List of World Number One male golfers

The list of world number one in the men's golf lists all the leaders of the Official World Golf Rankings on since its launch on April 7, 1986.

The page leads initially to all leaders of the rankings in chronological order. In other tables the world number one will end and the individual players who held the No. 1 position, sorted by the number of weeks at the top of the rankings shown.

A total of 16 players had since the introduction of the rating held the top of the golf world rankings. World Ranking Leader was the German Bernhard Langer, current Executive is the American Tiger Woods, who also records for most No. 1 ranking ended seasons ( 12) and the most weeks at the top of the world rankings, both in absolute terms ( 678 ) and sequentially ( 281) holds.

World number one during the year

Players: Specifies the name of the player. The number in parentheses after the player name indicates, was what number Athlete at the top of world rankings of the players. From: Specifies the date on which the player reached the # 1 position. to: Specifies the date on which the player within each series was the last time leader of the world rankings. Week number: Specifies the number of weeks that the player led the world rankings within each series.

As of April 7, 2014

World number one at the end of the year

Note: The number in parentheses after the player name indicates, was from time to time terminate the number of times the player has a season at the top of world rankings.

Player of the week at the top of world rankings

Players: Specifies the name of the player. The current leader is highlighted in bold. first time on: Specifies the date on which the player for the first time was at the head of the world rankings. Weeks: Specifies the number of weeks that the player was total at the top of world rankings. After this value, the placement in the table depends. Series: Specifies the number of weeks in which continuous state of the player during his longest series at the top of world rankings.

As of April 7, 2014

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