Masters 2025
Participation in the Masters 2025 Tournament is by invitation only. The tournament has the smallest field of the major championships. There are several criteria by which invitations are awarded, including all past winners, recent major champions, leading finishers in the previous year’s majors, leading players on the PGA TOUR in the previous season, winners of full-point tournaments on the PGA TOUR during the previous 12 months, leading players in the Official World Golf Ranking, and some leading amateurs.
The list below details the qualification criteria for the 2025 Masters Tournament and the players who have qualified under them; any additional criteria under which players qualified are indicated in parentheses.
1. All past winners of the Masters Tournament
Angel Cabrera, Fred Couples, Sergio García, Dustin Johnson, Zach Johnson, Bernhard Langer, Hideki Matsuyama (17,18,19,20), Phil Mickelson (4), José María Olazábal, Jon Rahm (2,19), Patrick Reed (13), Scottie Scheffler (5,6,17,18,19,20), Charl Schwartzel, Adam Scott (18,19,20), Vijay Singh, Jordan Spieth, Bubba Watson, Mike Weir, Danny Willett.
Past winners not expected to play: Tommy Aaron, Charles Coody, Ben Crenshaw, Nick Faldo, Raymond Floyd, Trevor Immelman, Bernhard Langer, Sandy Lyle, Larry Mize, Jack Nicklaus, Mark O’Meara, Gary Player, Craig Stadler, Tom Watson, Tiger Woods, Ian Woosnam, Fuzzy Zoeller
2. Recent winners of the U.S. Open (2020–2024)
Wyndham Clark (18,19,20), Bryson DeChambeau (13,14,16,19,20), Matt Fitzpatrick (13,17,18,19),
3. Recent winners of The Open Championship (2020–2024)
Brian Harman (19,20), Collin Morikawa (4,13,16,18,19,20), Xander Schauffele (4,13,18,19,20), Cameron Smith (13)
4. Recent winners of the PGA Championship (2020–2024)
Brooks Koepka, Justin Thomas (18,19,20)
5. Recent winners of The Players Championship (2022–2024)
Rory McIlroy (14,17,18,19,20)
6. The winner of the gold medal at the Olympic Games
7. The winner and runner-up in the 2023 U.S. Amateur Championship
José Luis Ballester (a), Noah Kent (a)
8. The winner of the 2023 Amateur Championship
Jacob Skov Olesen forfeited his exemption by turning professional
9. The winner of the 2023 Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship
Ding Wenyi forfeited his exemption by turning professional
10. The winner of the 2024 Latin America Amateur Championship
Justin Hastings (a)
11. The winner of the 2023 U.S. Mid-Amateur Golf Championship
Evan Beck (a)
12. The winner of the 2023 NCAA Division I men’s golf individual championship
Hiroshi Tai (a)
13. The leading 12 players, and those tying for 12th place, from the 2024 Masters Tournament
Ludvig Åberg (17,18,19,20), Cameron Davis (17), Tommy Fleetwood (18,19,20), Tyrrell Hatton (19,20), Max Homa (19), Matthieu Pavon (18,19), Adam Schenk, Cameron Young (19), Will Zalatoris
14. The leading four players, and those tying for fourth place, in the 2024 U.S. Open
Patrick Cantlay (18,19,20), Tony Finau (18,19,20)
15. The leading four players, and those tying for fourth place, in the 2024 Open Championship
Billy Horschel (18,19,20), Thriston Lawrence (19), Justin Rose (19,20)
16. The leading four players, and those tying for fourth place, in the 2024 PGA Championship
Thomas Detry (17,20), Viktor Hovland (17,18,19,20)
17. Winners of tournaments on the PGA TOUR between the 2024 Masters Tournament and the 2025 Masters Tournament
Keegan Bradley (18,19,20), Brian Campbell, Rafael Campos, Nico Echavarría (20), Austin Eckroat (19), Harris English (20), Russell Henley (18,19,20), Joe Highsmith, Patton Kizzire, Robert MacIntyre (18,19,20), Matt McCarty (19), Maverick McNealy (19,20), Taylor Pendrith (18,19,20), J. T. Poston (19,20), Aaron Rai (18,19,20), Davis Riley, Sepp Straka (18,19,20), Nick Taylor (20), Davis Thompson (19,20), Min Woo Lee (19,20), Jhonattan Vegas, Kevin Yu
18. All players who qualified for and are eligible for the 2024 Tour Championship
Byeong Hun An (19,20), Christiaan Bezuidenhout, Akshay Bhatia (19,20), Sam Burns (19,20), Tom Hoge, Sungjae Im (19,20), Chris Kirk, Shane Lowry (19,20), Sahith Theegala (19,20)
19. The leading 50 players on the Official World Golf Ranking as of December 31, 2024
Corey Conners (20), Jason Day (20), Nick Dunlap (20), Lucas Glover (20), Max Greyserman (20), Rasmus Højgaard, Tom Kim (20), Denny McCarthy (20)
20. The leading 50 players on the Official World Golf Ranking as of March 31, 2025
Daniel Berger, Laurie Canter, Stephan Jäeger, Michael Kim, J. J. Spaun
21. Special invitations
Nicolai Højgaard, Joaquín Niemann
Ludvig Åberg 16/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 1/1
Best Career Finish: 2nd (2024)
Top 5s: 1
Top 10s: 1
Top 20s: 1
Ludvig Åberg nearly became the first Masters debutant to win the green jacket since Fuzzy Zoeller in 1979, but he settled for runner-up behind Scottie Scheffler. After failing to win in 2024, the Swede has already won in 2025 at the Genesis Invitational, a “Signature event” that is his biggest win to date. He looks to have recovered from the torn meniscus in his left knee that plagued him for the bulk of 2024. Åberg is one of the more consistent drivers of the ball (12th for Strokes Gained: Off The Tee) and is arguably the most proficient player out there with long irons, ranking first on the PGA TOUR for Approaches of greater than 200 yards, and players will have a fair amount of those particular shots on a 7,500-yard golf course. He is certainly a big-time contender this week.
Byeong Hun An 150/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 5/2
Best Career Finish: T-16th (2024)
Top 5s: 0
Top 10s: 0
Top 20s: 1
Byeong Hun (aka Benny) An is making his sixth career appearance at the Masters. An earns the return invitation to Augusta National courtesy of ranking in the OWGR Top 50 at the end of 2024. Benny has yet to earn his first PGA TOUR victory, but did get back in the winner’s circle late last October, winning the Genesis Championship, a co-sanctioned event between the DP World and Korean Tours, in a playoff over his fellow South Korean Tom Kim. Benny An seemed destined for stardom in 2009 when he became the youngest player to win the U.S. Amateur at age 17. He has not done much of note in 2025 with just one Top 10 finish. Still a great driver of the ball (13th Strokes Gained: Off The Tee), he has been all over the place on Approach (146th) and Putting (144th).
Jose Luis Ballester (a) 500/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 0/0
Best Career Finish: Debutant
Top 5s: 0
Top 10s: 0
Top 20s: 0
Jose Luis Ballester is making his Masters debut. Last August at Hazeltine National Golf Club, he won the U.S. Amateur by defeating Noah Kent in the final, 2 up. With his victory, he became the first Spaniard to win that championship and the second to win a USGA title, joining 2021 U.S. Open champion Jon Rahm. The Arizona State University senior has three top-five finishes this season, including a win in the Fighting Illini Invitational and runner-up in the Sahalee Players Championship last fall. In each of the past three years, he has earned All-America honors at Arizona State and was a member of the International team in the Arnold Palmer Cup. He won the European Amateur in 2023 and represented Spain in the Eisenhower Trophy in 2022 and 2023.
Evan Beck (a) 1000/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 0/0
Best Career Finish: Debutant
Top 5s: 0
Top 10s: 0
Top 20s: 0
Evan Beck is making his Masters debut and first major championship start. Last September at Kinloch Golf Club, he won the U.S. Mid-Amateur by defeating Bobby Massa in the final, 9&8. With his victory, he earned the Robert T. Jones Jr. Memorial Trophy and places in the fields for both the Masters and U.S. Open in 2025. It was his first USGA title after finishing runner-up in the 2008 U.S. Junior Amateur and 2023 U.S. Mid-Amateur. Beck, who played his college golf at Wake Forest, is an Associate Portfolio Manager in the Washington D.C. office of Brown Advisory, a Baltimore-based investment management firm.
Daniel Berger 90/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 5/4
Best Career Finish: T-10th (2016)
Top 5s: 0
Top 10s: 1
Top 20s: 1
Daniel Berger is making his sixth Masters start and first since 2022. Last year, Berger started his comeback trail after being out of action for nearly 18 months due to a back injury. Late in 2024, he finished seventh at the Sanderson Farms Championship and runner-up at the RSM Classic for his first Top 10 finishes since June 2022, and that led him to keep his TOUR card. Berger has continued that form thus far in 2025 with six Top 25 finishes, including a runner-up in Phoenix and 12th in San Diego in consecutive weeks in February. He is a four-time PGA TOUR winner and earned this year’s invitation for being ranked in the OWGR Top 50 at the end of March. At one point in 2020, he was just outside the Top 10 in the world. He is not there yet, but this time last year, he ranked in the low-600s, so this has been a remarkable comeback.
Christiaan Bezuidenhout 200/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 3/3
Best Career Finish: T-38th (2020)
Top 5s: 0
Top 10s: 0
Top 20s: 0
Christiaan Bezuidenhout is making his fourth Masters start and his first since 2022. He earned this year’s invitation having qualified for the TOUR Championship as one of the Top 30 in the FedEx Cup points. The South African has made the cut in each of his three starts at Augusta National. He finished T-4 in Phoenix in February. From June 2019 to December 2020, he won four times around the world to raise his world ranking and earn his first invitations to major championships. In 2021, he earned his PGA TOUR card through the Korn Ferry Tour Finals. Nevertheless, he has not won anywhere in the world since December 2020 in his native South Africa. Bezuidenhout has an elite short game, but tee-to-green has been lacking.
