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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 11, 2024, Scottie Scheffler is the number one ranked golfer.
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 ...
Fred Couples. Frederick Steven Couples (born October 3, 1959) is an American professional golfer who has competed on the PGA Tour and the PGA Tour Champions. A former World No. 1, he has won 64 professional tournaments, most notably the Masters Tournament in 1992, [2] and the Players Championship in 1984 and 1996.
Tom Doak is a golf course architect. He has 6 courses ranked among the top 100 in the world according to the "Top 100 Courses in the World" [ 1] March 2021 list compiled by Golf Magazine. These include Pacific Dunes in Oregon, Ballyneal in Colorado, [ 2] Barnbougle Dunes in Tasmania [ 3] and Cape Kidnappers in New Zealand. Doak lives in Michigan .
Sam Snead won seven majors. Harry Vardon won The Open Championship a record six times, and won one U.S. Open, for a total of seven majors. Nick Faldo won six majors. Phil Mickelson has won six majors. Seve Ballesteros won five majors. James Braid won five majors. John Henry Taylor won five Open Championships.
A player's ranking points for an event must be at least 1.2. Players who would get less than this using the above formula get no ranking points. For example, if an event has a ranking of 10 only the leading 12 players (and ties) receive any ranking points since the player in 12th place gets 12% of the event ranking (i.e. 1.2).
6th: 2004. The Open Championship. T66: 2006. Frederick Funk (born June 14, 1956) is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour Champions. He previously played on the PGA Tour, where he was an eight-time winner. Funk's signature win came at The Players Championship in 2005 when he prevailed in a four-way playoff.
The two-time former NCAA champion in the women’s 100 seemed unbothered by the Paris downpour, her winning margin of 15 hundredths of a second the largest in an Olympic final since 2008.