Preview

Starts: 10^th April 2025
Course: Augusta National, USA
Par: 72
Length: 7,545 yards
2024 Champion: Scottie Scheffler

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Masters 2025 Course Info

Designer: Alister MacKenzie
Used Since: 1934
Fairways: Bentgrass
Rough: Bentgrass
Greens: Bentgrass
Water Hazards: On five holes
Par 5's: 2nd, 8th, 13th, 15th
Premium on: Approach play

2025 Masters Essential Info

Augusta National is the annual host of The Masters tournament. It was originally designed by Alister MacKenzie but underwent a lengthening process in the early 2000's under the guidance of Tom Fazio. Augusta is a long course, made somewhat longer because the roll on the fairway is minimised due to the grass being cut into the player.

A player comfortable hitting a draw off the tee (or a fade for a left hander) is favoured given it offers a big advantage on holes 2, 10, 13 and 14. Augusta has severe greens, being extremely contoured and lightning fast. The conditions in 2020 were somewhat different to a normal Masters so treat those results with caution.

2025 Masters Trends

Winning Score
The last seventeen Masters tournaments have seen winning scores range from -5 to -20. However, only two of these years have seen a score better than -16.

Correlating Courses
Riviera CC, home of the Genesis Invitational, correlates nicely with Augusta.

Event Form
Eleven of the last sixteen winners had posted a top 10 at Augusta prior to winning. Course form is essential.

Recent Form
Counts for a lot at the Masters, 13 of the past 16 champions had recorded a top 30 finish in their two events prior to winning. Jon Rahm bucked this trend in 2023 with a 31st place finish in his final start before the Masters.

Nationality
Americans have won nine of the past 16 but we've seen a range of nationalities succeed.

Age
Fifteen of the last sixteen winners were under the age of 40. The exception? Tiger Woods in 2019.

Defending Champion
In the past fourteen years, only four defending champions (Scottie Scheffler, Hideki Matsuyama, Jordan Spieth and Adam Scott) have posted a top 25 finish. Spieth and Scheffler the only players to have posted a top 10 when defending champion in the past fourteen years.

Major Virgins
Nine of the past sixteen players to don the Green Jacket were claiming their first Major. However, it's not an event to record your first ever win in America. Only two of the past sixteen champions did not have a previous PGA Tour/Major win.

Masters Exposure
Only two players in the last 45 years have won the Masters having not played at Augusta on the weekend the previous year. They were Patrick Reed in 2018 and Tiger Woods in 1997, two players who are pretty well versed in dealing with pressure situations. It's definitely preferential to back someone who has recent experience of a weekend at The Masters.

Debutants
"I can't think of another course in the world that the more you play, the more you learn." Jim Furyk
No Masters debutant has donned the green jacket since Fuzzy Zoeller in 1979. Experience counts for a lot round Augusta. However, debutants can contend, particularly if they are a special talent. Jason Day and Jordan Spieth have both gone on to be World Number 1, and both finished 2nd on their Augusta debuts. Will Zalatoris finished 2nd in 2021 on his debut, as did Ludvig Aberg in 20224..

World Ranking
Fifteen of the past 16 champions have ranked inside the top 30 at the time of winning. Don't look too far down the rankings for a winner but bear in mind a number of LIV Golf players are now outside the top 30 in the world rankings when they really should be well inside the top 30.

The Masters 2025 Trends Shortlist

Using the information above, we have taken into account the most relevant trends to establish a shortlist of potential winners and make golf picks. Masters trends used were:

✅ Played the weekend at the 2023 Masters
✅ Under age of 40
✅ Previous PGA Tour win
✅ Top 30 finish in last two starts
✅ Top 10 finish at The Masters previously

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2024 Masters Tournament Stats Analysis

For many years there were no Strokes Gained stats available from The Masters but we have had access to Strokes Gained stats in recent years.

SG: Off The Tee
Scottie Scheffler was 2nd in 2024, Jon Rahm was 2nd in 2023 and Scottie Scheffler ranked 9th in 2022.

Driving Distance
The last nine winners have ranked 7-9-8-6-44-6-6-32-52 (most recent first).

Driving Accuracy
Tiger Woods in 2019 was the only player to rank outside the top 30 for Driving Accuracy in the last nine years.

SG: Approach
Data from 15^th Club (15thclub.com) indicates that winners here have excellent SG: Approach stats. Rankings of winners from 2019 to 2015 were 1-3-2-1-1. Data from the past three years tells us that the winners, Jon Rahm and Scottie Scheffler (twice), ranked 13th, 6th and 6th in this category.

Greens In Regulation
Only Dustin Johnson (13th) and Patrick Reed (21st) have finished outside the top 10 for Greens In Regulation in the past nine years.

Putts per GIR
Every winner in the last six years has ranked inside the top 20.

SG: Putting
Both Scottie Scheffler (2024) and Jon Rahm (2023) ranked 22nd in this category and Scottie Scheffler ranked 13th for SG: Putting at the 2022 Masters.

2025 Masters In-Play Advice

Tough Holes
The 11th is usually the hardest hole on the course. The 18th and 5th often cause problems too.

Birdie Holes
The four par 5s score the four easiest every year and it is vital to make a score on these holes.

Closing Stretch
The 17th and 18th were 8th and 2nd hardest at Augusta National last year.

Fast or Slow Start
Augusta is not a course to play catch up so a good start is vital. Every winner in the past 13 years has been inside the top 11 after round one. The position of the last 13 winners after round 1 was: 2-1-2-1-11-4-4-9-1-2-10-4-7 (most recent first).

The last 34 winners have been inside the top 5 going into the final round. Even then, if you are more than 2 shots back it's going to be an uphill struggle as 24 of the last 27 winners have been within 2 going into the final round. Thirty of the last 33 winners have played in the final group on Sunday.