Golf Rankings

Year-end world ranking

2002 World Golf Rankings

Final published week of 2002, December 29, 2002.

Tiger Woods finished world number one.

  1. 1Tiger Woods
  2. 2Phil Mickelson
  3. 3Ernie Els
  4. 4Sergio Garcia
  5. 5Retief Goosen
  6. 6David Toms
  7. 7Padraig Harrington
  8. 8Vijay Singh
  9. 9Davis Love III
  10. 10Colin Montgomerie
  11. 11Jim Furyk
  12. 12Chris DiMarco
  13. 13Nick Price
  14. 14Angel Cabrera
  15. 15David Duval
  16. 16Bernhard Langer
  17. 17Justin Leonard
  18. 18Michael Campbell
  19. 19Eduardo Romero
  20. 20Charles Howell III
  21. 21Rich Beem
  22. 22Scott Hoch
  23. 23Darren Clarke
  24. 24Bob Estes
  25. 25Robert Allenby
  26. 26Rocco Mediate
  27. 27Jerry Kelly
  28. 28Kenny Perry
  29. 29Shigeki Maruyama
  30. 30Scott McCarron
  31. 31Craig Parry
  32. 32Stuart Appleby
  33. 33Scott Verplank
  34. 34Fred Funk
  35. 35Thomas Bjorn
  36. 36Steve Lowery
  37. 37Justin Rose
  38. 38Jose M Olazabal
  39. 39Niclas Fasth
  40. 40Adam Scott
  41. 41K.J. Choi
  42. 42Paul Lawrie
  43. 43Peter Lonard
  44. 44Chris Riley
  45. 45Jeff Sluman
  46. 46Mike Weir
  47. 47Shingo Katayama
  48. 48Brad Faxon
  49. 49Toshimitsu Izawa
  50. 50Toru Taniguchi
  51. 51Len Mattiace
  52. 52John Cook
  53. 53Loren Roberts
  54. 54Tom Lehman
  55. 55Alex Cejka
  56. 56Tim Clark
  57. 57Dean Wilson
  58. 58Mark Calcavecchia
  59. 59Anders Hansen
  60. 60Stephen Leaney
  61. 61Jose Coceres
  62. 62Robert Karlsson
  63. 63Nick Faldo
  64. 64Bradley Dredge
  65. 65Kevin Sutherland
  66. 66Paul Azinger
  67. 67Dudley Hart
  68. 68John Huston
  69. 69Tommy Nakajima
  70. 70Phil Tataurangi
  71. 71Stewart Cink
  72. 72Billy Andrade
  73. 73Jonathan Byrd
  74. 74Ricardo Gonzalez
  75. 75Peter O'Malley
  76. 76Ian Poulter
  77. 77John Rollins
  78. 78Steve Elkington
  79. 79Thomas Levet
  80. 80David Smail
  81. 81Jesper Parnevik
  82. 82Ian Woosnam
  83. 83Freddie Jacobson
  84. 84Chris Smith
  85. 85Kirk Triplett
  86. 86Billy Mayfair
  87. 87Matt Kuchar
  88. 88Bob Tway
  89. 89Steve Flesch
  90. 90Rory Sabbatini
  91. 91John Daly
  92. 92Steve Stricker
  93. 93Luke Donald
  94. 94Bob Burns
  95. 95Soren Hansen
  96. 96Craig Perks
  97. 97Scott Laycock
  98. 98Matt Gogel
  99. 99Paul McGinley
  100. 100Dan Forsman

Biggest climbers of 2002

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

  1. Graeme McDowell#1201 → #185+1016
  2. S.K. Ho#924 → #128+796
  3. Gene Sauers#762 → #164+598
  4. Luke Donald#591 → #93+498
  5. Pat Perez#524 → #108+416

2002 by tour

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