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The following is a list of golfers who have been top of the Official World Golf Ranking (originally known as the Sony Ranking), since the rankings started on April 6, 1986. As of December 22, 2024, Scottie Scheffler is the number one ranked golfer.
* The available data for 1986 is incomplete and this number may be incorrect. The number given is the player's highest known position. Payne Stewart died on Monday 25 October 1999 at which time he was ranked 8th in the world. He remained on the rankings until 14 November, when he was still ranked 8, at which time he was removed from the rankings.
The initiative for the creation of the Official World Golf Ranking came from the Championship Committee of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews, which found in the 1980s that its system of issuing invitations to The Open Championship on a tour by tour basis was omitting an increasing number of top players because more of them were dividing their time between tours, and from preeminent ...
Hovland's move gives Palm Beach County half of the world's top 10 golfers in the current ranking and 10 of the top 30. Hovland, 26, had lived in Stillwater since arriving at Oklahoma State University.
Pages in category "Golf records and rankings" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total. ... NCAA Division I men's golf tournament all-time ...
A golfer is a person who plays golf. Below is a list of male golfers , professional and amateurs, sorted alphabetically. Category:Lists of golfers contains lists of golfers sorted in several other ways: by nationality , by tour and by type of major championship won ( men's , women's or senior ).
The Masters Tournament has officially teed off, and the greens of Augusta are filled with the world’s top golfers -- and some of the world’s top earners. The 10 highest-paid golfers of 2017 ...
Men's major championship winning golfers Rank Country Golfer Winning span Masters U.S. Open The Open PGA Total 1 United States: Jack Nicklaus * 1962–1986 6 4 3 5 18 2 United States: Tiger Woods * 1997–2019 5 3 3 4 15 3 United States: Walter Hagen: 1914–1929 0 2 4 5 11 4 United States: Ben Hogan * 1946–1953 2 4 1 2 9 4 South Africa: Gary ...