The biggest OWGR ranking falls in 2025, with two main winners falling to the top 200
We’ve seen the usual reshuffle in the world rankings in 2025, with a lot of moves in both directions.
It was a great year for Big Risers JJ Spaun, Harris English and Sepp Straka, but some of the leading names crashed.
Here we look at seven players who have done serious diving in Owgr:
1. Adam Scott – 29 attractions drop
- Current ranking: 47
- Ranking at the end of 2024: 18
Australia had a real chance to win the U.S. Open after the final round of the second place, but fell to twelfth after 79 finishes.
Oakmont’s twelfth place was his best in four top 20 top 20 meager statistics, while Scott risked his first top 50 since February 2018.
2. SahithTheegala – 45 drops
- Current ranking: 58
- Ranking at the end of 2024: 13
Theegala just started a year outside the top 10 and hopes to break into it in the early game. But popular Californians can never move on, and it turned into a tragic year.
Theegala has not yet finished the top ten, and his best result is at No. 17 in the Genesis Invitational in February. He failed to make the FedEx Cup playoffs after missing layoffs in the last four regular season games due to a neck injury.
3. Jon Rahm – 50 drops
- Current ranking: 75
- Ranking at the end of 2024: 25
LIV players won’t get world ranking points from their departure tour (the match is only 54 holes), so their position on the OWGR depends on the Grand Slam performance, or for some to participate in the DP World Tour event.
Ram has been able to improve his ranking with the major’s outstanding performance before, but despite being excellent in it in 2025 (14-8-7-34), the lack of a very important finish line, coupled with the missed layoffs at the Dubai Desert Classic meant he fell 50 lists in the world.
4. Tom Kim – 55 drops
- Current ranking: 76
- Ranking at the end of 2024: twenty one
Kim broke into the golf course and in 202, 2, he became the player who won two victories before he was 21 since Tiger Woods in 1996. The Koreans added their third win in 2023 and ranked 11th in the world rankings.
He is ranked 21st from 2025 and hopes to make it to the top ten. But King has suffered a memorable year, missing the playoffs in his only top ten in February.
5. MaxHoma – 76 drops
- Current ranking: 117
- Ranking at the end of 2024: 41
Once you reach 5th place in the world rankings, you have to keep scrolling to find HOMA. Finally, he popped up the top 100.
His slideshow began in the second half of 2024, and despite the equipment’s replacement and many other changes, the struggle continues in 2025.
HOMA’s only top ten this year is fifth place in the John Deere Classic in July.
6. Cameron Smith – 143 drops
- Current ranking: 222
- Ranking at the end of 2024: 79
Smith finished second in the world rankings when he won the 2022 Open in St Andrews in a surprising way. But those owgr scores have dropped and after moving to Liv he has hardly received any backfire.
Australia’s only chance to accumulate points in 2025 is in four majors, but he missed the cuts for everyone.
The result is: the rankings swept over a huge crash, and you won’t even find him in the top 200.
7. BrooksKoepka – 206 attractions drop
- Current ranking: 296
- Ranking at the end of 2024: 90
Koepka is a former world number one, winning the latest news among his latest five majors in 2023. Again, the chances of turning to Liv limit his chances, but we’re used to Koepka getting active again in the Grand Slam. This is not the case this year.
He did finish 12th in the U.S. Open, but the American missed three other games, and the result of his world ranking was shocking: an incredible downturn to 296th, dropping more than 200 attractions.
Can you find the comfort of the above LIV trio when checking DataGolf World rankings?
This alternative aggregator takes into account LIV events to produce its own world rankings, which is more friendly to Rahm.
The Spaniards ranked third in the DataGolf list, although this is the measure of Smith and Kopka’s slides, at 85th and 142nd, respectively.