Akshay Bhatia 55/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 1/1
Best Career Finish: T-35th (2024)
Top 5s: 0
Top 10s: 0
Top 20s: 0
Akshay Bhatia is a two-time PGA TOUR winner at just 23 years old and earned his return appearance to this year’s Masters by finishing in the Top 30 of the FedEx Cup and making the Tour Championship. In 2014, Bhatia, as a 12-year-old, participated in the inaugural Drive, Chip, and Putt National Finals at Augusta National. He was T-3 at THE PLAYERS Championship several weeks ago and has two other Top 10s (Genesis, Mexico Open) this season. Bhatia ranks ninth on the PGA TOUR for Strokes Gained: Putting and eighth for Birdie Or Better Percentage. He could be a potential dark horse this week.
Keegan Bradley 125/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 8/7
Best Career Finish: T-22nd (2015, 2024)
Top 5s: 0
Top 10s: 0
Top 20s: 0
Keegan Bradley is making his ninth Masters appearance. Despite having a full plate with being this year’s Ryder Cup captain for Team USA, Bradley has continued to play consistently good golf and has two Top-6 finishes (Arnold Palmer Invitational, Sony Open) already this season. He won the BMW Championship last fall during the FedEx Cup Playoffs to earn an invitation to this year’s Masters. The former PGA Champion (2011) and Rookie of the Year is typically a good ball striker (Top 25 Strokes Gained: Off The Tee and Strokes Gained: Approach). While his putting has improved slightly, he has never quite figured out these fast Bentgrass greens at Augusta. Nonetheless, he is a consistent cut maker here and is probably best used as a placement market (Top 20, Top 30, Top 40) play.
Sam Burns 80/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 3/1
Best Career Finish: T-29th (2023)
Top 5s: 0
Top 10s: 0
Top 20s: 0
Sam Burns is making his fourth Masters appearance courtesy of finishing in the Top 30 of FedEx Cup points and making the TOUR Championship. Burns is a five-time PGA TOUR winner, but he has not won since March 2023 at the Dell Match Play Championship. He only has one Top 10 in his last ten worldwide starts. While “Bermuda Burns” is putting on Bentgrass this week at Augusta, he is still one of the best putters in the world, ranking fifth on the PGA TOUR for Strokes Gained: Putting. The issue is that no other parts of his game are firing right now.
Ángel Cabrera 1000/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 20/13
Best Career Finish: Winner (2009)
Top 5s: 2
Top 10s: 6
Top 20s: 8
Ángel Cabrera is making his first Masters start since 2019. Cabrera won the green jacket in 2009 in a playoff over Chad Campbell and Kenny Perry. “El Pato” (Spanish for “The Duck”) missed several trips to Augusta because he was imprisoned for a wide variety of criminal charges in Brazil back in January 2021 before being extradited to his native Argentina, where he served out the rest of his sentence until August 2023. Last year, he returned to PGA TOUR Champions where he posted two Top 5s in 12 events. He has only played twice on the over-50 circuit in 2025 with one Top 20 in the process.
Brian Campbell 500/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 0/0
Best Career Finish: Debutant
Top 5s: 0
Top 10s: 0
Top 20s: 0
Journeyman Brian Campbell is making his Masters debut and fourth major championship start. In the 2015 U.S. Open at Chambers Bay, he finished T-27 to earn low amateur honors. In February, the two-time All-American at the University of Illinois won the Mexico Open in a playoff over Aldrich Potgieter to earn his first career PGA TOUR win. He earned his PGA TOUR card for the 2025 season through his performance on the Korn Ferry Tour last year. He finished seventh on the season-long points list with three runner-up performances and a T-3 finish in the Argentine Open in 2024.
Rafael Campos 1000/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 0/0
Best Career Finish: Debutant
Top 5s: 0
Top 10s: 0
Top 20s: 0
Rafael Campos is making his Masters debut and first major championship start. In November, he won in Bermuda to earn his first career PGA TOUR win. That victory not only earned him his first Masters invitation, but also helped Campos keep his TOUR card. The two-time Olympian for Puerto Rico is following in the footsteps of World Golf Hall of Fame member and eight-time PGA TOUR winner Chi Chi Rodriguez, who competed in 14 Masters between 1961 and 1982 and finished T-10 at Augusta National in both 1970 and 1973. However, Campos has only made three of 10 cuts this year with a season-best finish of T-34 at the Mexico Open.
Laurie Canter 150/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 0/0
Best Career Finish: Debutant
Top 5s: 0
Top 10s: 0
Top 20s: 0
Laurie Canter is making his Masters debut and earns his inaugural invite to Augusta by being ranked in the current OWGR Top 50. While this is his first Masters, it is not his first major, as he finished inside the Top 25 in The Open in each of the past two years. The Englishman primarily plays on the DP World Tour and has been red hot overseas, winning the Bahrain Championship and finishing runner-up in the South African Open and third in Dubai. He can be a bit shaky on the greens, but Canter currently leads the DP World Tour for Strokes Gained: Off The Tee and is second for Strokes Gained: Tee To Green. Canter could be a sneaky Top 20 or Top 30 market play.
Patrick Cantlay 40/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 8/6
Best Career Finish: T-9th (2019)
Top 5s: 0
Top 10s: 1
Top 20s: 3
Patrick Cantlay is making his eighth Masters appearance. He earned Low Amateur honors in 2012 and has finished inside the Top 20 at Augusta National in three of the past six years. While he has finished in the Top 25 in eight of the last ten major championships, he has rarely been right there at the end to contend, although he finished T-4 last year at the U.S. Open to earn another invitation to Augusta. It is surprising that a player of his caliber has not won anywhere since August 2022. He has been solid in everything, but just not great in anything of late. Cantlay has 13 Top-5 finishes worldwide since that BMW Championship victory. He has the talent and ability, but can he finally put it all together in a major championship?
Wyndham Clark 70/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 1/0
Best Career Finish: MC (2024)
Top 5s: 0
Top 10s: 0
Top 20s: 0
Wyndham Clark is making his second Masters start. The 2023 U.S. Open champion has not done much of note here in 2025, but did have his best finish of the season with a T-5 in Houston in his most recent start. Clark is one of the bigger hitters off the tee, but his iron play has not been sharp as he ranks outside the Top 100 on the PGA TOUR for Strokes Gained: Approach. Despite coming in good form last year with consecutive runners-up at the Arnold Palmer Invitational and THE PLAYERS Championship (both behind World No. 1 and last year’s Masters champion Scottie Scheffler), Clark missed the cut. One would think he has the game to compete here, but he has only shown some rare flashes of the player he was when he held off Rory McIlroy at the 2023 U.S. Open.
Corey Conners 66/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 7/5
Best Career Finish: T-6th (2022)
Top 5s: 0
Top 10s: 3
Top 20s: 3
Corey Conners is making his eighth Masters appearance. He has finished inside the Top 10 at Augusta National in three of the past five years with a T-10 in 2020, T-8 in 2021 and T-6 in 2022. The Canadian’s last PGA TOUR victory was two years ago at the Valero Texas Open. Unlike his 2019 victory at the Valero Texas Open, which earned him a trip to Augusta, Conners has raised his game to a consistent level as a Top 25-30 player in the world. He has six Top-8 finishes in his last 10 worldwide starts, including third at the Arnold Palmer Invitational. Conners has always been an elite ball striker but also a highly questionable putter. This year, he currently ranks 60th for Strokes Gained: Putting. That number seems okay, but consider that he has never finished a PGA TOUR season better than 112th in the category. He has some good finishes here. If the putter is just average, he is an under-the-radar player who will contend this year.
Fred Couples 2000/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 39/31
Best Career Finish: Winner (1992)
Top 5s: 5
Top 10s: 11
Top 20s: 19
Fred Couples is making his 40th Masters appearance. “Boom Boom” won the 1992 Masters as World No. 1 by two strokes over 1976 champion Raymond Floyd. In 2023, he broke a four-year missed cut streak and made more history at Augusta National when he became the oldest to ever make the Tournament cut at 63 years, six months, five days of age and moved into second place behind Jack Nicklaus in total cuts made with 31. He has 11 Top-10 finishes at Augusta National and has completed 72 holes in the Masters in five different decades. Couples also made a record-tying 23 consecutive cuts in the Masters in 1983-2007. He has played four PGA TOUR Champions events thus far in 2025 with two Top-10 finishes. Freddy will be a good story for the first two days to see if he can make the cut at age 65.
Cam Davis 200/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 2/2
Best Career Finish: T-12th (2024)
Top 5s: 0
Top 10s: 0
Top 20s: 1
Cam Davis is making his third Masters appearance courtesy of his Top-12 finish at Augusta last year, which earns him a return this year. Davis also earned his second PGA TOUR victory last summer in Detroit at the Rocket Mortgage Classic, the same event as his maiden victory in 2021. 2025 has not gotten off to a good start for Davis as he has missed five of eight cuts, including his last four. The Top 5 at Pebble Beach is the lone highlight. The Australian ranks 171st in the Strokes Gained: Off The Tee, 175th in Scrambling, and 102nd in Strokes Gained: Putting.
Jason Day 75/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 13/10
Best Career Finish: T-2nd (2011)
Top 5s: 3
Top 10s: 4
Top 20s: 6
Jason Day is making his 14th Masters appearance due to being in the OWGR Top 50 at the end of 2024. Like Ludvig Åberg, Day was runner-up at Augusta on debut in 2011. The Australian has 11 Top-5 finishes in major championships, but the 2015 PGA Championship is his lone major triumph. A third at the American Express and an eighth at the Arnold Palmer Invitational are the 2025 highlights. He has not missed a cut anywhere since last summer’s U.S. Open. However, his typically elite short game has not been there this year, as he ranks just 91st in Scrambling and 108th for Strokes Gained: Putting. Injuries and various ailments have slowed his career, but the 13-time PGA TOUR winner still can show top form on occasion and can never be discounted.
