Golf Rankings

Year-end world ranking

2006 World Golf Rankings

Final published week of 2006, December 31, 2006.

Tiger Woods finished world number one.

  1. 1Tiger Woods
  2. 2Jim Furyk
  3. 3Phil Mickelson
  4. 4Adam Scott
  5. 5Ernie Els
  6. 6Retief Goosen
  7. 7Vijay Singh
  8. 8Padraig Harrington
  9. 9Luke Donald
  10. 10Geoff Ogilvy
  11. 11Sergio Garcia
  12. 12Henrik Stenson
  13. 13Trevor Immelman
  14. 14David Howell
  15. 15Paul Casey
  16. 16Davis Love III
  17. 17Colin Montgomerie
  18. 18Jose M Olazabal
  19. 19David Toms
  20. 20Chris DiMarco
  21. 21Nick O'Hern
  22. 22Stuart Appleby
  23. 23Tim Clark
  24. 24Shingo Katayama
  25. 25Michael Campbell
  26. 26Stewart Cink
  27. 27Chad Campbell
  28. 28Angel Cabrera
  29. 29K.J. Choi
  30. 30Rod Pampling
  31. 31Robert Karlsson
  32. 32Joe Durant
  33. 33Y.E. Yang
  34. 34Ian Poulter
  35. 35Darren Clarke
  36. 36Carl Pettersson
  37. 37Jeev Milkha Singh
  38. 38Lucas Glover
  39. 39Rory Sabbatini
  40. 40Brett Wetterich
  41. 41Ben Crane
  42. 42Niclas Fasth
  43. 43Stephen Ames
  44. 44Arron Oberholser
  45. 45Mike Weir
  46. 46Thomas Bjorn
  47. 47Robert Allenby
  48. 48Johan Edfors
  49. 49Lee Westwood
  50. 50Bradley Dredge
  51. 51Justin Rose
  52. 52Scott Verplank
  53. 53Bart Bryant
  54. 54Zach Johnson
  55. 55Charl Schwartzel
  56. 56Tom Lehman
  57. 57Shaun Micheel
  58. 58Kenny Perry
  59. 59Anthony Wall
  60. 60Brett Quigley
  61. 61Tom Pernice-Jr
  62. 62Fred Couples
  63. 63Steve Stricker
  64. 64Paul Broadhurst
  65. 65Richard Green
  66. 66Tim Herron
  67. 67Sean O'Hair
  68. 68John Senden
  69. 69Vaughn Taylor
  70. 70J.J. Henry
  71. 71Paul McGinley
  72. 72Dean Wilson
  73. 73Miguel A Jimenez
  74. 74Ben Curtis
  75. 75Thongchai Jaidee
  76. 76Jose Manuel Lara
  77. 77Jason Bohn
  78. 78Nathan Green
  79. 79Ryan Moore
  80. 80Toru Taniguchi
  81. 81Troy Matteson
  82. 82Charles Howell III
  83. 83Simon Khan
  84. 84Jyoti Randhawa
  85. 85Fred Funk
  86. 86Peter Lonard
  87. 87Aaron Baddeley
  88. 88Simon Dyson
  89. 89Stephen Dodd
  90. 90J.B. Holmes
  91. 91Taichi Teshima
  92. 92Billy Mayfair
  93. 93S.K. Ho
  94. 94Greg Owen
  95. 95Jerry Kelly
  96. 96Hideto Tanihara
  97. 97Jesper Parnevik
  98. 98Jonathan Byrd
  99. 99Brandt Jobe
  100. 100Hidemasa Hoshino

Biggest climbers of 2006

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

  1. J.B. Holmes#1182 → #90+1092
  2. Martin Kaymer#1182 → #164+1018
  3. Alvaro Quiros#1182 → #175+1007
  4. Alejandro Canizares#1182 → #197+985
  5. Rafael Echenique#1070 → #165+905

2006 by tour

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