Golf Rankings

Year-end world ranking

1998 World Golf Rankings

Final published week of 1998, December 27, 1998.

Tiger Woods finished world number one.

World number one in 1998

The top of the ranking changed hands 5 times during 1998.

  1. Greg NormanJan 4, 1998 – Jan 4, 1998 · 1 week
  2. Tiger WoodsJan 11, 1998 – Apr 5, 1998 · 13 weeks
  3. Ernie ElsApr 12, 1998 – May 3, 1998 · 4 weeks
  4. Tiger WoodsMay 10, 1998 – May 10, 1998 · 1 week
  5. Ernie ElsMay 17, 1998 – Jun 7, 1998 · 4 weeks
  6. Tiger WoodsJun 14, 1998 – Dec 27, 1998 · 29 weeks · finished the year
  1. 1Tiger Woods
  2. 2Mark O'Meara
  3. 3David Duval
  4. 4Davis Love III
  5. 5Ernie Els
  6. 6Nick Price
  7. 7Colin Montgomerie
  8. 8Lee Westwood
  9. 9Vijay Singh
  10. 10Phil Mickelson
  11. 11Fred Couples
  12. 12Jim Furyk
  13. 13Masashi Ozaki
  14. 14Jesper Parnevik
  15. 15Justin Leonard
  16. 16Steve Elkington
  17. 17Darren Clarke
  18. 18Greg Norman
  19. 19Brian Watts
  20. 20Scott Hoch
  21. 21Mark Calcavecchia
  22. 22Tom Lehman
  23. 23Lee Janzen
  24. 24Tom Watson
  25. 25Jose M Olazabal
  26. 26Steve Stricker
  27. 27Bernhard Langer
  28. 28John Huston
  29. 29Stuart Appleby
  30. 30Jeff Maggert
  31. 31John Cook
  32. 32Bob Tway
  33. 33Hal Sutton
  34. 34Steve Jones
  35. 35Brandt Jobe
  36. 36Ian Woosnam
  37. 37Jeff Sluman
  38. 38Carlos Franco
  39. 39Brad Faxon
  40. 40Thomas Bjorn
  41. 41Billy Mayfair
  42. 42Shigeki Maruyama
  43. 43Glen Day
  44. 44Bob Estes
  45. 45Stewart Cink
  46. 46Loren Roberts
  47. 47Andrew Magee
  48. 48Bill Glasson
  49. 49Scott Verplank
  50. 50Patrik Sjoland
  51. 51Frankie Minoza
  52. 52Craig Parry
  53. 53Miguel A Jimenez
  54. 54Fred Funk
  55. 55Naomichi Joe Ozaki
  56. 56Nick Faldo
  57. 57Stephen Leaney
  58. 58Dudley Hart
  59. 59Frank Nobilo
  60. 60Eduardo Romero
  61. 61Paul Azinger
  62. 62Michael Bradley
  63. 63Per-Ulrik Johansson
  64. 64Craig Stadler
  65. 65Peter O'Malley
  66. 66Robert Karlsson
  67. 67Greg Chalmers
  68. 68Andrew Coltart
  69. 69Greg Turner
  70. 70David Toms
  71. 71Jay Haas
  72. 72Mark McNulty
  73. 73Steve Flesch
  74. 74Scott McCarron
  75. 75Steve Pate
  76. 76Paul Stankowski
  77. 77Billy Andrade
  78. 78Brandel Chamblee
  79. 79Hidemichi Tanaka
  80. 80Kirk Triplett
  81. 81Stephen Ames
  82. 82Retief Goosen
  83. 83Tim Herron
  84. 84Robert Allenby
  85. 85Joe Durant
  86. 86Tom Kite
  87. 86Sam Torrance
  88. 88Skip Kendall
  89. 89Trevor Dodds
  90. 90Costantino Rocca
  91. 90Brent Geiberger
  92. 92Chris Perry
  93. 93David Frost
  94. 94Katsumasa Miyamoto
  95. 95Tommy Tolles
  96. 96Peter Baker
  97. 97Larry Mize
  98. 98Eduardo Herrera
  99. 99Peter Lonard
  100. 100Hajime Meshiai

Biggest climbers of 1998

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

  1. Harrison Frazar#858 → #134+724
  2. Clark Dennis#858 → #152+706
  3. Bob Friend#858 → #167+691
  4. Craig Hainline#858 → #198+660
  5. Mamo Osanai#659 → #178+481

1998 by tour

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