Bryson DeChambeau 20/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 8/6
Best Career Finish: T-6th (2024)
Top 5s: 0
Top 10s: 1
Top 20s: 1
Bryson DeChambeau is making his ninth Masters appearance. It took eight appearances for him to finally earn his first Top 10 at Augusta. DeChambeau once said in 2020 that he felt Par was 67 for him at Augusta National. Despite the lack of success at Augusta, he was the Low Amateur here in 2016. He shared the opening-round lead with Brooks Koepka in 2019 and was first-round leader (also co-leader after 36 holes) here last year. He became a two-time U.S. Open winner last summer at Pinehurst No. 2 and was the runner-up to Xander Schauffele in the PGA Championship at Valhalla last May. He has earned a couple of Top 10s this year on LIV Golf but seems to come alive for the majors, which is why his price is relatively short. The big-hitting DeChambeau ranks third for Driving Distance on LIV but also seventh for Driving Accuracy. Perhaps being in the mix for the first time last year here will give him the confidence to keep contending, as he has all the tools to win here.
Thomas Detry 150/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 0/0
Best Career Finish: Debutant
Top 5s: 0
Top 10s: 0
Top 20s: 0
Belgium’s Thomas Detry makes his debut appearance at Augusta National courtesy of finishing in the Top 4 at last year’s PGA Championship and finally breaking his maiden on a major golf tour, winning the Waste Management Phoenix Open in February by seven strokes! He becomes the fourth player representing Belgium to compete in the Masters, joining Flory Van Donck, Nicolas Colsaerts and Thomas Pieters. Detry has finished in the Top 14 in each of his last three major championships. Aside from the victory in Phoenix and the Top 5 at the season-opening Sentry, there has not been much else in 2025 due to an approach game that ranks 101st on the PGA TOUR. Detry has shown to be a talented player for many years, primarily on the DP World Tour, but finally broke through with a major tour win. He could be a possibility for the Low Debutant market.
Nick Dunlap 200/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 1/0
Best Career Finish: MC (2024)
Top 5s: 0
Top 10s: 0
Top 20s: 0
Nick Dunlap is making his second Masters appearance. Last year, the 2024 PGA TOUR Rookie of the Year became the first player in PGA TOUR history to win as both an amateur and a professional in the same year. He won at The American Express in January as an amateur and won at the Barracuda Championship in July as a professional. With The American Express victory, Dunlap became the first amateur to win on the PGA TOUR since Phil Mickelson in 1991. He failed to make the cut in any of the major championships last year, largely due to poor performance off the tee. This season, Dunlap ranks 182nd out of 184 players for Driving Accuracy and dead last for Strokes Gained: Off The Tee. It is difficult to make a case here with those poor driving numbers.
Nico Echavarría 225/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 0/0
Best Career Finish: Debutant
Top 5s: 0
Top 10s: 0
Top 20s: 0
Nico Echavarria is making his Masters debut. The Colombian became a two-time PGA TOUR winner with a victory at the ZOZO Championship in Japan last fall. He becomes the fourth player representing Colombia to compete in the Masters, joining Miguel Sala, Camilo Villegas and Sebastian Muñoz. In January, he finished runner-up, losing to Nick Taylor in a playoff at the Sony Open in Hawaii. Echavarria’s ball striking has been subpar in 2025, but he is making up for it by ranking No. 1 on the PGA TOUR for Strokes Gained: Putting. Nevertheless, losing over a half stroke per round in Ball Striking (Off The Tee + Approach) is unsustainable and particularly unsustainable at a major championship.
Austin Eckroat 250/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 1/0
Best Career Finish: MC (2024)
Top 5s: 0
Top 10s: 0
Top 20s: 0
Austin Eckroat is making his second Masters appearance. He got into last year’s field, winning the Cognizant Classic and earned a second invitation after winning the World Wide Technology Championship this past November. However, Eckroat has not been able to maintain his form from the fall of 2024 as he has missed six of 10 cuts thus far in 2025 with a season-best finish of 13th at Pebble Beach. Eckroat has been solid enough off the tee, but ranks 143rd on the PGA TOUR for Strokes Gained: Approach and 159th for Strokes Gained: Around The Green. He made the cut in three of the four majors last year, but the Masters was the cut he missed and likely misses again if these numbers do not improve.
Harris English 175/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 5/4
Best Career Finish: T-21st (2021)
Top 5s: 0
Top 10s: 0
Top 20s: 0
Harris English is making his sixth Masters appearance and earned the invitation, winning the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines this past January for his fifth career PGA TOUR victory, his first since June 2021 (Travelers Championship). He has Top 10 finishes in the U.S. Open in three of the past five years, including third in 2021 at Torrey Pines and fourth in 2020 at Winged Foot. However, he has never finished inside the Top 20 at the Masters. English can get hot with the putter and ranks inside the Top 20 for Strokes Gained: Putting, but his ceiling here looks to be Top 30 or Top 40 placement markets.
Tony Finau 60/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 7/7
Best Career Finish: T-5th (2019)
Top 5s: 1
Top 10s: 3
Top 20s: 3
Tony Finau is making his eighth Masters appearance. He has made the cut in each of his seven appearances at Augusta National, including Top 10 finishes in 2018, 2019 and 2021. Finau is a six-time winner on the PGA TOUR, but it has been almost two full seasons since his last victory (2023 Mexico Open). Save for a Top 5 at the Genesis Invitational, 2025 has been relatively ho-hum for Finau. There always seems to be something missing from his game where he cannot put it all together. More often than not, it is the putter, but this year his irons (125th for Strokes Gained: Approach) have been the main culprit. He has finished in the Top 5 of all four majors, including last year’s U.S. Open, which got him a return appearance here. Certainly, he has the game to contend, but it is rare for all facets to fire at the same time.
Matt Fitzpatrick 90/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 10/9
Best Career Finish: T-7th (2016)
Top 5s: 0
Top 10s: 2
Top 20s: 3
Matt Fitzpatrick is making his 11th Masters appearance. The Englishman has made nine consecutive cuts here since missing it in 2014 as an amateur. The 2021 U.S. Open champion has been way out of form for over a year and parted ways with longtime caddie Billy Foster last month. Fitzpatrick has always been a flusher with his irons, so it is shocking to see him ranked 151st for Strokes Gained: Approach in 2025. He has gone 16 worldwide events without a Top 10 as his last one was at the Memorial last May.
Tommy Fleetwood 35/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 8/7
Best Career Finish: T-3rd (2023)
Top 5s: 1
Top 10s: 1
Top 20s: 4
Tommy Fleetwood is making his ninth Masters appearance coming off his best finish at Augusta with a T-3 last year. His consistency is not limited to Augusta, where he has made seven straight cuts. The Englishman has finished no worse than 22nd in his last 15 events. The issue is that he does not win nearly enough for a player of his caliber. He picked up his seventh DP World Tour victory in January 2024 at Dubai but still seeks his first win stateside on the PGA TOUR. Statistically, he has no weaknesses. In fact, he ranks fourth on the PGA TOUR for Total Strokes Gained only behind Rory McIlroy, Scottie Scheffler, and Collin Morikawa, who are three of the top four players in the world. Last year’s Olympic silver medalist needs to finally kick down the door and win a big one. It could be here, but it will certainly be a good finish and likely a mandatory placement market (Top 10, Top 20) play.
Sergio Garcia 100/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 25/15
Best Career Finish: Winner (2017)
Top 5s: 2
Top 10s: 4
Top 20s: 6
Sergio Garcia is making his 26th Masters appearance. In 2017, Garcia earned his green jacket, defeating Justin Rose in a playoff to follow Seve Ballesteros and Jose Maria Olazabal as Masters champions representing Spain. Like Jon Rahm in 2023, Garcia won on what would have been Ballesteros’ birthday on April 9. Garcia is one of seven Low Amateurs to go on to win the Masters with Cary Middlecoff, Jack Nicklaus, Ben Crenshaw, Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, and Hideki Matsuyama. Garcia has missed the cut in five of his last six trips to Augusta. He has won an event on LIV Golf each of the last two years including last month in Hong Kong, so he still shows some flashes of playing well, but he just missed a three-foot putt in the Asian Tour’s International Series event in Macau which would have gained him a spot in The Open later this summer. Even at age 45, Garcia’s struggles with the putter are still there over 25 years later when he burst into the scene.
Lucas Glover 150/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 10/6
Best Career Finish: T-20th (2007; 2024)
Top 5s: 0
Top 10s: 0
Top 20s: 2
Lucas Glover, the 2009 U.S. Open winner at Bethpage Black, is making his 11th Masters appearance. After his comeback year in 2023, which garnered back-to-back victories, Glover went winless in 2024 but continued consistently good play to remain in the OWGR Top 50. He already has two thirds this season (Pebble Beach, PLAYERS) in addition to two thirds (Black Desert, Sanderson Farms) in the fall series. Glover is still an elite ball striker ranking third for Driving Accuracy and fifth for Proximity to the Hole; however, his ceiling might be a Top 20, which is exactly where he finished last year.
Max Greyserman 160/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 0/0
Best Career Finish: Debutant
Top 5s: 0
Top 10s: 0
Top 20s: 0
Max Greyserman is making his Masters debut and third major championship start. Earlier this year, he finished T-7 at The American Express and T-11 at the Valspar Championship. In 2024 as a PGA TOUR rookie, he had six Top 10 finishes, including three runners-up at the 3M Open, Wyndham and ZOZO Championships. Those finishes led him to finish inside the OWGR Top 50 at the end of 2024. Eventually, Greyserman is going to pick up his first victory on the PGA TOUR as he is a long hitter off the tee and can hole putts, but his ball striking (130th Off The Tee; 104th Approach) numbers are not good enough at the moment.
