russ Cochran

Biggest climbers of 1997

Movement from their first to their last ranked week of the season, among players who finished inside the top 200.

  1. Robert Damron#897 → #124+773
  2. Brent Geiberger#897 → #136+761
  3. Kenichi Kuboya#897 → #185+712
  4. Toshiaki Odate#510 → #152+358
  5. Clinton Whitelaw#530 → #192+338

1997 by tour

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