Looking for a player to pick in your office pool?
One strategy is to consider players who have had the most success in the months leading up to the 2020 Masters Tournament.
The entire Masters field is broken down below according to the Golfweek/Sagarin and 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.
So far in the 2021-22 PGA Tour season, the average ranking of the winner heading into the week in which he won a PGA Tour event has been 54.2 in the Golfweek/Sagarins and 59.4 in the OWGR.
| Golfer | GW/Sagarin Heat Index | GW/Sagarin | OWGR |
| Scottie Scheffler | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| Jon Rahm | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| Will Zalatoris | 3 | 21 | 29 |
| Justin Thomas | 4 | 3 | 7 |
| Hideki Matsuyama | 5 | 7 | 12 |
| Tyrrell Hatton | 6 | 26 | 16 |
| Matt Fitzpatrick | 7 | 23 | 24 |
| Cameron Smith | 8 | 6 | 6 |
| Russell Henley | 9 | 16 | 42 |
| Billy Horschel | 10 | 17 | 13 |
| Shane Lowry | 12 | 15 | 35 |
| Viktor Hovland | 13 | 4 | 4 |
| Patrick Cantlay | 14 | 10 | 5 |
| Adam Scott | 15 | 14 | 36 |
| Dustin Johnson | 16 | 22 | 8 |
| Joaquin Niemann | 17 | 29 | 20 |
| Si Woo Kim | 19 | 40 | 49 |
| Rory McIlroy | 21 | 12 | 9 |
| Max Homa | 22 | 50 | 37 |
| Sergio Garcia | 23 | 39 | 52 |
| Xander Schauffele | 25 | 11 | 10 |
| Daniel Berger | 26 | 8 | 21 |
| Louis Oosthuizen | 27 | 5 | 14 |
| Cameron Young | 28 | 110 | 46 |
| Kevin Kisner | 31 | 97 | 27 |
| Sepp Straka | 33 | 141 | 72 |
| Corey Conners | 35 | 18 | 32 |
| Collin Morikawa | 36 | 13 | 3 |
| Tommy Fleetwood | 39 | 31 | 47 |
| Sungjae Im | 40 | 28 | 26 |
| Gary Woodland | 41 | 74 | 90 |
| Paul Casey | 43 | 25 | 25 |
| Brian Harman | 44 | 55 | 53 |
| Harold Varner III | 47 | 41 | 40 |
| Tom Hoge | 48 | 84 | 38 |
| Talor Gooch | 49 | 20 | 34 |
| Marc Leishman | 50 | 33 | 43 |
| Christiaan Bezuidenhout | 51 | 34 | 63 |
| Francesco Molinari | 53 | 115 | 185 |
| J.J. Spaun | 54 | 79 | 103 |
| Sam Burns | 56 | 9 | 11 |
| Seamus Power | 57 | 27 | 41 |
| Brooks Koepka | 58 | 56 | 17 |
| Abraham Ancer | 59 | 32 | 15 |
| Bubba Watson | 63 | 36 | 68 |
| Padraig Harrington | 67 | 200 | 148 |
| Thomas Pieters | 69 | 66 | 33 |
| Erik van Rooyen | 72 | 83 | 64 |
| K.H. Lee | 73 | 52 | 80 |
| Lucas Glover | 76 | 90 | 105 |
| Luke List | 88 | 78 | 57 |
| Lucas Herbert | 91 | 80 | 44 |
| Jordan Spieth | 92 | 35 | 18 |
| Jason Kokrak | 100 | 60 | 28 |
| Justin Rose | 103 | 45 | 56 |
| Robert MacIntyre | 132 | 105 | 74 |
| Zach Johnson | 143 | 133 | 213 |
| Stewart Cink | 146 | 103 | 73 |
| Patrick Reed | 147 | 67 | 31 |
| Lee Westwood | 148 | 117 | 65 |
| Kevin Na | 150 | 57 | 30 |
| Ryan Palmer | 158 | 119 | 78 |
| Tony Finau | 160 | 65 | 22 |
| Webb Simpson | 167 | 42 | 39 |
| Cam Davis | 169 | 125 | 96 |
| Mackenzie Hughes | 187 | 73 | 58 |
| Hudson Swafford | 206 | 190 | 79 |
| Cameron Champ | 228 | 183 | 133 |
| Danny Willett | 262 | 210 | 161 |
| Takumi Kanaya | 275 | 118 | 50 |
| Garrick Higgo | 299 | 252 | 85 |
| Harry Higgs | 302 | 207 | 162 |
| Matthew Wolff | 304 | 111 | 45 |
| Min Woo Lee | 362 | 138 | 59 |
| Bryson DeChambeau | 394 | 46 | 19 |
| Charl Schwartzel | 529 | 278 | 172 |
| Guido Migliozzi | 715 | 378 | 129 |
| Keita Nakajima | N/R | 269 | 239 |
| Fred Couples | N/R | N/R | 1706 |
| Austin Greaser | N/R | N/R | N/R |
| Stewart Hagestad | N/R | N/R | N/R |
| Aaron Jarvis | N/R | N/R | N/R |
| Bernhard Langer | N/R | N/R | 1238 |
| Sandy Lyle | N/R | N/R | 1706 |
| Larry Mize | N/R | N/R | 1706 |
| José María Olazábal | N/R | N/R | 1290 |
| James Piot | N/R | N/R | 1706 |
| Laird Shepherd | N/R | N/R | 1706 |
| Vijay Singh | N/R | N/R | 1706 |
| Mike Weir | N/R | N/R | 1292 |
| Tiger Woods | N/R | N/R | 973 |
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