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Rolex Women’s World Golf Ranking

2005 Women’s World Ranking

The women’s world ranking as it finished 2005, published December 25, 2005.

Number one in 2005

  1. Annika SorenstamJan 2, 2005 – Dec 25, 2005 · 52 weeks

Biggest climbers

Players already ranked early in the season who finished inside the top 200 — so this measures a climb, not a mid-year debut.

  1. Tamie Durdin#463 → #100 · +363
  2. Nicole Perrot#408 → #51 · +357
  3. Birdie Kim#395 → #54 · +341
  4. Jimin Kang#362 → #117 · +245
  5. Young Jo#348 → #123 · +225

Year-end top 100

  1. 1Annika Sorenstam20.54
  2. 2Paula Creamer10.85
  3. 3Michelle Wie West10.08
  4. 4Yuri Fudoh8.62
  5. 5Ai Miyazato8.04
  6. 6Cristie Kerr7.69
  7. 7Lorena Ochoa6.50
  8. 8Jeong Jang5.66
  9. 9Hee-Won Han5.03
  10. 10Grace Park4.62
  11. 11Juli Inkster4.46
  12. 12Karrie Webb4.12
  13. 13Sakura Yokomine4.07
  14. 14Kasumi Fujii3.95
  15. 15Catriona Matthew3.93
  16. 16Shiho Oyama3.90
  17. 17Soo-Yun Kang3.78
  18. 18Pat Hurst3.73
  19. 19Rosie Jones3.71
  20. 20Jennifer Rosales3.61
  21. 21Liselotte Neumann3.59
  22. 22Natalie Gulbis3.58
  23. 23Carin Hjalmarsson3.53
  24. 24Candie Kung3.51
  25. 25Mi Hyun Kim3.34
  26. 26Michiko Hattori3.29
  27. 27Michele Redman3.27
  28. 28Meg Mallon3.27
  29. 29Gloria Park3.26
  30. 30Hyun-Ju Shin3.20
  31. 31Akiko Fukushima3.19
  32. 32Christina Kim3.15
  33. 33Midori Yoneyama3.14
  34. 34Wendy Ward3.13
  35. 35Shi Hyun Ahn3.06
  36. 36Heather Bowie Young3.06
  37. 37Junko Omote3.05
  38. 38Shinobu Moromizato3.02
  39. 39Karen Stupples3.00
  40. 40Young Kim2.94
  41. 41Karine Icher2.89
  42. 42Sophie Gustafson2.79
  43. 43Rachel Hetherington2.66
  44. 44Lorie Kane2.64
  45. 45Marisa Baena2.64
  46. 46Hee Young Park2.64
  47. 47Laura Davies2.57
  48. 48Ji Hee Lee2.49
  49. 49Kaori Higo2.48
  50. 50Meena Lee2.46
  51. 51Nicole Perrot2.44
  52. 52Beth Daniel2.42
  53. 53Michie Ohba2.35
  54. 54Birdie Kim2.24
  55. 55Miho Koga2.23
  56. 56Laura Diaz2.21
  57. 57Na Yeon Choi2.18
  58. 58Bo Bae Song2.12
  59. 59Mi Jeong Jeon2.09
  60. 60Stacy Prammanasudh2.08
  61. 61Eun-Hye Lee2.06
  62. 62Wendy Doolan2.06
  63. 63Joo Mi Kim2.06
  64. 64Hiroko Yamaguchi2.02
  65. 65Nikki Campbell1.99
  66. 66Kim Saiki-Maloney1.93
  67. 67Julie Lu1.92
  68. 68Yun-Jye Wei1.89
  69. 69Toshimi Kimura1.84
  70. 70Akane Iijima1.84
  71. 71Hiromi Mogi1.83
  72. 72Leta Lindley1.79
  73. 73Mikiyo Nishizuka1.78
  74. 74Maria McBride1.77
  75. 75Se Ri Pak1.72
  76. 76Jill McGill1.71
  77. 77Chieko Amanuma1.67
  78. 78Iben Tinning1.63
  79. 79Yun-Hee Ku1.57
  80. 80Moira Dunn-Bohls1.56
  81. 81Gwladys Nocera1.55
  82. 82Yuko Saitoh1.55
  83. 83Yukari Baba1.51
  84. 84Ya-Huei Lu1.48
  85. 85Hyun Hee Moon1.48
  86. 86Mitsuko Kawasaki1.47
  87. 87Suzann Pettersen1.47
  88. 88Rui Kitada1.45
  89. 89Aree Song1.44
  90. 90Veronica Zorzi1.39
  91. 91Minea Blomqvist1.36
  92. 92Yun-Joo Jeong1.36
  93. 93Noriko Aso1.35
  94. 94Sherri Steinhauer1.35
  95. 95Janice Moodie1.35
  96. 96Trish Johnson1.35
  97. 97Tina Barrett1.34
  98. 98Woo-Soon Ko1.33
  99. 99Becky Morgan1.32
  100. 100Tamie Durdin1.30