Breaking Down All 92 Players in the 2025 Masters Field

The wait is over. The first men's major of the season is finally here! A field of 92 players will drive down Magnolia Lane to tee it up in the 2026 Masters at Augusta National Golf Club, including 19 past champions, 22 first timers, and six amateurs. Ahead of the tournament, the Fried Egg Golf staff wrote capsules to preview every player in the field. From current form and past Masters results to straight-up vibes, this will be the most unique field breakdown you’re sure to find. 

You can scroll through the list below or skip ahead to specific players by clicking the first letter of their last names here.

Age: 26 | OWGR: 18
Recent Masters Results: 7 (2025), 2 (2024)
Best Finish: 2 (2024)

For a player with such a calm, collected demeanor, Aberg inspires some of the most polarized takes in the game. Some will tell you he belongs on a short list of Masters contenders; others will roll their eyes and tell you the Swede is the most overrated golfer in the world. 

If course history at Augusta National is any indication, Aberg should like his chances in his third go-around. In his first two appearances, he finished second and seventh, with legitimate chances to win on Sunday both years. 

Early season struggles — including a near dead last place finish at the Farmers Insurance Open — are in the rearview mirror, and the 26-year-old enters this year’s Masters flashing some form. Critics will point to a recent blown 54-hole lead at the Players Championship as evidence that Aberg lacks a killer instinct, but contending late against one of the strongest fields in golf should still be taken as a positive sign of where Aberg ranks amongst his peers. He is only 26. A little bit of patience should be shown. 

In the history of the Masters, only four golfers have recorded top-10 finishes in each of their first three starts: Paul Runyan (1934-36), Ralph Guldahl (1937-39), Jordan Spieth (2014-16), and Will Zalatoris (2021-24). A top 10 at this year’s Masters would make Aberg the fifth. -Joseph LaMagna

Age: 33  | OWGR: 38
Recent Masters Results: T-21 (2025), T-50 (2022), MC (2021), T-32 (2018), T-27 (2017)
Best Finish: T-10 (2016)

Playing like his Instagram handle, Daniel Berger has been strait vibin for most of this season with three top 25s in eight starts, including a runner-up finish at the Arnold Palmer Invitational when he lost to Akshay Bhatia in a playoff. Berger has earned some decent results, but he hasn’t regularly been in the mix. Chalk up his lack of consistency to the fact he’s still getting his form back after being sidelined for three months at the end of last season with a finger injury. He’s yet to improve on his debut T-10 at the 2016 Masters, but he’s currently sixth on Tour in SG: Approach, which should bode well for his chances to at the very least make the weekend this year in his seventh appearance. -Adam Woodard

Akshay Bhatia

Age: 24 | OWGR: 20
Recent Masters Results: T-42 (2025), T-35 (2024)
Best Finish: T-35 (2024)

The 24-year-old notched his third PGA Tour win with a thrilling comeback at Bay Hill, and a stark putting improvement has buoyed his chances at Augusta National. With modern technology making fades more prevalent than ever, lefties stand a great advantage at Augusta National, where being able to work a ball right-to-left with ease is a tremendous asset. That said, Bhatia’s chances will depend on how he drives the ball, as his iron play is elite. 

While still young, Bhatia is not short on experience. He is now in his sixth year as a Tour pro, and this will be his third start at the Masters. He also competed in the inaugural Drive, Chip, and Putt as a 12-year-old. -Andy Johnson

Keegan Bradley

Age: 39  | OWGR: 26
Recent Masters Results: MC (2025), T-22 (2024), T-23 (2023), T-43 (2019)
Best Finish: T-22 (2014; 2025) 

Bradley accepting the PGA of America’s offer to be the Ryder Cup captain has somehow backfired in three different ways. It meant Bradley couldn’t be a member of the team in a year he was likely going to make it, then the United States lost the Ryder Cup at home, and now the aftermath of that embarrassing defeat is lingering with Bradley. He admitted he’s been struggling to move on. The only person the Ryder Cup did more reputational damage to was PGA of America President Don Rea. If you’re looking for silver linings, Bradley is still driving the ball well. It’s his irons and putting that have been poor this season. -Kevin Van Valkenburg 

Michael Brennan

Age: 24 | OWGR: 45
Recent Masters Results: First Appearance

Michael Brennan is one of the most exciting young prospects in the sport. The 24-year-old burst onto the scene last fall, winning the Bank of Utah Championship in his first PGA Tour start since turning professional in 2024. Prior to winning in Utah, Brennan had been competing on PGA Tour Americas, where he won three times in a four-start stretch shortly before his breakthrough PGA Tour win. 

Equipped with effortless speed and a rare ability to control multiple trajectories and shot shapes off the tee, Brennan is already one of the best drivers of the golf ball in the world. A shaky short game and poor putting, however, have prevented him from having more success on the PGA Tour so far this season. 

If Brennan can develop his short game and putting closer to the level of his solid ball-striking skills, 2026 should be just the first of many trips down Magnolia Lane. -Joseph LaMagna

Jacob Bridgeman 

Age: 26 | OWGR: 17
Recent Masters Results: First Appearance

At a course famous for its bridges, the Bridgeman should feel right at home in his first-ever Masters start. Perhaps so much so that when it’s all over, they’re renaming the Hogan Bridge to the Bridgeman Bridge. He is part of a strong and already accomplished rookie class alongside Michael Brennan, Chris Gotterup, Ryan Gerard, and more, full of repeated PGA Tour contentions and a win at maybe the Tour’s best event, the Genesis Invitational at Riviera. Bridgeman has four top 10s already this season, the win, and has firmly ascended to one of the very best putters in the world. He leads the Tour in SG: Putting. How much that matters at Augusta is up for credible debate, but after working on his swing with coach Scott Hamilton to ship it higher and with less spin, his iron game is as steady as ever. He’s one of the best players in the world, finding his footing on the top Tour after taking his time on the way up following a legendary Clemson career. Contending as a rookie is established as uniquely difficult, but the Bridgeman has the form and game to get in the mix on the weekend. -Brendan Porath

Sam Burns 

Age: 29 | OWGR: 33
Recent Masters Results: T-46 (2025), MC (2024), T-29 (2023), MC (2022)
Best Finish: T-29 (2023)

For a player with five wins, four straight cup appearances for the U.S. teams, and an OWGR that’s landed in the top 10, Burns has a relatively unremarkable major championship career. He has finished in the top 10 at two straight U.S. Opens, the first uncompetitively at Pinehurst and most recently as a final round leader that got washed away in the rains at Oakmont. Burns admirably refused to play the victim about that standing water rules kerfuffle last June, but still limped into the house. There are two constants in Burns world: elite putting and Scottie Scheffler friendship mentions from the broadcast. The putting has again been top tier this season, but the results have been downright meh, and he’s never popped at Augusta National. It’s good to be good with the flatstick, but putting is not the skill most rewarded at Augusta. -Brendan Porath

Age: 56 | OWGR: 3,069
Recent Masters Results: MC (2025), MC (2017-2019)
Best Finish: 1 (2009)

The 2009 Masters winner played the tournament last year for the first time since 2019. His return after a 30-month stint in prison was a topic of conversation entering the week, but his play didn’t provide anything to talk about — his 11-over mark in two rounds tied for second-to-last. Maybe this was the kickstart he needed though, as he became (probably?) the first professional golfer to ever win two major championships (any age) in one week just a month later at the senior level. -PJ Clark

Brian Campbell 

Age: 33 | OWGR: 111
Recent Masters Results: T-32 (2025)
Best Finish: T-32 (2025)

Campbell is one of the shortest hitters in professional golf. Averaging a sub-165 mph ball speed, he makes Russell Henley look like Dustin Johnson. In 2025, the University of Illinois product pieced together one of the unlikeliest PGA Tour seasons in recent memory, winning twice despite finishing no better than T-20 in any of his other 22 starts. If he’s going to add a third professional win — this time at Augusta National — he’ll need one of the greatest iron performances of all time. I could say stranger things have happened, but I’m not sure they have. -Joseph LaMagna

Patrick Cantlay 

Age: 34 | OWGR: 34
Recent Masters Results: T-36 (2025), T-22 (2024), T-14 (2023), T-39 (2022), MC (2021)
Best Finish: T-9 (2019)

Look, what do you want us to put here at this point? Cantlay has been consistently one of the best pro golfers since 2019 and consistently disappointing in majors since then as well. Combine that with a wildly underwhelming season by his standards and it’s hard to get excited about the dour distressed debt collector. Would you have guessed he’s not won on the PGA Tour since 2022?! It’s been that long, but worse, his consistent contention has fallen off since the end of 2024. He was perched inside the top 10 in the world for about four straight years, but has slowly fallen into the 30s over the last 18 months. His game remains solid throughout the bag, he makes almost every cut, and then he’s just kind of there, relevant to the proceedings in minimal ways. You wonder if his involvement and strident commitment and advocacy on the PGA Tour boards over the last few years has impacted his game. He’s so talented, but his historical form at the Masters, majors, and this year leaves me unenthusiastic about his chances this time. -Brendan Porath

Wyndham Clark 

Age: 32 | OWGR: 75
Recent Masters Results: T-46 (2025), MC (2024)
Best Finish: T-46 (2025)

