Classical test of orthogonality of projected subspaces (TOPS)method is exposed to performance breakdown as the spurious peaks can largely appear in the pseudo spectrum. Here a new direction?of?arrival estimation method for wideband sources using weighted TOPS is introduced. First, it uses the single signal subspace of the reference frequency, where the difference between the smallest signal eigenvalue and the largest noise eigenvalue is the maximum. The proposed weighted TOPS uses the squared TOPS method and test of orthogonality of frequency subspaces (TOFS) method to improved DOA estimation performance, which can obtain the weighted matrix by suitable modification to extend the effectiveness of TOPS. Moreover, the weighted TOPS method uses signal subspace projection instead of null?space projection. Finally, direction?of?arrival estimation for wideband sources are estimated by using trace as performance metric instead of singular value decomposition in TOPS. Comparison of TOPS, squared TOPS and TOFS method, the proposed weighted TOPS can achieve reduction in spurious peaks, improve DOA estimation accuracy, and obtain better computational efficiency and resolution performance for closely spaced sources. Numerical simulations validate the effectiveness of the proposed method.