Looking for a golfer to pick in your 2023 Masters Tournament office pool?
One strategy is to consider players who have had the most success in the months leading up to the first major of the year.
The entire Masters field is broken down below according to the Golfweek/Sagarin rankings as well as the Official World Golf Ranking. The column labeled “Heat Index” is a player’s ranking based on his play the past three months. That can help you pick a player who is trending.
For the 2022-23 season, the average ranking of the winner heading into the week in which they won a PGA Tour event has been 51.68 in the Golfweek/Sagarin rankings and 57.64 in the OWGR.
Masters 2023 leaderboard: Get the latest news from Augusta
| Golfer | GW/Sagarin | OWGR | Heat Index |
| Jon Rahm | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| Scottie Scheffler | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Xander Schauffele | 3 | 7 | 5 |
| Rory McIlroy | 4 | 2 | 14 |
| Tony Finau | 5 | 13 | 6 |
| Max Homa | 6 | 5 | 4 |
| Patrick Cantlay | 7 | 4 | 11 |
| Justin Thomas | 8 | 10 | 8 |
| Sungjae Im | 9 | 18 | 13 |
| Cameron Young | 10 | 14 | 10 |
| Jason Day | 11 | 35 | 2 |
| Viktor Hovland | 12 | 9 | 12 |
| Tom Kim | 14 | 19 | 30 |
| Will Zalatoris | 15 | 8 | 57 |
| Collin Morikawa | 16 | 12 | 24 |
| Sahith Theegala | 18 | 30 | 22 |
| Tyrrell Hatton | 19 | 17 | 27 |
| Tommy Fleetwood | 20 | 27 | 48 |
| Jordan Spieth | 21 | 16 | 32 |
| Sam Burns | 22 | 11 | 39 |
| Joaquin Niemann | 23 | 25 | 113 |
| Keith Mitchell | 24 | 45 | 21 |
| Corey Conners | 26 | 28 | 29 |
| Si Woo Kim | 27 | 39 | 15 |
| Hideki Matsuyama | 29 | 21 | 45 |
| Mito Pereira | 30 | 53 | 42 |
| Dustin Johnson | 32 | 69 | 144 |
| Adam Scott | 33 | 40 | 56 |
| Shane Lowry | 34 | 23 | 100 |
| Matthew Fitzpatrick | 38 | 15 | 165 |
| Keegan Bradley | 39 | 22 | 91 |
| Justin Rose | 40 | 36 | 37 |
| Brian Harman | 41 | 29 | 179 |
| Alex Noren | 42 | 41 | 159 |
| Seamus Power | 44 | 34 | 71 |
| Cameron Smith | 45 | 6 | 257 |
| Chris Kirk | 48 | 32 | 36 |
| Taylor Moore | 49 | 50 | 23 |
| Adam Svensson | 55 | 56 | 98 |
| Thomas Pieters | 58 | 44 | 268 |
| Talor Gooch | 59 | 58 | 86 |
| K.H. Lee | 60 | 43 | 136 |
| J.T. Poston | 61 | 49 | 105 |
| Patrick Reed | 65 | 70 | 174 |
| Russell Henley | 67 | 38 | 88 |
| Danny Willett | 70 | 91 | 47 |
| Kurt Kitayama | 71 | 20 | 107 |
| Billy Horschel | 73 | 24 | 240 |
| Jason Kokrak | 74 | 87 | 120 |
| Ryan Fox | 77 | 37 | 76 |
| Abraham Ancer | 81 | 31 | 169 |
| Harold Varner III | 83 | 60 | 192 |
| Min Woo Lee | 86 | 48 | 55 |
| Tom Hoge | 90 | 26 | 73 |
| Sergio Garcia | 91 | 161 | 153 |
| Adrian Meronk | 97 | 59 | 132 |
| Gary Woodland | 105 | 100 | 83 |
| Scott Stallings | 107 | 66 | 181 |
| Mackenzie Hughes | 119 | 57 | 170 |
| Kevin Na | 132 | 96 | 260 |
| Kazuki Higa | 148 | 82 | 167 |
| Harris English | 150 | 42 | 253 |
| Louis Oosthuizen | 154 | 120 | 436 |
| Zach Johnson | 163 | 317 | 123 |
| Francesco Molinari | 168 | 130 | 338 |
| Sepp Straka | 174 | 33 | 193 |
| Brooks Koepka | 175 | 118 | 289 |
| Charl Schwartzel | 242 | 214 | 420 |
| Kevin Kisner | 257 | 47 | 432 |
| Bryson DeChambeau | 262 | 155 | 471 |
| Cameron Champ | 393 | 201 | 429 |
| Phil Mickelson | 431 | 425 | 427 |
| Sam Bennett | N/R | 1313 | N/R |
| Ben Carr | N/R | 3343 | N/R |
| Fred Couples | N/R | 3343 | N/R |
| Harrison Crowe | N/R | 504 | N/R |
| Mateo Fernandez de Oliveira | N/R | N/R | N/R |
| Bernhard Langer | N/R | 3343 | N/R |
| Sandy Lyle | N/R | 3343 | N/R |
| Matthew McClean | N/R | 3343 | N/R |
| Larry Mize | N/R | 3343 | N/R |
| Jose Maria Olazabal | N/R | 2748 | N/R |
| Aldrich Potgieter | N/R | 3343 | N/R |
| Gordon Sargent | N/R | 3343 | N/R |
| Vijay Singh | N/R | 3343 | N/R |
| Bubba Watson | N/R | 222 | 452 |
| Mike Weir | N/R | 3343 | N/R |
| Tiger Woods | N/R | 1001 | N/R |
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