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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.
As of 9 February 2025, 120 players have reached the world top 10 since the rankings started in April 1986. [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.
1 Golfers who have won a major championship or Olympic medal. 2 Golfers with the most wins on a professional golf tour. ... List of world number one male golfers;
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 Official World Golf Ranking, the metric for assessing the world's best players as well as the standard for admission into golf's majors, has announced updates to the way it awards points.The ...
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
Aug. 1—In the early morning hours Sunday, Olympic medals were handed out in men's golf for just the fourth time in the 125-year history of the Summer Games. After a hiatus of more than a century ...
The new inspirational golf movie "The Long Game" is based on a true story and stars Dennis Quaid and Jay Hernandez. Learn all about the film now in theaters. The true story behind the new movie ...