Golf Rankings

Official World Golf Ranking

Ranking archive

Every season since the ranking began in April 1986. Pick a year for its final published top 100, or follow the world number one week by week across four decades.

  1. 2026Scottie Scheffler
  2. 2025Scottie Scheffler
  3. 2024Scottie Scheffler
  4. 2023Scottie Scheffler
  5. 2022Rory McIlroy
  6. 2021Jon Rahm
  7. 2020Dustin Johnson
  8. 2019Brooks Koepka
  9. 2018Brooks Koepka
  10. 2017Dustin Johnson
  11. 2016Jason Day
  12. 2015Jordan Spieth
  13. 2014Rory McIlroy
  14. 2013Tiger Woods
  15. 2012Rory McIlroy
  16. 2011Luke Donald
  17. 2010Lee Westwood
  18. 2009Tiger Woods
  19. 2008Tiger Woods
  20. 2007Tiger Woods
  21. 2006Tiger Woods
  22. 2005Tiger Woods
  23. 2004Vijay Singh
  24. 2003Tiger Woods
  25. 2002Tiger Woods
  26. 2001Tiger Woods
  27. 2000Tiger Woods
  28. 1999Tiger Woods
  29. 1998Tiger Woods
  30. 1997Greg Norman
  31. 1996Greg Norman
  32. 1995Greg Norman
  33. 1994Nick Price
  34. 1993Nick Faldo
  35. 1992Nick Faldo
  36. 1991Ian Woosnam
  37. 1990Greg Norman
  38. 1989Greg Norman
  39. 1988Seve Ballesteros
  40. 1987Greg Norman · no. 1 only
  41. 1986Greg Norman · no. 1 only

Full ranking tables begin with the week ending 25 December 1988. For 1986–1987 the ranking’s own records hold only the world number one.

By tour

The world ranking is a single global list. These pages show it filtered to the players who earned ranking points on each tour that season.