You dont want to rely on the flatstick to bail you out in majors, though. Masters 2021: The entire field at Augusta National, ranked Picked up his first PGA Tour win since the 17 Masters last fall, when he stuck an 8-iron on the 72nd hole to within three feet then brushed it in with his eyes closed. Qualifications for Masters He has not missed a cut in his 13 starts since but has just one top-10, and as a result hes slipped considerably in the World Ranking. !he played a full slate of events on the 50-and-older circuit and posted two solo seconds in 12 starts. 66. His ball-striking hasnt quite been up to that standard, which helps explain recent so-so results, but given how well he swings it things cant possibly be far off. After months of eager anticipation, the Masters has finally returned to April. Still plays a full schedule on the PGA Tour Champions but has just one top-10 finish in 16 starts on that circuit since 2020. TYRRELL HATTON Age: 29 World Ranking: 8 Masters appearances: 4 Best Masters finish: T-44, 2018 Fiery Brit has three big wins over the last 13 months to get into the World top-10. Obviously last year, there was nothing normal about last year, for the whole year, really," Johnson said. Itd be a shame if he finished his career without a major, so perhaps the golf gods owe him one for all the near-missesthe long-ago ones and the recent ones. SANDY LYLE Age: 63 World Ranking: N/A Masters appearances: 39 Best Masters finish: Win, 1988 Two-time major winner won his green jacket in 1988, six years before this writer was born, but thats neither here nor there. Harman, a Savannah native, moved into the top 50 with his third-place finish at the Players Championship and his run at the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play event in Austin. Parlayed that into a victory, the third of his career but first in seven years. He since lost some weight, and hes been fantastic of late, winning at Bay Hill and finishing T-3 at the Players. 38. 2023 Masters Since then, hes risen to Presidents Cup-level player. Won back-to-back starts at the beginning of 2020 and got as high as World No. Spieth enters the week on a high after winning at the Valero Texas Open following a flurry of top-10 finishes in the early portion of the season, while McIlroy has struggled even after adding a new swing coach, Pete Cowen, to the mix in late-March. Would he turn golfs most storied venue into a pitch-and-putt? This course does suit him; if he drives it wellwhich he tends to do (he leads the tour in SG/off the tee), the course really is a par 67 for him. 64. 85. He opened with 65 to share the lead and posted 67 on Saturday to get into the penultimate group on Sunday, so it's not like it was a backdoor top-10, either. HIDEKI MATSUYAMA Age: 29 World Ranking: 25 Masters appearances: 9 Best Masters finish: 5, 2015 This will be his 10th Masters, which by rule makes him a veteran even at 29. This site and all its content are representative of The Augusta Chronicle's Masters Tournament coverage and information. The Masters Field 2022 - MSN 8. Koepka's appearance is still in question after March knee surgery. 30. Hes still yet to better the T-21 he posted as an amateur in his first Masters, but its hard to imagine him putting up another stinker at Augusta. Three golfers were added to the field Monday, March 29, when the last Official World Golf Ranking before the Masters was Not to be a buzzkill, but he does the majority of his damage on shorter, easier coursesthe average winning score of his five PGA Tour wins is 19.8 under parand the majors arent typically set up like that. 59. Meanwhile, anyone nervous taking Rahm this week because he might have to leave with his wife Kelley going into labor can rest a little easy. Has just two top-10s on the PGA Tour since that magical week at Royal Portrush in 2019but one came a few weeks ago at the Players. KEVIN KISNER Age: 37 World Ranking: 36 Masters appearances: 5 Best Masters finish: T-21, 2019 Georgia Bulldog grew up and resides just across the South Carolina border in Aiken, so this is a home game. His recent putting stats jump off the page, as hes averaging four strokes gained on the greens over his last five tournaments. Amen Corner during the Friday round of the Masters Tournament at Augusta National Golf