Golf Rankings

Year-end world ranking

Japan Golf Tour — 1997

Final published week of 1997, December 28, 1997.

Greg Norman led the tour.

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

  1. 1Greg Norman
  2. 3Nick Price
  3. 8Masashi Ozaki
  4. 9Tom Lehman
  5. 10Mark O'Meara
  6. 15Vijay Singh
  7. 19Tom Watson
  8. 21Bernhard Langer
  9. 23Lee Westwood
  10. 24Steve Jones
  11. 33Shigeki Maruyama
  12. 36Darren Clarke
  13. 37Brian Watts
  14. 39Craig Stadler
  15. 40Craig Parry
  16. 42Jose M Olazabal
  17. 46Naomichi Joe Ozaki
  18. 51David Frost
  19. 52Costantino Rocca
  20. 56Jeff Sluman
  21. 59Carlos Franco
  22. 60Retief Goosen
  23. 62Mark Brooks
  24. 65Peter Lonard
  25. 66Brandt Jobe
  26. 68Fred Funk
  27. 69Frankie Minoza
  28. 71Tateo Jet Ozaki
  29. 76Corey Pavin
  30. 91Eduardo Herrera
  31. 92Yoshinori Kaneko
  32. 95Peter Senior
  33. 99Raymond Russell
  34. 100Russ Cochran
  35. 108Miguel A Jimenez
  36. 115Hajime Meshiai
  37. 121Hisayuki Sasaki
  38. 122Shoichi Kuwabara
  39. 129Hiroyuki Fujita
  40. 132Todd Hamilton
  41. 142David Ishii
  42. 147Keiichiro Fukabori
  43. 148Glen Day
  44. 150Hirofumi Miyase
  45. 152Toshiaki Odate
  46. 159Kazuhiko Hosokawa
  47. 164Tsukasa Watanabe
  48. 166Toru Suzuki
  49. 167Eiji Mizoguchi
  50. 169Peter Teravainen
  51. 170Mitsutaka Kusakabe
  52. 180Robert Gamez
  53. 183Toshimitsu Izawa
  54. 185Kenichi Kuboya
  55. 188Shinichi Yokota
  56. 190Pete Jordan
  57. 193Hidemichi Tanaka
  58. 194Katsunori Kuwabara
  59. 197Yoshi Mizumaki
  60. 198Kevin Wentworth
  61. 203Taichi Teshima
  62. 204Tommy Nakajima
  63. 205Katsuyoshi Tomori
  64. 207Shigemasa Higaki
  65. 212Masanobu Kimura
  66. 215Mitsuo Harada
  67. 217Nobuhito Sato
  68. 217Yeh Chang-Ting
  69. 227Jongduk Kim
  70. 234Roger Mackay
  71. 235Stewart Ginn
  72. 236Satoshi Higashi
  73. 238Kaname Yokoo
  74. 242Nobuo Serizawa
  75. 246Rick Gibson
  76. 249Hideki Kase
  77. 251Kiyoshi Maita
  78. 252Zaw Moe
  79. 254Hideyuki Sato
  80. 256Tsuyoshi Yoneyama
  81. 269Seiki Okuda
  82. 271Toru Taniguchi
  83. 273Toru Nakamura
  84. 274Yoshikazu Sakamoto
  85. 286Chris Smith
  86. 289Shigenori Mori
  87. 303Chen Tze-Chung
  88. 304Kazuo Kanayama
  89. 304Kouki Idoki
  90. 308Ryoken Kawagishi
  91. 314Peter McWhinney
  92. 315Hidezumi Shirakata
  93. 320Katsunari Takahashi
  94. 321Katsumasa Miyamoto
  95. 326Shingo Katayama
  96. 326Shusaku Sugimoto
  97. 332Kazuhiro Takami
  98. 349Masahiro Kuramoto
  99. 350Takaaki Fukuzawa
  100. 352Nobumitsu Yuhara

1997 by tour

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