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Rolex Women’s World Golf Ranking

2006 Women’s World Ranking

The women’s world ranking as it finished 2006, published December 31, 2006.

Number one in 2006

  1. Annika SorenstamJan 1, 2006 – Dec 31, 2006 · 53 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. Nicole Castrale#398 → #69 · +329
  2. Sun Young Yoo#361 → #120 · +241
  3. Jin Joo Hong#242 → #52 · +190
  4. Jae-Hee Bae#268 → #100 · +168
  5. Allison Hanna-Williams#332 → #166 · +166

Year-end top 100

  1. 1Annika Sorenstam14.44
  2. 2Lorena Ochoa11.80
  3. 3Karrie Webb10.65
  4. 4Cristie Kerr8.22
  5. 5Juli Inkster6.88
  6. 6Ai Miyazato6.53
  7. 7Paula Creamer6.24
  8. 8Jeong Jang6.15
  9. 9Shiho Oyama5.84
  10. 10Se Ri Pak5.03
  11. 11Pat Hurst4.99
  12. 12Michelle Wie West4.95
  13. 13Hee-Won Han4.93
  14. 14Mi Hyun Kim4.86
  15. 15Yuri Fudoh4.84
  16. 16Julieta Granada4.10
  17. 17Seon Hwa Lee3.93
  18. 18Akiko Fukushima3.90
  19. 19Sakura Yokomine3.86
  20. 20Natalie Gulbis3.79
  21. 21Jee Young Lee3.74
  22. 22Ji Hee Lee3.68
  23. 23Sherri Steinhauer3.68
  24. 24Sophie Gustafson3.67
  25. 25Morgan Pressel3.55
  26. 26Mi Jeong Jeon3.52
  27. 27Hyun-Ju Shin3.51
  28. 28Brittany Lang3.37
  29. 29Brittany Lincicome2.99
  30. 30Stacy Prammanasudh2.99
  31. 31Miho Koga2.89
  32. 32Meena Lee2.81
  33. 33Ji Yai SHIN2.67
  34. 34Shi Hyun Ahn2.56
  35. 35Shinobu Moromizato2.52
  36. 36Laura Davies2.46
  37. 37Gloria Park2.40
  38. 38Momoko Ueda2.37
  39. 39Joo Mi Kim2.36
  40. 40Young Kim2.34
  41. 41Wendy Ward2.34
  42. 42Yun-Jye Wei2.28
  43. 43Michele Redman2.25
  44. 44Candie Kung2.24
  45. 45Gwladys Nocera2.22
  46. 46Karine Icher2.19
  47. 47Catriona Matthew2.16
  48. 48Liselotte Neumann2.13
  49. 49Mie Nakata2.10
  50. 50Suzann Pettersen2.09
  51. 51Nikki Campbell2.09
  52. 52Jin Joo Hong2.08
  53. 53Heather Bowie Young2.06
  54. 54Kasumi Fujii2.04
  55. 55Akane Iijima2.03
  56. 56Sung-Ah Yim2.02
  57. 57Diana D`Alessio1.99
  58. 58Christina Kim1.99
  59. 59Beth Daniel1.98
  60. 60Michiko Hattori1.97
  61. 61Kaori Higo1.96
  62. 62Marisa Baena1.91
  63. 63Rachel Hetherington1.86
  64. 64Na Yeon Choi1.85
  65. 65Helen Alfredsson1.85
  66. 66Angela Stanford1.83
  67. 67Soo-Yun Kang1.76
  68. 68Hiromi Mogi1.76
  69. 69Nicole Castrale1.73
  70. 70Midori Yoneyama1.72
  71. 71Hee Young Park1.71
  72. 72Lorie Kane1.71
  73. 73Carin Hjalmarsson1.68
  74. 74Chieko Amanuma1.67
  75. 75Junko Omote1.66
  76. 76Laura Diaz1.66
  77. 77Mikiyo Nishizuka1.65
  78. 78Maria McBride1.64
  79. 79Michie Ohba1.62
  80. 80Karen Stupples1.61
  81. 81Ilmi Chung1.58
  82. 82Kim Saiki-Maloney1.46
  83. 83Hyun Hee Moon1.45
  84. 84Aree Song1.43
  85. 85Hiroko Yamaguchi1.40
  86. 86Na-Rr Lee1.40
  87. 87Nicole Perrot1.38
  88. 88Patricia Meunier-Lebouc1.37
  89. 89Yuko Saitoh1.35
  90. 90Kyeongeun Bae1.33
  91. 91Bo Bae Song1.32
  92. 92Veronica Zorzi1.30
  93. 93Saiki Fujita1.29
  94. 94Lindsey Wright1.29
  95. 95Jennifer Rosales1.28
  96. 96Reilley Rankin1.27
  97. 97Yukari Baba1.26
  98. 98Ya-Huei Lu1.24
  99. 99Rosie Jones1.24
  100. 100Jae-Hee Bae1.21