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The Official World Golf Ranking is a system for rating the performance level of professional golfers. It was started in 1986. The rankings are based on a player's position in individual tournaments (i.e. not pairs or team events) over a "rolling" two-year period. New rankings are calculated each week.
Scottie Scheffler. Scott Alexander Scheffler (born June 21, 1996) [ 1] is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour. He is currently ranked world number one in the Official World Golf Ranking, and has held that position for over 100 weeks. [ 3] He has won two major championships, both the 2022 and 2024 Masters Tournament .
List of world number one male golfers. Tiger Woods, the record holder of most weeks spent as world No. 1. 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 August 18, 2024, Scottie Scheffler is the number one ranked ...
Jack Nicklaus, holding a record of six Masters victories in 1963, 1965, 1966, 1972, 1975, and 1986, is one of three golfers to successfully defend his title. He is also one of five champions to win wire-to-wire, in 1972. The Masters Tournament is a golf competition that was established in 1934, with Horton Smith winning the inaugural tournament ...
The rankings started on 6 April 1986 and are updated each week. 114 golfers have reached the top 10. Tiger Woods holds the record for the most weeks in the world top 10, with 906. He is followed by Ernie Els with 788 weeks and Phil Mickelson with 775 weeks. Woods had a record run of 736 consecutive weeks in the top 10 from 13 April 1997 to 15 ...
The 2024 Masters Tournament was the 88th edition of the Masters Tournament and the first of the men's four major golf championships held in 2024. The tournament was played from April 11–14 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia, United States. Scottie Scheffler won his second Masters and major, four strokes ahead of runner-up ...
Byron Nelson Award. 2014–15, 2016–17. Vardon Trophy. 2015, 2017. Jordan Alexander Spieth ( / ˈspiːθ /; born July 27, 1993) is an American professional golfer on the PGA Tour and former world number one in the Official World Golf Ranking. He is a three-time major winner and the 2015 FedEx Cup champion.
The Masters has the smallest field of the major championships, with 85–100 players. Unlike other majors, there are no alternates or qualifying tournaments. It is an invitational event, with invitations largely issued on an automatic basis to players who meet published criteria. The top 50 players in the Official World Golf Ranking are all ...