Well, the good news for Wyndham Clark fans is that he’s coming off his best major finish ever aside from that U.S. Open win, which looks more and more random with each passing year. Clark closed out a disappointing-to-disastrous (and destructive) majors season with a quiet top-five finish at Portrush in 2025. That means little for this April’s Masters, but it’s at least something on a major resume that has very little since LACC. His iron play has been elite by his standards this year, which plays well everywhere, especially at Augusta. But the results aren’t there, with his most relevant moments throwing hammers in the TGL so far in 2026. This is just his third Masters and there’s very little to indicate he will be a contender right now. You just hope that fancy new player services facility has a good insurance policy for property damage. -Brendan Porath

Corey Conners

Age: 34 | OWGR: 43
Recent Masters Results: T-8 (2025), T-38 (2024), MC (2023), T-6 (2022), T-8 (2021) 
Best Finish: T-6 (2022)

The 34-year-old Canadian has been a fixture on Masters leaderboards for the past six years, notching four top-10 finishes in that time. While he has been consistently great, it’s hard to feel confident in a player with as shaky a putter and short game at a major. High-leverage golf tournaments inevitably come down to overcoming weaknesses, and unfortunately, Conners’ weak points in his game are shots that possess the most pressure nearest the hole. The path to Conners joining Mike Weir as the only winners from our neighbors to the north resides on a combination of sublime tee to green mastery — something completely possible — and two or more rounds of exquisite putting, which maybe isn’t as possible. With all that being said, you can’t win if you can’t contend, and Conners has proven over and over that his accurate tee shots and supreme iron play are more than likely going to get him into the mix on the weekend. -Andy Johnson

Fred Couples

Age: 66 | OWGR: 4,937
Recent Masters Results: MC (2021), MC (2022), T-50 (2023), MC (2024), MC (2025)
Best Finish: 1 (1992)

In 2024, Couples wondered if maybe his Masters career had come to a close. He shot 80-76 and figured he might need to brace for the tap on the shoulder that every former champion gets when they’re in their 60s, the sign from Augusta National that it’s time to hang up your spikes. He said he was at peace with whatever happened, and that he didn’t want to embarrass the club. But to his surprise, the club told him he was welcome to keep playing. He responded in 2025 by shooting 71 in the opening round, tying Tom Watson as the oldest player to break par in the Masters. Couples ended up missing the cut, but only by two shots. At age 66, we are getting very close to the end, but he’s still a joy to watch on this golf course. No swing ever looked as smooth hitting irons into Augusta greens. There was a time when it looked like Couples might win three or four green jackets, but instead he’ll finish with just one. Like Santiago in Ernest Hemingway’s “Old Man and the Sea,” sometimes all a man can do is pay his respects to his greatest adversary and keep rowing with his dignity intact. -Kevin Van Valkenburg

Age: 38 | OWGR: 41
Recent Masters Results: T-8 (2025), T-30 (2024), T-39 (2023), MC (2021), MC (2020)
Best Finish: T-2 (2011)

Few active players have a better Masters history without a win than Jason Day. At age 38, Day is running out of opportunities to win at Augusta National. In his prime, Day mixed immense power with a supreme short game that led him to the top of the game in 2016 and 2017. The power advantage has faded as the game has gotten more speed-crazed, but Day’s experience and deft touch around the greens allows him to still compete at the Masters. Day notched a top 10 in 2025 and was in the mix in 2023 before a disastrous weekend sent him tumbling down the leaderboard to T-39. Hopefully his play makes more headlines than his apparel this year. -Andy Johnson

Bryson DeChambeau

Age: 32 | OWGR: 24
Recent Masters Results: T-5 (2025), T-6 (2024), MC (2023), MC (2022), T-46 (2021)
Best Finish: T-5 (2025)

Short of Rory McIlroy, there is no player with a more fascinating career at Augusta National than the polarizing Bryson DeChambeau. In his debut round at the Masters in 2016, he scorched the course and came to the 18th tee box 3 under and one off the lead. It looked as though DeChambeau would be a force at Augusta National for years to come, then he rope-hooked a tee shot left of Senator Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s politics and into a holly bush. It led to a triple bogey and the start of years of struggles around Augusta National. In 2020, fresh off a U.S. Open win, DeChambeau stated, “I’m looking at it as a par 67 for me,” due to his immense power. He finished in a tie for 35th and failed to break 69 in the soft fall playing conditions. In the years from 2018 to 2023, DeChambeau’s best finish was a T-29. The course’s design and slew of uneven lies was a torture chamber for the analytical golfer. But as his YouTube popularity rose, so did his results at Augusta National. In 2024, it was a shock when DeChambeau was a serious contender on the weekend, and then he squared off against Rory McIlroy in the final pairing of 2025. For DeChambeau to get across the line, he needs to clean up two things: approach play and his lag putting. Both are areas he has struggled in the last two Masters, but he should be considered a first-page favorite in 2026. -Andy Johnson

Age: 31 | OWGR: 39
Recent Masters Results: 51 (2025)
Best Finish: 51 (2025)

“The Pride of Morton’s Salt” made the cut at his first Masters, finishing in a tie for 51st at Augusta National in 2025. Echavarria is a player who tends to run incredibly hot or incredibly cold. His good weeks on approach end with impressive finishes — he already has a win this year at the Cognizant Classic and a T-8 finish at the Pebble Beach Pro-Am. His bad weeks leave a lot to be desired — he was one of just 21 players to miss the cut at the Genesis Invitational, and his next highest finish this year (aside from the previously mentioned events) is just a T-44. Echavarria is fighting for a spot on this year’s International Team for the Presidents Cup, and a strong major finish would go a long way toward locking up an automatic spot. Plus, the chance to break out his new “Salt Bae” celebration for an eagle on No. 13 has to be weighing heavily on his mind. If you’re wondering about Echavarria’s chances to pop at Augusta, flip a coin. How lucky do you feel? -PJ Clark

Harris English

Age: 36 | OWGR: 21
Recent Masters Results: T-12 (2025), T-22 (2024), T-43 (2023), T-21 (2021)
Best Finish: T-12 (2025)

Ryder Cup USA’s “Man in the Envelope” made the cut at all four majors last year and finished runner-up at both the Open and the PGA Championship. He wasn’t in second place at the 2025 Masters, but his T-12 finish was the best of his career. English is off to a solid enough start to 2026, finishing in the top 30 of all six of his made cuts. His only MC came at the Players, where he finished dead last in Strokes Gained: Approach. Figure that’s just a bad week with the irons and you have a consistent player who hasn’t yet really been in it on a weekend this year. A five-time winner on the PGA Tour, he’s finished in the top 20 of Strokes Gained: Putting for the last three seasons and added some major resumé padding last year. If you’re looking for a true long shot contender, I think you could do a lot worse than another Georgia boy at Augusta. -PJ Clark

‍Age: 20 | OWGR: 4937
Recent Masters Results: First Appearance

After helping Oklahoma State capture the team NCAA Championship title last May, the junior went on an outstanding run in the summer. He won the Amateur Championship at Royal St. George’s in June — the first American to do so since 2007 — and followed it up with a runner-up finish at the Western Amateur at Skokie Country Club in August. He was also a member of the victorious U.S. team at the 2025 Walker Cup at Cypress Point.

Fang may not have quite the firepower to keep up with many of the professionals he’ll face at the Masters, but his scrappy short game has been a reliable weapon at the amateur level. Perhaps a little short-game magic could give Fang a chance to see the weekend in his Masters debut. -Joseph LaMagna

Matthew Fitzpatrick

Age: 31 | OWGR: 5
Recent Masters Results: T-40 (2025), T-22 (2024), T-10 (2023), T-14 (2022), T-34 (2021)
Best Finish: T-7 (2016)

Matt Fitzpatrick enters the 2026 Masters playing some of the best golf of his career. A standout for Team Europe at last September’s Ryder Cup, Fitzpatrick has backed up a strong second half of 2025 with a red-hot start to 2026. He narrowly missed an eight-foot par putt on the 18th hole at the Players Championship to force a playoff, then responded the following week with a win at the Valspar. Though the Masters has not been his best major — it is the only one in which he has yet to record a top five — Fitzpatrick has made 10 straight cuts at Augusta National, the third-longest active streak behind Tiger Woods (24) and Hideki Matsuyama (11). The 2022 U.S. Open champion is shaping up to be a popular pick, and for good reason. -Joseph LaMagna

Tommy Fleetwood

Age: 35 | OWGR: 4
Recent Masters Results: T-21 (2025), T-3 (2024), 33 (2023), T-14 (2022), T-46 (2021) 
Best Finish: T-3 (2024)

The second most popular YouTuber in the field enters 2026 with the unenviable title of the best current player without a major championship. Fleetwood has had his major championship moments, with finishes in the top five of all four major championships and seven top-five finishes in 41 major starts. The Englishman is tested and possesses a stellar tee-to-green game, which means his game travels anywhere. In his Masters career he has not missed a cut since his maiden visit in 2017 and finished a career-best T-3 in 2024. 

