SI World Golf Rankings: Scottie Scheffler Reclaims No. 1

Scottie Scheffler surged past Jon Rahm to take over No. 1 in the SIWGR. See who else made big moves up and down our list.

Jeff Ritter | Mar 13, 2023

SI World Golf Rankings: Scottie Scheffler Reclaims No. 1 /

Scottie Scheffler is man on fire, and he’s returned to the No. 1 spot in the March 13 edition of the SI Golf World Rankings.

After cruising to a five-shot win at the Players Championship on Sunday, Scheffler boasts six PGA Tour titles since his breakthrough victory at the 2022 Phoenix Open. The list:

2022 Phoenix Open
2022 Bay Hill Invitational
2022 Match Play
2022 Masters
2023 Phoenix Open
2023 Players Championship

An eye-popping lineup. Scheffler's win at Sawgrass coupled with Jon Rahm's WD pushed him even farther ahead on our list, which uses the last 12 months of player results in the calculations. (Learn more about our method here.)

Scheffler's move from No. 2 to No. 1 isn’t the largest jump on our list this week but it’s the most significant. Here’s full rundown of notable moves in the new SIWGR.

Three Risers in the New SI World Golf Rankings

Scottie Scheffler

This Week: 1
Last Week: 2
Skinny: Won the Players Championship and surged into the top spot as Jon Rahm withdrew from the event with an illness.

Tyrrell Hatton

This Week: 13
Last Week: 25
Skinny: A solo second at the most loaded field of the year is an effective way to make a big move in the SIWGR.

Viktor Hovland

This Week: 18
Last Week: 31
Skinny: Was due for a good week and a T3 at Sawgrass was a great time for it.

Three Fallers in New SI World Golf Rankings

Anirban Lahiri

Last Week: 37
This Week: 89
Skinny: There was no LIV event last week, so most players on that tour felt the effects. Lahiri finished runner-up at last year’s Players and did not enter this year as he’s now part of LIV Golf. His points from that 2022 runner-up finish also just fell off our rankings calculations, as SIWGR only uses the most recent 12 months of finishes, resulting in his pronounced fall in our ranking.

Harold Varner III

Last Week: 63
This Week: 82
Skinny: Like Lahiri, Varner is now on LIV and just lost his own T6 result from last year’s Players from his calculation.

Kevin Kisner

Last Week: 50
This Week: 68
Skinny: Tied for fourth at last year’s Players, which just fell off his list of points earned toward our calculations. Made the cut this year at Sawgrass but finished 75th.

Published Mar 13, 2023

JEFF RITTER

Jeff Ritter is the managing director of SI Golf. He has more than 20 years of sports media experience, and previously was the general manager at the Morning Read, where he led that business's growth and joined SI as part of an acquisition in 2022. Earlier in his career he spent more than a decade at SI and Golf Magazine, and his journalism awards include a MIN Magazine Award and an Edward R. Murrow Award for sports reporting. He received a bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan and a master's from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.