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2026 POY Leader Boards - Overall
| Rank | Player | Location | POY Points | Titles | Final Tables | POY Winnings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1043 | Matthew Moss | GBR | 660 | 1 | 1 | $318,556 |
| 1043 | Adriaan Jacobs | ZAF | 660 | 1 | 1 | $282,817 |
| 1043 | Pakinai Lisawad | THA | 660 | 0 | 2 | $135,280 |
| 1043 | Andrei Mitsiuk | Las Vegas, NV, USA | 660 | 0 | 3 | $78,505 |
| 1043 | Garrett Dwire | USA | 660 | 1 | 1 | $210,000 |
| 1043 | Jiayi Yao | TX, USA | 660 | 0 | 5 | $65,121 |
| 1043 | Akash Hotwani | USA | 660 | 1 | 1 | $323,775 |
| 1043 | Prashanth Nataraj | New York, NY, USA | 660 | 1 | 1 | $208,800 |
| 1043 | Danny Wong | Los Angeles, CA, USA | 660 | 0 | 2 | $111,540 |
| 1060 | Jason Raber | USA | 658 | 0 | 1 | $103,445 |
| 1060 | Chang Hwan Lee | KOR | 658 | 0 | 2 | $175,889 |
| 1062 | Jared Jaffee | Brooklyn, NY, USA | 657 | 0 | 3 | $229,429 |
| 1063 | Stig Borg | SWE | 656 | 0 | 2 | $125,820 |
| 1064 | Edgar Propst | Crownsville, MD, USA | 655 | 2 | 2 | $122,797 |
| 1064 | Cenk Cerci | DEU | 655 | 1 | 4 | $100,955 |
| 1064 | Arish Nat | Elk Grove, CA, USA | 655 | 0 | 3 | $116,980 |
| 1067 | Liam Schmidt | MD, USA | 652 | 2 | 6 | $113,167 |
| 1068 | Toan Chan Truong | VNM | 651 | 0 | 3 | $213,974 |
| 1068 | Ebony Kenney | Fort Myers, FL, USA | 651 | 0 | 2 | $480,000 |
| 1070 | Romain Lewis | Wimbledon, FRA | 650 | 0 | 2 | $70,093 |
| 1071 | Michael Banducci | Traverse City, USA | 648 | 1 | 1 | $100,343 |
| 1071 | Alan Pham | AUS | 648 | 0 | 3 | $41,013 |
| 1071 | Tanner Pray | Lake St. Louis, MO, USA | 648 | 0 | 2 | $79,004 |
| 1071 | Andre Butler | Evanston, IL, USA | 648 | 0 | 3 | $66,896 |
| 1075 | Mykhailo Lendel | Brooklyn, NY, USA | 645 | 1 | 2 | $174,919 |
| 1076 | Tom Middleton | Silsden, ENG, GBR | 641 | 0 | 3 | $182,050 |
| 1077 | Issey Maeda | USA | 640 | 0 | 1 | $279,000 |
| 1077 | Yutaka Morishima | Ann Arbor, MI, USA | 640 | 0 | 1 | $122,435 |
| 1077 | Peter Stewart | GBR | 640 | 0 | 4 | $72,967 |
| 1077 | Christopher Frank | DEU | 640 | 0 | 1 | $1,002,107 |
| 1077 | Matt Bretzfield | Kings Park, NY, USA | 640 | 1 | 4 | $83,085 |
| 1077 | He Junjie | CHN | 640 | 0 | 1 | $108,872 |
| 1077 | Stephanie Chung | Cleveland, OH, USA | 640 | 0 | 2 | $103,275 |
| 1077 | Ari Shin | CA, USA | 640 | 0 | 1 | $106,432 |
| 1077 | Qiang Xu | CHN | 640 | 0 | 3 | $61,846 |
| 1077 | Gansukh Sandagsuren | Hampton, VA, USA | 640 | 0 | 1 | $109,708 |
| 1077 | Michael Scarborough | Cincinnati, OH, USA | 640 | 1 | 2 | $60,258 |
| 1077 | Ye Yi | CHN | 640 | 0 | 1 | $143,000 |
| 1077 | Christian Schneider | CHE | 640 | 1 | 2 | $145,109 |
| 1077 | Phat Nuon | Tacoma, WA, USA | 640 | 0 | 2 | $93,481 |
| 1077 | Sang Hong | AUS | 640 | 0 | 2 | $35,252 |
| 1077 | Louis Yin | AUS | 640 | 0 | 1 | $108,718 |
| 1077 | Tomas Jozonis | LTU | 640 | 0 | 1 | $275,176 |
| 1077 | Josh Boulton | GBR | 640 | 0 | 1 | $174,909 |
| 1095 | Josef Schusteritsch | AUT | 638 | 0 | 1 | $526,030 |
| 1096 | Lukas Timko | CZE | 637 | 0 | 2 | $88,059 |
| 1097 | Andrew Norman | England, GBR | 636 | 1 | 3 | $54,326 |
| 1097 | Mike Zulker | Las Vegas, NV, USA | 636 | 0 | 3 | $112,025 |
| 1097 | Yurii Zabrodotskyi | UKR | 636 | 0 | 5 | $100,006 |
| 1097 | Francis Anderson | Wappinger Falls, NY, USA | 636 | 0 | 3 | $69,241 |