Golf API – World Golf Ranking Expanded to Top 500

We've expanded the Official World Golf Ranking endpoint in our Golf API to return the top 500 players, up from the previous top 200.

⭐ Benefit

Access world ranking data for a much deeper field of golfers — useful for broader leaderboards, fuller player comparisons, and surfacing ranked players outside the top 200 who were previously not included in the response.

📋 Recommended Actions

Expect up to 500 player entries in the Official World Golf Ranking response, rather than 200.
Confirm any pagination, display logic, or caching in your integration accommodates the larger response.

🔢 Products

Sport	Product	Version(s)
Golf	Golf API	v3

🔁 Endpoints Affected

Official World Golf Ranking

☑️ Sample Request:

curl --request GET \
     --url https://api.sportradar.com/golf/trial/v3/en/players/wgr/2026/rankings.xml \
     --header 'accept: application/xml' \
     --header 'x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY'

⚙️ Return Samples

<ranking xmlns="http://feed.elasticstats.com/schema/golf/player/rankings-v3.0.xsd" id="967df347-38ab-40bf-b773-f9b4c888efde" name="World Golf Ranking" alias="WGR" status="created">
    <wgr season="2026">
        <player id="6db3e736-d86d-4181-aa3b-651b8c1bfdc1" first_name="Scottie" last_name="Scheffler" country="UNITED STATES" rank="1" prior_rank="1" abbr_name="S.Scheffler">
            <statistics events_played="42" avg_points="16.95" points="711.8264" points_lost="-490.7643" points_gained="517.635"/>
        </player>
        <player id="da226913-b804-48de-adbf-96e956eb75ac" first_name="Rory" last_name="McIlroy" country="NORTHERN IRELAND" rank="2" prior_rank="2" abbr_name="R.McIlroy">
            <statistics events_played="42" avg_points="8.66" points="363.8059" points_lost="-317.5304" points_gained="244.6179"/>
        </player>
        <player id="04b52e10-1f50-4efb-9895-86b4107f78c4" first_name="Matt" last_name="Fitzpatrick" country="ENGLAND" rank="3" prior_rank="3" abbr_name="M.Fitzpatrick">
            <statistics events_played="49" avg_points="7.2" points="352.7177" points_lost="-116.8238" points_gained="319.3935"/>
        </player>
        <player id="9fbf091c-5e4b-42a4-93d7-92a6785a618d" first_name="Cameron" last_name="Young" country="UNITED STATES" rank="4" prior_rank="4" abbr_name="C.Young">
            <statistics events_played="47" avg_points="7.18" points="337.648" points_lost="-130.4768" points_gained="307.2206"/>
        </player>
        <player id="0f2eb1c3-7278-4b5e-af2e-fd67644834b5" first_name="Wyndham" last_name="Clark" country="UNITED STATES" rank="5" prior_rank="5" abbr_name="W.Clark">
            <statistics events_played="49" avg_points="6.31" points="309.4174" points_lost="-81.2378" points_gained="295.4817"/>
        </player>
        <player id="6577ec3d-9e78-4979-8f4c-01c465fa6b1d" first_name="Tommy" last_name="Fleetwood" country="ENGLAND" rank="6" prior_rank="7" abbr_name="T.Fleetwood">
            <statistics events_played="51" avg_points="5.17" points="263.5133" points_lost="-180.1032" points_gained="160.6182"/>
        </player>
        <player id="d8a9ce2c-9bdf-4e54-b53e-58692a1f4d59" first_name="Russell" last_name="Henley" country="UNITED STATES" rank="7" prior_rank="6" abbr_name="R.Henley">
            <statistics events_played="40" avg_points="5.17" points="206.6189" points_lost="-143.3448" points_gained="153.6068"/>
        </player>
    ...
    </wgr>
</ranking>