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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. Bernhard Langer was the first golfer to be ranked world No. 1.
View history; Tools. Tools. ... List of golfers with most Japan Golf Tour wins; List of golfers with most Ladies European Tour wins ... List of world number one male ...
[3] [4] 25 of these have reached number 1 while a further 16 have reached number 2 but never number 1. Tiger Woods was in the top 10 for 906 weeks. He was number 1 for 683 weeks, number 2 for 107 weeks and number 3 for 27 weeks. Phil Mickelson was never number 1 but was number 2 for 270 weeks. The current top-10 are in bold.
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 ...
The McCormack rankings were unofficial world golf rankings published in Mark McCormack's World of Professional Golf Annual from 1968 to 1985, and were a forerunner of the current Official World Golf Ranking. Unlike their replacement they were not used to select fields for tournaments, and served no real purpose other than as a talking point.
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).
World number 1 or world no. 1 refers to the highest world ranking in several competitive sports: List of FIDE chess world number ones, in chess; List of PSA women's number 1 ranked players, women's squash; List of world number one male golfers, in men's golf; List of World Number One female golfers, in women's golf
The men's major golf championships, also known simply as the majors, are the four most prestigious events in professional golf. [1] The competitions are the Masters Tournament , the PGA Championship , the U.S. Open , and The Open Championship , contested annually.