At the end of 2025, there was a real conversation that Fleetwood was the second-best player in the world after his strong close to both the PGA and DP World Tour schedules, but the ascension of other challengers has masked what has been a solid 2026 with three top 10s in six starts. He will head to the Masters a bit more under the radar than you would have expected at the start of the year. -Andy Johnson

Ryan Fox

Age: 39 | OWGR: 48
Recent Masters Results: T-38 (2024), T-26 (2023)
Best Finish: T-26 (2023)

A proper international player broke through in America, hoisting two PGA Tour trophies in 2025. Foxy will look to add his first yellow box to his major championship table on Wikipedia in 2026. The burly Kiwi has played in 25 major championships and has been a model of consistency, making 18 cuts, but has yet to break through with a great performance. With plenty of power, he fits everywhere; it’s just a matter of putting together a week-long performance. -Andy Johnson

Age: 46 | OWGR: 342
Recent Masters Results: MC (2025), MC (2024), MC (2023), T-23 (2022), MC (2021)
Best Finish: 1 (2017)

What an incredible, tempestuous, winding career for the captain of the Fireballs. The floodgates decidedly did not open when he, at long last, finally broke through for his first major after almost 20 years of trying with his 2017 green jacket. Since then, he’s been completely irrelevant in major championships, including missing six of seven cuts at the Masters. That’s hard to do where the cut line can be somewhat benign for anyone in a semblance of form and still playing Tour golf at high levels. He went decidedly the other way than the man he beat in that 2017 playoff, Justin Rose, who is still contending at every level at age 45. This would be the 28th straight year Sergio has played the Masters, missing only in 2020 when he tested positive for COVID in that November edition. The guy was low amateur in 1999 and then just posted up for multiple decades. As with many LIV rank-and-file players, it’s hard to make much of Sergio’s form – a lot of middling finishes in weaker fields. But Sergio may just love showing up for the Champions Dinner, the par 3, and strutting around in his coat all week at this point, which is completely fine. He does not seem like any kind of threat to contend. -Brendan Porath

Ryan Gerard

Age: 26 | OWGR: 28
Recent Masters Results: First Appearance

Of all the first-timers in the field, Ryan Gerard has one of the highest chances to wind up in contention on Sunday afternoon. Few players strike their irons as purely as the 26-year-old former North Carolina Tar Heel. He qualified for the Masters by flying across the world to play in the Mauritius Open in late December, where he earned just enough OWGR points with his playoff loss to sneak inside the top-50 cutoff before year’s end.

His hot play continued into the new year, where he finished runner-up in back-to-back starts at the Sony Open and the American Express. Despite making more than $2 million on the course this year, he hasn’t yet invested in a kitchen table for his Jupiter home, opting instead for putting mats. We’ll see if the putting work pays off on some of the trickiest green complexes in golf. -Joseph LaMagna

‍Chris Gotterup

Age: 26 | OWGR: 9
Recent Masters Results: First Appearance 

There is an old adage that, when you’re making picks for the Masters, you can throw out all the first-timers. Fuzzy Zoeller in 1979 is the only player to pull it off, as long as you’re willing to throw out Horton Smith (1934) and Gene Sarazen (1935), who did it in the tournament’s infancy. But Ludvig Aberg certainly made it interesting in 2024, finishing second. In some respects, Gotterup will enter his first Masters with a better resume than Aberg had when he made his debut, having won four times and finished second at the Open Championship. Whatever happens, it will be a delight to watch Gotterup shape the ball around some of Augusta’s holes off the tee. -Kevin Van Valkenburg

Max Greyserman

Age: 30 | OWGR: 62
Recent Masters Results: T-32 (2025)
Best Finish: T-32 (2025)

Max Greyserman played in all four majors in 2025, making the cut in three of them. He played the Masters for the first time, finishing at 1 over for the week and tying for 32nd. He followed that major performance up with a similar T-33 in his first PGA Championship and tied for 23rd at Oakmont during the U.S. Open.

Greyserman’s PGA Tour career has most notably been a series of close calls. After a one-shot loss at the 2024 3M Open, he wilted late at the 2024 Wyndham Championship before Matt Kuchar tried to put his finish on pause. This trend continued last year, when Greyserman lost in a marathon playoff at the Rocket Classic before finishing in second to Xander Schauffele at the Baycurrent last fall. He hasn’t come close to competing yet in 2026, but most of his top finishes have occurred later in the summer. With a T-18 at the Arnold Palmer as his best finish this season, it would be surprising to see Greyserman in position for yet another close call, this time at the Masters. -PJ Clark

Ben Griffin

Age: 29 | OWGR: 16
Recent Masters Results: First appearance

The breakout player of 2025 is yet another big name in this loaded crop of Masters rookies. Griffin won three times last year, finished in second twice, made the U.S. Ryder Cup team, and had two top 10s in major championships. All in all, this made him one of the top-10 players in the world, with a career-high year-end ranking of eighth. He was the first man out of last year’s Masters field after he played 13 straight events to try and make it inside the OWGR top 50 cutoff.

So far, this year hasn’t been kind to the man in the aviators. Griffin has quickly fallen outside of the OWGR top 10 and has yet to record a finish better than T-19. He’s not exactly trending either after three straight missed cuts to wrap up the PGA Tour’s Florida Swing. Augusta National isn’t usually a place to find your game, but Griffin will need to tap into what carried him last summer if he wants to see the weekend of his first Masters. -PJ Clark

Age: 28 | OWGR: 59
Recent Masters Results: First Appearance 

Harry Hall must feel like the most disrespected golfer in the world. Despite making it to East Lake last August, the Englishman never seemed to be in much consideration for a European Ryder Cup spot. 

His around-the-green play and putting are world-class, as he ranked in the top 10 on the PGA Tour in both categories last season. His long irons and driver, however, are not up to the standards of the best players in the world. To have any chance of contending in his Masters debut, Hall will need to summon one of the best scrambling performances in the field. -Joseph LaMagna

Brian Harman

Age: 39 | OWGR: 50
Recent Masters Results: T-36 (2025), MC (2024), CUT (2023), CUT (2022), T-12 (2021) 
Best Finish: T-12 (2021)

Much to the dismay of the U.K. golf media, Brian Harman’s most notable career achievement was a six-shot victory at the 2023 Open Championship. The British media nicknamed him the “Butcher of Hoylake” after the win. But while he’s strung together three top-10 finishes in his last four Open appearances, he’s never earned a top 10 at Augusta National. His sole stateside top 10 in a major championship was a T-2 at the 2017 U.S. Open.-Will Knights

Tyrrell Hatton

Age: 34 | OWGR: 31
Recent Masters Results: T-14 (2025), T-9 (2024), T-34 (2023), 52 (2022), T-18 (2021)
Best Finish: T-9 (2024)

It’s fair to say Augusta National isn’t Tyrrell Hatton’s favorite golf course on the planet. “You can hit good shots here and not get any reward for it. It’s unfair at times. I don’t agree with that,” he said in 2022, the same year he gestured shooting bullets into the course in frustration. Sometimes a golfer just doesn’t jibe with a course. Other times, though, a player evolves and comes to appreciate a place he once cursed. Hatton should open his mind to that possibility, because he has the skill to compete on any golf course against any field. The four-time Ryder Cupper has 10 worldwide wins across the PGA Tour, DP World Tour, and LIV Golf, and a reasonable claim to being one of the best active golfers without a major championship win. -Joseph LaMagna

Russell Henley

Age: 36 | OWGR: 10
Recent Masters Results: MC (2025), T-38 (2024), T-4 (2023), T-30 (2022), T-15 (2018)
Best Finish: T-4 (2023)

The 36-year-old Georgia native is one of the most talented players in golf. Unfortunately, at a big ballpark like Augusta National, Russell Henley’s only weakness is that he’s a little light on ball speed. Henley has made the cut in seven of his nine appearances at the Masters and notched a nice T-4 finish in 2023, though he finished five shots behind eventual champion Jon Rahm. For him to get in serious contention, his irons and putter will have to be scorching hot. Given the yardage he’s giving up off the tee, and with how many brutally long par 4s Augusta National features, I personally just don’t see it. -Andy Johnson

Jackson Herrington (Amateur)

Age: 19 | OWGR: Unranked
Recent Masters Results: First appearance

A sophomore at the University of Tennessee, Herrington is a powerful left-hander affectionately referred to as “The Fridge.” Yes, as is visible across his social media channels, his personality is worthy of the nickname. Herrington earned his place at Augusta National by finishing runner-up at the 2025 U.S. Amateur at Olympic Club, the second time he’s reached a USGA final (runner-up at the 2024 U.S. Four-Ball with Blades Brown). -Will Knights

Nicolai Hojgaard

Age: 25 | OWGR: 36
Recent Masters Results: MC (2025), T-16 (2024)
Best Finish: T-16 (2024)

Nicolai Hojgaard may have been one of the final names to earn an invite, but don’t be surprised if he’s in the mix come Sunday. In seven starts, Nicolai has five top 25s, including a third-place showing at the WM Phoenix Open and a runner-up most recently at the Texas Children’s Houston Open. He’s gaining strokes in all the major categories this season and has improved both off the tee and with the putter as a young professional. He’s got the stuff to hang at Augusta National, as seen with his T-16 debut in 2024, and I’d be surprised to see consecutive early exits down Magnolia Lane. -Adam Woodard

Rasmus Hojgaard

Age: 25 | OWGR: 55
Recent Masters Results: T-32 (2025)
Best Finish: T-32 (2025)

Rasmus Hojgaard arrives at his second Masters looking to take a meaningful step forward in his career. The 25-year-old Dane turned professional seven years ago, a classic example of a player who turned pro early and seems like a seasoned veteran despite still being quite young. He represented Team Europe at last September’s Ryder Cup, losing in both of the two matches he played. A five-time winner on the DP World Tour, Rasmus straddles the line between good and potentially great. A solid showing at the Masters could be the jumpstart Rasmus needs to take his game to another level. -Joseph LaMagna

Brandon Holtz (Amateur)

Age: 38 | OWGR: Unranked
Recent Masters Results: First appearance

One of the more remarkable stories in the field, the 2025 U.S. Mid-Am Champion was a Div. I college basketball player rather than a golfer. Brandon Holtz played point guard at Illinois State and turned to golf full-time after college, bouncing around mini-tours for years before regaining his amateur status. As you might surmise from a college basketball player, the 38-year-old has plenty of pop in his bat, a skill that should give him a good chance to generate scoring opportunities around Augusta National. Holtz joined the Fried Egg Golf Podcast last fall and discussed how he used to make the trip down to Augusta National with his father. -Andy Johnson

