Who is no1 in golf

These 8 Rolex series, the 4 Major tournaments and the 4 World Championship tournaments in common with the American circuit, allow the European circuit to offer 16 main annual tournaments of world level, and many points. The point award rule is based on the strength of field of each tournament.

The strength of field depends on the high ranked players in the world, playing the tournament. As top-ranked players are attracted by big prize money tournaments in the USA, they gather the best players in the world. Home All time Number One world Golf players list. Of the twenty three, only eight have been Americans, the position also having been held by four Englishmen, three Australians, two Germans, two Spaniards, a Welshman, a Zimbabwean, a South African, a Fijian and a Northern Irishman.

The first three players are also the only ones to have been world number one for a full calendar year: Nick Faldo throughout , Greg Norman throughout , and Tiger Woods throughout , , , , , , and In , Tiger Woods achieved the remarkable feat of holding onto the number one position all year, despite not competing for more than six months after his June 16 playoff victory for the US Open against Rocco Mediate, as he underwent knee surgery and recuperation.

He was still world number one on February 25, , when he resumed tournament golf at the Accenture Match Play Championship. Tiger Woods also holds the record for the highest ever average points total, when he reached Just before that, on May 20, , Tiger Woods had also built the biggest ever lead in the rankings, when his Daisuke Yasumoto. Stephen Gallacher. Adilson da Silva. Jerome Lando Casanova. Ted Potter, Jr. Dawson Armstrong. Haraldur Magnus. Robin Sciot-Siegrist. Braden Thornberry.

Thomas Roseenmoller. Patrick Newcomb. Mateusz Gradecki. Harrison Endycott. Jamie Rutherford. Lorenzo Scalise. Yoshitaka Takeya. Kevin Dougherty. Yuto Katsuragawa.

Taichi Nabetani. Ivan Cantero Gutierrez. Christopher Mivis. Trevor Fisher Jr. Sebastian Petersen. Brandon Harkins. David Lingmerth. Lucas Vacarisas. Grant Hirschman. Settee Prakongvech. Anthony Michael. Scott Harrington. Ulrich Van den Berg. Robert Carlsson. Konosuke Nakazato. John VanDerLaan. Jeppe Kristian Andersen. Michael Gellerman. Lars Van Meijel. Nicolas Echavarria. Stefano Mazzoli. Nicolai Nohr Madsen. Anders Albertson. Patrick Fishburn. Justin De Los Santos. Adam Eineving Am. Jean-Paul Strydom.

Charlie Lindh Am. Peter Baek Launer. Atiruj Winaicharoenc. Taikou Nishiyama. Om Prakash Chouhan. Jean Baptiste Gonnet. Samuel Saunders. Bernard Ritthammer. Tirawat Kaewsiribandt. Martin Eriksson. Christopher Wood. Hiroyuki Fujita. Scott Fernandez. Pedro Figueiredo. Atomu Shigenaga. Timo Vahlenkamp. Hannes Ronneblad. Emilio Cuartero Blanco. Martin Simonsen. Clement Berardo. Nicholas Lindheim. Suradit Yongcharoenchai. Suteepat Prateeptienchai.

Niclas Johansson. Jeonghyeob Hyun. Shunsuke Sonoda. Thanapath Pichaikul. Chandler Blanchet. Mikael Lundberg. Kristoffer Reitan. Kousuke Hamamoto. Brett Stegmaier. Naoto Takayanagi. Edgar Catherine. Yusuke Sakamoto. Rupert Kaminski. Shunya Takeyasu. Benjamin Henry Poke. Niclas Hellberg. Alexandre Rocha. Xavier Poncelet. Matias Calderon. Benedict Staben. Luke Schniederjans. Poosit Supupramai.

Thaworn Wiratchant. Jordi Garcia del Mora. Joseph Harrison. Luca Cianchetti. Giovanni Manzoni. Jack Singh Brar. Koichi Kitamura. Jonathan Randolph.