Issue No. 2 · September 2026
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    Issue No. 2 · September 2026

    The Most Famous Golfers in the World

    Top 46 of 46 ranked · September 2026 · See today's live standing →

    Everyone, living or dead, on one scale: 43 of the 46 listed are living.

    First issue under methodology v5.70. Movement begins with the next issue frozen under the same version.

    The Most Famous Golfers in the World is the September 2026 edition of the ranking, frozen and published by iFAMOUS, the monthly journal of the iFANN Global Fame Rankings.

    RankNameScore
    1
    Tiger Woods
    UScelebrityAlive
    14.0
    2
    Neil Robertson
    AUcelebrityAlive
    8.2
    3
    Bryson DeChambeau
    UScelebrityAlive
    6.8
    4
    Rory McIlroy
    GBcelebrityAlive
    6.8
    5
    Yevgeny Kafelnikov
    RUcelebrityAlive
    6.7
    6
    Gary Player
    ZAcelebrityAlive
    5.9
    7
    Annika Sörenstam
    SEcelebrityAlive
    5.7
    8
    Arnold Palmer
    celebrity
    5.6
    9
    Jack Nicklaus
    celebrityAlive
    5.6
    10
    Bernhard Langer
    DEcelebrityAlive
    5.5
    11
    Scottie Scheffler
    JEcelebrityAlive
    5.3
    12
    John Daly
    UScelebrityAlive
    5.1
    13
    Ernie Els
    ZAcelebrityAlive
    4.9
    14
    Marco Fu
    CNcelebrityAlive
    4.2
    15
    Pádraig Harrington
    IEcelebrityAlive
    4.1
    16
    Ken Doherty
    IEcelebrityAlive
    4.0
    17
    Greg Norman
    AUcelebrityAlive
    4.0
    18
    Phil Mickelson
    celebrityAlive
    3.8
    19
    Aaron Smith
    NZcelebrityAlive
    3.5
    20
    Ben Hogan
    celebrity
    3.1
    21
    Michelle Wie West
    celebrityAlive
    2.8
    22
    Francesco Molinari
    ITcelebrityAlive
    2.7
    23
    Xander Schauffele
    celebrityAlive
    2.6
    24
    Retief Goosen
    ZAcelebrityAlive
    2.6
    25
    Roy Wegerle
    ZAcelebrityAlive
    2.4
    26
    Nick Price
    ZAcelebrityAlive
    2.3
    27
    Charl Schwartzel
    ZAcelebrityAlive
    2.2
    28
    Trevor Immelman
    ZAcelebrityAlive
    2.2
    29
    Louis Oosthuizen
    ZAcelebrityAlive
    2.1
    30
    Sam Snead
    celebrity
    2.0
    31
    Paige Spiranac
    celebrityAlive
    1.9
    32
    Brandt Snedeker
    celebrityAlive
    1.9
    33
    Rory Sabbatini
    ZAcelebrityAlive
    1.8
    34
    Thepchaiya Un-Nooh
    THcelebrityAlive
    1.8
    35
    Paul McGinley
    IEcelebrityAlive
    1.7
    36
    Yani Tseng
    TWcelebrityAlive
    1.6
    37
    Ariya Jutanugarn
    THcelebrityAlive
    1.0
    38
    Matt Kendrick
    UScelebrityAlive
    0.8
    39
    Pan Cheng-tsung
    TWcelebrityAlive
    0.8
    40
    Costantino Rocca
    ITcelebrityAlive
    0.8
    41
    Julian Dicks
    GBcelebrityAlive
    0.8
    42
    Andy Ellis
    NZcelebrityAlive
    0.7
    43
    Thongchai Jaidee
    THcelebrityAlive
    0.5
    44
    Eddie Macken
    IEcelebrityAlive
    0.3
    45
    Laetitia Beck
    ILcelebrityAlive
    0.2
    46
    Mika Koivuniemi
    FIcelebrityAlive
    0.1

    About this list

    This list ranks the most famous golfers in the world as of September 2026, by overall global fame rather than one month's attention. It is the top 46 of 46 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. 43 of the 46 listed are living; the Alive reading restricts the same ranking to living people.

    Tiger Woods is No. 1 on this list for September 2026. Behind Tiger Woods come Neil Robertson and Bryson DeChambeau.

    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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    iFAMOUS is published by iFANN and powered by the iFANN Global Fame Rankings v5.70. Today's live standing for this list is on ifann.net; the journal freezes it once a month so it can be cited permanently.

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    "Tiger Woods, No. 1 on The Most Famous Golfers in the World", iFAMOUS No. 2 (September 2026), ifamous.org

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