This golf quiz is a chance to test your knowledge on men's World No.1s.
When Scottie Scheffler went to the top of the Official World Golf Rankings (OWGR) for the first time, on March 27, 2022, he became the 25th different man to be ranked World No. 1 since the first rankings were drawn up on April 6, 1986. (We have a quiz on that first-ever OWGR if you fancy wracking your brains about that bit of golfing history.)
That first OWGR came out the week before The Masters and the man behind devising the system of rankings, Tony Greer, remembers that this particular set of rankings “landed like a lead balloon" in the US because the top three players on it were Europeans.
However the R&A adopted it for qualification for that year’s Open Championship, with the top 40 players on the Official Golf World Rankings gaining exemption for that year’s Open Championship.
What the R&A started, others then copied and other Majors also gave exemptions based on the world rankings. They were also used to draw up the fields for the World Golf Championships.
Two men have been World No 1, including one who spent 56 weeks in the top spot, without ever winning a Major in their career. The most number of weeks in total that a player has spent as World No. 1 is 683; the fewest is a single week.
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