List of World Number One male golfers
Number one ranked men

List of World Number One male golfers

Section Title: Number one ranked men
Table Section Text: None

#	Country	Player	Start date	End date	Number of weeks	Cumulative total weeks	Ref.

1	FRG	Bernhard Langer	April 6, 1986	April 26, 1986	3	3

2	ESP	Seve Ballesteros	April 27, 1986	September 13, 1986	20	20

3	AUS	Greg Norman	September 14, 1986	November 21, 1987	62	62

ESP	Seve Ballesteros (2)	November 22, 1987	November 28, 1987	1	21

AUS	Greg Norman (2)	November 29, 1987	October 29, 1988	48	110

ESP	Seve Ballesteros (3)	October 30, 1988	November 5, 1988	1	22

AUS	Greg Norman (3)	November 6, 1988	November 12, 1988	1	111

ESP	Seve Ballesteros (4)	November 13, 1988	March 25, 1989	19	41

AUS	Greg Norman (4)	March 26, 1989	April 1, 1989	1	112

ESP	Seve Ballesteros (5)	April 2, 1989	August 19, 1989	20	61

AUS	Greg Norman (5)	August 20, 1989	September 1, 1990	54	166

4	ENG	Nick Faldo	September 2, 1990	October 13, 1990	6	6

AUS	Greg Norman (6)	October 14, 1990	February 2, 1991	16	182

ENG	Nick Faldo (2)	February 3, 1991	April 6, 1991	9	15

5	WAL	Ian Woosnam	April 7, 1991	March 21, 1992	50	50

6	USA	Fred Couples	March 22, 1992	March 28, 1992	1	1

ENG	Nick Faldo (3)	March 29, 1992	April 4, 1992	1	16

USA	Fred Couples (2)	April 5, 1992	July 18, 1992	15	16

ENG	Nick Faldo (4)	July 19, 1992	February 5, 1994	81	97

AUS	Greg Norman (7)	February 6, 1994	August 13, 1994	27	209

7	ZIM	Nick Price	August 14, 1994	June 17, 1995	44	44

AUS	Greg Norman (8)	June 18, 1995	April 19, 1997	96	305

8	USA	Tom Lehman	April 20, 1997	April 26, 1997	1	1

AUS	Greg Norman (9)	April 27, 1997	June 14, 1997	7	312

9	USA	Tiger Woods	June 15, 1997	June 21, 1997	1	1

10	ZAF	Ernie Els	June 22, 1997	June 28, 1997	1	1

AUS	Greg Norman (10)	June 29, 1997	July 5, 1997	1	313

USA	Tiger Woods (2)	July 6, 1997	September 6, 1997	9	10

AUS	Greg Norman (11)	September 7, 1997	January 10, 1998	18	331

USA	Tiger Woods (3)	January 11, 1998	April 11, 1998	13	23

ZAF	Ernie Els (2)	April 12, 1998	May 9, 1998	4	5

USA	Tiger Woods (4)	May 10, 1998	May 16, 1998	1	24

ZAF	Ernie Els (3)	May 17, 1998	June 13, 1998	4	9

USA	Tiger Woods (5)	June 14, 1998	March 27, 1999	41	65

11	USA	David Duval	March 28, 1999	July 3, 1999	14	14

USA	Tiger Woods (6)	July 4, 1999	August 7, 1999	5	70

USA	David Duval (2)	August 8, 1999	August 14, 1999	1	15

USA	Tiger Woods (7)	August 15, 1999	September 4, 2004	264	334

12	FJI	Vijay Singh	September 5, 2004	March 5, 2005	26	26

USA	Tiger Woods (8)	March 6, 2005	March 19, 2005	2	336

FJI	Vijay Singh (2)	March 20, 2005	April 9, 2005	3	29

USA	Tiger Woods (9)	April 10, 2005	May 21, 2005	6	342

FJI	Vijay Singh (3)	May 22, 2005	June 11, 2005	3	32

USA	Tiger Woods (10)	June 12, 2005	October 30, 2010	281 (record)	623

13	ENG	Lee Westwood	October 31, 2010	February 26, 2011	17	17

14	DEU	Martin Kaymer	February 27, 2011	April 23, 2011	8	8

ENG	Lee Westwood (2)	April 24, 2011	May 28, 2011	5	22

15	ENG	Luke Donald	May 29, 2011	March 3, 2012	40	40

16	NIR	Rory McIlroy	March 4, 2012	March 17, 2012	2	2

ENG	Luke Donald (2)	March 18, 2012	April 14, 2012	4	44

NIR	Rory McIlroy (2)	April 15, 2012	April 28, 2012	2	4

ENG	Luke Donald (3)	April 29, 2012	May 5, 2012	1	45

NIR	Rory McIlroy (3)	May 6, 2012	May 26, 2012	3	7

ENG	Luke Donald (4)	May 27, 2012	August 11, 2012	11	56

NIR	Rory McIlroy (4)	August 12, 2012	March 24, 2013	32	39

USA	Tiger Woods (11)	March 25, 2013	May 17, 2014	60	683 (record)

17	AUS	Adam Scott	May 18, 2014	August 2, 2014	11	11

NIR	Rory McIlroy (5)	August 3, 2014	August 15, 2015	54	93

18	USA	Jordan Spieth	August 16, 2015	August 29, 2015	2	2

NIR	Rory McIlroy (6)	August 30, 2015	September 5, 2015	1	94

USA	Jordan Spieth (2)	September 6, 2015	September 12, 2015	1	3

NIR	Rory McIlroy (7)	September 13, 2015	September 19, 2015	1	95

19	AUS	Jason Day	September 20, 2015	September 26, 2015	1	1

USA	Jordan Spieth (3)	September 27, 2015	October 17, 2015	3	6

AUS	Jason Day (2)	October 18, 2015	November 7, 2015	3	4

USA	Jordan Spieth (4)	November 8, 2015	March 26, 2016	20	26

AUS	Jason Day (3)	March 27, 2016	February 18, 2017	47	51

20	USA	Dustin Johnson	February 19, 2017	May 12, 2018	64	64

21	USA	Justin Thomas	May 13, 2018	June 9, 2018	4	4

USA	Dustin Johnson (2)	June 10, 2018	September 9, 2018	13	77

22	ENG	Justin Rose	September 10, 2018	September 22, 2018	2	2

USA	Dustin Johnson (3)	September 23, 2018	October 20, 2018	4	81

23	USA	Brooks Koepka	October 21, 2018	November 3, 2018	2	2

ENG	Justin Rose (2)	November 4, 2018	November 10, 2018	1	3

USA	Brooks Koepka (2)	November 11, 2018	November 17, 2018	1	3

ENG	Justin Rose (3)	November 18, 2018	November 24, 2018	1	4

USA	Brooks Koepka (3)	November 25, 2018	January 5, 2019	6	9

ENG	Justin Rose (4)	January 6, 2019	March 2, 2019	8	12

USA	Dustin Johnson (4)	March 3, 2019	April 6, 2019	5	86

ENG	Justin Rose (5)	April 7, 2019	April 13, 2019	1	13

USA	Dustin Johnson (5)*	April 14, 2019	Present	3	89

Sentence(s)

Jason Day is a World Number 1 in the World Golf Ranking, achieved the ranking in September 2015.

final_sentence: Jason Day is a World Number 1 in the World Golf Ranking, achieved the ranking in September 2015.