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Rolex Women’s World Golf Ranking

2008 Women’s World Ranking

The women’s world ranking as it finished 2008, published December 28, 2008.

Number one in 2008

  1. Lorena OchoaJan 6, 2008 – Dec 28, 2008 · 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. Sandra Gal#693 → #124 · +569
  2. Shanshan Feng#533 → #48 · +485
  3. Ah-Reum Hwang#625 → #151 · +474
  4. Yuki Ichinose#631 → #168 · +463
  5. Russy Gulyanamitta#592 → #146 · +446

Year-end top 100

  1. 1Lorena Ochoa15.64
  2. 2Yani Tseng9.31
  3. 3Annika Sorenstam8.90
  4. 4Paula Creamer7.93
  5. 5Suzann Pettersen7.55
  6. 6Ji Yai SHIN7.09
  7. 7Cristie Kerr5.84
  8. 8Helen Alfredsson5.73
  9. 9Angela Stanford5.27
  10. 10Karrie Webb4.87
  11. 11Seon Hwa Lee4.56
  12. 12Yuri Fudoh4.42
  13. 13Jeong Jang4.26
  14. 14Momoko Ueda4.06
  15. 15Jee Young Lee4.06
  16. 16Maria McBride4.03
  17. 17Eun-Hee Ji4.01
  18. 18Hee-Won Han3.94
  19. 19Morgan Pressel3.81
  20. 20Karen Stupples3.67
  21. 21In Bee Park3.59
  22. 22Laura Diaz3.54
  23. 23Angela Park3.53
  24. 24Candie Kung3.48
  25. 25I.k. Kim3.45
  26. 26Juli Inkster3.35
  27. 27Na Yeon Choi3.33
  28. 28Sakura Yokomine3.32
  29. 29Katherine Kirk3.28
  30. 30Mi Hyun Kim3.16
  31. 31Se Ri Pak3.04
  32. 32Nicole Castrale2.94
  33. 33Sophie Gustafson2.90
  34. 34Song-Hee Kim2.78
  35. 35Miho Koga2.77
  36. 36Ai Miyazato2.68
  37. 37Stacy Prammanasudh2.65
  38. 38Catriona Matthew2.64
  39. 39Christina Kim2.60
  40. 40Mi Jeong Jeon2.56
  41. 41Shiho Oyama2.55
  42. 42Natalie Gulbis2.51
  43. 43Ji Hee Lee2.50
  44. 44Akiko Fukushima2.45
  45. 45Shi Hyun Ahn2.42
  46. 46Brittany Lang2.41
  47. 47Jane Park2.27
  48. 48Shanshan Feng2.13
  49. 49Yuko Mitsuka2.10
  50. 50Hyun-Ju Shin2.09
  51. 51Eun-A Lim1.99
  52. 52Lindsey Wright1.99
  53. 53Ji-Young Oh1.91
  54. 54Sun Young Yoo1.91
  55. 55Shinobu Moromizato1.90
  56. 56Mayu Hattori1.85
  57. 57Meena Lee1.85
  58. 58Miki Saiki1.85
  59. 59Hee Young Park1.84
  60. 60Bo Bae Song1.83
  61. 61Teresa Lu1.78
  62. 62Na Zhang1.72
  63. 63Sunju Ahn1.71
  64. 64Brittany Lincicome1.65
  65. 65Erina Hara1.60
  66. 66Minea Blomqvist1.60
  67. 67Young Kim1.59
  68. 68Laura Davies1.58
  69. 69Giulia Sergas1.53
  70. 70Kristy McPherson1.43
  71. 71Jung Yeon Lee1.42
  72. 72Louise Friberg1.42
  73. 73Stacy Lewis1.41
  74. 74Sherri Steinhauer1.39
  75. 75Hiromi Mogi1.38
  76. 76Michele Redman1.38
  77. 77Akane Iijima1.38
  78. 78Ayako Uehara1.30
  79. 79Jimin Kang1.30
  80. 80Leta Lindley1.30
  81. 81Pat Hurst1.29
  82. 82Midori Yoneyama1.28
  83. 83Allison Duncan1.28
  84. 84Chie Arimura1.25
  85. 85Jin Joo Hong1.23
  86. 86Reilley Rankin1.21
  87. 87Amy Yang1.21
  88. 88Maiko Wakabayashi1.21
  89. 89Rachel Hetherington1.19
  90. 90Wendy Ward1.17
  91. 91Carin Hjalmarsson1.14
  92. 92Meaghan Francella1.10
  93. 93Hye Jung Choi1.08
  94. 94Yukari Baba1.07
  95. 95Esther Lee1.05
  96. 96Saiki Fujita1.03
  97. 97Linda Wessberg1.01
  98. 98Ji-Woo Lee1.00
  99. 99Rui Kitada0.99
  100. 100Yun-Jye Wei0.98