Max Homa

Age: 35 | OWGR: 156
Recent Masters Results: T-12 (2025), T-3 (2024), T-43 (2023), T-48 (2022), MC (2021)
Best Finish: T-3 (2024)

This year marks Homa’s seventh appearance at Augusta National. Despite a rather dreadful 2025, Homa finished T-12 in last year’s tournament to earn his spot in the 2026 field. Homa has shown signs of a return to form this season, but he has yet to break through with a great performance. The former Cal star resumed his work with Mark Blackburn, his coach during his best professional years, and his stats have seen an uptick, particularly in his approach to the green numbers, a key at Augusta. Given his recent success and his improving form, Homa could be flying under the radar ahead of this year’s Masters. -Andy Johnson

Viktor Hovland

Age: 28 | OWGR: 22
Recent Masters Results: T-21 (2025), MC (2024), T-7 (2023), T-27 (2022), T-21 (2021) 
Best Finish: T-7 (2023)

Maybe the most interesting — and confounding — personality in golf. In some ways, Hovland feels like a throwback to a different era. He loves to tinker, he never seems happy with his swing, he hasn’t met a training aid he didn’t fall in love with, if only for a week. You should root for him to win the Masters, if only because he’d likely serve guacamole and chips at the Champions Dinner, to go with some exotic Norwegian dish. For all the focus on Hovland’s chipping in recent years, he’s turned himself into an average player around the greens, which is all he needed. Unfortunately, he’s regressed significantly with the driver the last two seasons. -Kevin Van Valkenburg

Mason Howell (Amateur)

Age: 18 | OWGR: 4,937
Recent Masters Results: First appearance

Mason Howell’s spring calendar includes the high school prom and a trip down Magnolia Lane. Howell took the amateur golf world by storm in 2025 by setting a scoring record at a U.S. Open qualifier, earning medalist honors at the U.S. Junior, winning the U.S. Amateur, and going undefeated in his matches at the Walker Cup. The Thomasville, Georgia, native is committed to play for the Bulldogs in Athens next year and will surely be a fan (and betting) favorite for low amateur honors in Augusta. -Andy Johnson

Age: 28 | OWGR: 70
Recent Masters Results: T-5 (2025), MC (2024), T-16 (2023), T-8 (2022) , MC (2021)
Best Finish: T-2 (2020)

Masters expectations were sky-high for Sungjae after he contended in his debut in 2020, finishing T-2. With three top-eight finishes in six starts, it’s been an exceptional venue for the South Korean star, yet somehow he always leaves you wanting more. Im’s career has been defined by consistent showings without any sustained elite performances. The 27-year-old has made East Lake and finished in the top 30 of the FedEx Cup all seven years he’s been a professional, yet has never been considered among the game’s elite. In all other majors, Im has only one top 10, the 2024 Open, making it clear that the style of golf presented at Augusta National best fits his game, which revolves around stout iron play. -Andy Johnson

Age: 22 | OWGR: 69
Recent Masters Results: First appearance

With two wins and a runner-up finish on the DP World Tour in 2026, Casey Jarvis is having a breakout season. The 22-year-old will be making just his second career major championship appearance at the 2026 Masters after qualifying for the 2024 U.S. Open at Pinehurst. The South African had a very impressive amateur career and became the youngest player in DP World Tour history to shoot 59 when he did so at just 19 years old. But perhaps the most memorable achievement of Jarvis’ career thus far is this video announcing that he was turning professional. That’ll be one for the time capsule. -Will Knights

Dustin Johnson

Age: 41 | OWGR: 585
Recent Masters Results: MC (2025), MC (2024), T-48 (2023), T-12 (2022), MC (2021)
Best Finish: 1 (2020)

The 2020 champion is the earliest inductee into the “retiree” category of past Masters champions. Since going to LIV, the once-dominant star has seen his game decline year over year at a dramatic rate. Sources around the South Florida area suggest Dustin Johnson’s been an endangered species at driving ranges and area golf courses. Six years ago, you would have figured DJ would still be a factor at a course he notched five straight top 10s at from 2015-2020. But since his win, he hasn’t finished in the top 10 at the Masters and hasn’t notched a top 10 in any major in his last nine starts. -Andy Johnson

Zach Johnson

Age: 50 | OWGR: 314
Recent Masters Results: T-8 (2025), MC (2024), T-34 (2023), MC (2021-2022)
Best Finish: 1 (2007)

Remember when Zach Johnson shot a 66 on Saturday of the 2025 Masters? He even finished in a tie for eighth! Sure, it was his first top 10 at Augusta since 2015, but that was pre-Champions Tour Zach Johnson we’re talking about. The 2007 Masters winner now plays on a tour where he’s possibly the best player out there. His debut win at the James Hardie Pro Football Hall of Fame Invitational was his first win of any kind since the 2015 Open Championship. This is a reinvigorated man riding the high of Senior Tour dominance and is coming off a top 10 with pseudo-contention at last year’s tournament. Many won’t want to hear this, but you could make the case that there’s no hotter player in the field than Captain Zach. Dark horse, anyone? -PJ Clark

‍Age: 28 | OWGR: 366
Recent Masters Results: First Appearance 

A mystery man in the field, Kataoka earned an invitation by winning the Japan Open as part of the Masters new initiative to reward and emphasize national opens. This will be his first-ever major championship. His Japan Open win in October was just his second win on the Japan Golf Tour, and first in five years. He’s not done much since then, and may have the distinction of being the only pro in the field without a Wikipedia page. A made cut here would be a significant accomplishment. -Brendan Porath

Johnny Keefer

Age: 25 | OWGR: 60
Recent Masters Results: First appearance

Johnny — or John, per the official Masters field list — Keefer finds himself in the field following a dominant 2025 season on the Korn Ferry Tour. He finished first on the KFT points list following two wins, two runner-up finishes, and five other top 10s. All of this led to Keefer ending the year as the No. 48 player in the world, comfortably inside the line for an invite to the year’s first major.

Now armed with a PGA Tour card, Keefer’s 2026 hasn’t yet matched up with his back-to-back standout seasons on lower circuits. He missed the cut in all three of his Florida starts, but clearly found something in a return to Texas at the Houston Open. The former Baylor Bear finished in a tie for third, by far his best result of this year. Is he rounding into form just in time to see the weekend on his first trip around Augusta National? -PJ Clark

Michael Kim

Age: 32 | OWGR: 56
Recent Masters Results: T-27 (2025)

Kim’s career has been a story of genuine perseverance. His first appearance in the Masters, in 2019, came courtesy of his first PGA Tour victory at the John Deere Classic. He wouldn’t make it back to the Masters until 2025, and he was almost out of golf in the interim. Kim lost his PGA Tour card in 2021 and spent a year on the Korn Ferry Tour clawing his way back. But he returned as a much better golfer, and some of that was evident at the 2025 Masters when he finished T-27, his first made cut in a major since 2018. Kim would probably be the first winner to ever live-tweet the green jacket ceremony in Butler Cabin, so if that’s your thing, pull for a longshot win. -Kevin Van Valkenburg

Si Woo Kim

Age: 31 | OWGR: 30
Recent Masters Results: T-30 (2024), T-29 (2023), T-39 (2022), T-12 (2021)
Best Finish: T-12 (2021)

One month into the 2026 season, Si Woo Kim hadn’t finished worse than T-11 through four starts and looked like one of the top 12 players in the world. Since then, he’s cooled off. 

Ask around on Tour and a lot of players will tell you that Si Woo Kim is one of the most fun playing partners in golf. Not only does Kim have a vibrant personality and a great sense of humor, he has always boasted one of the best short games in the world. And this season, he has taken his approach play to another level. Elite iron play coupled with a nasty short game makes for a dangerous combination around Augusta National. If his putter fails to cooperate — as it often does — maybe he’ll break it again like he did on the 15th hole in 2021. -Joseph LaMagna

Kurt Kitayama 

Age: 33 | OWGR: 35
Recent Masters Results: T-35 (2024), MC (2024)
Best Finish: T-35 (2024)

“The Project” as he’s affectionately known to some has had a remarkable career arc, fashioning himself into a bona fide Tour pro in his 30s and becoming a favorite of the gambling community and his fellow Tour pros out in Vegas. The squat veteran whales away and sends it, sometimes all over the yard. Kitayama won last summer in Minneapolis and then came runner-up at Riviera this year. The gambling community loves him because the underlying stats are there – he remains a very strong tee to green player, which works at the Masters. But are you expecting Rory to be slipping a green jacket onto the Kitayama come Sunday night? There’s no major history to speak of, but he’s got the skills to have a cup of coffee on a leaderboard. -Brendan Porath

Jake Knapp

Age: 31 | OWGR: 42
Recent Masters Results: T-55 (2024)
Best Finish: T-55 (2024)

Another late addition to the field via his top 50 spot in the OWGR, Jake Knapp will make his second Masters appearance after finishing T-55 in his 2024 debut. Knapp had a breakout season in 2024 with his Mexico Open win and T-3 at the Farmers Insurance Open, but struggled with consistency and getting over the line in 2025. This season, however, the former bouncer has been in the VIP lounge thanks to six top-12 finishes in seven starts. He currently leads the Tour in total strokes gained! The downside? His only poor performance was a missed cut at the Players, the toughest test he’s taken so far this year. He’s playing the best golf of his career, and a win has to be on the horizon. But I just can’t picture Rory McIlroy putting the green jacket on him. -Adam Woodard

Brooks Koepka

Age: 35 | OWGR: 165
‍Recent Masters Results: MC (2025), T-45 (2024), T-2 (2023), MC (2021, 2022),
Best Finish: T-2 (2023, 2019)

Once the most dominant major champion of his generation, Brooks Koepka is back on the PGA Tour and looking to break the newfound tie at five majors after Rory McIlroy’s win at Augusta last year.