Brian Harman 175/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 6/2
Best Career Finish: T-12th (2021)
Top 5s: 0
Top 10s: 0
Top 20s: 1
Brian Harman is making his seventh Masters appearance. The 2023 winner of The Open is still looking for a follow-up victory anywhere. Last year, he was runner-up at THE PLAYERS Championship, but times in contention have been few and far between. Despite being such a short hitter off the tee, one would think that Harman would have a better track record at Augusta since he possesses an eerily similar game to 2007 Masters champion Zach Johnson and the fact that this place has been kind of left-handed players, with Mike Weir, Phil Mickelson and Bubba Watson having collected green jackets here.
Justin Hastings (a) 500/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 0/0
Best Career Finish: Debutant
Top 5s: 0
Top 10s: 0
Top 20s: 0
Justin Hastings is making his Masters debut and first major championship start. He becomes the second player representing the Cayman Islands to compete in the Masters, joining 2022 Latin America Amateur champion Aaron Jarvis. In January, he won the Latin America Amateur Championship at Pilar Golf Club in Argentina. Hastings is currently a senior at San Diego State.
Tyrrell Hatton 35/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 8/6
Best Career Finish: T-9th (2024)
Top 5s: 0
Top 10s: 1
Top 20s: 2
Tyrrell Hatton is making his ninth Masters appearance courtesy of a Top 12 finish here last year. The Englishman joined LIV Golf last year and has since won three times – once on LIV and twice on the DP World Tour, including at Dubai earlier this year. Last year was his best Augusta finish, and he certainly must be given “dark horse” consideration, considering he has Top 10 finishes in all four majors. However, his temperament is always very much in question, and it is still uncertain whether he can keep his emotions under control when he gets a bad bounce or catches a bad break at some point at a place like Augusta.
Russell Henley 100/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 8/7
Best Career Finish: T-4th (2023)
Top 5s: 1
Top 10s: 1
Top 20s: 3
Russell Henley is making his ninth Masters appearance. Two years ago at Augusta National, he closed with three under-par rounds to finish T-4 and record his best finish in a major championship. He also arrives one month removed from the biggest victory of his career at the Arnold Palmer Invitational and has four Top 10 finishes already in 2025. Henley has made seven cuts in a row here at Augusta. His recent form will draw people towards him as a potential dark horse. While his approach and short games have been good this year, he is still a bit limited off the tee and looks more like a potential placement market (Top 10, Top 20, Top 30) target rather than a potential long shot outright victor.
Joe Highsmith 250/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 0/0
Best Career Finish: Debutant
Top 5s: 0
Top 10s: 0
Top 20s: 0
Joe Highsmith is making his Masters debut, his second major championship start, and his first as a professional. Highsmith is in his second season on the PGA TOUR and earned his Masters invitation by winning the Cognizant Classic in early March for his first Tour victory. His five Top-20 finishes during the fall helped him keep his card for 2025. He is a player who looks to be improving all the time, but it will likely be a big ask for him to show anything of note on debut here.
Tom Hoge 300/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 2/1
Best Career Finish: T-39th (2022)
Top 5s: 0
Top 10s: 0
Top 20s: 0
Tom Hoge is making his third Masters appearance and first since 2023, courtesy of finishing in the FedEx Cup Top 30 and making the TOUR Championship. His 2025 highlight is finishing T-3 last month at THE PLAYERS Championship. Hoge is always a flusher with the irons (14th Strokes Gained: Approach) , but is not good enough off the tee (170th) and inconsistent with the putter.
Nicolai Højgaard 150/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 1/1
Best Career Finish: T-16th (2024)
Top 5s: 0
Top 10s: 0
Top 20s: 1
Nicolai Højgaard is making his second Masters appearance courtesy of a special invitation from the Augusta National Golf Club. The Dane held the lead here last year briefly during Saturday’s third round before falling to a T-16 finish. The three-time DP World Tour winner is plenty long off the tee (20th Driving Distance), but he has not been accurate enough. He could be looked at for low Scandinavian along with familiar company (twin brother Rasmus) in that category, but he has not done much of note since that brief spotlight on Saturday at the Masters last year.
Rasmus Højgaard 150/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 0/0
Best Career Finish: Debutant
Top 5s: 0
Top 10s: 0
Top 20s: 0
Rasmus Højgaard is making his Masters debut and has been the better of the two Højgaards over the last calendar year. He finished in the OWGR Top 50 to conclude 2024 courtesy of a stellar second half of the year on the DP World Tour, which included an Irish Open victory where he chased down and beat Rory McIlroy on essentially one of Rory’s home courses. Like Nicolai, Rasmus has struggled a bit to start on the PGA TOUR in 2025, but he has a winning pedigree with five DP World Tour victories.
Max Homa 200/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 5/3
Best Career Finish: T-3rd (2024)
Top 5s: 1
Top 10s: 1
Top 20s: 1
Max Homa is making his sixth Masters start. Last year, he opened with a 67 and finished T-3 at Augusta National. Now here is the bad news with Homa. He only has one Top 10 since being in contention here last year. Homa left Augusta last year being ranked ninth in the world. Today, he is No. 78 as his game has fallen off everywhere. He switched coaches, club manufacturers, and caddies as of last week, but nothing has worked. He is currently 183rd out of 184 players on the PGA TOUR for Strokes Gained: Approach. Eventually, he may figure it out and turn his game around, but it will not be this week for the six-time PGA TOUR winner.
Billy Horschel 125/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 9/7
Best Career Finish: T-17th (2016)
Top 5s: 0
Top 10s: 0
Top 20s: 1
Billy Horschel makes his 10th Masters appearance this year and first since 2023, courtesy of being in the FedEx Cup Top 30 and making the TOUR Championship. He finished T-4 at the Valspar and made the winning putt for his Atlanta Drive GC (Patrick Cantlay, Justin Thomas, Lucas Glover) team to win the inaugural TGL championship. His best finish here was T-17 in 2016. His putting could have him make the weekend, but he has never been a contender at Augusta.
Viktor Hovland 33/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 5/4
Best Career Finish: T-7th (2023)
Top 5s: 1
Top 10s: 1
Top 20s: 1
Viktor Hovland is making his sixth Masters appearance. He earned Low Amateur honors in 2019 as Norway’s first Masters participant and made four cuts in a row before missing last year. In fact, the Norwegian missed three of the four cuts in the majors apart from the PGA Championship at Valhalla, where his third earned him the return invitation. It is hard to know where to start with Hovland. He won the Valspar several weeks ago at a big price (80/1) when his game had fallen off a cliff. Hovland constantly makes swing changes and coaching changes and goes up and down with his game. At his peak, he is a Top 10 player in the world without question with seven PGA TOUR wins already to his credit. His approach numbers are good (13th), but his short game has been horrendous (125th Strokes Gained: Putting; 176th Strokes Gained: Around The Green) in 2025 despite the victory. He is not necessarily a fade or someone to back, but he looks mostly like someone from whom to stay away until you see a definitive result here.
Sungjae Im 80/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 5/3
Best Career Finish: T-2nd (2020)
Top 5s: 1
Top 10s: 2
Top 20s: 3
Sungjae Im is making his sixth Masters appearance. He has a second, eighth, and 16th, but also two missed cuts here, including last year. Im started 2025 with a third at the Sentry and a fourth at the Farmers Insurance Open, but he has not done much since. In fact, he has not won on the PGA TOUR in about three and a half years. The South Korean won an event in his home country each of the last two years, but has been unable to find success stateside since his second PGA TOUR victory in 2021. The primary culprit for his failure to succeed is his iron play (176th on Approach), which has not been improved. It would not be a shock to see him be a surprise on the first page or two of the leaderboards, but everything must come together, especially the iron play.
Stephan Jaeger 200/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 1/0
Best Career Finish: MC (2024)
Top 5s: 0
Top 10s: 0
Top 20s: 0
Stephan Jaeger makes his second appearance at the Masters this year. The German-born player earned the return invitation through his Top 50 OWGR ranking. Jaeger was T-3 at the Sony Open in Hawaii and T-6 in Mexico, plus a T-11 in Houston, where he won last year, holding off World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler. Overall, his game looks solid, and he should make the cut the second time around Augusta, but he needs to be better off the tee (144th Strokes Gained: Off The Tee).
Dustin Johnson 80/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 14/11
Best Career Finish: Winner (2020)
Top 5s: 3
Top 10s: 5
Top 20s: 7
Dustin Johnson is making his 15th Masters appearance. In 2020, he set a new Masters Tournament record with his 20-under-par score of 268 to win by five strokes over Sungjae Im and Cameron Smith. The performance secured him his second major title to go with his victory in the 2016 U.S. Open at Oakmont Country Club. He was the pre-tournament favorite at the 2017 Masters before having to withdraw from the event due to a mysterious back injury. When he won here in 2020, he was the clear best player in the world. Since he has gone off to play LIV Golf, it is fair to ask if he has any greatness left anymore? He does not seem to be driven to become one of the all-time greats (24 career PGA TOUR wins, two majors) and seems happy with his LIV Golf fortune and being married to Paulina Gretzky. Until he shows some fire, it is difficult to back him.
Zach Johnson 750/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 20/11
Best Career Finish: Winner (2007)
Top 5s: 1
Top 10s: 2
Top 20s: 3
Zach Johnson is making his 21st Masters appearance. In 2007, he won in challenging weather at Augusta National with a score of one-over-par 289 that tied the Tournament record for highest winning total set by Sam Snead in 1954 and matched by Jack Burke Jr. in 1956. He played the par-5 holes in 11 under and never attempted to reach the greens at holes No. 2, 8, 13, and 15 in two strokes that week. The 2015 Open champion is one of six to win majors at Augusta National and St Andrews, with Snead, Jack Nicklaus, Seve Ballesteros, Nick Faldo, and Tiger Woods. He is still an accurate but short hitter and an above-average putter. At age 49, he is still good enough to stay out on the PGA TOUR and compete at least. Look out PGA TOUR Champions in 2026!
