Golf Rankings

Year-end world ranking

2005 World Golf Rankings

Final published week of 2005, December 25, 2005.

Tiger Woods finished world number one.

World number one in 2005

The top of the ranking changed hands 5 times during 2005.

  1. Vijay SinghJan 2, 2005 – Feb 27, 2005 · 9 weeks
  2. Tiger WoodsMar 6, 2005 – Mar 13, 2005 · 2 weeks
  3. Vijay SinghMar 20, 2005 – Apr 3, 2005 · 3 weeks
  4. Tiger WoodsApr 10, 2005 – May 15, 2005 · 6 weeks
  5. Vijay SinghMay 22, 2005 – Jun 5, 2005 · 3 weeks
  6. Tiger WoodsJun 12, 2005 – Dec 25, 2005 · 29 weeks · finished the year
  1. 1Tiger Woods
  2. 2Vijay Singh
  3. 3Phil Mickelson
  4. 4Retief Goosen
  5. 5Ernie Els
  6. 6Sergio Garcia
  7. 7Jim Furyk
  8. 8Colin Montgomerie
  9. 9Adam Scott
  10. 10Chris DiMarco
  11. 11David Howell
  12. 12Angel Cabrera
  13. 13Luke Donald
  14. 14Kenny Perry
  15. 15David Toms
  16. 16Michael Campbell
  17. 17Padraig Harrington
  18. 18Darren Clarke
  19. 19Davis Love III
  20. 20Tim Clark
  21. 21Paul McGinley
  22. 22Thomas Bjorn
  23. 23Bart Bryant
  24. 24Nick O'Hern
  25. 25Fred Couples
  26. 26Jose M Olazabal
  27. 27Stewart Cink
  28. 28Scott Verplank
  29. 29John Daly
  30. 30Stuart Appleby
  31. 31K.J. Choi
  32. 32Henrik Stenson
  33. 33Justin Leonard
  34. 34Ben Crane
  35. 35Robert Allenby
  36. 36Mark Hensby
  37. 37Sean O'Hair
  38. 38Chad Campbell
  39. 39Shingo Katayama
  40. 40Miguel A Jimenez
  41. 41Lee Westwood
  42. 42Brandt Jobe
  43. 43Tom Lehman
  44. 44Shigeki Maruyama
  45. 45Fred Funk
  46. 46Peter Lonard
  47. 47Rod Pampling
  48. 48Mike Weir
  49. 49Tim Herron
  50. 50Geoff Ogilvy
  51. 51Stephen Ames
  52. 52Paul Casey
  53. 53Carl Pettersson
  54. 54Bernhard Langer
  55. 55Charles Howell III
  56. 56Graeme McDowell
  57. 57Zach Johnson
  58. 58Steve Elkington
  59. 59Ian Poulter
  60. 60Niclas Fasth
  61. 61Craig Parry
  62. 62Trevor Immelman
  63. 63Mark Calcavecchia
  64. 64Ted Purdy
  65. 65Lucas Glover
  66. 66Jerry Kelly
  67. 67Brad Faxon
  68. 68Kenneth Ferrie
  69. 69Tom Pernice-Jr
  70. 70Richard Green
  71. 71Rory Sabbatini
  72. 72Billy Mayfair
  73. 73Olin Browne
  74. 74Vaughn Taylor
  75. 75Nick Dougherty
  76. 76Paul Broadhurst
  77. 77Carlos Franco
  78. 78Joe Ogilvie
  79. 79Stephen Dodd
  80. 80Ryan Palmer
  81. 81Wes Short-Jr
  82. 82Bo Van Pelt
  83. 83Bradley Dredge
  84. 84Jason Bohn
  85. 85David Smail
  86. 86Justin Rose
  87. 87Thomas Levet
  88. 88Greg Owen
  89. 89S.K. Ho
  90. 90Jason Gore
  91. 91David Lynn
  92. 92Toru Taniguchi
  93. 93Jay Haas
  94. 94Paul Sheehan
  95. 95Jonathan Kaye
  96. 96Raphael Jacquelin
  97. 97Todd Hamilton
  98. 98Yasuharu Imano
  99. 99Arron Oberholser
  100. 100Keiichiro Fukabori

Biggest climbers of 2005

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

  1. Sean O'Hair#1155 → #37+1118
  2. Joey Snyder-III#1155 → #133+1022
  3. Shiv Kapur#1155 → #192+963
  4. Jason Gore#675 → #90+585
  5. Ryan Moore#715 → #142+573

2005 by tour

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