After scuffling on Sunday against Jon Rahm in 2023, Koepka has finished outside of the top 40 in his last two Masters starts. He has zero major top-10 finishes since his win at the 2023 PGA Championship and missed the cut at three of the four in 2025. His big jump back to the Tour started slow, but he began to round into form during the Florida Swing with top-13 finishes at both the Cognizant Classic and the Players. A faulty putter had been holding him back, though a recent change to a TaylorMade Spider led to his two best Strokes Gained: Putting results of the season.

Now 35, Koepka’s “traditional” window to win a sixth major is inching closer and closer to shutting. With all of that said, only fools would doubt him at the four biggest events on the calendar, as he’s shown time and again that his form in non-major competitions is hardly relevant to his success at majors. Plus, a trip to Memorial Park for the Houston Open (albeit a missed cut) was likely better preparation for Augusta National than being off for two weeks following a tournament in South Africa. Just one more note for the statheads: the last time Koepka missed the cut in at least two majors, he finished in a tie for second at the next year’s Masters before winning the PGA. Fade him at your own risk. -PJ Clark

Age: 21 | WAGR: 4,937
Recent Masters Results: First Appearance 

Who remembers the great Thongchai Jaidee? Could Fifa follow in his footsteps from a country that’s produced many top women pros recently? Laopakdee became the first player from Thailand to win the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship back in the fall in Dubai. That amateur championship, an initiative spearheaded by the Masters with the other governing bodies, has thrived since its debut in 2009. Fifa made eight birdies in his final 11 holes to storm back and then win it in a playoff. The tall, powerful Thai amateur will make his first-ever major start, but as a junior at Arizona State, he has played much of the elite amateur circuit, making match play at the U.S. Am last year and winning the Thunderbird Collegiate. His nickname is Fifa because his dad loved soccer and it came down to that or UEFA. -Brendan Porath

Min Woo Lee

Age: 27 | OWGR: 25
Recent Masters Results: 49 (2025), T-22 (2024), MC (2023), T-14 (2022)
Best Finish: T-4 (2022)

Min Woo Lee — or “Dr. Chipinski,” as he’s known in some corners — hasn’t yet produced the major championship results to match the hype around his name. He owns just one top-10 finish in 17 major starts and missed three of four cuts in 2025. In 2026, however, Min Woo has shown improvement in both driving accuracy and iron play, two areas that have held him back so far in his career. With sharper ball-striking to complement a world-class short game, he should have a solid chance to record his best finish yet at this year’s Masters. -Joseph LaMagna

Haotong Li

Age: 30 | OWGR: 81
Recent Masters Results: T-43 (2019), T-32 (2018)
Best Finish: T-32 (2018)

Whether you know him for his final-round 63 at Royal Birkdale in 2017 or for the amount of coverage he got while on the range at the 2020 PGA Championship, Haotong Li has been around the professional game for quite some time. He turned pro at 16, won on the DP World Tour at 19, and represented China in the Olympics that same year. He also represented the International Team at the Presidents Cup in 2019, allegedly pissing off captain Ernie Els throughout the week and repeatedly ignoring strategy orders. We love rebels. -Will Knights

Shane Lowry

Age: 39 | OWGR: 32
Recent Masters Results: T-42 (2025), T-43 (2024), T-16 (2023), T-3 (2022), T-21 (2021) 
Best Masters Finish: T-3 (2022) 

It’s not impossible to envision Lowry winning the Masters. He’s got great hands and is one of the game’s best iron players. He’s contended (sort of) in the past, including in 2025, where he was just three shots off the lead at the halfway point. But it’s hard to envision Lowry winning the Masters if one of the top players is on his game. Lowry simply doesn't hit the ball far enough to give himself the same kind of chances that McIlroy, Scheffler, and DeChambeau have. Lowry has also developed a habit of losing his cool when he gets a bad break, which isn’t the best way to win the Masters. But he’s been playing some of his best golf in 2026. Watching his good friend Rory win a jacket last year had to be a little inspiring to raise his game. -Kevin Van Valkenburg

Age: 29 | OWGR: 11
Recent Masters Results: MC (2025), T-23 (2022), T-12 (2021)
Best Finish: T-12 (2021)

As Andy Johnson often says, the best path to winning a major championship is to find yourself in contention at a lot of them. Robert MacIntyre is starting to do just that. “Big Shot Bob” was ranked as high as No. 5 in the world earlier this year following a 2025 season with two major top 10s, a win at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship, and a runner-up finish at the BMW Championship. He held the clubhouse lead almost out of nowhere on a rainy Sunday at Oakmont until J.J. Spaun’s improbable birdie-birdie finish bested him by two shots, leaving him in solo second. MacIntyre also found himself back on the European Ryder Cup team and provided 1.5 points to the winning effort at Bethpage Black.

This year started off well for the Scot, opening the year with a T-4 finish at the Sony Open. After a string of middling results in a handful of starts, it didn’t seem like MacIntyre had much going for him heading into the Players Championship. Naturally, a Saturday 65 had him squarely in the hunt and his fourth-place finish was his second-consecutive top 10 at TPC Sawgrass. It’s a good result to enter this week on, at the very least.

Bob’s best Masters finish is a T-12 in 2021, his Masters debut. He’s a different player now than he was then — this is now a veteran with some real high-stress major experience under his belt. He’s also left-handed, if you’re into that thing around Augusta National. There are people who doubt whether MacIntyre has the game to truly be a top ten player in the world. There are also people who believe that big-time players make big-time plays in big-time games. I think Robert MacIntyre is a big-time player. It’s time to show it at the Masters. -PJ Clark

Hideki Matsuyama

Age: 34 | OWGR: 14
Recent Masters Results: T21 (2025), T-38 (2024), T-16 (2023), 14 (2022), 1 (2021)
Best Finish: 1 (2021)

The 2021 champion is flying under the radar thanks to all the wins that have come from other contenders in the early parts of 2026. That being said, Matsuyama has been stellar this season, notching four top-14 finishes in seven starts with zero missed cuts. On top of his win, Matsuyama has not missed a cut at Augusta National since 2014. He might not be as dominant a tee-to-green player as he was in the late 2010s, but Matsuyama has experience, excellent iron play, and a magical short game, three ingredients that typically lead to decades of success at the Masters. -Andy Johnson

Matt McCarty

Age: 28 | OWGR: 46
Recent Masters Results: T-14 (2025)
Best Finish: T-14 (2025)

McCarty burst onto the scene in 2024 when he earned promotion to the PGA Tour via three wins in a six-week stretch on the Korn Ferry Tour from July-August. Two months later, he earned his first PGA Tour win at the inaugural Black Desert Championship in just his second start as a member. The 28-year-old hasn’t done much of anything else since then, aside from some scattered top 10s at events with weaker fields. He’ll drive down Magnolia Lane off a stretch of consecutive missed cuts at the Players and Valspar, but you know what they say abou lefties at Augusta National. -Adam Woodard

Rory McIlroy

Age: 36 | OWGR: 2
Recent Masters Results: 1 (2025), T-22 (2024), MC (2023), 2 (2022), MC (2021)
Best Finish: 1 (2025)

The reigning Masters champion ended an 11-year quest for the career Grand Slam with a dramatic and chaotic win in 2025. McIlroy’s wide range of heartbreak and disappointment at Augusta National over the years washed away after his putt dropped on the first playoff hole with Justin Rose. 

The predominant storyline for McIlroy will now center around whether or not the win has freed him up at Augusta National. His form coming into this year leaves a lot more questions than in 2025. Questions about his back should be thrown aside, but he has failed to notch a win in 2026, and his last showing was a futile T-46 at the Players Championship while nursing the aforementioned back injury. Outside of Tiger Woods, Rory will come in as storyline 1A or 1B alongside Scottie Scheffler at the 2026 Masters. -Andy Johnson

Tom McKibbin

Age: 23 | OWGR: 102
Recent Masters Results: First Appearance

Born in Belfast and raised looking up to Rory McIlroy as a Northern Ireland icon, McKibbin is a promising talent who opted to forgo the DP World Tour in favor of LIV Golf. He has four major championship appearances but has yet to drive down Magnolia Lane, an opportunity he earned in 2026 via a win at the 2025 Link Hong Kong Open. He hasn’t amassed much in his early LIV career, but Legion XIII seems to be taking the long-term view. You don’t get through 12 other Legions by being impatient. Still, McIlroy said before McKibbin went to LIV that he thought Tom had immense potential, possibly even Ryder Cup-level potential, so it’s a wait-and-see game with the young Northern Irishman. -Will Knights

Maverick McNealy

Age: 30 | OWGR: 2
‍Recent Masters Results: T-32 (2025)
Best Finish: T-32 (2025)

