Rankings
2026 Rankings
PGA Tour Champions Players
Through U.S. Senior Open
July 8, 2026
Padraig Harrington won his third U.S. Senior Open, this one back-to-back. Harrington now has three PGA Tour Champions Tour majors and three PGA Tour majors, the 2007 Open Championship, the 2008 Open Championship and then the 2008 PGA Championship.
His Champions Tour Senior U.S. Opens began in 2022 when he won it for the first time. Then he won the 2025 U.S. Senior Open and last week’s U.S. Senior Open.
“You know, I hit the shots I needed to hit on the way home, and very, very pleased not to have created too much drama today,” he said.
Harrington started the final round by birdieing the first two holes.
“It changed everything around. I went from being one behind to three ahead,” he pointed out. “Maybe I'm not the straightest driver in the world, and maybe this course actually ended up suiting me, that I could actually play it quite a bit with my 3-wood and 5-wood and not have to hit driver.”
He was asked what was the biggest thing he has learned about golf. He said it is more physical than it ever has been, but that will not last.
“Once it gets to saturation point of everybody is a good swinger of the golf club, it's going to revert back to who's got the mental fortitude, the imagination,” he said.
Stewart Cink, who finished second, had already won the Senior PGA and the Regions this season and was hoping to make it three majors in a row. He just wasn’t able to execute.
“Today, as it turned out, I played poor enough where there was really not a championship on the line, but I was still battling hard for second,” said Stewart Cink. “Golf got hard for me today, and it happens.”
He said he did a lot of things well that didn’t have anything to do with hitting a shot.
“Aiming, what club you're going to use, reading the greens and the bounce on the fairways,” he said. “I did a really good job with all that stuff. I just misexecuted a few too many times to cost myself a trophy.”
The only other PGA Tour Champions player to win three U.S. Senior Opens was Miller Barber in 1982, 1984 and 1985. Barber joined the PGA Tour in 1959, won his first PGA Tour event in 1964 and his last on that circuit in 1978. He joined PGA Tour Champions in 1981, when that tour began. Barber won 43 tournaments in all, including 11 on the PGA Tour and 24 on PGA Tour Champions plus The Met Open.
The top five players in last week’s Power Performance Rankings remained in their places after the U.S. Senior Open: Zach Johnson, Stewart Cink, Steven Alker, Padraig Harrington and Freddie Jacobsen. Johnson skipped the Senior Open to play in the John Deere Classic.
Ian Poulter, who has been a LIV player, was in the field. There is a U.S. Senior Open exemption category for players who have turned 50 years old and played on either the U.S. or European Ryder Cup team in the last five editions. He took advantage of it.
“I didn't know what to expect. What I did know was everybody that plays out here, major winners, multiple major winners, prolific winners on the PGA TOUR, European legends, it wasn't going to be easy,” he said. “It was great fun for me. It was great to have a run on the front nine today and to really enjoy the first over-50 event.”
He finished 4th, which is a good showing for any USGA event.
Moves This Week:
Biggest Moves Up: George McNeill, from 14th to 6th; Alex Cjeka, from 18th to 11th; Doug Barron, from 31st to 26th; Thongchai Jaidee, from 33rd to 27th; Bernhard Langer, from 42nd to 33rd; K.J. Choi, from 43rd to 38th.
Biggest Moves Down: Cameron Percy, from 7th to 16th; Tim Petrovic, from 36th to 41st.
Dropped for Insufficient Points: Kevin Sutherland, Shane Bertsch.
Rankings are based on 12-month performances of Champions Tour players. When a tournament is played, the previous year’s results are dropped. Losing a high finish, dropping a low finish, adding a new high finish or a new low finish affects standings. Players must have a minimum number of points to be included in the rankings, but all players are tracked.
In the chart: Blue bold italic indicates change from last week. Shaded with yellow indicates largest changes. Orange is for dropped players and Green is for returning or entering players. Red is for winners. $$ column of numbers reflects position on Champions Tour money list.
For more information on the Power Performance Rankings, contact Kathy Bissell. Email golfshow4653@gmail.com. This system is not compiled by the PGA Tour.