The Genesis Invitational is the 16th event of the 2022-23 PGA TOUR Season and third designated event, featuring 23
of the top 25 players in the Official World Golf Ranking (39 of top 50), the top 30 players in the FedExCup standings
and all 13 players that have won on TOUR this season.

The field was expanded from the original size of 120 players to 130 to include all players defined as eligible in the tournament regulations. This is the second week in a row that the field has been expanded due to the strength of the field, with the WM Phoenix Open expanded from 132 to 134.

Tournament host Tiger Woods

The 82-time PGA TOUR winner Tiger Woods is making his first start on TOUR since the 2022 Open Championship and first in a non-major since the 2020 ZOZO Championship

Woods’ opening tee shot in the first round will take place 844 days since his last competitive round in a non-major (October 25, 2020).

With a victory, Woods would break a tie with Sam Snead for most wins in PGA TOUR history.

Woods has not finished in the top-10 on TOUR since the 2020 Farmers Insurance Open (T9) and his most recent victory, his 82nd, came at the 2019 ZOZO Championship.

Woods has made 14 starts at The Genesis Invitational, the most of any tournament in his career without a victory. He
made his PGA TOUR debut at the event in 1992 as a 16-year-old amateur (MC) and most recently competed in 2020
(68th).

Tiger Woods most starts by PGA TOUR event without a victory:
14 The Genesis Invitational
11 FedEx St. Jude Championship (formerly The Barclays)
5 The Honda Classic

Scottie Scheffler

Reigning PGA TOUR Player of the Year Scottie Scheffler earned his fifth career PGA TOUR victory last week by
successfully defending his title at the WM Phoenix Open and regained the No. 1 position in the Official World Golf
Ranking with the victory.

Recent World No. 1 timeline
March 27, 2022 Scottie Scheffler wins WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play, moves to No. 1
October 23, 2022 (30 weeks later) Rory McIlroy wins THE CJ CUP in South Carolina, moves to No. 1
February 12, 2023 (16 weeks later) Scottie Scheffler wins the WM Phoenix Open, moves to No. 1
Both Rory McIlroy and Jon Rahm, who have previously held the World No. 1 position, have a chance to return to No. 1.
Player Min. finish required to have a chance Total weeks at No. 1 Most recent date (week of)
Rory McIlroy Solo-third 122 Monday, February 6, 2023
Jon Rahm Solo-second 43 Monday, March 21, 2022

Scheffler, who is also the defending champion at three tournaments over the next eight weeks (Arnold Palmer
Invitational presented by Mastercard, WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play, Masters Tournament), finished T7 at the
2022 Genesis Invitational, his best result in four starts at the event.
FedExCup leader Jon Rahm has opened the season with five consecutive top-10s, including wins in back-to-back
starts (Sentry Tournament of Champions, The American Express). In four prior starts at The Genesis Invitational,
Rahm has compiled a Scoring Average of 69.38, the lowest of any player on record (1983-present). He has finished
no worse than T21 (2022) at the event, highlighted by a T5 in 2021.

Lowest Scoring Average at The Genesis Invitational, 1983-present (min. 10 rounds)  – Avg. Player Rounds
69.38 Jon Rahm 16
69.39 Dustin Johnson 54
69.42 Collin Morikawa 12
69.50 Xander Schauffele 20
69.54 Adam Scott 52

Additional Storylines …

Reigning FedExCup Champion Rory McIlroy is making his third start of the season, coming off a T32 at the WM
Phoenix Open. McIlroy has finished outside the top 20 once in six prior starts at The Genesis Invitational (MC/2021)
and has three top-10s (T4/2019, T5/2020, T10/2022).

2021 Genesis Invitational winner Max Homa is making his seventh start in the event and has three consecutive
top-10s (T5/2020, Won/2021, T10/2022). Homa enters the week No. 12 in the Official World Golf Ranking, the highest
position of his career, and is one of two players with multiple wins on TOUR this season (Fortinet Championship,
Farmers Insurance Open), along with Jon Rahm. Four of Homa’s six career wins on TOUR have come in the state of
California, tied with Rahm for the most of any player in California since the start of the 2016-17 season.

Justin Thomas has three top-10s in eight starts at the event, highlighted by a runner-up in 2019. He held a four-
stroke lead entering the final round in 2019 before finishing solo-second, one stroke behind J.B. Holmes.

Justin Rose is making his first start since winning the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, his 11th career PGA TOUR title and
first since the 2019 Farmers Insurance Open. Rose is $760,628 short of becoming the eighth player in TOUR history
to reach $60 million in career earnings (2-way T5 or better). The last player to cross that threshold was Adam Scott,
who did so after the 2023 Sentry Tournament of Champions.

Two-time PGA TOUR winner Nick Taylor finished solo-second at last week’s WM Phoenix Open to move to No. 73
in the Official World Golf Ranking (up from No. 223), the highest position of his career. Taylor has three top-10s this
season, one shy of his most in a season on TOUR (4, 2016-17).

There are three rookies in the top 30 of the FedExCup standings and all three are in the field: Taylor Montgomery
(No. 10), Thomas Detry (No. 19) and Davis Thompson (No. 26). Montgomery leads the PGA TOUR with 197 birdies this
season and is tied with Hayden Buckley for the most eagles (11).

Milestones: 2019 Genesis Invitational winner J.B. Holmes is making his 350th career start on the PGA TOUR. Holmes
has 23 of his 26 starts on his Major Medical Extension available to earn 288.816 FedExCup points. The five-time TOUR
winner has not finished in the top-10 of a PGA TOUR event since winning the 2019 Genesis Invitational.

Two-time PGA TOUR winner Patton Kizzire is making his 200th career start on the PGA TOUR. Kizzire has one top-10 in nine starts this season (T10/World Wide Technology Championship) and enters the week No. 94 in the FedExCup standings.

The Charlie Sifford Memorial Exemption (est. 2009) was awarded this year to Marcus Byrd, who will make his
second career PGA TOUR start (MC/2022 Corales Puntacana Championship). Byrd, a three-time winner on the APGA
Tour, will also compete on a sponsor exemption at next week’s Honda Classic.

Strength of Field …

Top 10 FedExCup . . . . . . . . . 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jon Rahm (1)
Top 30 FedExCup . . . . . . . . .30 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Top 10 OWGR . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Scottie Scheffler (1)
Top 50 OWGR . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
PGA TOUR winners . . . . . . . 85 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tiger Woods (82)
Past champions . . . . . . . . 4 . . . . . . . . Most recent: Max Homa (2021)
FedExCup Champions . . . 7 . . . . . Most recent: Rory McIlroy (2022)
PLAYERS winners . . . . . . . . 8 . . . . Most recent: Justin Thomas (2021)
Major winners . . . . . . . . . . . 19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tiger Woods (15)

Tournnament Records …

Category Value Player Year
Low 18-hole score 61 2 players; most recent: Ted Tryba 1999 (R3)
Low 36-hole score 126 Joaquin Niemann 2022
Low 54-hole score 194 Joaquin Niemann 2022
Low 72-hole score 264 Lanny Wadkins 1985
Holes-in-one (1983-present) 42 40 players; most recent: Scott Harrington 2021 (R4, No. 6)
Largest 18-hole lead 4 Terry Mauney 1982
Largest 36-hole lead 5 Sam Burns 2021
Largest 54-hole lead 7 Arnold Palmer 1966
Largest margin of victory 9 Phil Rodgers 1962
Playoffs 18 Most recent: Max Homa def. Tony Finau 2021
Wire-to-wire winners 4 Most recent: Joaquin Niemann 2022