The transition to the world’s no. 1  after being a normal golfer for years is like getting that well-deserved pat on that back! This was quite the case when Jason Day achieved the accolade in 2015 after winning the 2015 BMW Championship. But with achievements, come more dreams, right? A similar thing happened with the Australian golfer. According to Day’s previous caddie, Colin Swatton, Day wanted to beat LIV Golf’s CEO, Greg Norman, in the race to stay the world’s No. 1. And the golfer was pretty adamant about it too.

“My main goal was to get to Number 1, and we understood you have to win consistently to get to that Number 1 spot; to be able to have the opportunity to get to Number 1 and win is fantastic,” said Day and his caddie. Swatton seemed to know what driver Day needed to succeed, and he described it as a need to win every golf tournament he entered.

According to Swatton, winning consistently makes the golfer best and reach the top spot. Day just goes out and tries to win as many golf tournaments as he can. Swatton reflected this in an interview with Golfing World’s YouTube channel. To talk about beating Norman, it’s only right, after all, he has spent a whopping 331 weeks at the apex level. “I think it was 51 weeks or something like that. So, you know, he’s keen to get it back, and he wants to keep it for a calendar year and hopefully chip away at Greg Norman’s 330 weeks, I think,”  continued Swatton. It was September 14, 1986, when Norman rose to the world’s number-one ranking for the first time. Who knew it would turn into such a big deal?

Day stayed the world’s no. 1 for 51 weeks exactly and it sure was a tough journey. Per Day, he still thinks about being the top-ranked golfer in the world. “Being able to climb that mountain is very difficult because sitting back and knowing that I’ve done it before and how much work I actually had to put into it is tough in itself,” Day said per ESPN.

Norman’s impressive feat places him second in the record books for the longest time spent as the world’s top golfer. So who’s the first one? Well, we think you have a pretty accurate guess.

Is it Tiger Woods who has spent the most weeks as #1?

Tiger Woods is the name that instantly comes to mind when thinking of golf, even if you’re someone who does not follow the sport very closely. The golfer’s amazing career has been marked by an incredible string of victories, which has cemented his status as a legend in the sport. Woods holds the record for the most weeks spent as the world’s top-ranked golfer at an astonishing 683 weeks.

But out of every achievement of Woods, the incredible 281-week consecutive streak at number one was worth noting. This is still a record that will be extremely challenging to surpass. But when the golfer lost his rank in 2010, he was surprisingly quite okay with it. “As far as the emotions go, it is what it is. To become No. 1, you have to win and win a lot to maintain it. That’s the way it goes,”  said Woods, per ESPN.

So, out of all the world’s No. 1 golfers out there, who is your favorite and why? Let us know in the comment section below!