Did Scottie Scheffler reclaim the World No. 1 spot from Jon Rahm? Full OWGR rankings after the PGA Championship 2023 explored

Scottie Scheffler topped the Officials World Golf Rankings after finishing second at the 2023 PGA Championship. He finished two strokes behind the leader Brooks Koepka.

The American golfer reclaimed the top position in the world rankings with an average score of 10.9672. Jon Rahm slipped down to second position in OWGR followed by Rory McIlroy.

Scottie Scheffler got 7-under for the week but missed an opportunity to win the major tournament. However, he clinched the top position in the world rankings.

In an interview with the media, Scheffler spoke about the ranking algorithm and said:

“That's great. I mean, it's just an algorithm. It's nice, but I really don't care.”

Scheffler opened up about his performance and said:

“I played solid golf most of the week. In order to win these tournaments, the putts have to fall in to win the tournaments. I hit a lot of good putts this week. They didn't fall, but I put up a good fight. I played great today."

"I gave the guys on top of the leaderboard something to think about, and I kind of made a little bit of a move, but Brooks just played some fantastic golf this week. He played too good this weekend for me to catch up to him.”

Scottie Scheffler went on to speak about his world ranking and said:

“I don't play for world ranking. I play to come out here and compete. Right now I'm a little sad that I wasn't able to get the tournament done, but I'm proud of how I fought, I'm proud of how I played the back nine today to give myself a chance. I got beat by somebody that played better this week, and tip of the cap to Brooks. Yeah, it's just how it goes.”

Jon Rahm is just a few points behind Scottie Scheffler and can reclaim the top rankings as the third major of the year is around the corner.

Full OWGR rankings

Here are the Official World Golf Rankings:

1. Scottie Scheffler
2. Jon Rahm
3. Rory McIlroy
4. Patrick Cantlay
5. Xander Schauffele
6. Viktor Hovland
7. Max Homa
8. Cameron Smith
9. Matt Fitzpatrick
10. Will Zalatoris
11. Jordan Spieth
12. Tony Finau
13. Brooks Koepka
14. Sam Burns
15. Justin Thomas
16. Cameron Young
17. Collin Morikawa
18. Tyrell Hatton
19. Sungjae Im
20. Kurt Kitayama
21. Tom Kim
22. Jason Day
23. Tommy Fleetwood
24. Keegan Bradley
25. Hideki Matsuyama
26. Shane Lowry
27. Sahith Theegala
28. Corey Conners
29. Justin Rose
30. Joaquin Niermann
31. Russell Henley
32. Tom Hoge
33. Wyndham Clark
34. Sepp Straka
35. Bill Horschel
36. Chris Kirk
37. Brian Harman
38. Si Woo Kim
39. Harris English
40. Adam Scott
41. Ryan Fox
42. Seamus Power
43. Kyoung Hoon Lee
44. Patrick Reed
45. Taylor Moore
46. Abraham Ancer
47. Adrian Meronk
48. Lucas Herbert
49. Cameron Davis
50. Guillermo Mito Pereira
51. Matt Kuchar
52. Rickie Fowler
53. Thomas Pieters
54. Denny McCarthy
55. Keith Mitchell
56. J.T.Poston
57. Aaron Wise
58. Adam Svensson
59. Victor Perez
60. Alex Noren