I love this place!

Entrants ranked on history in the event. The value reflects the player’s success and number of years competed within the last eight years, weighted in favor of more recent seasons. A value of 1.000 would mean the player appeared every year and won every time. A value of about .715 puts the player in the top 1 percent of all players who have played the event at least once in the last eight seasons, a value of .335 puts a player in the top 10 percent.

Player	History
Shane Lowry	0.755
Rory McIlroy	0.650
Brandt Snedeker	0.616
Charley Hoffman	0.495
Adam Hadwin	0.490
Matt Kuchar	0.448
Kelly Kraft	0.434
Hank Lebioda	0.430

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Top of the heap

The top eight players (per the Hawley Ratings) among this event’s entries.

Player	Rank	Rating
Rory McIlroy	4	2089.2
Tyrrell Hatton	7	1647.0
Matthew Fitzpatrick	13	1435.2
Sam Burns	15	1395.4
Cameron Young	23	1216.8
Shane Lowry	24	1211.1
Justin Rose	25	1205.2
Tommy Fleetwood	26	1201.7

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Sorry, can’t make it

The top four players (per the Hawley Ratings) who are not playing this event.

Player	Rank	Rating
Scottie Scheffler	1	2504.6
Patrick Cantlay	2	2315.1
Xander Schauffele	3	2115.0
Jon Rahm	5	2011.9

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Ooh, that’s hot

Players are ranked by performance in their last four appearances in comparison with their current Hawley Rating.

Player	Upward change
Tyrrell Hatton	1506.0
Tommy Fleetwood	1355.6
Michael Kim	1205.9
Justin Rose	1076.4
Corey Conners	1074.2
Vincent Norrman	758.0
Michael Thorbjornsen	744.9
Carson Young	737.7

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Brr, that’s cold

Players are ranked by performance in their last four appearances in comparison with their current Hawley Rating.

Player	Downward change
Cameron Young	-1205.1
Sahith Theegala	-827.7
Davis Riley	-717.3
Adam Hadwin	-687.5
Maverick McNealy	-662.9
Aaron Wise	-659.4
Matt Kuchar	-640.9
Ben Griffin	-618.7

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Staying close to home

Exempt entrants ranked by miles between their listed residence as of January 2023 and Toronto, the event host city.

Player	Residence	Distance
Michael Gligic	Kitchener ON	50
Corey Conners	Listowel ON	75
Ryan Armour	Silver Lake OH	200
Justin Lower	Uniontown OH	225
Ryan Brehm	Mount Pleasant MI	275
Brandon Wu	Scarsdale NY	350
Alex Smalley	Greensboro NC	525
Ben Griffin	Chapel Hill NC	550

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Mathematically speaking

The following table shows the correlations between player ranking in the above tables and their actual finish positions. In other words, to what extent does the ordering of players in the table correspond to the order of finish.

Statistic	Correlation to results
Top of the heap	0.370
I love this place	0.172
Ooh, that’s hot	0.131
Location, location, location	0.104