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A grand total of 24 different golfers have reached No.1 on the Official World Golf Ranking since it was introduced in April 1986 – but not every outrageously successful player has made it there.

In fact, some of the those to have failed to reach the summit might surprise you.

Over the next few pages, we count down the top five golfers never to reach world No.1.

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