Golf Rankings

Year-end world ranking

Sunshine Tour — 1997

Final published week of 1997, December 28, 1997.

Nick Price led the tour at world #3.

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

  1. 3Nick Price
  2. 4Ernie Els
  3. 5Davis Love III
  4. 6Phil Mickelson
  5. 7Colin Montgomerie
  6. 9Tom Lehman
  7. 10Mark O'Meara
  8. 11Justin Leonard
  9. 15Vijay Singh
  10. 17Nick Faldo
  11. 18Jesper Parnevik
  12. 21Bernhard Langer
  13. 23Lee Westwood
  14. 25Ian Woosnam
  15. 30Mark McNulty
  16. 36Darren Clarke
  17. 51David Frost
  18. 52Costantino Rocca
  19. 60Retief Goosen
  20. 73Thomas Bjorn
  21. 78Padraig Harrington
  22. 80Robert Karlsson
  23. 81Stephen Ames
  24. 82Ignacio Garrido
  25. 84Andrew Coltart
  26. 86Miguel Angel Martin
  27. 90Mark James
  28. 102Paul McGinley
  29. 105Paul Broadhurst
  30. 108Wayne Westner
  31. 110Fulton Allem
  32. 133Patrik Sjoland
  33. 135Jamie Spence
  34. 146David Gilford
  35. 155Paul Lawrie
  36. 163Jean Van de Velde
  37. 167Sven Struver
  38. 171Greg Chalmers
  39. 174Wayne Riley
  40. 179David Carter
  41. 186Peter Baker
  42. 192Clinton Whitelaw
  43. 196Ross McFarlane
  44. 205Katsuyoshi Tomori
  45. 213David Howell
  46. 224Peter Hedblom
  47. 227Michael Jonzon
  48. 237Phillip Price
  49. 239Tony Johnstone
  50. 243Niclas Fasth
  51. 243Mats Hallberg
  52. 256Iain Pyman
  53. 258Marc Farry
  54. 260Paul Eales
  55. 260Gary Orr
  56. 265Jonathan Lomas
  57. 267Warren Schutte
  58. 276Carl Suneson
  59. 277Jon Robson
  60. 280Brenden Pappas
  61. 282Anders Forsbrand
  62. 284Eamonn Darcy
  63. 285Andrew Sherborne
  64. 287Carl Watts
  65. 290Fabrice Tarnaud
  66. 291Nico van Rensburg
  67. 297Stuart Cage
  68. 298Daniel Chopra
  69. 301Ronan Rafferty
  70. 313Brian Davis
  71. 317Barry Lane
  72. 328Malcolm Mackenzie
  73. 331Raymond Burns
  74. 333Ross Drummond
  75. 337Thomas Gogele
  76. 340Jay Townsend
  77. 343Rolf Muntz
  78. 353Klas Eriksson
  79. 354Van Phillips
  80. 354Andre Cruse
  81. 363Per Haugsrud
  82. 368Ronnie McCann
  83. 368Justin Hobday
  84. 368Chris Williams
  85. 380Seve Ballesteros
  86. 381Miles Tunnicliff
  87. 384Mark Davis
  88. 385David Tapping
  89. 389Richard Kaplan
  90. 389Deane Pappas
  91. 389Trevor Dodds
  92. 400Warrick Druian
  93. 400Tjaart Van Der Walt
  94. 400Marco Gortana
  95. 400Desvonde Botes
  96. 414Robert Coles
  97. 418Michael Campbell
  98. 420James Kingston
  99. 425Paul Affleck
  100. 426Des Smyth

1997 by tour

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