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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 February 16, 2025, Scottie Scheffler is the number one ranked golfer.
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 OWGR also introduced a reward for multiple wins in a 52-week period. Players who win more than one tournament within a year will get a 60-percent points bonus for their second win and 70 ...
Dustin Hunter Johnson (born June 22, 1984) is an American professional golfer.He has won two major championships, the 2016 U.S. Open at Oakmont Country Club with a 4-under-par score of 276 and the 2020 Masters Tournament with a record score of 268, 20-under-par.
[8] [9] He had two more top-ten finishes on the PGA Tour later in the year, with a 5th place at the Wyndham Championship and another runner-up finish at the RSM Classic, which put him inside the top-100 of the Official World Golf Ranking. [10] At the end of the year, he was awarded the Mark H. McCormack Medal as the world's top amateur golfer. [11]
The Masters, for example, invites the top-50 players in the OWGR to play at Augusta National if they haven’t qualified a different way. LIV Golf players don’t receive world ranking points for ...
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 ...