Club, Friday, April 6, 2018, in Augusta, Georgia. Xs and Os wise, the issue has been his short irons/wedges. Smile, friends, for major season is upon us. He drives it well (22nd in SG) and putts it well, too, which is always a strong combo. COLLIN MORIKAWA Age: 24 World Ranking: 4 Masters appearances: 1 Best Masters finish: T-44, 2020 With his three-shot win at the WGC-Workday, he joined Tiger Woods as the only players with a major and a WGC before their 25th birthdays. Still, Perez is in good shape to get his card for next season through non-member points. Hes made just four cuts in his last 19 starts with a best finish of T-46 at the Sanderson Farms last fall. Masters Picks:Who should you pick to win the Masters? MIKE WEIR Age: 50 World Ranking: N/A Masters appearances: 21 Best Masters finish: Win, 2003 Now PGA Tour Champions-agewhere did the time go? 2021 Masters: PGA Tour odds Golfweek:Civil rights group calls for PGA Tour, Masters to pull event from Augusta National in protest of Georgia's new voting law. Does have top-20s in five of his last six starts at Augusta, so hes always a good top-10 or top-20 bet, but doesnt strike you as the guy to hole the necessary putts down the stretch to win. A player firmly on the rise. Hes picked up at least four shots on the field with his approaches in four of his last five starts before Valero. Has not won a golf tournament in nearly four years, a difficult-to-believe stretch for a player of his ball-striking caliber. Started his first Masters last fall 70-68-69 only to shoot 75 on Sunday and drop to T-19. Hes a feel-orientied, artist-type player who loves to play a bunch of different shots around the greens, so its a little surprising that this is the only major where he doesnt have a top-10. Contact us at easyofficepools@gmail.com with your office pool ideas. SEBASTIAN MUNOZ Age: 28 World Ranking: 63 Masters appearances: 1 Best Masters finish: T-19, 2020 Won his first and only PGA Tour event in the fall of 2019, then played nicely in the FedEx Cup playoffs to get to the Tour Championship, which is how hes qualified for the majors. This time, he honored his word for one year, sitting out last November before vowing to return this year after a back procedure has him feeling better. The Masters 2021: Betting Odds for Every Player in the Field at 15. If youre betting on him, youre essentially subscribing to the belief that current form (see that World Ranking) and season-long statistics matter little at a course as particular as Augusta. Returned at the WGC-Match Play but struggled with a pretty violent two-way miss. Opted against playing the Match Play or Valero, so hell come in with a few weeks of rest. A bit of a fall-season specialist, he started 2020-21 strong again but has no top-10s in his last 12 starts. DYLAN FRITTELLI Age: 30 World Ranking: 68 Masters appearances: 2 Best Masters finish: T-5, 2020 Texas grad has missed the cut in seven of his 13 stroke-play starts this year and ranks 148th in strokes gained/overall, which makes his T-5 at last years Masters a bit of a head-scratcher. And 1991 Masters Champion Woosnam, who had announced the 2019 Masters was his last, did an about face thisFebruary when he received his invitation. One is Augusta National. Nothing really jumps out statistically to suggest he has a chance to contend, but thats why they play the games on the field. Hes a proven winner and knows how to close the deal, and hes well on his way to putting together a Hall of Fame rsum. 2021 Masters Fantasy Golf Power Rankings Tiger Woods is yet to confirm whether he will take part, with one source insisting that it's "still too early for Woods to decide on his 2022 Masters status. It was initially reported that he is eyeing a return to the tournament in 2023 but there are a number of reasons why he won't play the Masters this year. MORE: 9 famous Masters mythsseparating fact from fiction. MATT FITZPATRICK Age: 26. 87. [ANDREW DAVIS TUCKER/THE AUGUSTA CHRONICLE]. 69. 