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Rolex Women’s World Golf Ranking

2012 Women’s World Ranking

The women’s world ranking as it finished 2012, published December 30, 2012.

Number one in 2012

  1. Yani TsengJan 1, 2012 – Dec 30, 2012 · 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. Misuzu Narita#624 → #120 · +504
  2. Jodi Ewart Shadoff#521 → #138 · +383
  3. Carly Booth#475 → #141 · +334
  4. Nicole Castrale#463 → #131 · +332
  5. Airi Saitoh#519 → #187 · +332

Year-end top 100

  1. 1Yani Tseng10.79
  2. 2Na Yeon Choi9.26
  3. 3Stacy Lewis8.57
  4. 4In Bee Park8.21
  5. 5Shanshan Feng7.39
  6. 6Suzann Pettersen7.14
  7. 7So Yeon Ryu6.88
  8. 8Ji Yai SHIN6.76
  9. 9Ai Miyazato6.65
  10. 10Mika Miyazato5.90
  11. 11Cristie Kerr5.67
  12. 12Paula Creamer5.38
  13. 13Sunju Ahn5.24
  14. 14Catriona Matthew5.18
  15. 15Amy Yang5.10
  16. 16Azahara Munoz5.07
  17. 17Karrie Webb5.03
  18. 18Brittany Lincicome4.69
  19. 19Angela Stanford4.62
  20. 20Chie Arimura4.61
  21. 21Mi Jeong Jeon4.40
  22. 22I.k. Kim4.37
  23. 23Sun Young Yoo4.16
  24. 24Lexi Thompson4.10
  25. 25Ji Hee Lee3.86
  26. 26Se Ri Pak3.81
  27. 27Anna Nordqvist3.58
  28. 28Ha Neul Kim3.58
  29. 29Brittany Lang3.57
  30. 30Hee Kyung Seo3.15
  31. 31Karine Icher3.11
  32. 32Sandra Gal3.08
  33. 33Sakura Yokomine2.91
  34. 34Bo Mee Lee2.89
  35. 35Miki Saiki2.87
  36. 36Chella Choi2.84
  37. 37Hee Young Park2.68
  38. 38Morgan Pressel2.60
  39. 39Yuri Fudoh2.54
  40. 40Soo-Jin Yang2.53
  41. 41Hyojoo Kim2.52
  42. 42Caroline Hedwall2.50
  43. 43Rikako Morita2.47
  44. 44Lydia Ko2.44
  45. 45Je yoon Yang2.36
  46. 46Mayu Hattori2.32
  47. 47Jenny Shin2.31
  48. 48Haeji Kang2.26
  49. 49Caroline Masson2.20
  50. 50Ritsuko Ryu2.18
  51. 51Yoon Kyung Heo2.17
  52. 52Char Young2 Kim2.17
  53. 53Carlota Ciganda2.16
  54. 54Candie Kung2.01
  55. 55Yukari Baba2.01
  56. 56Eun-Hee Ji1.99
  57. 57Mirim Lee1.94
  58. 58Beatriz Recari1.93
  59. 59Meena Lee1.93
  60. 60Diana Luna1.92
  61. 61Julieta Granada1.91
  62. 62Michelle Wie West1.90
  63. 63Hye-Youn Kim1.90
  64. 64Shiho Oyama1.89
  65. 65Hiromi Mogi1.88
  66. 66MinYoung Lee1.84
  67. 67Bo Bae Song1.83
  68. 68Jung Min Lee1.81
  69. 69Katherine Kirk1.77
  70. 70Melissa Reid1.77
  71. 71Ayako Uehara1.75
  72. 72Pornanong Phatlum1.72
  73. 73Maria McBride1.71
  74. 74Karin Sjodin1.71
  75. 75Momoko Ueda1.70
  76. 76Giulia Sergas1.67
  77. 77Vicky Hurst1.65
  78. 78Jessica Korda1.64
  79. 79Katie Futcher1.61
  80. 80Lindsey Wright1.60
  81. 81Mina Kreiter1.60
  82. 82Ha Na Jang1.60
  83. 83Christel Boeljon1.58
  84. 84Yeon Ju Jung1.55
  85. 85Ilhee Lee1.55
  86. 86Sophie Gustafson1.55
  87. 87Hee-Won Han1.54
  88. 88Yumiko Yoshida1.54
  89. 89Soo-Yun Kang1.51
  90. 90Asako Fujimoto1.51
  91. 91Seul A Yoon1.50
  92. 92Lizette Salas1.49
  93. 93Na Ri Kim1.48
  94. 94Esther Lee1.47
  95. 95Jennifer Johnson1.46
  96. 96Natalie Gulbis1.46
  97. 97Lee-Anne Pace1.45
  98. 98Gerina Piller1.43
  99. 99Yeongran Cho1.42
  100. 100Rui Kitada1.40