Noah Kent (a) 1250/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 0/0
Best Career Finish: Debutant
Top 5s: 0
Top 10s: 0
Top 20s: 0
Noah Kent is making his Masters debut and first major championship start. Last August at Hazeltine National, he finished runner-up in the U.S. Amateur to Jose Luis Ballester and earned invitations to both the Masters and the U.S. Open in 2025. He had four Top 15 finishes last fall, including T-5 in the Fighting Irish Classic and eighth in the Fallen Oak Collegiate Invitational. He also finished runner-up in the Porter Cup in New York and T-7 in the Australian Amateur last year. Originally at Iowa, Kent transferred to Florida last season.
Michael Kim 150/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 1/0
Best Career Finish: MC (2019)
Top 5s: 0
Top 10s: 0
Top 20s: 0
Michael Kim is making his second Masters start and first since 2019. He has one PGA TOUR victory in 2021 at the John Deere Classic. His game fell off to the point of losing his TOUR card and went down to the Korn Ferry to get back on the PGA TOUR in 2022. Kim is playing the best golf of his career here over the last several months. He has five Top-15 finishes worldwide in 2025, including runner-up in Phoenix, fourth in the Arnold Palmer Invitational in Orlando and T-6 at the Cognizant Classic. He also closed 2024 with Top 12 finishes in the Shriners Hospitals Open, Butterfield Bermuda Championship, and RSM Classic to retain his PGA TOUR card for this season. He ranks in the Top 15 for Strokes Gained: Tee To Green and Strokes Gained: Total. Before taking off last week at the Valero, Kim had played 11 of 12 weeks and climbed from 162nd to 50th in the OWGR to earn the invitation. He likely makes his first cut here, but might be running on fumes after the mad dash to make the field.
Tom Kim 90/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 2/2
Best Career Finish: T-16th (2023)
Top 5s: 0
Top 10s: 0
Top 20s: 1
Tom Kim is making his third Masters appearance. The 22-year-old South Korean was T-16 in 2023 in his debut at Augusta National. With three PGA TOUR victories before he turned 21, Tom Kim looked like he would be the next superstar in the game, but now the winless drought is approaching 18 months. If the game were just approach shots, he is one of the world’s best as he flushes the irons and currently ranks seventh on the PGA TOUR for Strokes Gained: Approach. On the opposite side of the coin, he ranks 112th for Strokes Gained: Off The Tee and 156th for Strokes Gained: Putting. Save for a T-7 at Pebble Beach, Tom Kim does not have even a Top 35 finish in any other event in 2025.
Chris Kirk 250/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 5/4
Best Career Finish: T-16th (2024)
Top 5s: 0
Top 10s: 0
Top 20s: 2
Chris Kirk is making his sixth Masters appearance. Last year was his best career finish at Augusta. He receives a return invitation due to ranking in the FedEx Cup Top 30 and playing in the TOUR Championship. He won the season opener in 2024 at The Sentry for his sixth career PGA TOUR victory. However, 2025 has been totally different, as Kirk has been unable to post even a Top 20 in eight events. His putting has been miserable as he ranks 161st on the PGA TOUR for Strokes Gained: Putting. Perhaps these fast greens at Augusta will help because the 2025 results on the greens cannot get any worse.
Patton Kizzire 600/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 2/1
Best Career Finish: T-18th (2019)
Top 5s: 0
Top 10s: 0
Top 20s: 1
Patton Kizzire makes his third Masters appearance and his first since 2019. Kizzire earned a return to the Masters by winning the Procore Championship last fall. However, the three-time PGA TOUR winner has only made one cut in nine events for 2025, and that was at the season-opening Sentry (T-40th) which has no cut. 125th for Strokes Gained: Off The Tee, 159th for Strokes Gained: Approach, and 143rd for Strokes Gained: Putting are not numbers that give you much confidence for his prospects.
Brooks Koepka 30/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 9/7
Best Career Finish: T-2nd (2019 & 2023)
Top 5s: 2
Top 10s: 3
Top 20s: 4
Brooks Koepka is making his 10th Masters appearance. He led for most of the 2023 Masters before finishing runner-up at Augusta National for the second time. The 2023 PGA Champion has won five times on LIV Golf since 2022 and currently leads that tour for Putting Average. Five of his nine PGA TOUR victories are at major championships, and he has finished inside the Top 10 at majors over 40% of the time, so there is evidence that he finds another gear at the majors. Two years ago, the oddsmakers priced LIV players too low in the market, and Koepka certainly made them pay for it at Oak Hill in 2023. Most of those players can drift on the odds board and rightfully so, but Koepka, his old rival DeChambeau, and Rahm are notable exceptions and have to be considered contenders at every major championship.
Bernhard Langer 800/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 40/27
Best Career Finish: Winner (1985, 1993)
Top 5s: 3
Top 10s: 9
Top 20s: 11
Bernhard Langer is making his 41st and final Masters appearance. The 1985 and 1993 Masters champion made his Masters debut in 1982 as Germany’s first Tournament participant. When he won for the first time 40 years ago, he joined South Africa’s Gary Player and Spain’s Seve Ballesteros as international Masters champions. He has 125 professional golf wins. The World Golf Hall of Fame member’s career also includes winning 42 times on the DP World Tour. Since turning 50 in 2007, he has become a 47-time winner (the all-time record) and 12-time senior major champion on the PGA TOUR Champions. Last November, he won in the Charles Schwab Cup Championship to extend his streak of years with a win to 18.
Thriston Lawrence 300/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 0/0
Best Career Finish: Debutant
Top 5s: 0
Top 10s: 0
Top 20s: 0
Thriston Lawrence is making his Masters debut. Last July, he finished T-4 in The Open at Royal Troon for his first Top 10 finish in a major championship. He earned his 2025 PGA TOUR card through the DP World Tour, where he had five runner-up finishes in 2024, including the European Open in Germany and the BMW PGA Championship in England. The South African has won four times on the DP World Tour. However, he has missed six of eight cuts in 2025. His rankings on TOUR are as follows: 181st Strokes Gained: Total, 138th Strokes Gained: Off The Tee, 173rd Strokes Gained: Approach, 173rd Strokes Gained: Putting, 155th Strokes Gained: Around The Green. There is nothing that he is doing particularly well now.
Min Woo Lee 45/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 3/2
Best Career Finish: T-14th (2022)
Top 5s: 0
Top 10s: 0
Top 20s: 1
Min Woo Lee is making his fourth Masters appearance. He finished T-14 in his debut at Augusta National in 2022, and his final-round 70 included a Tournament record-tying 30 on the first nine. Min Woo won his first PGA TOUR event in late March at the Texas Children’s Houston Open, holding off World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler in the process. The Australian now has five worldwide wins and is one of the longest hitters in the game (third for Driving Distance on the PGA TOUR) and is also one of the best putters (fourth for Strokes Gained: Putting). The one weakness in his game is with his irons, as he ranks just 118th for Strokes Gained: Approach. Min Woo might be able to cook in majors, but the PGA and Open Championship might be more likely in 2025.
Shane Lowry 40/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 9/6
Best Career Finish: T-3rd (2022)
Top 5s: 1
Top 10s: 1
Top 20s: 2
Shane Lowry is making his 10th Masters appearance. He has Top 25s in four of the past five years at Augusta National after missing the cut in three of his first four appearances. The Irishman also has Top-4 finishes in all four majors and won the Claret Jug for The Open Championship in 2019 at Royal Portrush. Lowry has four finishes of 11th or better in 2025, including a runner-up at Pebble Beach to his mate Rory McIlroy and a seventh at the Arnold Palmer Invitational. He currently ranks fifth for Strokes Gained: Total and sixth for Strokes Gained: Approach. Lowry’s putting can still be a little shaky, especially shorter ones, as he ranks just 171st on putts from four feet and in. Nevertheless, he has proven to be more consistently viable in majors over the years and was in the Top 6 both at the PGA and The Open last year. It would not be a shock to see him contend here.
Robert MacIntyre 55/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 2/2
Best Career Finish: T-12th (2021)
Top 5s: 0
Top 10s: 0
Top 20s: 1
Robert MacIntyre is making his third Masters appearance and first in three years. He earned a return trip to Augusta with victories last season at the RBC Canadian and Genesis Scottish Opens. The Scotsman has three Top 10 finishes already in 2025 at the Waste Management Phoenix Open, THE PLAYERS Championship, and Porsche Singapore Classic on the DP World Tour. MacIntyre’s ball striking has been on point as he ranks ninth for Strokes Gained: Off The Tee and 19th for Strokes Gained: Approach. The 133rd for Strokes Gained: Putting certainly must be of concern, but he has two good finishes in two starts here. “Bobby Mac” is definitely a viable mid-range price dark horse here.
Hideki Matsuyama 28/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 13/12
Best Career Finish: Winner (2021)
Top 5s: 2
Top 10s: 3
Top 20s: 8
Hideki Matsuyama is making his 14th Masters appearance. He has Top 20s in eight of the past ten years at Augusta National. When he won his Green Jacket in 2021, he became Japan’s first male major champion and strengthened a connection to the Masters that already included two Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship victories in 2010 and 2011 and the Silver Cup as Low Amateur at Augusta National in 2011. He is one of seven Low Amateurs to go on to win the Masters with Cary Middlecoff, Jack Nicklaus, Ben Crenshaw, Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson and Sergio Garcia. Matsuyama has Top-6 finishes in all four majors, including runner-up in the 2017 U.S. Open at Erin Hills in Wisconsin. Matsuyama has cooled slightly from winning the season opener at The Sentry, where he broke the PGA TOUR 72-hole scoring record with a 35-under-par score of 257. The game around the greens (second for Scrambling) has been tidy. If the ball striking can return to where it was three months ago, he certainly should be in the mix for a second green jacket.