18. Updated weekly with new Masters qualifiers and current rankings. Dustin Johnson will host his first-ever champions dinner, last years November Masters making him the shortest-tenured green jacket-holder in more than eight decades. No one makes swinging the club 130 mph look easier, but hes failed to improve his putting, and its costing him week after week. 11. VCU grad lives in Jacksonville and has become close with Vijay Singh, interestingly enough. Comes in on a run of fine if unspectacular form, with five straight made cuts and a T-6 at the WGC-Workday. Masters 2021 Masters 53. Jon Rahm's wife is expecting their first child, and Rahmtold the Golf Channel's Rex Hoggard that anyone betting on him should have second thoughts as he will leave any tournament he is at for the birth. Listed at 57 but perhaps even shorter, the Mexican relishes the big stage. SI WOO KIM Age: 25 World Ranking: 49 Masters appearances: 4 Best Masters finish: T-21, 2019 Theres no question he possesses a top-level gear. Anything past that, though, is getting greedy. Its been a meteoric rise sincethe Wake Forest grad won two Korn Ferry events in 2020, which got him a spot in the U.S. Open. 33. Gun to my head, he wins one more PGA Tour event. Has five top-10s and 10 top-25s in his 14 starts this season and is already considered one of the tours best ball-strikersranks fourth in SG/approach and SG/tee to green. Masters Tournament (2020) 2021 Leaderboard - PGA TOUR (Limited) Fans are back on site. He finished T-6 that week, which got him into the Corales. Still, the enduring memory from Torrey will be his active fingers during Embedgate. Thats a theme with Reed; his imbroglios, which are more often than not his own doing, overshadow his golf. Been a different story in Europe, to be fair, as he started the year going T-10/T-7/T-17 in the Middle East. That is, the groups are spaced 12 minutes apart. BILLY HORSCHEL Age: 34 World Ranking: 17 Masters appearances: 6 Best Masters finish: T-17, 2016 For as long as hes hung inside the top 50 in the world, his record in the majors is quite poor: just one top-15 finish in 28 career starts. Its a lot of golf course for a 61-year-oldeven one as cool as Freddy. FRED COUPLES Age: 61 World Ranking: N/A Masters appearances: 35 Best Masters finish: Win, 1992 The ageless wonder is, as hard as it is to say, beginning to show some signs of age. MORE: At Augusta, the jockeying for position begins with practice rounds. It reached a breaking point at the Players, where he opened with 79 and was then seen grinding on the range with instructor Pete Cowena notable development given McIlroys longtime work with his childhood coach, Michael Bannon. 55. How much you want to extrapolate from that result going forward is a matter of debate, especially given the ragged play in the final match. A jaw-dropping talent who has been unlucky to have won just one major, as hes finished second at least once in all fourincluding Augusta in 2012. The 2021 Masters Tournament runsApril 8-11 at Augusta National Golf Club. Having a nice season as he followed up the victory with a T-8 in Mexico, played in the final threesome at the Farmers (it didnt go so well) and took T-4 at the Waste Management. These categories might help you choose. BRIAN GAY Age: 49 World Ranking: 209 Masters appearances: 2 Best Masters finish: T-38, 2013 Broke a seven-plus-year win drought last fall at the Bermuda Championship, so hes back at the Masters for the first time since 2013 as the oldest non-past champion in the field. Christiaan Cameron Smith, Dustin Johnson, Patrick Reed, and several other. 2. Had three missed cuts and a withdraw in a five-event stretch before finishing T-9 at the Players. Cooled off since and was a late withdrawal from the Players, but he looked fine at the WGC-Match Play. Hard to believe hes only 33 given how long hes been a force in world golf and how difficult the last couple years have been for him injury-wise, with ever-present back issues making it impossible to find any rhythm. Harman, who increases the number of former University of Georgia golfers in the field to six,last played the Masters in 2018, when he finished 44th. She had the baby early Sunday morning so he should be good to go. Still not a full member of the PGA Tour, hes on special temporary status, which allows him to take unlimited sponsors invites (wont be eligible for the FedEx Cup playoffs unless he wins, though). In the four years since, hes been, and this not an exaggeration, nightmarish in the majors. Missed three straight cuts before a T-19 at Honda. Garcia, who missed November due to COVID-19, is expected to play. Got a taste of