Rickie Fowler's World Ranking after Masters 2023 explored

Rickie Fowler has slipped three spots down to World No. 58 in the latest ranking update after the 2023 Masters. Notably, Fowler fell short of making it to the 2023 Masters field as he was just outside the top 50.

After a slump in recent years, Fowler has brought consistency to his game this season. Improvements are visible in the rankings as well considering the 2016 Players Championship winner was World No. 103 at the start of 2023 and reached as high as World No. 55 this year.

Fowler has made it into the top 25 of eight events out of 12 starts this season, including one runner-up finish. Last year, he could make only one top-10 finish and missed nine cuts in 22 starts. We can safely say that breaching the top 50 isn't far from the improved Fowler.

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Jon Rahm returns to World No. 1 after Masters win

The Masters was Jon Rahm's fourth title this year

Jon Rahm returned to the World No. 1 position in OWGR after claiming the 2023 Masters last Sunday. The top ranking has been shuffled between Rory McIlroy, Jon Rahm, and Scottie Scheffler this year with new changes after every result.

While Rory was World No. 1 at the start of the year, Scheffler snatched it from him in February, followed by Rahm displacing him. This continued in March as well, with Scheffler returning at the top with a Players Championship win and now the Spaniard again returning to numero uno.

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World Golf rankings on April 9 update

Phil Mickelson made a significant jump in rankings after T2 finish at The Masters

While Jon Rahm has returned to World No. 1 in the golf rankings, there has been one significant jump this week. Phil Mickelson, who had slipped as low as World No. 425 prior to the Masters, has made a jump of 353 places to reach World No. 72 after his T2 finish at Augusta.

Here's the updated golf ranking as of today:

1. Jon Rahm
2. Scottie Scheffler
3. Rory McIlroy
4. Patrick Cantlay
5. Cameron Smith
6. Xander Schauffele
7. Max Homa
8. Will Zalatoris
9. Viktor Hovland
10. Sam Burns
11. Collin Morikawa
12. Justin Thomas
13. Cameron Young
14. Tony Finau
15. Jordan Spieth
16. Matt Fitzpatrick
17. Sungjae Im
18. Tyrrell Hatton
19. Tom Kim
20. Kurt Kitayama
21. Hideki Matsuyama
22. Keegan Bradley
23. Shane Lowry
24. Joaquin Niemann
25. Tommy Fleetwood
26. Billy Horschel
27. Tom Hoge
28. Sahith Theegala
29. Russell Henley
30. Corey Conners
31. Justin Rose
32. Chris Kirk
33. Jason Day
34. Brian Harman
35. Abraham Ancer
36. Sepp Straka
37. Ryan Fox
38. Seamus Power
39. Brooks Koepka
40. Si Woo Kim
41. Adam Scott
42. Kyoung-Hoon Lee
43. Thomas Pieters
44. Harris English
45. Patrick Reed
46. Keith Mitchell
47. Aaron Wise
48. Alex Noren
49. J.T. Poston
50. Taylor Moore
51. Matt Kuchar
52. Min Woo Lee
53. Kevin Kisner
54. Guillermo Mito Pereira
55. Mackenzie Hughes
56. Talor Gooch
57. Lucas Herbert
58. Rickie Fowler
59. Harold Varner Iii
60. Taylor Montgomery
61. Adam Svensson
62. Adrian Meronk
63. Scott Stallings
64. Denny Mccarthy
65. Victor Perez
66. Nick Taylor
67. Davis Riley
68. Adam Hadwin
69. Andrew Putnam
70. Dustin Johnson
71. J.J. Spaun
72. Phil Mickelson
73. Davis Thompson
74. Christiaan Bezuidenhout
75. Justin Suh
76. Maverick McNealy
77. Brendon Todd
78. Cameron Davis
79. Ben Griffin
80. Gary Woodland
81. Adri Arnaus
82. Dean Burmester
83. Thomas Detry
84. Wyndham Clark
85. Kazuki Higa
86. Trey Mullinax
87. Sadom Kaewkanjana
88. Adrian Otaegui
89. Thriston Lawrence
90. Cameron Tringale
91. Adam Schenk
92. Callum Shinkwin
93. Jason Kokrak
94. Danny Willett
95. Thorbjorn Olesen
96. Jordan Smith
97. Pablo Larrazabal
98. Robert Macintyre
99. Joel Dahmen
100. Hayden Buckley