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Who has been number 1 in golf the longest?

Tiger Woods Tiger Woods has spent the most consecutive weeks (281) and most total weeks (683) at the top of the rankings, and Tom Lehman the fewest total weeks, having spent just a single week at the top in April 1997.

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The following is a list of golfers who have been top of the Official World Golf Ranking since the rankings started on April 6, 1986. As of December 18, 2022, Rory McIlroy is the number one ranked golfer. Tiger Woods has spent the most consecutive weeks (281) and most total weeks (683) at the top of the rankings, and Tom Lehman the fewest total weeks, having spent just a single week at the top in April 1997. Three golfers have spent an entire calendar year atop the rankings: Nick Faldo (1993), Greg Norman (1996), and Woods (2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009). Lee Westwood and Luke Donald are the only world number one golfers to have not won a major championship.

Number one ranked men [ edit ]

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.

* Current number one player as of December 18, 2022

Weeks at number one [ edit ]

* Current number one player as of December 18, 2022

Rank Player Weeks Order Majors 1 683 9 15 2 331 3 2 3 135 20 2 4 * 115[a] 16 4 5 97 4 6 6 61 2 5 7 56 15 0 8 51 19 1 9 50 5 1 10 47 23 4 11 44 7 3 12 43 24 1 13 32 12 3 14 30 25 1 15 26 18 3 16 22 13 0 17 16 6 1 18 15 11 1 19 13 22 1 20 11 17 1 21 9 10 4 22 8 14 2 23 5 21 2 24 3 1 2 25 1 8 1 Order – indicates the sequence in which the players first reached number 1. Majors – number of major championships each player has won throughout his golfing career.

Weeks at number one by country [ edit ]

* Country with the current number one player as of December 18, 2022 Rank Country Weeks Order Majors Players Top player First player Latest player 1 United States 958 6 29 9 2 Australia 393 3 4 3 3 England 188 4 7 4 4 Northern Ireland* 115[a] 10 4 1 5 Spain 104 2 6 2 6 Wales 50 5 1 1 7 Zimbabwe 44 7 3 1 8 Fiji 32 9 3 1 9 Germany (including West Germany) 11 1 4 2 10 South Africa 9 8 4 1

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Order – indicates the sequence in which the country first had a number 1 player. Majors – number of major championships the country's world-ranked number 1 players have won throughout their golfing careers. Players – number of players from that country who have been world-ranked number 1. Top player – the player from that country who has spent most weeks as the world-ranked number 1 player. First player – the player from that country who was first to be world-ranked number 1 player, left blank if that country has only one such player. Latest player – the player from that country who was most recently world-ranked number 1 player, left blank if that country has only one such player.

Earlier number ones [ edit ]

Before the start of the Official World Golf Ranking in 1986, unofficial end of year world golf rankings were published by Mark McCormack in his World of Professional Golf annual from 1968 to 1985. McCormack's rankings listed Jack Nicklaus as the number one from 1968 to 1977, Tom Watson from 1978 to 1982 and Seve Ballesteros from 1983 to 1985.

See also [ edit ]

Notes [ edit ]

a b c d The rankings were frozen during the COVID-19 pandemic . Rankings were produced on March 15, 2020 and restarted on June 14, 2020. No rankings were produced for the 12 weeks between these dates and so Rory McIlroy's total weeks at number one do not include these 12 weeks.

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