The son of a billionaire, a licensed pilot, and Stanford graduate, Maverick McNealy is one of the more fascinating characters in professional golf, even if his personality isn’t the loudest. McNealy tied Tiger Woods and Patrick Rogers for most wins for a male golfer in Stanford golf history, notching 11 titles in his stint in Palo Alto. Since turning professional, he’s had a very steady career that has lacked peaks. He won the 2024 RSM Classic, his sole professional title to date, but he’s consistently racked up top-10 and top-25 finishes. His individual Strokes Gained categories align with a top-25 player in the world at his best, but without the flash weeks, he hasn’t been able to reach the mountain top with regularity. -Will Knights

Phil Mickelson 

Age: 55 | OWGR: 1,352
Recent Masters Results: MC (2025), T-43 (2024), T-2 (2023), T-21 (2021), T-55 (2020)
Best Finish: 1 (2004, 2006, 2010)

For 30 years, a constant at the Masters, save for one brief break in 2022 when he did not play following the publication of an interview with Alan Shipnuck on a Saudi incursion into golf. When he returned the next year, he posted what felt like a miracle runner-up, though he was not exactly pushing Jon Rahm. His Masters career aside from that has been underwhelming the last decade, a mix of middling finishes but only two missed cuts. That’s understandable given his age, but the expectation was with his continued speed and course knowledge, that we’d see the Phil factor in play more often, even if not for all four rounds. This year we have almost no clue what to expect – Phil has played only one out of five LIV events, most recently in South Africa, after taking time away on a family health matter. The HyFlyers captain is a relative outcast now in non-LIV settings, which is, to put it mildly, a bummer. Stories of silence at the Champions Dinner and a low profile was not what we wanted from one of the game’s great characters. We have zero reference for how he’s hitting it or if he’s a competitive golfer in 2026, which could naturally mean he posts a first round 65. But shooting for four rounds is the initial goal here. -Brendan Porath

Collin Morikawa

Age: 29 | OWGR: 8
Recent Masters Results: T-14 (2025), T-3 (2024), T-10 (2023), 5 (2022), T-18 (2021)
Best Finish: T-3 (2024)

One of the Tour’s bounce-back players this year will be a big question mark with his back injury that cut his Players Championship short. After a dip in 2025, Morikawa has returned to his stellar form as one of the elite players in the world in 2026. His premium iron play makes him a short-list favorite every time he tees it up at Augusta National. This year, Morikawa will return to a place where he has had excellent results with an enhanced weapon: a little more speed. The added driving distance should give Morikawa more opportunities to take advantage of the par 5s. The lingering question, though, will center around the health of his back. Assuming the back clears up, expect Morikawa to be a factor at the 2026 Masters. -Andy Johnson

Age: 26 | OWGR: 68
Recent Masters Results: First Appearance

Neergaard-Petersen punched his ticket to Augusta National in December with a magnificent up-and-down to win the Australian Open at Royal Melbourne, another Alister MacKenzie design. 

Since coming across the pond, his 2026 PGA Tour season hasn’t been off to the start he imagined, but RNP has already shown his game travels to major championships. He finished T-12 at last year’s U.S. Open and never fell outside of the top 12 after any round. He won’t be a popular pick to win, but it isn’t crazy to envision the highly talented young Dane contending in this tournament. -Joseph LaMagna

Alex Noren

Age: 43 | OWGR: 19
Recent Masters Results: MC (2023), T-62 (2019), MC (2018), MC (2017)
Best Finish: T-62 (2019)

Noren hasn’t played in the Masters since 2023. Prior to that, he hadn’t played since 2019. He has never played particularly well here, and at age 43, there is no indication that’s going to change. That doesn’t mean you cannot admire the grind. Noren is fascinating to watch because every swing requires a pre-shot routine that looks like an exercise of mental and physical anguish. If Ludvig Aberg makes the golf swing look easy, then Noren makes it look like some version of torture. There is something human about that. Steer clear of him in your DFS wagers, but give a passing nod to the fact that Noren remains a top 25 player in the world despite never making any of it look graceful or peaceful. -Kevin Van Valkenburg

Andrew Novak

Age: 31 | OWGR: 47
Recent Masters Results: First Appearance

Andrew Novak is surely eager to make his first Masters appearance, though he probably would have preferred to debut last year, when he was in better form than he is today. The golfer by day and football podcaster by night had a breakout season in 2025, reaching East Lake for the first time in his fourth PGA Tour season and capturing his first PGA Tour win alongside partner Ben Griffin at the Zurich Classic. A North Carolina native, Novak attended Wofford College, just a few hours from Augusta National. Hopefully Novak can channel some of the form he displayed throughout last year, when he was a legitimate, week-in, week-out threat to win big-time golf tournaments. -Joseph LaMagna

Age: 60 | OWGR: 3,332
Recent Masters Results: MC (2025), T-45 (2024), MC (2023), MC (2022), T-50 (2021)
Best Finish: 1 (1994, 1999)

He’s made more cuts than his younger compatriot Sergio Garcia in the last five years! The Great Ollie, one of the enduring pleasures of the Masters, even 27 years after his last victory. It’s a highlight every April to watch him watch over the next generation as they work around the short game area, seeking counsel from one the best sets of short game hands the game has ever known. It’s a highlight every April watching him battle to hit his drives barely into the fairway on a brutishly long layout that has to feel so foreign to him, admirably pushing at the cut line as he hits it 100 yards shorter than his younger colleagues. We have quickly lost a lot of the senior past champions in recent years, with Sandy Lyle, Ian Woosnam, Larry Mize and now Bernhard Langer all officially done at the Masters. Olazabal came a little later than they did but he’s the last of the real old lions and it is a treat to watch him every April and it’s what makes the Masters distinct and special. As is often the case, he’s played no Champions Tour golf this year but go ahead and tell him he can’t make the cut! -Brendan Porath

Carlos Ortiz

Age: 34 | OWGR: 157
Recent Masters Results: MC (2021)
Best Finish: MC (2021)

Representing LIV Golf’s Torque GC, Ortiz and Abraham Ancer make up the most prominent Mexican male golfers in recent years. Ortiz had a lot of success early in his career, winning three times on the Korn Ferry Tour in 2014. His lone PGA Tour victory came in 2020, and he has one LIV title to his name. Alas, while a hot week at Oakmont got him in contention at the 2025 U.S. Open, Ortiz has struggled mightily in major championships throughout his career. His T-4 at Oakmont is his sole top-50 finish in 11 major appearances. -Will Knights

Age: 27 | OWGR: 37
Recent Masters Results: First appearance

Penge will be among the ballyhooed list of first-timers at this year’s Masters. The Englishman dominated on the DP World Tour in 2025, winning three times. Penge’s game centers around power and towering iron shots, a great recipe for Augusta National. His form has not been great since coming over to the PGA Tour for the 2026 season, but the recipe to contend at Augusta National is there. -Andy Johnson

Aldrich Potgieter

Age: 21 | OWGR: 77
Recent Masters Results: MC (2023)
Best Finish: MC (2023)

The reigning PGA Tour Rookie of the Year is making his second Masters start, and first as a pro after a 2023 appearance on the back of his Amateur Championship win. Relative to other “young stars” in this field, it’s sometimes easy to forget just how young Potgieter still is given what he’s done in the game. He was the second-youngest British Am winner ever, and has already established himself on Tour with a win and multiple contentions over the last couple years. This offseason brought a total overhaul – new agents, coaches, equipment, caddies, and a new body, with the paunch whittled off the South African. All that change has not yielded much return so far, as he’s missed more cuts than he’s made and done relatively little outside of a strong week at Riviera. Potgieter remains an absolutely elite driver of the golf ball with aspirational speed and corresponding strokes gained. That can pop on some PGA Tour venues. But he is ghastly in several other areas still, most notably around the green. His irons are not good enough yet, either, so he’s going to miss greens at Augusta and need to make some short game shots that he’s simply not shown the ability to pull off yet in his young career. Given the current skillset and an underwhelming start to the year, a made cut should be the initial goal in 2026 at Augusta. -Brendan Porath

Mateo Pulcini (Amateur)

Age: 25 | OWGR: Unranked
Recent Masters Results: First appearance

Pulcini won the 2026 Latin America Amateur in a playoff to secure a spot in his first-ever major championship. A three-time Div. II All-American at Oklahoma Christian University, he transferred up to the University of Arkansas to play a graduate year in 2023-24. While he only played five events for the Razorbacks, he shared a teamroom with other big names like John Daly II and Jacob Skov Olesen. This won’t be the last time we see the 25-year-old Argentinian this year — Pulcini’s LAAC win also gets him into the U.S. Open and the Open Championship later this summer. -PJ Clark

Age: 31 | OWGR: 29
Recent Masters Results: T-14 (2025), T-45 (2024), 1 (2023), T-27 (2022), T-5 (2021)
Best Finish: 1 (2023)

It’s not hyperbole to suggest that Rahm ought to be in contention every year at the Masters. He had four consecutive top 10 finishes from 2018 to 2021, and he won a green jacket in 2023. His expectation should be that he’s within striking distance of the lead on Sunday every single year. He’s that good. Unfortunately, that hasn’t happened since he joined LIV. We’ve gone two consecutive Masters where he was a non-factor. Is that a coincidence? Or is there some element of causation there? Rahm will never admit it, but LIV hosting a tournament at Doral the week before the Masters in both those seasons seems relevant. There is no LIV tournament the week before the Masters this year, which might give him a chance to come to Augusta with a fresh mind and body. In 2023, Rahm didn’t play prior to his victory. A second green jacket would prove he is still one of the three best players in the world, regardless of what the rankings say. -Kevin Van Valkenburg

Aaron Rai

Age: 31 | OWGR: 40
Recent Masters Results: T-27 (2025)
Best Finish: T-27 (2025)

