Golf Rankings

Year-end world ranking

2008 World Golf Rankings

Final published week of 2008, December 28, 2008.

Tiger Woods finished world number one.

  1. 1Tiger Woods
  2. 2Sergio Garcia
  3. 3Phil Mickelson
  4. 4Padraig Harrington
  5. 5Vijay Singh
  6. 6Robert Karlsson
  7. 7Camilo Villegas
  8. 8Henrik Stenson
  9. 9Ernie Els
  10. 10Lee Westwood
  11. 11Anthony Kim
  12. 12Geoff Ogilvy
  13. 13Jim Furyk
  14. 14Kenny Perry
  15. 15Steve Stricker
  16. 16Stewart Cink
  17. 17Adam Scott
  18. 18K.J. Choi
  19. 19Justin Rose
  20. 20Trevor Immelman
  21. 21Mike Weir
  22. 22Miguel A Jimenez
  23. 23Justin Leonard
  24. 24Ben Curtis
  25. 25Martin Kaymer
  26. 26Ian Poulter
  27. 27Robert Allenby
  28. 28Tim Clark
  29. 29Ross Fisher
  30. 30Andres Romero
  31. 31Luke Donald
  32. 32Shingo Katayama
  33. 33Graeme McDowell
  34. 34Rory Sabbatini
  35. 35Jeev Milkha Singh
  36. 36Aaron Baddeley
  37. 37Stephen Ames
  38. 38Stuart Appleby
  39. 39Rory McIlroy
  40. 40Oliver Wilson
  41. 41Paul Casey
  42. 42Angel Cabrera
  43. 43Richard Sterne
  44. 44Hunter Mahan
  45. 45Retief Goosen
  46. 46Zach Johnson
  47. 47Soren Hansen
  48. 48Boo Weekley
  49. 49Lin Wen-Tang
  50. 50Soren Kjeldsen
  51. 51Kevin Sutherland
  52. 52Prayad Marksaeng
  53. 53Brendan Jones
  54. 54Dudley Hart
  55. 55Peter Hanson
  56. 56Rod Pampling
  57. 57Woody Austin
  58. 58Mathew Goggin
  59. 59Sean O'Hair
  60. 60Ryo Ishikawa
  61. 61Richard Green
  62. 62Carl Pettersson
  63. 63Scott Verplank
  64. 64Brandt Snedeker
  65. 65Chad Campbell
  66. 66Ryuji Imada
  67. 67Freddie Jacobson
  68. 68Charl Schwartzel
  69. 69Azuma Yano
  70. 70Darren Clarke
  71. 71Rocco Mediate
  72. 72James Kingston
  73. 73Alvaro Quiros
  74. 74D.J. Trahan
  75. 75J.B. Holmes
  76. 76Gonzalo Fdez-Castano
  77. 77Hideto Tanihara
  78. 78Nick Dougherty
  79. 79Francesco Molinari
  80. 80Davis Love III
  81. 81Ken Duke
  82. 82Pat Perez
  83. 83Hiroyuki Fujita
  84. 84David Smail
  85. 85Bart Bryant
  86. 86Peter Hedblom
  87. 87Jeff Quinney
  88. 88Shintaro Kai
  89. 89Anders Hansen
  90. 90Gareth Maybin
  91. 91Thongchai Jaidee
  92. 92Billy Mayfair
  93. 93Toru Taniguchi
  94. 94Hennie Otto
  95. 95Nick O'Hern
  96. 96Pablo Larrazábal
  97. 97Alex Noren
  98. 98Paul Goydos
  99. 99Steve Flesch
  100. 100Heath Slocum

Biggest climbers of 2008

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

  1. Kevin Streelman#1375 → #123+1252
  2. Taco Remkes#1376 → #127+1249
  3. Dustin Johnson#1375 → #143+1232
  4. Tano Goya#1375 → #191+1184
  5. Chris Wood#1375 → #194+1181

2008 by tour

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