Sunday-at-a-major pressure when he contended at last years PGA. Hes not giving away strokes in one particular area, so its unlikely to be anything structurally wrong. Hes a combined 34 over par in his last six rounds, and stretches like those always look worse when a guy is north of 40. All Rights Reserved. Happy reading, and happy Masters viewing. Hes since blossomed into one of the tours best young players. Ranks outside the top 100 in the six key strokes-gained categories for the season but remains relentlessly optimistic and insists he and his coach, Chris OConnell, have turned a corner. Apart from his putting, the entire game is in need of significant improvement. Encouraging Enjoyment of Sports Worldwide. Hes yet to win a major, of course, but hes done everything but, posting seven top-10s and 10 top-25s in the first 14 major starts of career. 24. The Masters 2021 Players & Form Guide - Betfair Talk about a big-game hunter. As such, Frittellis results in his other major startsnine starts, five missed cuts and a best finish of T-31are probably a better indicator for whats ahead. 5 (blasphemy!) A quick primer to catch you up and get you ready: Dustin Johnson is in, the defending champion. Are you sensing a pattern? 37. MACKENZIE HUGHES Age: 30 World Ranking: 51 Masters appearances: 1 Best Masters finish: CUT, 2017 Canadian caught a bit of a heater at the end of the 2019-20 season to get to the Tour Championship, and hes rewarded with his second trip to Augusta and first since 2017. In fact, he leads the tour in that statistic over his past 24 rounds. A sleeper indeed. Finally put together some big finishes against top-level fields in his last two starts, a solo fourth in Austin and a T-9 at the Players despite needing to hole a 24-footer at the crack of dawn Saturday morning just to make the cut. That was a much-needed jolt as hes been in a bit of no-mans landnot currently in the Ryder Cup conversation, not winning in Europe and treading water in the U.S. Golf Digest has ranked all 88 players in the fieldfrom the contenders to the amateurs, from the defending champion to champions of eras pastto help you make better wagers, win your pool or simply be a more educated fan. 83. Sunday charge at the Players Championship, Jon Rahm just broke the PGA Tour single-season money record. Missed six of his next eight cuts after last falls Masters but comes in off a T-3 at the Honda Classic, so thatll give him some good vibes as he heads back to Magnolia Lane. MAX HOMA Age: 30 World Ranking: 37 Masters appearances: 1 Best Masters finish: CUT, 2020 No longer just the Twitter Guy. There had been some positive signs early in 2021, mainly a T-2 in Saudi Arabia, but hes got serious work to do to get back in the Ryder Cup picture and is nowhere near the ruthlessly consistent performer he was just a few years ago. Won back-to-back starts in the fall of 2019 to get back into the big events, and hes been solid if unspectacular since. It has to. Here are some of the ones that stand out from the rest of the field. Since then, hes elbowed his way inside the top 15 with seven top-five finishes in the last 12 months, including victories at Colonial last summer and Pebble Beach in February. Posted top-25s in the PGA Championship and the U.S. Open last year but missed the cut at Augusta, which forces him to hit a bunch of long irons, hybrids and fairway woods. That got him into all the big events, which he parlayed into a PGA Tour card. 4. 9. MORE: Might it be that Dustin Johnson's mind is his greatest strength? He complained that week about dizziness and discomfort, which in hindsight looks like the result of letting the protein shakes and speed sessions go a little too far. Finished T-29, which should be extremely impressive for a 63-year-old man, but weve kind of come to expect that from the ageless German wonder. CARLOS ORTIZ Age: 29 World Ranking: 47 Masters appearances: First Mexican native who lives Dallas after playing college golf at North Texas won his first PGA Tour event in the last tournament before the Masters last fall, the Vivint Houston Open, but didnt get a spot into the field given the one-time COVID rules. These categories might help you choose. Koepka was at Augusta National on Sunday, practicing and playing a few holes and says he intends to play this