Any Google search of Aaron Rai will inevitably lead you down the two-gloves rabbit hole, but the Englishman’s on-course talents have largely been underappreciated throughout his career. With just one PGA Tour win and three DP World Tour wins, including the 2025 Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship, Rai hasn’t often reached the professional golf mountain top. Still, his play has been good enough to consistently find himself inside the top 100 in the world, and more recently, he’s been in the top 50. A strong approach player, Rai could use a little more consistency both off the tee and on the green to reach the next level. But no matter what, he probably won’t have the best golf swing in his family. His wife, Gaurika Bishnoi, has a really nice move. She is a professional golfer after all. -Will Knights

Patrick Reed

Age: 35 | OWGR: 23
Recent Masters Results: 3 (2025), T-12 (2024), T-4 (2023), T-35 (2022), T-8 (2021)
Best Finish: 1 (2018)

It’s very funny to imagine Reed and McIlroy making small talk at the Champions Dinner this year, but it would be even funnier to imagine McIlroy putting the green jacket on Reed and shaking his hand if he were to win a second time. Could it happen? Reed’s surprise performance in 2025 — where he holed out for eagle on 17 to briefly put a scare into the leaders — proved he still has some juice at Augusta. In an era where distance provides such a distinct advantage, Reed makes up for it by having a short game that is as creative and reliable as anyone in the game. He hasn’t done much in majors outside of Augusta in the last seven years, but something about the Masters lights a fire in him. It’s feasible to imagine him pulling a Jose Maria Olazabal and winning a second one on grit and guile. -Kevin Van Valkenburg

Kristoffer Reitan

Age: 28 | OWGR: 49
Recent Masters Results: First Appearance

Kristoffer Reitan earned his spot in the Masters field by finishing inside the top 50 in the world at the end of 2025. The Norwegian enjoyed an excellent year on the DP World Tour last season, winning twice and securing a PGA Tour card. While his performance has not been particularly strong since transitioning to the Tour, Reitan continues to shred off the tee, a promising sign if he can clean up the other areas of his game. Augusta National is not an ideal place to be searching for pieces of your game, though. -Joseph LaMagna

Davis Riley

Age: 29 | OWGR: 116
Recent Masters Results: T-21 (2025)
Best Finish: T-21 (2025)

Davis Riley has one of the wildest resumes on the PGA Tour. More often than not, the Alabama product tends to linger near the bottom of leaderboards, but every so often, he discovers his game and spikes — most notably taking down Scottie Scheffler at the 2024 Charles Schwab Challenge for his first individual Tour win, a five-shot victory at Colonial. Riley has missed the cut in five of his last six tournaments, and his recent form doesn’t exactly point to a strong showing in his second Masters appearance. Still, golf is a crazy game. Perhaps he’ll find something, as he has before, and post an unexpectedly high finish. -Joseph LaMagna

Justin Rose

Age: 45 | OWGR: 7 
Recent Masters Results: 2 (2025), MC (2024), T-16 (2023), MC (2022), 7 (2021)
Best Finish: 2 (2017, 2025) 

It is a testament to the conditioning of modern athletes that Jack Nicklaus won a Masters at age 46 and it seemed like a miracle, and Rose is now 45 years old and it doesn’t even seem that far-fetched. You can look at Rose’s close calls in the Masters two different ways. He’s made some incredible runs to give himself a chance to win. In 2017, he birdied three straight holes on the front nine to draw even with Sergio Garcia, then he went two ahead and had a chance to essentially close out the tournament after finding the 13th green in two. He three-putted, Garcia made a par from left of Rae’s Creek, then Rose made a bogey on 17 that ended up sending the pair to a playoff. In the playoff, he drove his ball into the trees on the right and made a bogey. In 2025, he made 10 birdies in the final round, but again bogeyed 17 and ended up in a playoff with Rory McIlroy. It puts him in some exclusive-but-damning company of great players who came close but never quite won here: Greg Norman, Tom Weiskopf, Hale Irwin, Davis Love III, Ernie Els. -Kevin Van Valkenburg

Age: 32 | OWGR: 6
Recent Masters Results: T-8 (2025), 8 (2024), T-10 (2023), MC (2022), T-3 (2021)
Best Finish: T-2 (2019)

What if I told you that one of the best major championship players of the last decade won two majors just two years ago, then got injured, and is now showing signs again of returning to peak form? That sounds like somebody who might be a threat to win the Masters. Xander Schauffele enters the tournament on the heels of a third-place finish at the Players Championship and a T-4 at the Valspar Championship in his two most recent starts. Since making his major championship debut in 2017, Schauffele has recorded top-10 finishes in half of his major appearances (17 of 34), the third-best percentage among players with at least 10 starts, trailing only Scottie Scheffler (67%, 16 of 24) and Rory McIlroy (54, 19 of 35). The further removed he gets from his rib injury, the more he looks like a legitimate threat to win his first Masters — a tournament he has been close to winning on multiple occasions. This could very well be his week. -Joseph LaMagna

Scottie Scheffler

Age: 29 | OWGR: 1
Recent Masters Results: 4 (2025), 1 (2024), T-10 (2023), 1 (2022), T-18 (2021)
Best Finish: 1 (2022; 2024) 

Did you know that Scheffler has never finished outside the top 20 at the Masters? Even when he was putting so poorly, it looked like he wanted to scream with every miss (2023), he still posted a top-10 finish. The idea that anyone in this era could challenge Jack Nicklaus’ record of six green jackets once seemed absurd, but if Scheffler were to win this year, he’d already have the same number (three) as Phil Mickelson, Nick Faldo, Sam Snead, and Gary Player before even turning 30. Can he win four Masters in the next 15 years? Seems unlikely, but we also can’t rule it out. The main thing that makes Scheffler a threat to win every year is his mind, not his game, and that might even sharpen with time. He never makes big mistakes, as evidenced by this improbable statistic: In five Masters appearances, Scheffler has made just two double bogeys. One of those came on the 18th hole in 2022, when he four-putted leading by four strokes. -Kevin Van Valkenburg

Charl Schwartzel

Age: 41 | OWGR: 560
Recent Masters Results: T-36 (2025), MC (2024), T-50 (2023), T-10 (2022), T-26 (2021)
Best Finish: 1 (2011)

It’s been 15 years since Charl Schwartzel won the 2011 Masters, one of the most exciting and chaotic editions in tournament history. He chipped in on the first, holed out for eagle on the third, and then birdied his final four holes to win his first and only major championship. The South African isn’t much of a threat to win majors these days, but his presence serves as a reminder of the drama that can unfold on a Sunday back nine at Augusta National. -Joseph LaMagna

Adam Scott

Age: 45 | OWGR: 53
Recent Masters Results: MC (2025), T-22 (2024), T-39 (2023), T-48 (2022), 54 (2021)
Best Finish: 1 (2013)

Scott has experienced a bit of a resurgence in the last year. He was in contention in the U.S. Open at Oakmont and he finished fourth at the Genesis Invitational earlier this season. Could that form translate into one more Masters run? Candidly, it’s unlikely. Scott was tied for the lead in 2019 after two rounds, but he couldn’t sustain that solid play, failing to break par on the weekend and finishing T-18. In the next six Masters, he’s broken 70 just once. He still has the ball speed to compete (occasionally touching 190 mph!), but it feels like he still struggles to make big putts in the big moments. -Kevin Van Valkenburg

Vijay Singh

Age: 63 | OWGR: 1,414
Recent Masters Results: T-58 (2024), MC (2021-2023)
Best Finish: 1 (2020)

Singh made waves in early 2026, taking a career money exemption on the PGA Tour at the ripe age of 63. Singh’s lone start on Tour this season was a T-40 at the Sony Open. It seems as though the legend of the 90s and 2000s PGA Tour exemption has possibly run dry? The 2000 Masters champion had some success recently at Augusta National, making the cut but finishing T-58 in 2024. The big Fijian sporting his Hoka’s and refusing to talk to the media has become a great annual tradition. -Andy Johnson

Cameron Smith

Age: 32 | OWGR: 211
Recent Masters Results: MC (2025), T-6 (2024), T-34 (2023), T-3 (2022), T-10 (2021)
Best Finish: T-2 (2020)

We might have an Unstoppable Force meets Immovable Object scenario unfolding right before our very eyes!

The Unstoppable Force: Cameron Smith has five top ten finishes in nine career Masters appearances, including three straight from 2020-2022. He has only missed one cut at Augusta National. Every time he has finished outside of the top ten, he has finished in the top six the next year. 

The Immovable Object: Cameron Smith was the only — singular! — player to miss the cut at all four majors in 2025. He has not won an individual event since 2023 LIV Golf Bedminster. He is coming off an 18th-place finish in the 2025 LIV Golf season-long standings, below 46-year-old Bubba Watson.

