We have reached the eve of the 2022 PGA Championship and all eyes are on Tiger Woods, making his first start since he made the cut at the Masters in April.
The PGA field is 156 players, and this list reflects the late Wednesday WD of Bryson DeChambeau, who was replaced by Denny McCarthy.
The Heat Index breakdown below takes into account the latest Golfweek/Sagarin rankings as well as the most recent Official World Golf Ranking.
The column labeled “Heat” is a player’s ranking based on his play over the past four months. That can help those of you looking to make a few friendly wagers 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 50.7 in the Golfweek/Sagarins and 54.3 in the Official World Golf Ranking.
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| Golfer | Heat | GW/Sags | OWGR |
| Scottie Scheffler | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| Shane Lowry | 2 | 9 | 27 |
| Justin Thomas | 3 | 3 | 9 |
| Hideki Matsuyama | 4 | 6 | 11 |
| Jon Rahm | 5 | 1 | 2 |
| Alex Noren | 6 | 25 | 52 |
| Max Homa | 7 | 37 | 28 |
| Corey Conners | 8 | 14 | 32 |
| Rory McIlroy | 9 | 7 | 7 |
| Billy Horschel | 10 | 13 | 14 |
| Tyrrell Hatton | 11 | 29 | 24 |
| Sebastián Muñoz | 12 | 60 | 51 |
| Viktor Hovland | 13 | 5 | 6 |
| Sergio Garcia | 14 | 20 | 47 |
| Collin Morikawa | 15 | 11 | 3 |
| Cameron Smith | 16 | 12 | 4 |
| Keegan Bradley | 17 | 42 | 45 |
| Maverick McNealy | 18 | 16 | 76 |
| Ryan Fox | 19 | 91 | 90 |
| Matt Fitzpatrick | 20 | 23 | 17 |
| Patrick Cantlay | 21 | 4 | 5 |
| Cameron Young | 22 | 67 | 38 |
| Rikuya Hoshino | 23 | 129 | 66 |
| Will Zalatoris | 24 | 26 | 30 |
| Joaquin Niemann | 25 | 27 | 16 |
| Adam Scott | 26 | 15 | 39 |
| Troy Merritt | 27 | 41 | 94 |
| Tommy Fleetwood | 28 | 22 | 44 |
| Louis Oosthuizen | 29 | 8 | 15 |
| Joel Dahmen | 30 | 40 | 117 |
| Robert MacIntyre | 32 | 98 | 79 |
| Xander Schauffele | 33 | 19 | 10 |
| Matt Kuchar | 35 | 55 | 78 |
| Si Woo Kim | 36 | 45 | 57 |
| Jhonattan Vegas | 37 | 31 | 92 |
| Adam Hadwin | 38 | 65 | 107 |
| Patton Kizzire | 40 | 83 | 129 |
| Daniel Berger | 41 | 10 | 25 |
| Harold Varner III | 42 | 33 | 37 |
| Russell Henley | 43 | 18 | 43 |
| Keith Mitchell | 44 | 69 | 80 |
| Mito Pereira | 45 | 36 | 100 |
| Brian Harman | 46 | 57 | 55 |
| Denny McCarthy | 47 | 51 | 158 |
| Jason Kokrak | 51 | 47 | 31 |
| Dustin Johnson | 52 | 28 | 12 |
| Jordan Spieth | 54 | 34 | 8 |
| Sepp Straka | 55 | 142 | 53 |
| Brooks Koepka | 58 | 52 | 18 |
| Oliver Bekker | 59 | 110 | 84 |
| Ian Poulter | 60 | 54 | 83 |
| Bio Kim | 63 | N/R | 115 |
| Christiaan Bezuidenhout | 64 | 32 | 67 |
| Anirban Lahiri | 65 | 114 | 75 |
| Bernd Wiesberger | 66 | 44 | 87 |
| Abraham Ancer | 67 | 15 | 21 |
| Pablo Larrazabal | 70 | 73 | 70 |
| Yuki Inamori | 71 | 201 | 93 |
| Tom Hoge | 73 | 74 | 40 |
| K.H. Lee | 74 | 64 | 41 |
| Chris Kirk | 76 | 97 | 101 |
| Cameron Champ | 77 | 121 | 102 |
| Talor Gooch | 78 | 21 | 35 |
| Russell Knox | 79 | 113 | 186 |
| Lucas Glover | 81 | 100 | 112 |
| Tony Finau | 82 | 49 | 19 |
| J.J. Spaun | 83 | 85 | 96 |
| Aaron Wise | 84 | 39 | 91 |