week. His finishes at Augusta have gotten progressively better since his T-39 debut in 2016, and he shared the lead after Friday last November before a disappointing weekend. OWGR as of {{data[0]['asof'] | date }} from owgr.com The Masters is back, and only six months after its previous iteration. Thomas joins fellow world top 10 players Jon Rahm, Collin Morikawa and Xander Schauffele in forming the youthful contingent still in search of their first Masters win. One of the fastest players on tour; will pick his club, choose his target and hit in the time it takes some of his peers to find the nearest sprinkler head. Made the cut in last years Masters for the first time since 2014, but hes simply not long enough to have much of a chance. Won in the Dominican Republic last fall but has missed the cut in nine of his 13 starts since, and he ranks outside the top 200 in strokes gained/overall this season. 36. Missed the cut in the next three before saying the 2019 edition would be his last. Would be a shame for his career to end with just the lone major, and he has memories of that win and four other top-10s at Augusta to draw from. The Georgia alum finished T-3 at the Players then T-5 at the WGC-Match Play to jump from 92th to 49th in the World Ranking, getting one of the last spots in the Masters field by being in the top 50 by the cutoff date. Following a brief hiatus in 2020, the Masters has come home to April in 2021, returning with blooming azaleas, dogwoods and magnolias and some pretty good golf. Amateur victory at Bandon Dunes. Posted two top-10s in his first five starts of this campaign but does not have one in a stroke-play event in the new year, and he ranks outside the top 100 in every strokes-gained category except putting, his strength (12th a year after ranking eighth). When does the 2021 Masters start? Who is in the Masters field? Has missed the FedEx Cup playoffs the past two seasons and has work to do if hes to make it this August. We say semi because hes made seven cuts in a row, but his lone top-10 since July 2020 came at the opposite-field Corales event in the Dominican Republic. And Google his backstory, because its as wild as it gets. Would he drive the third green? Always been a fantastic ball-striker but hes become more comfortable hitting it high, and hes averaging 4.9 SG/tee to green in his last 10 measured events. Augusta will be a much firmer golf course this time around and should play more like a major test than last year, when 6-irons held the back shelf on No. As a result, hes still searching for that maiden PGA Tour win to go along with six on the Euro Tour. Scotland's Robert MacIntyre and Americans Will Zalatoris and Brian Harman moved into the top 50 to secure an invitation. 21. MC at Augusta last year then lost a playoff at the RSM Classic the week after, but has no top-20s in his five stroke-play starts since. Good news is he has five top-10s in 15 career Masters starts with just one missed cut. Has three top-fives in majors but his best go round at Augusta was a T-17 in 2018. 2020 Masters Invitees | 2022 Masters - The Augusta Chronicle And yet he was quite listless last year in his Masters debut, shooting 74-73 to miss the cut by three. Going back to the start of 2019, he has made the cut in seven of eight starts in majors/Players, and played in the final threesome on Sunday in his Masters debut last fall, only to post 76 and tumble to T-13. VICTOR PEREZ Age: 28 World Ranking: 29 Masters appearances: 1 Best Masters finish: T-46, 2020 Lanky Frenchman is the highest-ranked player without a PGA Tour card. Hovland picked up a second PGA Tour win in Mexico to end 2020 and followed it up with two runner-ups and a T-5 in his next four starts, all against elite fields. Bryson beat him pretty good that Sunday, and Wolff lost in a playoff in his next start in Las Vegas. Finished tied second at the 2019 Masters and could have easily snuck into a playoff had he birdied the par-5 15th. MORE: The 13 best bets to win the Masters. Five months after a one-off autumnal Masters, the worlds best are back in Augusta for our favorite rite of spring. 