List of world number one male golfers

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Tiger Woods with his club behind his head after finishing his swing.
Tiger Woods, the record holder of most weeks spent as world No. 1.

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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 June 29, 2025, Scottie Scheffler is the number one ranked golfer.

The rankings are calculated each week based on finishing positions in individual tournaments (i.e. not pairs or team events) over a "rolling" two-year period with a maximum of 52 tournaments and a minimum divisor of 40 events. During 2018, nearly 400 tournaments on 20 tours were covered by the ranking system. All players competing in these tournaments are included in the rankings. In 2023, 24 tours factored into the world rankings.

A total of 25 golfers from ten countries spanning four continents have been ranked world number one. Five countries; the United States, England, Australia, Spain and Germany have had multiple world number ones. The United States has had nine golfers ranked number one, the most of any country.

Tiger Woods has spent the most consecutive weeks (281) and most total weeks (683) at the top of the rankings, and Tom Lehman the fewest total weeks, having spent just a single week at the top in April 1997. Four golfers have spent one or more entire calendar years atop the rankings: Nick Faldo (1993), Greg Norman (1996), Woods (2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009), and Scheffler (2024). Lee Westwood and Luke Donald are the only world number one golfers to have not won a major championship.

Number one ranked men

Note 1: In the first column, each number signifies the first time that golfer was ranked number one.
Note 2: In the "Cumulative total" column, each boldface number signifies total weeks as of the most recent time that golfer was ranked number one.
Bernard Langer crouched down to analyze a shot.
Bernhard Langer was the first golfer to be ranked world No. 1.
Professional headshot of Greg Norman.
Greg Norman spent the most weeks atop of the world rankings in both the 1980s and 1990s.
Nick Faldo headshot.
Nick Faldo is one of only five players to have held the world No. 1 ranking for an entire calendar year, doing so in 1993.
Vijay Singh walking.
Vijay Singh was the only golfer other than Woods to be ranked world No. 1 in the 2000s.
Duston Johnson just after completing a drive
Dustin Johnson's 135 weeks spent atop the world rankings are the 4th most of all time.
Rory McIlroy looking at his club.
Rory McIlroy was the world No. 1 for 95 weeks in the 2010s, the most of any golfer.
* Current number one player as of June 29, 2025
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Weeks at number one

* Current number one player as of June 29, 2025
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Order – indicates the sequence in which the players first reached number 1.
Majors – number of major championships each player has won throughout his golfing career.

Weeks at number one by country

* Country with the current number one player as of June 29, 2025
Rank Country Weeks Order Majors Players Top player First player Latest player
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Order – indicates the sequence in which the country first had a number 1 player.
Majors – number of major championships the country's world-ranked number 1 players have won throughout their golfing careers.
Players – number of players from that country who have been world-ranked number 1.
Top player – the player from that country who has spent most weeks as the world-ranked number 1 player.
First player – the player from that country who was first to be world-ranked number 1 player, left blank if that country has only one such player.
Latest player – the player from that country who was most recently world-ranked number 1 player, left blank if that country has only one such player.

Earlier number ones

Before the start of the Official World Golf Ranking in 1986, unofficial end of year world golf rankings were published by Mark McCormack in his World of Professional Golf annual from 1968 to 1985. McCormack's rankings listed Jack Nicklaus as the number one from 1968 to 1977, Tom Watson from 1978 to 1982 and Seve Ballesteros from 1983 to 1985.

See also

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