World Amateur Golf Ranking

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The World Amateur Golf Ranking for men was introduced by the R&A, the governing body of amateur golf outside the United States and Mexico, on 23 January 2007. It is based on the results of over 750 amateur tournaments and is updated weekly. Rankings are based on the players' average performances in counting events over a rolling 52 week period.

Like the Official World Golf Ranking for male professional golfers, the amateur ranking was initiated by the R&A to provide a more reliable means of selecting an appropriate field for one of its tournaments. The professional ranking was initially used to help set the field for The Open Championship and the amateur ranking plays a role in selecting the field for The Amateur Championship, which was previously selected mainly on the basis of national handicap systems. Other tournament organisers will be able to use the rankings to select players if they so wish.

The first set of rankings featured over 1,000 players from 46 different countries and was headed by the 2006 U.S. Amateur Champion, Richie Ramsay of Scotland.

In February 2011, the United States Golf Association (USGA) endorsed the rankings and announced it would use them for an exemption category in all their men's amateur championships, including the U.S. Amateur, beginning in 2011.[1]

The women's rankings were also started in February 2011.[2] Mitsuki Katahira was the first number one.[3]

Chronology of Men's World Number Ones

# Player Country First week Last week Weeks Total weeks
1 Richie Ramsay  Scotland 23 Jan 2007 30 Jan 2007 2 2
2 Rory McIlroy  Northern Ireland 6 Feb 2007 6 Feb 2007 1 1
3 Jamie Moul  England 13 Feb 2007 30 May 2007 17 -
4 Jamie Lovemark  United States 6 Jun 2007 6 Jun 2007 1 -
Jamie Moul  England 13 Jun 2007 13 Jun 2007 1 18
Jamie Lovemark  United States 20 Jun 2007 3 Aug 2007 7 8
5 Rickie Fowler  United States 7 Aug 2007 21 Aug 2007 3 -
6 Colt Knost  United States 29 Aug 2007 24 Sep 2007 5 5
Rickie Fowler  United States 5 Oct 2007 27 Feb 2008 22 -
7 Daniel Willett  England 5 Mar 2008 21 May 2008 12 12
Rickie Fowler  United States 28 May 2008 25 Jun 2008 5 -
8 Michael Thompson  United States 2 Jul 2008 2 Jul 2008 1 1
Rickie Fowler  United States 9 Jul 2008 13 Aug 2008 6 36
9 Danny Lee  New Zealand 20 Aug 2008 15 Apr 2009 34 34
10 Scott Arnold  Australia 23 Apr 2009 20 May 2009 5 5
11 Morgan Hoffmann  United States 27 May 2009 10 Jun 2009 2 2
12 Nick Taylor  Canada 17 Jun 2009 28 Oct 2009 20 20
13 Victor Dubuisson  France 4 Nov 2009 23 Dec 2009 8 8
14 Matteo Manassero  Italy 30 Dec 2009 28 Apr 2010 18 18
15 Peter Uihlein  United States 5 May 2010 16 Jun 2010 7 -
16 Jin Jeong  South Korea 23 Jun 2010 30 Jun 2010 2 -
Peter Uihlein  United States 7 Jul 2010 21 Jul 2010 3 -
Jin Jeong  South Korea 28 Jul 2010 11 Aug 2010 3 5
Peter Uihlein  United States 18 Aug 2010 22 Dec 2010 19 -
17 David Chung  United States 29 Dec 2010 5 Jan 2011 2 2
Peter Uihlein  United States 12 Jan 2011 16 Mar 2011 10 -
18 Patrick Cantlay  United States 23 Mar 2011 23 Mar 2011 1 -
Peter Uihlein  United States 30 Mar 2011 1 Jun 2011 10 49
Patrick Cantlay  United States 8 Jun 2011 13 Jun 2012 54 55
19 Jordan Spieth  United States 20 Jun 2012 18 Jul 2012 5 5
20 Chris Williams  United States 25 Jul 2012 25 Jul 2012 1 -
21 Hideki Matsuyama  Japan 1 Aug 2012 1 Aug 2012 1 1
Chris Williams  United States 8 Aug 2012 12 Jun 2013 45 46
22 Brady Watt  Australia 19 Jun 2013 19 Jun 2013 1 1
23 Cheng-tsung Pan  Taiwan 26 Jun 2013 14 Aug 2013 8 8
24 Matthew Fitzpatrick  England 21 Aug 2013 16 Oct 2013 9 -
25 Cory Whitsett  United States 23 Oct 2013 27 Nov 2013 6 6
Matthew Fitzpatrick  England 4 Dec 2013 19 Feb 2014 12 21
26 Patrick Rodgers  United States 26 Feb 2014 11 Jun 2014 16 16
27 Oliver Schniederjans  United States 18 Jun 2014 25 Mar 2015 41 41
28 Jon Rahm  Spain 1 Apr 2015 16 Sep 2015 25 25
29 Maverick McNealy  United States 23 Sep 2015 21 Oct 2015 5 5
Jon Rahm  Spain 28 Oct 2015 6 Jan 2016 11 36

Chronology of Women's World Number Ones

# Player Country First week Last week Weeks Total weeks
1 Mitsuki Katahira  Japan 16 Feb 2011 2 Mar 2011 3 -
2 Cecilia Cho  New Zealand 9 Mar 2011 9 Mar 2011 1 1
Mitsuki Katahira  Japan 16 Mar 2011 20 Apr 2011 6 9
3 Lydia Ko  New Zealand 27 Apr 2011 16 Oct 2013 130 130
4 Su-Hyun Oh  Australia 23 Oct 2013 23 Oct 2013 1 -
5 Alison Lee  United States 30 Oct 2013 20 Nov 2013 4 -
Su-Hyun Oh  Australia 27 Nov 2013 27 Nov 2013 1 2
Alison Lee  United States 4 Dec 2013 19 Feb 2014 12 16
6 Minjee Lee  Australia 26 Feb 2014 3 Sep 2014 28 28
7 Brooke Henderson  Canada 10 Sep 2014 17 Dec 2014 15 15
8 Céline Boutier  France 24 Dec 2014 1 Apr 2015 15 15
9 Andrea Lee  United States 8 Apr 2015 6 May 2015 5 5
10 Leona Maguire  Ireland 13 May 2015 6 Jan 2016 35 35

Elite events

Events are ranked in eight categories: Elite, A, B, C, D, E, F or G. The Elite events are listed below.

Men

Women

References

  1. ↑ R&A, USGA Commence World Amateur Golf Ranking Partnership
  2. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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