With 2024 Masters 50 days away, breaking down how top 10 golfers are performing as Florida swing approaches
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Who's playing well, who's playing poorly and what it means as the best prepare for Augusta National on the horizon
The top 10 players in the world have been, well, all over the place to start 2024. I mean that not only figuratively -- there has been good play and terrible play -- but also literally. Rory McIlroy played in the UAE in January, Jon Rahm has been in Mexico and Las Vegas and many of the rest of the top 10 have been playing Hawaii, California and Arizona.
With just 50 days left until the Masters tees off, it seems like a good time to check on the best players in the world. Instead of using the Official World Golf Rankings, though -- which are beneficial for sorting entry into major championships but perhaps lack when it comes to determining the best players -- we're going to use the Data Golf rankings, which look purely at who has been the best at scoring relative to the field in which they're playing.
The benefit here is that this includes LIV Golf players like Rahm, whereas the OWGR does not give out points for LIV events (for many justifiable reasons). Regardless, there is a lot of overlap. Of the top 10 in the Data Golf rankings, six are in the top 10 of the OWGR and all 10 are in the top 17.
