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This is a list of golfers who have appeared in the top 10 of the Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR). The rankings started on 6 April 1986 and are updated each week. 120 golfers have reached the top 10. Tiger Woods holds the record for the most weeks in the world top 10, with 906.
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 January 26, 2025, Scottie Scheffler is the number one ranked golfer.
He has been ranked in the top 10 of the Official World Golf Ranking. Frank Beard: 11 – 1: topped the PGA Tour money list in 1969 Woody Blackburn: 2 – – Bill Britton: 1 – – Mark Calcavecchia: 13 – 4: won the 1989 Open Championship: Chris Couch: 1: 5: n/a: Bubba Dickerson – 1: n/a: won the 2001 U.S. Amateur: Chris DiMarco: 3: 1: n/a ...
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 ...
In the 1970s and 1980s, Watson was one of the leading golfers in the world, winning eight major championships and heading the PGA Tour money list five times. He was the number one player in the world according to McCormack's World Golf Rankings from 1978 until 1982; in both 1983 and 1984, he was ranked second behind Seve Ballesteros.
The first stage in the calculation is the ranking of each event. For most events the ranking depends on the current world rankings of the participating golfers and the participation of the leading golfers from the "home tour". A "world rating value" is calculated. Any golfer currently ranked in the world top 200 is given a rating value.
The following lists of golfers are arranged by gender: List of male golfers; List of female golfers; Golfers who have won a major championship or Olympic medal.
This is a list of all the golfers who have won ten or more official events on the U.S.-based PGA Tour Champions (known as the Senior PGA Tour from 1980–2002 and Champions Tour from 2003–2015), the leading golf tour in the world for men aged 50 and above. The list is up to date as of October 13, 2024.