70. How golf star's game helps Aussie NFL Draft hopeful Korsak. The two-time champs preferred right-to-left ball flightand we mean, way right-to-leftgives him an advantage on so many holes. Matt Jones earned an invitation with his March win at the Honda Classic. Actually held the solo lead for a hot-second during that crazy 2019 final round and opened 70-66 to put himself in position again last fall before a one-over weekend left him T-17. MORE: 9 things Augusta National doesnt want to talk about. Curiously missed the cut at TPC Sawgrass, which will take some of the shine off, but few have played better over the past six months. JOSE MARIA OLAZABAL Age: 55 World Ranking: N/A Masters appearances: 31 Best Masters finish: Win, 1994, 1999 Short-game legend loves him some Augusta Nationalhes has eight top-10s at the Masters, including his two wins. WebVisit ESPN to view the 2021 Masters Tournament golf leaderboard with real-time scoring, player scorecards, course statistics and more Skip to main content Skip to navigation ESPN If theres one area thats been loose recently its his drivinghes lost an average of half a shot to the field off the tee in his last five startsbut Augusta is wide enough to where the odd wayward tee ball wont kill him. Hes accomplished it thanks to a solo third in Dubai earlier this year and a T-9 at the WGC-Match Play, where he advanced from World No. In his two starts before the Workday win, he squeaked by the cut at the Dubai Desert Classic and the Genesis Invitational. Made the cut at Augusta on the number in November to avoid MCs in all three majors in 2020. Hes something of a Tony Finau-light in that he seems to always be in contention but struggles to kick down the door, and while he has three runners-up already this season, hes spoken candidly about his frustration not to have won since January 2019. Got back inside the top 30 in 2019 but has hit a semi-lull since. Threegolfers were added to the field Monday, March 29, when the last Official World Golf Ranking before the Masterswas released. Keep up with all the news, scores and highlights. 2021 MASTERS The 40-year-old Australian's only Masters appearance was in2014, when he also won an event in the weeks before the tournament. Thats mostly due to an ice cold putter; he ranks 142nd on tour in strokes gained/putting this season. Whether or not you think the records need an asterisk, given the gentler fall conditions, the sheer excellence he showed that weekand the ones before and afteris beyond debate. Updated weekly with new Masters qualifiers and Entering this year's Masters Tournament in April, 84 players have currently qualified for Augusta National. After a year-plus of his left knee giving him issues, Koepka recently dislocated his right knee cap and suffered ligament damage during a fall. 5 JON RAHM Age: 26 World Ranking: 3 Masters appearances: 4 Best Masters finish: 4, 2018 Sits at No. JIMMY WALKER Age: 42 World Ranking: 528 Masters appearances: 7 Best Masters finish: T-8, 2014 The 2016 PGA Championship winner is in his last year of being exempt on tour and into all the majors, and somethings going to need to change if hes going to keep his privileges for 2022. Wouldnt bet against him finishing inside the top 10 when the dust settles. Yes, there have been a number of solid finishes, but he has not won in 18 months and hes dropped out of the top 10 in the world for the first time in three years. I'm definitely looking forward to that. WebMasters 2023 Winner 1. The Masters Field for 2023 listed by Official World Golf Ranking. In related news, his six starts in majors have yielded five MC Hammers and a T-58. 86. Shot 59 last year in the FedEx Cup playoffs and makes plenty of birdies (4.48 per round), so hes patently unafraid of low scores, and he shot par or better in all four rounds in November to nab a top 20 in his Masters debut. He said in January that hed been playing with pain for the six months prior and needed four cortisone shots to finish the year, which sounds awful. Or maybe thats just him becoming an all-around better, more consistent player over the past couple years. 84. Brooks KoepkaFinish:-8Total:280 2. 48. Made huge leaps to start the year in Hawaii, where he finished second in back-to-back weeks, and hes second on tour in consecutive cuts made with 15. Had chances to win each of the three events he played in California, including a final-round 64 at Riviera that got him into a playoff.
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