Golf Rankings

Year-end world ranking

Asian Tour — 1997

Final published week of 1997, December 28, 1997.

Ernie Els led the tour at world #4.

World ranking as at 1997-12-28, limited to players who earned ranking points on the Asian Tour in 1997.

  1. 4Ernie Els
  2. 7Colin Montgomerie
  3. 8Masashi Ozaki
  4. 15Vijay Singh
  5. 17Nick Faldo
  6. 20Fred Couples
  7. 21Bernhard Langer
  8. 23Lee Westwood
  9. 25Ian Woosnam
  10. 26Frank Nobilo
  11. 33Shigeki Maruyama
  12. 36Darren Clarke
  13. 37Brian Watts
  14. 44Stuart Appleby
  15. 50Robert Allenby
  16. 59Carlos Franco
  17. 60Retief Goosen
  18. 65Peter Lonard
  19. 66Brandt Jobe
  20. 69Frankie Minoza
  21. 71Tateo Jet Ozaki
  22. 73Thomas Bjorn
  23. 77Greg Turner
  24. 78Padraig Harrington
  25. 80Robert Karlsson
  26. 81Stephen Ames
  27. 83Peter O'Malley
  28. 84Andrew Coltart
  29. 86Miguel Angel Martin
  30. 92Yoshinori Kaneko
  31. 95Peter Senior
  32. 99Raymond Russell
  33. 102Paul McGinley
  34. 105Paul Broadhurst
  35. 111Michael Long
  36. 113Joakim Haeggman
  37. 115Hajime Meshiai
  38. 118Sam Torrance
  39. 122Shoichi Kuwabara
  40. 125Richard Green
  41. 132Todd Hamilton
  42. 137Stephen Leaney
  43. 139Peter Mitchell
  44. 141Edward Fryatt
  45. 142David Ishii
  46. 146David Gilford
  47. 147Keiichiro Fukabori
  48. 149Steven Alker
  49. 150Hirofumi Miyase
  50. 155Paul Lawrie
  51. 157Roger Chapman
  52. 159Kazuhiko Hosokawa
  53. 163Jean Van de Velde
  54. 164Tsukasa Watanabe
  55. 166Toru Suzuki
  56. 167Sven Struver
  57. 167Eiji Mizoguchi
  58. 169Peter Teravainen
  59. 171Greg Chalmers
  60. 174Wayne Riley
  61. 178Russell Claydon
  62. 179David Carter
  63. 182Jean Louis Guepy
  64. 183Toshimitsu Izawa
  65. 186Peter Baker
  66. 188Shinichi Yokota
  67. 193Hidemichi Tanaka
  68. 194Katsunori Kuwabara
  69. 196Ross McFarlane
  70. 197Yoshi Mizumaki
  71. 198Anthony Painter
  72. 198Kevin Wentworth
  73. 202Alex Cejka
  74. 203Taichi Teshima
  75. 204Tommy Nakajima
  76. 205Katsuyoshi Tomori
  77. 207Shigemasa Higaki
  78. 209Darren Cole
  79. 212Masanobu Kimura
  80. 213David Howell
  81. 215Mitsuo Harada
  82. 217Yeh Chang-Ting
  83. 222Shane Tait
  84. 223Wayne Grady
  85. 224Peter Hedblom
  86. 227John Daly
  87. 227Jongduk Kim
  88. 234Roger Mackay
  89. 235Stewart Ginn
  90. 236Satoshi Higashi
  91. 237Phillip Price
  92. 238Kaname Yokoo
  93. 242Nobuo Serizawa
  94. 246Rick Gibson
  95. 251Kiyoshi Maita
  96. 252Zaw Moe
  97. 254Hideyuki Sato
  98. 256Iain Pyman
  99. 256Tsuyoshi Yoneyama
  100. 258Marc Farry

1997 by tour

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