Denny McCarthy 125/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 1/1
Best Career Finish: T-45th (2024)
Top 5s: 0
Top 10s: 0
Top 20s: 0
Denny McCarthy is making his second Masters appearance. McCarthy earned his return invitation by finishing 2024 ranked in the OWGR Top 50. He has 17 Top 10 finishes over the last three-plus seasons, but the maiden PGA TOUR win still eludes him. McCarthy remains one of the elite putters in the game, no matter the green surface or the speed of the greens. The acumen on the greens is probably enough to outweigh his ball striking and earn him a Top-20 or Top-30 finish.
Matt McCarty 300/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 0/0
Best Career Finish: Debutant
Top 5s: 0
Top 10s: 0
Top 20s: 0
Matt McCarty is making his Masters debut and second major championship start. In October, he earned his first career PGA TOUR win at the Black Desert Championship in his third start. McCarty earned the “battlefield promotion” directly to the PGA TOUR from the Korn Ferry Tour in 2024, having won three times in a season. Furthermore, he won the season-long points race and Player of the Year honors with those three wins and nine Top 10 finishes. After a tough start to 2025, McCarty has made five consecutive cuts, including Top 20s at THE PLAYERS and Valspar. He is starting to play better and could potentially be a good “make the cut” proposition at a price on debut here.
Rory McIlroy 13/2
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 16/13
Best Career Finish: 2nd (2022)
Top 5s: 4
Top 10s: 7
Top 20s: 9
Rory McIlroy is making his 17th Masters appearance, searching for the elusive green jacket and the Career Grand Slam. Since the 2015 Masters, we have been asking the same thing regarding Rory McIlroy. Is this the year that he completes the Career Grand Slam? It is hard to believe that McIlroy last won a major championship in the 2014 PGA Championship at Valhalla. That said, this arguably is the best form he has had coming into Augusta. McIlroy has already beaten two elite fields at Pebble Beach and THE PLAYERS Championship, plus concluded 2024 winning the DP World Tour Championship.
It certainly weighs on McIlroy that he is one Masters win away from joining Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus, and Tiger Woods as winners of the career Grand Slam. He has top 10s in seven of the past 11 years at Augusta National, so he must be wondering when it is finally his turn. The weight of being the game of golf’s conscience has undoubtedly had to take its toll with the current divisions within the sport. McIlroy is arguably the best driver of the golf ball in the world and leads the PGA TOUR for both Strokes Gained: Total and Strokes Gained: Off The Tee. The approach numbers have improved lately as well (17th). It seems like it might finally be his year at Augusta, but we have said that every year over the last decade. His game could not be in better shape coming in this year. If not now, then when?
For more on Rory, here’s author Wes Reynolds on A Numbers Game with Gill Alexander.
Maverick McNealy 110/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 0/0
Best Career Finish: Debutant
Top 5s: 0
Top 10s: 0
Top 20s: 0
Maverick McNealy is making his Masters debut. McNealy earned his invitation by winning last year’s PGA TOUR season finale at the RSM Classic. He also finished second to Ludvig Åberg at the Genesis Invitational, plus posted two other Top 10 finishes already in 2025. The Florida swing was not kind to him as he missed two cuts. Not one current statistic stands out, but McNealy has been one of the better putters on the PGA TOUR over the last several years. However, his improved ball striking has been the primary reason for being a more regular fixture on leaderboards. He should at least be in the mix for the Low Debutant market.
Phil Mickelson 150/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 31/28
Best Career Finish: Winner (2004, 2006, 2010)
Top 5s: 12
Top 10s: 16
Top 20s: 18
Phil Mickelson is making his 32nd Masters appearance. Two years ago, Mickelson showed that he still had some Augusta magic, starting the day 10 shots off the lead and then shooting 65 on Sunday to finish T-2, which set records for both the lowest round and highest finish by a player 50 and older in Masters history. The World Golf Hall of Fame member is one of eight to win at least three Masters and one of three with Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods to finish inside the top five at least 12 times at Augusta National. Mickelson did finish third in the LIV Hong Kong event earlier this year, so he can still pop up on a leaderboard on occasion. No player knows every nook and cranny of this course better than Phil does, so a placement (Top 30; Top 40) wager could be in order.
Collin Morikawa 14/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 5/5
Best Career Finish: T-3rd (2024)
Top 5s: 2
Top 10s: 3
Top 20s: 4
Collin Morikawa is making his sixth Masters appearance. He has made the cut in each of his five appearances at Augusta National, including a T-3 last year. The 2021 Open champion has 12 Top-10 finishes since his last victory at the 2023 ZOZO Championship. He is arguably playing the most consistent golf of his career, but he’s just not winning. Morikawa currently leads the PGA TOUR for Strokes Gained: Approach and for Strokes Gained: Tee To Green. He is even driving the ball better, ranking fourth on TOUR for Driving Accuracy. Morikawa is probably still smarting from losing an event he should have won last month at the Arnold Palmer Invitational and certainly has been more irritable with the golf media of late. Perhaps, these near misses are getting to him. For sure, they are getting to his backers. He is a definite contender here and should be considered as such. The placement (Top 10; Top 20) markets are likely a must-target, but can he get across the line for a victory?
Joaquin Niemann 30/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 5/4
Best Career Finish: T-16th (2023)
Top 5s: 0
Top 10s: 0
Top 20s: 1
Joaquin Niemann is making his sixth Masters appearance. The man from Chile was given a special invitation by the Augusta National Golf Club, as he would not have qualified under any criteria. Nevertheless, he has arguably been one of the most prolific winners in the game with four victories on LIV Golf since February 2024, including two this year in Adelaide and Singapore, plus an Asian Tour win at the Saudi International. Going back to this past December, Niemann has won three of his last six worldwide starts. As impressive as that win equity can look, it is still against limited fields, and Niemann has yet to finish inside the Top 15 in any major. The price looks a little short here. He might be one to monitor for a potential in-play if he gets off to a good start. However, you might have to see it in a major first to believe it.
José María Olazábal 2500/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 35/20
Best Career Finish: Winner (1994, 1999)
Top 5s: 5
Top 10s: 8
Top 20s: 13
José María Olazábal is making his 36th Masters appearance. He is celebrating multiple Masters anniversaries this year. He has played two PGA TOUR Champions events this year and made both cuts but plays rarely. The World Golf Hall of Famer made the cut here last year for the first time since 2021.
Matthieu Pavon 350/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 1/1
Best Career Finish: T-12th (2024)
Top 5s: 0
Top 10s: 0
Top 20s: 1
Frenchman Matthieu Pavon is making his second Masters appearance after going T-12 on debut here last year to earn a return invitation. Pavon was a surprise winner in 2024 at the Farmers Insurance Open and an even bigger surprise contender last summer at Pinehurst, finishing T-5 at the U.S. Open. Nevertheless, he has only two Top 20 finishes in his previous 20 worldwide events. Pavon’s best finish in 2025 is just a T-42 at the Cognizant Classic. He is just 121st for Strokes Gained: Off The Tee and 161st for Strokes Gained: Approach.
Taylor Pendrith 130/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 0/0
Best Career Finish: Debutant
Top 5s: 0
Top 10s: 0
Top 20s: 0
Taylor Pendrith is making his Masters debut. He has three Top-10 finishes worldwide this year, including T-5 at the Houston Open, T-7 at the Farmers Insurance Open, and T-9 in the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. In May 2024, the Canadian earned his first career PGA TOUR victory at the AT&T Byron Nelson. Pendrith’s ball striking prowess (third for Strokes Gained: Off The Tee) fits Augusta like a glove, but his short game is severely lacking (129th Strokes Gained: Putting; 155th Strokes Gained: Around The Green). He looks more like a potential dark horse at the PGA or U.S. Open than here at the Masters.
J.T. Poston 200/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 3/2
Best Career Finish: T-30th (2023)
Top 5s: 0
Top 10s: 0
Top 20s: 0
J.T. Poston is making his fourth Masters appearance. “The Postman” is back at Augusta courtesy of his victory, third career victory on the PGA TOUR, at the Shriners Children’s Open in Las Vegas last fall. Poston is a quality player, but he is best against weaker fields and on shorter courses. His T-30 last year was his best career finish in any major, so it is difficult to have any higher expectations than just making the cut for a third consecutive year.
Jon Rahm 16/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 8/8
Best Career Finish: Winner (2023)
Top 5s: 3
Top 10s: 5
Top 20s: 5
Jon Rahm is making his ninth Masters appearance. The 2023 Masters winner has never missed a cut at Augusta, although last year’s T-45 was his worst career finish here. In 2023, “Rahmbo” joined Seve Ballesteros, Jose Maria Olazabal and Sergio Garcia as Spaniards to win the Green Jacket. Rahm was also the first Masters champion since Sam Snead in 1952 to start his first round with a double bogey and then go on to win. When Rahm joined LIV Golf in late December 2023, it was expected that he would begin to dominate that tour, but he has not. He has only won twice in 25 starts on LIV. Nevertheless, he is not playing poorly by any stretch as he has not finished worse than sixth in any of his four LIV starts in 2025. Although he is around the fifth or sixth shortest price on the odds board, it is fair to say that he might be under the radar coming in this year after a poor 2024 performance in the major championships. He certainly cannot be ignored.
