world rankings

Oosthuizen rejects invite to PGA Championship

Oosthuizen rejects invite to PGA Championship

Louis Oosthuizen has declined a special invitation to the 106th PGA Championship due to an undisclosed personal commitment, leaving the number of LIV Golf players in next week's field at 16. 8 May 2024
Green topples Minjee as top-ranked Aussie golfer

Green topples Minjee as top-ranked Aussie golfer

Hannah Green has displaced Minjee Lee as Australia’s top-ranked female player and jumped into the top-10 in the world for the first time. 30 Apr 2024
Professional golf suddenly has two dominant forces

Professional golf suddenly has two dominant forces

Golf went a decade without being able to identify a dominant player. And then within the last month, the sport suddenly has two of them. 24 Apr 2024
Hideki surges back into world top-20

Hideki surges back into world top-20

Hideki Matsuyama picked up even more than $US4 million ($A6.1 million), 700 FedExCup points and the record for most PGA Tour wins by an Asian-born player at the Genesis Invitational. 20 Feb 2024
Masters expecting smaller field in 2024

Masters expecting smaller field in 2024

The exclusive field at Augusta National is shaping up to be even smaller than usual for the 2024 Masters. 20 Dec 2023
Tiger climbs 430 spots in under-fire world rankings

Tiger climbs 430 spots in under-fire world rankings

In what is sure to further rankle LIV Golf players, Tiger Woods has vaulted 430 spots in the Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR) after finishing 18th out of 20 players in his invitational Hero World Challenge. 5 Dec 2023
Cam determined for another Olympic berth

Cam determined for another Olympic berth

Marc Leishman believes the rules should be changed to allow a golfing "rockstar" to feature at the Paris Olympics, but Cameron Smith is backing himself to earn selection regardless. 21 Nov 2023
Minjee Lee back in World top-10

Minjee Lee back in World top-10

Minjee Lee's drought-busting LPGA triumph in Cincinnati has thrust her back where she belongs – among the top-10 elite of women's golf. 12 Sep 2023
DeChambeau: World rankings are 'almost obsolete'

DeChambeau: World rankings are 'almost obsolete'

The results of the LIV Golf Adelaide event have highlighted why some golfers are calling for changes to the Official World Golf Ranking system. 27 Apr 2023
Scheffler enjoying World No.1 scrap with Rahm, McIlroy

Scheffler enjoying World No.1 scrap with Rahm, McIlroy

Scottie Scheffler is enjoying the almost-weekly battle with Jon Rahm and Rory McIlroy to be World No.1, even if he still trails the pair in terms of career victories. 9 Mar 2023
Day on the verge of Masters return after another top-10

Day on the verge of Masters return after another top-10

Former runner-up Jason Day has all but punched his ticket to the Masters following a fourth straight top-10 finish on the PGA Tour. 6 Mar 2023
Red-hot Rahm questions world rankings

Red-hot Rahm questions world rankings

Jon Rahm believes he is currently the "best player in the world" after a red-hot streak of three wins in five starts and has questioned the methodology of calculating the golf rankings, where he is ranked No.5. 10 Jan 2023
Winner’s Bag: Rory McIlroy – The CJ Cup

Winner’s Bag: Rory McIlroy – The CJ Cup

Rory McIlroy defended his CJ Cup crown at a different course to claim a 23rd PGA Tour win and return to the top spot on the world rankings. Here is what he had in the bag. 24 Oct 2022
LIV Golf in strategic rankings link with MENA Tour

LIV Golf in strategic rankings link with MENA Tour

LIV Golf's latest bid to get world ranking points is to align itself with a little-known Tour that offers small purses and hasn't held a tournament since early in the COVID-19 pandemic. 6 Oct 2022
'Golf is ripping itself apart': McIlroy

'Golf is ripping itself apart': McIlroy

Rory McIlroy finds himself in a field that includes several LIV Golf players at this week's Alfred Dunhill Links Championship in St Andrews, and once again he didn't hesitate to express his thoughts on the Saudi-backed circuit. 29 Sep 2022
Cam calls for rankings resolution

Cam calls for rankings resolution

Australia's Cameron Smith, who claimed his maiden LIV Golf victory on Sunday, said a decision on whether he and other competitors on the Saudi Arabia-backed series will receive world rankings points needs to be made soon. 19 Sep 2022
Morikawa falters as Hovland snares Tiger's trophy

Morikawa falters as Hovland snares Tiger's trophy

Viktor Hovland has emerged victorious after an extraordinary final round of the Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas – with Collin Morikawa squandering a five-shot lead and the chance to become World No.1. 6 Dec 2021
Kiawah’s Ocean Course once again the focus of the golf world

Kiawah’s Ocean Course once again the focus of the golf world

The Ocean Course at Kiawah Island Golf Resort, South Carolina, which has made history time and time again since opening 30 years ago, will welcome the strongest field of the year in men’s golf, May 20-23, for the 103rd PGA Championship. 18 May 2021
Justin Rose to make 2019 debut as World No.1

Justin Rose to make 2019 debut as World No.1

The timing couldn't be better for Justin Rose, or for the Desert Classic. 17 Jan 2019