| Davis Riley | 88 | 109 | 130 |
| Gary Woodland | 91 | 102 | 103 |
| Kevin Kisner | 93 | 107 | 29 |
| Sam Burns | 96 | 30 | 13 |
| Kevin Na | 101 | 46 | 33 |
| Marc Leishman | 108 | 43 | 48 |
| Lanto Griffin | 114 | 63 | 99 |
| Erik van Rooyen | 117 | 61 | 61 |
| Adri Arnaus | 118 | 151 | 56 |
| Brendan Steele | 120 | 135 | 164 |
| Cameron Tringale | 121 | 53 | 49 |
| Stewart Cink | 124 | 131 | 81 |
| Seamus Power | 125 | 35 | 42 |
| Matt Jones | 127 | 152 | 74 |
| Bubba Watson | 133 | 62 | 73 |
| Scott Stallings | 134 | 149 | 203 |
| Lucas Herbert | 141 | 89 | 46 |
| Jinichiro Kozuma | 142 | 240 | 97 |
| Laurie Canter | 145 | 165 | 111 |
| Dean Burmester | 147 | 84 | 77 |
| Richard Bland | 148 | 75 | 58 |
| Justin Harding | 164 | 116 | 106 |
| Webb Simpson | 166 | 59 | 50 |
| Rickie Fowler | 167 | 146 | 146 |
| Daniel van Tonder | 168 | 243 | 104 |
| Chad Ramey | 171 | 99 | 119 |
| Francesco Molinari | 172 | 125 | 190 |
| Joohyung Kim | 173 | 78 | 72 |
| Ryan Palmer | 179 | 122 | 86 |
| Jason Day | 181 | 90 | 124 |
| Kevin Streelman | 183 | 88 | 113 |
| Beau Hossler | 189 | 190 | 193 |
| Sadom Kaewkanjana | 193 | N/R | 118 |
| Thomas Pieters | 202 | 72 | 34 |
| Henrik Stenson | 203 | 186 | 224 |
| Ryosuke Kinoshita | 210 | 217 | 82 |
| Hudson Swafford | 214 | 143 | 85 |
| Cam Davis | 215 | 118 | 89 |
| Mackenzie Hughes | 224 | 93 | 69 |
| Padraig Harrington | 226 | 196 | 172 |
| Carlos Ortiz | 227 | 124 | 98 |
| Patrick Reed | 240 | 86 | 36 |
| Branden Grace | 241 | 172 | 108 |
| Zach Johnson | 253 | 176 | 250 |
| Charl Schwartzel | 259 | 253 | 116 |
| Harry Higgs | 275 | 221 | 157 |
| Luke List | 282 | 120 | 62 |
| Shaun Norris | 294 | 179 | 68 |
| Lee Westwood | 297 | 157 | 71 |
| Min Woo Lee | 307 | 132 | 54 |
| Kramer Hickok | 310 | 231 | 162 |
| Ryan Brehm | 314 | 388 | 286 |
| Chan Kim | 355 | 275 | 95 |
| Justin Rose | 359 | 50 | 65 |
| Adam Schenk | 370 | 206 | 185 |
| Takumi Kanaya | 407 | 171 | 63 |
| Matthew Wolff | 438 | 154 | 59 |
| Garrick Higgo | 442 | 394 | 105 |
| Martin Kaymer | 444 | 188 | 204 |
| Nicolai Hojgaard | 553 | 257 | 88 |
| Jason Dufner | 662 | 446 | 560 |
| Alex Beach | N/R | N/R | 1733 |
| Rich Beem | N/R | N/R | 1733 |
| Brandon Bingaman | N/R | N/R | N/R |
| Michael Block | N/R | N/R | 1733 |
| Matthew Borchert | N/R | N/R | 1733 |
| Alex Cejka | N/R | N/R | 1733 |
| Tyler Collet | N/R | N/R | 1733 |
| John Daly | N/R | N/R | 1733 |
| Paul Dickinson | N/R | N/R | N/R |
| Tim Feenstra | N/R | N/R | N/R |
| Austin Hurt | N/R | N/R | N/R |
| Colin Inglis | N/R | N/R | N/R |
| Nic Ishee | N/R | N/R | N/R |
| Jared Jones | N/R | N/R | N/R |
| Sean McCarty | N/R | N/R | N/R |
| Kyle Mendoza | N/R | N/R | 1733 |
| Shaun Micheel | N/R | N/R | 1733 |
| Jesse Mueller | N/R | N/R | 1733 |
| Dylan Newman | N/R | N/R | N/R |
| Zac Oakley | N/R | N/R | N/R |
| Casey Pyne | N/R | N/R | N/R |
| Ryan Vermeer | N/R | N/R | 1733 |
| Shawn Warren | N/R | N/R | 1733 |
| Tiger Woods | N/R | N/R | 818 |
| Wyatt Worthington II | N/R | N/R | N/R |
| Y.E. Yang | N/R | N/R | 1053 |
| Sam Horsfield | N/R | 58 | 64 |