Aaron Rai 125/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 0/0
Best Career Finish: Debutant
Top 5s: 0
Top 10s: 0
Top 20s: 0
Aaron Rai is making his Masters debut. The Englishman and two-time DP World Tour winner earned his inaugural Masters invitation by winning the Wyndham Championship last August. Rai has continued his solid play with four Top-15 finishes already in 2025. He is a short, but deadly accurate hitter (sixth for Driving Accuracy) off the tee and consistent on approach. Rai only has two Top 20s in eight major championship starts, but you can see the improvement in his game. There is a concern that lack of length off the tee will prevent him from being in contention here, but he is a Top 20 or Top 30 placement market candidate.
Patrick Reed 100/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 11/9
Best Career Finish: Winner (2018)
Top 5s: 2
Top 10s: 4
Top 20s: 5
Patrick Reed is making his 12th Masters appearance. Reed won the 2018 Masters by one stroke over Rickie Fowler and by two over Jordan Spieth. He was one of the original expatriates to LIV Golf in 2022. He has yet to win on that circuit and has played better in Asian Tour events as he attempts to accumulate OWGR points to get eligible for other major championships. Last November, he won for the first time anywhere in nearly four years at the Hong Kong Open. Reed is a player for whom you may have to ignore recent form, although he had two Top 10s during the Middle East swing on the DP World Tour in January and was a runner-up in Macau on the Asian Tour. He has finished inside the Top 12 in four of his last five appearances at Augusta and is worthy of a longer shot play this week.
Davis Riley 300/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 0/0
Best Career Finish: Debutant
Top 5s: 0
Top 10s: 0
Top 20s: 0
Davis Riley is making his Masters debut. Riley earned his inaugural Masters invitation courtesy of his victory last May at the Charles Schwab Challenge. He then proceeded to miss 10 of his next 16 cuts, but has since made five in a row with T-6 in Puerto Rico and a seventh at the Valspar. However, he ranks 174th for Strokes Gained: Off The Tee and 155th for Strokes Gained: Approach. While he plays his best golf in this part of the country, it is difficult to expect much from Riley here.
Justin Rose 110/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 19/16
Best Career Finish: 2nd (2017), T-2nd (2015)
Top 5s: 3
Top 10s: 6
Top 20s: 11
Justin Rose is making his 20th Masters appearance. He is twice the runner-up here and has Top 25 finishes in 14 of his 19 starts at Augusta National, including 11 of the past 14 years. 2025 has been hit or miss for Rose, whose Top 4 at last summer’s Open Championship got him another trip to Augusta. Rose finished T-3 at Pebble Beach and T-8 at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, but has missed the cut in three other events. Rose has gained a little length with the driver this year, but the overall game has lacked consistency. The Englishman is still a threat to be a first-round leader, considering he has done it four times here at Augusta, but for all four rounds, a Top 20 might be his ceiling.
Xander Schauffele 20/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 7/6
Best Career Finish: T-2nd (2019)
Top 5s: 2
Top 10s: 4
Top 20s: 5
Xander Schauffele is making his eighth Masters appearance. He has Top 10s in four of the past six years at Augusta National, including runner-up and one back of Tiger Woods in 2019 and T-3 and three back of Hideki Matsuyama in 2021.
The following statement was written in this piece last year: “It is fair to consider Schauffele an elite talent, but not yet an elite player until he can finally get it done and close one out on the major championship stage.”
Well, Schauffele now has the Wanamaker Trophy (PGA Championship) and the Claret Jug (Open Championship) in his current possession as a two-time major champion. However, he comes in a bit off the radar because he missed over two months with a rib injury and has gone T-40, 72nd, and T-12 (led the field for Strokes Gained: Approach at the Valspar) in his three events back from the injury. Schauffele has not contended in any event since the FedEx St. Jude Championship late last summer. The recent form is not good, but you also must consider that Schauffele, in his 30 major championship starts, has 15 Top-10 and 23 Top-20 finishes. The best way to play Schauffele is to see if the outright price drifts upwards enough or stick with Top 10 and Top 20 placement markets.
Scottie Scheffler 9/2
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 5/5
Best Career Finish: Winner (2022; 2024)
Top 5s: 2
Top 10s: 3
Top 20s: 5
World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler is making his sixth Masters appearance and has won here at Augusta in two of the last three years. Last year, Scheffler led the PGA TOUR in 19 categories coming into Augusta. He put together one of the greatest seasons in the history of the PGA TOUR with seven victories, including The Masters and PLAYERS Championship, plus he won the FedEx Cup and the PGA TOUR Player of the Year.
He has yet to win in 2025, partially due to a late start to the season with a hand injury, but also in part to the fact that it’s very difficult to follow up a historically great season. Scheffler still ranks in the Top 10 on the PGA TOUR in the following categories: Strokes Gained: Total, Strokes Gained: Tee To Green, Strokes Gained: Off The Tee, Strokes Gained: Approach, Proximity to the Hole, Scrambling, Scoring Average, Bogey Avoidance, Par 4 Scoring Average.
Scheffler finished T-2 in Houston (for the third time) and nearly rallied for victory. Even when he is not at his best, he is seemingly never out of any event where he tees it up. Until proven otherwise, Scheffler is absolutely the man to beat here this week as he attempts to win his third Masters in four years, a feat only accomplished by Jack Nicklaus in 1966.
Adam Schenk 350/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 1/1
Best Career Finish: T-12th (2024)
Top 5s: 0
Top 10s: 0
Top 20s: 1
Adam Schenk is making his second Masters appearance and earned the return invitation, finishing T-12 in his Augusta debut last year. He is solid off the tee, but ranks 116th for Strokes Gained: Approach and 103rd for Strokes Gained: Putting. Schenk finished T-6 earlier this year at the Sony Open, but he has been well out of form for most of the year. He has missed four consecutive cuts and 15 of his last 25 dating back to last year’s PGA Championship.
Charl Schwartzel 350/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 15/10
Best Career Finish: Winner (2011)
Top 5s: 2
Top 10s: 3
Top 20s: 3
Charl Schwartzel is making his 16th Masters appearance. In 2011 at Augusta National, he was four strokes off the lead entering the final round and closed with second-nine birdies at holes No. 15, 16, 17 and 18 to win by two over Jason Day and Adam Scott. He won the 75th Masters Tournament, 50 years after fellow South African Gary Player became the first international champion in 1961. He is one of three South Africans to win the Green Jacket, with three-time champion Player and 2008 champion Trevor Immelman. Schwartzel contends in a couple of LIV Golf events each year, but that’s about it, as he has not won since the inaugural LIV event in London in June 2022.
Adam Scott 125/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 23/21
Best Career Finish: Winner (2013)
Top 5s: 2
Top 10s: 5
Top 20s: 8
Adam Scott is making his 24th Masters appearance. In 2013, he made birdie on the second playoff hole at No. 10 in the late-afternoon rain at Augusta National to defeat Angel Cabrera and earn Australia’s first Green Jacket. Scott has made the cut in 21 of his 23 Masters starts, including each of the past 15 years. However, Scott has just one Top 10 at Augusta since his 2013 victory. Last season was Scott’s best in about 10 years with 14 Top-20 and five Top-5 finishes. On the other hand, 2025 has been a relatively quiet start for Scott with just one Top-20 finish in seven events. His putting has slipped dramatically in 2025, but he is familiar with these Augusta greens. We probably should look for Scott to continue his made cut streak and extend it to 16, but that is likely the ceiling.
Vijay Singh 2000/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 31/20
Best Career Finish: Winner (2000)
Top 5s: 2
Top 10s: 6
Top 20s: 10
Vijay Singh is making his 32nd Masters appearance and made the cut here last year for the first time since 2018. He won the 2000 Masters by three strokes over Ernie Els for the first of his six top-eight finishes in a seven-year stretch at Augusta National. The World Golf Hall of Fame member won 34 times in his career on the PGA TOUR, including the 1998 and 2004 PGA Championships. At age 62, Singh still plays semi-regularly on PGA TOUR Champions and posted seven Top-10 finishes in 25 events last year.
Cameron Smith 60/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 8/8
Best Career Finish: T-2nd (2020)
Top 5s: 3
Top 10s: 5
Top 20s: 5
Australian Cameron Smith is making his ninth Masters appearance. He has Top 10s in five of the past seven years at Augusta National, including a runner-up finish in 2020 when he became the first in Masters history to record four rounds in the 60s in a single tournament. The 2022 Open Champion ended 2024 with a trio of runner-up finishes plus a third in Australia and the Middle East, but he has yet to threaten in any LIV event for 2025. Nevertheless, he finds a way to get it done at Augusta National mainly due to one of the best short games on the planet. The price has drifted high enough to where he is almost a must inclusion on outright and placement market cards.
J.J. Spaun 125/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 1/1
Best Career Finish: T-23rd (2022)
Top 5s: 0
Top 10s: 0
Top 20s: 0
J.J. Spaun is making his second Masters start and first since 2022. Spaun’s runner-up to Rory McIlroy last month in a playoff at THE PLAYERS Championship vaulted him into the OWGR Top 50 and earned him a return appearance to Augusta. Back in 2022, he qualified for the Masters by winning the Valero Texas Open the week prior. While that remains his lone PGA TOUR victory, Spaun is probably playing the best golf of his career in 2025 with not only a runner-up at the PLAYERS, but also the Cognizant Classic, and a third at the Sony Open. He ranks second on the PGA TOUR for Strokes Gained: Approach. At first glance, this course could be a bit long for Spaun, but he should make the cut here and perhaps be a sneaky Top 20 play.