Including 2026, Smith has just two years left on the five-year major exemption for winning the 2022 Open Championship. That’s six starts in majors he’s not otherwise qualified for, which isn’t nothing, but the clock is ticking! Nothing about his recent form implies that he’ll be able to (or even be interested in?) qualifying for these events once his five years are up. Can one of the best Masters players of this decade show some life? I’d love to see it happen. -PJ Clark

J.J. Spaun

Age: 35 | OWGR: 13
Recent Masters Results: 50 (2025), T-23 (2022)
Best Finish: T-23 (2022)

What in the world is going on with J.J. Spaun? After emerging as one of golf’s biggest breakout stars in 2025, he has been downright awful in 2026, with four missed cuts and zero top-20 finishes to his name. A bout of vertigo earlier in the season may help explain some of the dip, but there is no sugarcoating how bad of a season it’s been for a golfer who entered the year with high expectations. In two previous Masters appearances, Spaun’s performance has been mediocre. Considering both his current form and course history, expectations should be tempered for the reigning U.S. Open champion. -Joseph LaMagna

Jordan Spieth

Age: 32 | OWGR: 63
Recent Masters Results: T-14 (2025), MC (2024), T-4 (2023), MC (2022), T-3 (2021)
Best Finish: 1 (2015)

Would Spieth’s career look any different if he’d aimed at the middle of the green on the 12th hole in 2016? It’s possible. Only three guys have won back-to-back Masters (Jack Nicklaus, Nick Faldo, and Tiger Woods), and he likely would have been the fourth. Instead, the world was introduced to Danny Willett, a name no one thinks about much these days except for when the club posts a picture of the Champion’s Dinner. Spieth has played some good golf at Augusta since that day, but only in spurts. His charge up the leaderboard during the final round in 2018 was electric, but his missed cuts have been ugly. Spieth also said Augusta activates his brain in a way other courses do not, making him hit creative shots like a fade with the ball above his feet or a draw off a sidehill lie. If you’re looking for signs of life, Spieth’s putting is as good as it’s been in years. Can he stay disciplined and not make a mess of certain holes? -Kevin Van Valkenburg

Samuel Stevens

Age: 29 | OWGR: 44
Recent Masters Results: First Appearance

Though not the most recognizable name in the field to casual fans, Stevens is a model of steady progression. A member of the heralded Oklahoma State golf teams that produced a 2018 National Championship and six eventual PGA Tour players, Stevens spent one year on the Korn Ferry Tour before earning his Tour card, and has since improved incrementally year over year on Tour. He owns three runners-up on the PGA Tour but remains in search of his first win. -Joseph LaMagna

Sepp Straka

Age: 32 | OWGR: 12
Recent Masters Results: MC (2025), T-16 (2024), T-46 (2023), T-30 (2022)
Best Finish: T-16 (2024)

From Vienna to Valdosta, the “Tank” as he’s affectionately known around these parts is right at home in Georgia. This will be his fifth consecutive Masters, the results middling thus far as they have been in many majors. While the majors record may be meh, Straka has established himself as a top flight PGA Tour pro over the last three years and he’s showing it again this year contending at last month’s Players Championship and with strong showings in two signature events at Pebble and Bay Hill. Straka is an elite iron player, hitting his spots with consistency, as he showed again at Sawgrass. That should play at the Masters, where he’s not a favorite but a sensible choice to finish top 10. The chrome dome, gregarious nature, and impossible-to-miss stride should make him a favorite among the UGA faithful and Masters patrons. -Brendan Porath

Age: 37 | OWGR: 66
Recent Masters Results: T-40 (2025), MC (2024), T-29 (2020)
Best Finish: T-29 (2020)

Nick Taylor, the Mario Kart extraordinaire, heads to Augusta National by way of making it to last year’s Tour Championship. A short hitter with mediocre past results at Augusta, Taylor doesn’t fit the prototype of a serious contender. But golf tournaments are won on grass (or at the SoFi Center), not on paper, so there is always hope. A five-time PGA Tour winner, the Canadian has claimed a title in each of the past three years (2023-25), including at TPC Scottsdale, a course that shares some traits with Augusta National. Taylor likely felt snubbed after being left off the last Presidents Cup team, and with another on deck this September, he won’t lack motivation to produce his best golf on the sport’s biggest stage. -Joseph LaMagna

Justin Thomas

Age: 32 | OWGR: 15
Recent Masters Results: T-36 (2025), MC (2024), MC (2023), T-8 (2022), T-21 (2021)
Best Finish: 4 (2020) 

Thomas possesses one of golf’s most creative minds. He’s one of the best iron players. He has an imaginative short game. Tiger Woods has given him tons of insight on how to play the course. So why hasn’t it translated to more Masters success? It seems like a different piece of his game is holding him back each year. In 2022, he shot a first-round 76 and had to scratch and claw the rest of the way to finish eighth, but he was nine shots behind Scheffler’s winning score. In 2023, he popped in an AirPod and did an on-course interview, then shot a 42 on the back nine to miss the cut. In 2024, he played the last four holes on Friday in 7-over-par to miss the cut. Thomas’ overall record in majors has actually been pretty poor in recent years. He’s missed three straight cuts at the U.S. Open, and he has just one top-25 finish in the Open Championship in 10 tries. -Kevin Van Valkenburg

Age: 27 | OWGR: 57
Recent Masters Results: First Appearance

The lumbering Valimaki joins Mikko Ilonen as the second-ever Finn to play in the Masters with his debut in 2026. A win at the RSM Classic to close out the Tour’s fall stretch did not auto qualify him for a spot in the field, but it was enough to sneak him just inside the top 50 in the OWGR at the end of 2025 to get his invitation. Valimaki, a favorite around here, has not done much this season and been close to a disaster tee-to-green, making up for some of it around and on the green. It’s hard to put a strong debut together at Augusta even when you’re game is dialed, and the big Finn is anything but that right now. Let’s shoot for a made cut and build from there. -Brendan Porath

Age: 47 | OWGR: 699
Recent Masters Results: T-14 (2025), MC (2024), MC (2023), T-39 (2022), T-26 (2021)
Best Finish: 1 (2012, 2014)

The man responsible for the most boring Champions Dinner menu of all time, Range Goat Captain Bubba Watson returns to Augusta National for his 18th Masters appearance in 2026. His competitive days are all but behind him, although he did peak for a runner-up finish on LIV last summer and managed a T-14 at Augusta in 2025. He’s largely been a mouthpiece for LIV and his beloved Goats in recent years, although he could also be using that free time to help support his candy store. Regardless, as we’ve seen with wily veterans throughout the years at the Masters, experience and creativity carry a lot of weight. Bubba still has both in spades. -Will Knights

Mike Weir

Age: 55 | OWGR: 4,937
Recent Masters Results: MC (2021-2025)
Best Finish: 1 (2003)

The only Canadian man to win a major will play in his 26th consecutive Masters this year. He hasn’t made a cut in an April playing of this event since 2014, but he did beat the likes of Brooks Koepka, Cameron Young, Robert MacIntyre, and Sepp Straka in the two rounds they all played in 2025! The 2003 Masters champion had just one top-10 finish in 18 Champions Tour starts last year, but maybe the magic of the Masters can shine on the Great White North one more time? -PJ Clark

Danny Willett

Age: 38 | OWGR: 393
Recent Masters Results: T-42 (2025), T-45 (2024), MC (2023), T-12 (2022), MC (2021)
Best Finish: 1 (2016)

Hard to believe it’s been 10 years since his unlikely victory. 2016 will likely always be remembered for Spieth’s epic collapse, but it’s always worth pointing out that Willett did shoot a 67 that day to run him down. He trailed by five at one point on Sunday and somehow won by three. But it’s been a rough couple years for Willett. He now has limited status on the PGA Tour, and when he does get starts, he usually misses the cut. The one exception was his T-9 finish at the 2025 Farmers Insurance Open, his first top 10 since 2022. During one stretch in 2024, he missed eight cuts in nine starts between the PGA Tour and DP World Tour. He hasn’t qualified for the U.S. Open since 2020 and hasn’t played in the Open Championship or PGA Championship since 2023. There have been swing changes and injuries to his shoulder and hamstring that have contributed to his struggles, but it seems likely a healthy Willett will slide quietly into the Larry Mize role, a golfer we only think about once a year. -Kevin Van Valkenburg

Gary Woodland

Age: 41 | OWGR: 51
Recent Masters Results: MC (2024), T-14 (2023), MC (2022), T-40 (2021), MC (2020), T-32 (2019)
Best Finish: T-14 (2023)

You’d have to be living under a rock to be reading this and not know what Gary Woodland accomplished at the Texas Children’s Houston Open. As a favorite among both fans and his fellow players, Woodland was going to have a lot of people cheering for him before his emotional win. Now he’ll have everybody on the grounds at Augusta pulling for him to slip on the green jacket and continue this magical return to competition post brain surgery while dealing with crippling PTSD. Woodland has just one top 10 at a major since his 2019 U.S. Open victory, and he’s rarely made the weekend at the Masters, so expectations for Gary shouldn’t be too high for the first major of the season. That said, I can’t wait to see the reception he gets on the first tee and 18th green come Thursday. -Adam Woodard

Age: 28 | OWGR: 3
Recent Masters Results: MC (2025), T-9 (2024), T-7 (2023), MC (2022)
Best Finish: T-7 (2023)

Cameron Young will be one of the trendiest picks in the field, and for good reason. Only Scottie Scheffler (12), Rory McIlroy (10), Xander Schauffele (8), and Bryson DeChambeau (8) – all multi-major champions – have more top 10s over the last four years than Young (6), who arrives at Augusta playing the best golf of his career. During his first three years on the PGA Tour, Young dominated golf courses from tee to green and spoiled premier ball-striking performances with woeful putting. In 2025, he solved his putting issues, transforming into a top-10 putter on Tour. Since last June, he’s been firing on both the ball-striking and putting fronts, leading to two wins and a breakout performance for the U.S. at the Ryder Cup. Back in December, Young told Fried Egg Golf on Lunch with the Boys that of the four major championship venues on the slate in 2026, Augusta National fits his game best. Coming off an impressive win at the Players Championship less than a month ago, Young enters this week in prime position to contend for his first major championship victory. -Joseph LaMagna