The Most Famous Golfers in the World
Top 42 of 42 ranked · August 2026 · See today's live standing →
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Woods doubles DeChambeau's score on a golf list that includes three snooker players
iFAMOUS Editorial Desk · 1 min read
Tiger Woods leads August 2026 at 14.2; the sector gathers cue sports and a tennis champion, and South Africa supplies more names than any other country.
Tiger Woods holds the golf list for August 2026 at 14.2, nearly twice the score of the next golfer. Bryson DeChambeau, the American who took his analytical game from the PGA Tour to LIV, is second at 7.3. Then the sector's adjacent figures arrive: Neil Robertson, the Australian snooker player from Melbourne, is third at 7.1, and Yevgeny Kafelnikov, the Russian who reached No. 1 in men's tennis, is fourth at 6.9.
The golfers resume at fifth. Annika Sörenstam, the Swedish-American and the only woman in the top fifteen, ties Gary Player, the retired South African great, at 6. Rory McIlroy, from Holywood in Northern Ireland, ties John Daly, the power hitter from Carmichael, California, at 5. Bernhard Langer of Germany, a presence at the top of the sport for four decades, is ninth at 4.4, and Pádraig Harrington of Ireland tenth.
Ernie Els, at 4.1, and Jack Nicklaus, at 4, sit alongside Marco Fu, the Hong Kong snooker player, and Ken Doherty, the Dublin-born former player turned pundit, at 3.9. Arnold Palmer, the American regarded as the most influential figure in golf's history, is fifteenth at 3.7, the only dead name among the leaders.
Forty-two names were measured across sixteen countries, and 39 are living. South Africa supplies nine, more than any other country, with Ireland on four and the United States and Thailand on three each. The ranking measures worldwide fame, and Woods holds nearly as much of it as the two names behind him combined.
About this list
This list ranks the most famous golfers in the world as of August 2026, by overall global fame rather than one month's attention. It is the top 42 of 42 names the rankings measured in this sector, frozen as the permanent record of that edition. This is the standard reading: everyone, living or dead, on one scale. 39 of the 42 listed are living; the Alive reading restricts the same ranking to living people.
Tiger Woods is No. 1 on this list for August 2026. Behind Tiger Woods come Bryson DeChambeau and Neil Robertson.
What famous means here
Fame, in iFAMOUS, is how widely the world knows a name: how recognisable a person's name, face or work is, and how well people know who they are. It is assessed from extensive historical and current public data, some of it reaching back more than twenty years, and it is not merit, talent, importance or popularity on iFANN. The rankings model real-world global fame, not internet fame; the data is the instrument, not the subject. Activity on iFANN itself is excluded.
The month in the title is the date of this edition, not the period measured. The list is a snapshot of overall fame as it stood when the issue was frozen: a name does not lose its place because one month was quiet, and a trending moment alone does not put a name here. Trending attention is published separately on ifann.net.
How the list was ranked
The iFANN Global Fame Rankings combine worldwide Wikipedia readership across languages, worldwide news coverage and search interest anchored against stable reference names, with search history reaching back to 2004. A twelve-month baseline sits behind the current reading and short-lived surges are capped, so the list reflects durable recognition rather than one week of headlines. Rankings are computed daily on ifann.net and frozen on the second day of the following month as that month's issue; a published issue never changes.
About Golf
Golf is one of the sectors the journal ranks every month, alongside every country, origin and region list in this issue. Sector lists use the same rankings and the same scale as The 100, so a name can be compared across sectors and against the world. PGA, LPGA, LIV and the majors.
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"Tiger Woods, No. 1 on The Most Famous Golfers in the World", iFAMOUS No. 1 (August 2026), ifamous.org