Jordan Spieth 30/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 11/9
Best Career Finish: Winner (2015)
Top 5s: 6
Top 10s: 6
Top 20s: 7
Jordan Spieth is making his 12th Masters appearance. He has Top-4 finishes in six of his 11 starts at Augusta National. In 2015, he won the Masters by four strokes over Phil Mickelson and Justin Rose in wire-to-wire fashion with a then-record-tying score of 18-under-par 270. Spieth joined Tiger Woods as the only champions to win their Green Jacket at 21. He would go on to win the U.S. Open at Chambers Bay in 2015 and The Open at Royal Birkdale in 2017. While not quite at that level, Spieth at least seems right physically for the first time in a couple of years after finally getting surgery on his wrist. He has two Top 10s (T-4 Waste Management Phoenix Open; T-9 Cognizant Classic in the Palm Beaches) in 2025, which were his first since the 2024 Valero. It has been three years (2022 RBC Heritage) since Spieth has won anywhere, and he will get in the winner’s circle again, but the price here is a bit too tied to course history bias as opposed to recent form.
Sepp Straka 66/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 3/3
Best Career Finish: T-16th (2024)
Top 5s: 0
Top 10s: 0
Top 20s: 1
Austrian Sepp Straka is making his fourth Masters appearance. He qualified for the return invitation by winning The American Express in January for his third PGA TOUR victory. Straka is playing the best golf of his career in 2025, finishing 15th or better in seven of his 10 events. He currently ranks second on the PGA TOUR for Strokes Gained: Approach and for Greens In Regulation. Straka is a superb ball striker and a threat for victories when the putter gets hot. However, is he good enough yet to threaten at a major championship? Certainly, he deserves consideration for a Top 20/Top 30 play.
Hiroshi Tai (a) 1500/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 0/0
Best Career Finish: Debutant
Top 5s: 0
Top 10s: 0
Top 20s: 0
Hiroshi Tai is making his first Masters appearance. He is the first player representing Singapore to compete in the Masters Tournament. Last May, he won the 2024 NCAA Division I Men’s Individual Championship for Georgia Tech by one stroke over six players, including Florida State’s Luke Clanton and Vanderbilt’s Gordon Sargent. He joined a list of champions that includes Jack Nicklaus, Ben Crenshaw, Phil Mickelson, Tiger Woods and Bryson DeChambeau. Also last year, the 2024 First Team All-American made his major championship debut in the U.S. Open at Pinehurst No. 2.
Nick Taylor 200/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 2/1
Best Career Finish: T-29th (2020)
Top 5s: 0
Top 10s: 0
Top 20s: 0
Nick Taylor is making his third Masters appearance. Taylor’s win in a playoff over Nico Echavarria at the Sony Open in Hawaii this past January earned him a return trip to Augusta. The five-time PGA TOUR winner has won on the PGA TOUR each of the last three years. He is a solid iron player (10th for Strokes Gained: Approach), but is also a streaky one. The Canadian has missed consecutive cuts coming into this week and has also missed his last nine cuts in major championships. He shot 77-81 (+14) to miss the cut badly at Augusta last year.
Sahith Theegala 80/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 2/2
Best Career Finish: 9th (2023)
Top 5s: 0
Top 10s: 1
Top 20s: 1
Sahith Theegala is making his third Masters appearance. Two years ago at Augusta, he made seven birdies in his final-round 67 to finish ninth in his Masters debut. Theegala was a popular dark horse here last year, coming in on great form, and he ended up finishing T-45. Perhaps it will be the exact opposite this year because he has had a lousy start to 2025. In 10 events this year, Theegala has only one Top 30 finish. That is a long way from last year, when he had three runners-up and ten Top-10 finishes to earn a spot in the TOUR Championship. Theegala has the talent to play well here, but it would be a highly speculative play on him this week.
Justin Thomas 22/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 9/7
Best Career Finish: 4th (2020)
Top 5s: 1
Top 10s: 2
Top 20s: 4
Justin Thomas is making his 10th Masters appearance. He has Top 25s in six of the past eight years at Augusta, finishing fourth in 2020 and T-8 in 2022. However, he has missed the cut here in each of the past two years. Thomas is a two-time PGA champion, winning in 2017 at Quail Hollow in North Carolina and in 2022 at Southern Hills in Oklahoma, which is his last victory anywhere. His game looks like it is starting to come around with two runners-up to his credit at The American Express and at the Valspar, where he should have won but made two costly bogeys late on Sunday. JT also has two other Top 10s (Genesis, Waste Management Phoenix Open) in 2025. The good form is mainly attributed to the return of his elite iron play (ninth for Strokes Gained: Approach). He struggled with the putter for most of 2024 but has been much improved this season. We are not getting much of a bargain with the current price, but it feels like he is ready to be a top contender in major championships once again.
Davis Thompson (a) 125/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 0/0
Best Career Finish: Debutant
Top 5s: 0
Top 10s: 0
Top 20s: 0
Davis Thompson is making his Masters debut. He finished T-10 in THE PLAYERS Championship in March. Last July, he won his first PGA TOUR event at the John Deere Classic to earn his first trip to Augusta. Thompson finished T-9 last summer in the U.S. Open at Pinehurst No. 2 and was Top 10 at THE PLAYERS last month. In the long term, Thompson will be a more regular winner on the PGA TOUR, and he has a strong game off the tee (23rd Strokes Gained: Off The Tee). However, the putter (139th Strokes Gained: Putting) needs to improve dramatically. He could be worth a look in the Low Debutant market.
Jhonattan Vegas 350/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 3/1
Best Career Finish: T-38th (2018)
Top 5s: 0
Top 10s: 0
Top 20s: 0
Jhonattan Vegas is making his fourth Masters appearance and his first since 2018. Last July, “Jonny Vegas” won for the first time in seven years at the 3M Open. This trip to Augusta is the first major championship appearance for Vegas anywhere since the 2022 PGA Championship at Southern Hills. The Venezuelan finished fourth in the season opener at The Sentry but has not done much since with no finishes inside the Top 40. Vegas can compete with anyone off the tee, but not so much on the greens, as he rates 149th for Strokes Gained: Putting.
Bubba Watson 400/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 16/13
Best Career Finish: Winner (2012, 2014)
Top 5s: 3
Top 10s: 3
Top 20s: 5
Bubba Watson is making his 17th Masters appearance. He is one of just 17 to have won the Masters more than once. In 2012, he defeated Louis Oosthuizen with the help of a spectacular 52-degree wedge shot from the trees on the second playoff hole on No. 10. Two years later, in 2014, he won his second Masters by three strokes over Tournament rookies Jonas Blixt and Jordan Spieth. He is one of five left-handed major champions, with Bob Charles, Mike Weir, Phil Mickelson, and Brian Harman. Watson joined LIV Golf in 2022 and has only posted one Top 10 finish in 29 career events on that circuit. He has not finished Top 10 anywhere in over two years and missed his last two cuts here.
Mike Weir 2000/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 25/12
Best Career Finish: Winner (2003)
Top 5s: 2
Top 10s: 2
Top 20s: 5
Mike Weir is making his 26th Masters appearance. In 2003, he defeated Len Mattiace in a playoff to become Canada’s first male major champion. Weir has been playing PGA TOUR Champions a bit more regularly and had four Top 10 finishes in 16 events last season. However, he has missed the cut here 12 of the last 14 years.
Danny Willett 500/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 10/5
Best Career Finish: Winner (2016)
Top 5s: 1
Top 10s: 1
Top 20s: 2
Danny Willett is making his 11th Masters appearance. In 2016, he shot a final-round 67 at Augusta National to turn a three-stroke deficit into a three-stroke victory over defending champion Jordan Spieth and Lee Westwood. He became England’s first Masters champion since Nick Faldo won his third Green Jacket in 1996. Willett has dealt with a variety of injuries in recent years, but he has been more active here in 2025. He finished T-9 at the Farmers Insurance Open back in January. However, he has missed 13 of his last 19 cuts worldwide since last year’s Masters. Nevertheless, he shot 68 in the first round here last year after not playing anywhere for six months. Could perhaps surprise and make the weekend.
Cameron Young 200/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 3/2
Best Career Finish: T-7th (2023)
Top 5s: 0
Top 10s: 2
Top 20s: 2
Cameron Young is making his fourth Masters appearance. He has finished in the Top 10 here each of the last two years. However, he is a long way from being the semi-regular contender in majors that he has been over the last three years. Young currently rates 161st on the PGA TOUR for Strokes Gained: Tee To Green and 178th for Strokes Gained: Approach. This guy looked destined for stardom a couple of years ago, but is still searching for that elusive maiden PGA TOUR victory. Right now, he looks further away than ever.
Kevin Yu 300/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 0/0
Best Career Finish: Debutant
Top 5s: 0
Top 10s: 0
Top 20s: 0
Kevin Yu is making his Masters debut and his first appearance in any major since the 2020 U.S. Open. The man from Taiwan earned his invitation by winning at the Sanderson Farms Championship last fall. Yu has four Top 20 finishes thus far in 2025. He has been one of the best ball strikers on the PGA TOUR this season by ranking 14th for Strokes Gained: Off The Tee and 23rd for Strokes Gained: Approach. However, it is a different story on the greens as he rates 163rd for Strokes Gained: Putting. Yu could be worth a look in Low Asian and Low Debutant markets if you believe he can improve on these fast Bentgrass greens.
Will Zalatoris 55/1
Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 3/3
Best Career Finish: 2nd (2021)
Top 5s: 1
Top 10s: 2
Top 20s: 3
Will Zalatoris is making his fourth Masters appearance. He finished runner-up on debut in 2021, one stroke behind Hideki Matsuyama. In fact, he has never finished outside the Top 10 here in three appearances. He has seven Top 10 finishes in major championships, including runner-up in both the PGA Championship and U.S. Open in 2022. On the other hand, Zalatoris does not have a Top 10 anywhere since last year’s T-9 here at Augusta. He has made 11 straight cuts dating back to the FedEx St. Jude last summer. Putting remains the weakness in his game as he rates just 130th for Strokes Gained: Putting. However, he has gained almost 1.2 strokes per round on these fast greens at Augusta. The course form keeps his outright price lower than it should be, but he is still worth Top 10 and Top 20 plays.
