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Here are the golfers who are qualified so far for the 2025 Masters Tournament, with more to come

It’s the first men’s major of the year. It’s the best major of the year, according to many.

It’s the first men’s major of the year. It’s the best major of the year, according to many. It’s a somewhat exclusive field to get into, as many years there are about 90 golfers – there were 89 in 2024 – on the tee sheet at Augusta National Golf Club. That compares to most tournaments with 132 golfers with some having as many 156, like the U.S. Open.

As the 2024 calendar year moves into December, it’s time to take a look at those golfers who have already earned a trip down Magnolia Lane, per the PGA Tour’s website, which is gathering names for those who have qualified for all four of the 2025 majors plus other significant events.

The list includes four amateurs who must maintain that amateur status if they would like to play in April. Those four are: Jose Luis Ballester, Evan Beck, Noah Kent and Hiroshi Tai.

Who is qualified for 2025 Masters?

  • Ludvig Aberg
  • Byeong Hun An
  • Jose Luis Ballester (a)
  • Evan Beck (a)
  • Christiaan Bezuidenhout
  • Akshay Bhatia
  • Keegan Bradley
  • Sam Burns
  • Rafael Campos
  • Patrick Cantlay
  • Fred Couples
  • Cam Davis
  • Bryson DeChambeau
  • Thomas Detry
  • Nico Echavarria
  • Austin Eckroat
  • Tony Finau
  • Matt Fitzpatrick
  • Tommy Fleetwood
  • Sergio Garcia
  • Brian Harman
  • Tyrrell Hatton
  • Russell Henley
  • Tom Hoge
  • Max Homa
  • Billy Horschel
  • Viktor Hovland
  • Sungjae Im
  • Dustin Johnson
  • Zach Johnson
  • Noah Kent (a)
  • Chris Kirk
  • Patton Kizzire
  • Brooks Koepka
  • Bernhard Langer
  • Thriston Lawrence
  • Shane Lowry
  • Robert MacIntyre
  • Matt McCarty
  • Rory McIlroy
  • Maverick McNealy
  • Phil Mickelson
  • Jose Maria Olazabal
  • Matthieu Pavon
  • Taylor Pendrith
  • J.T. Poston
  • Jon Rahm
  • Aaron Rai
  • Patrick Reed
  • Davis Riley
  • Justin Rose
  • Xander Schauffele
  • Scottie Scheffler
  • Adam Schenk
  • Charl Schwartzel
  • Adam Scott
  • Cameron Smith
  • Jordan Spieth
  • Sepp Straka
  • Hiroshi Tai (a)
  • Sahith Theegala
  • Justin Thomas
  • Davis Thompson
  • Jhonattan Vegas
  • Bubba Watson
  • Mike Weir
  • Danny Willett
  • Tiger Woods
  • Cameron Young
  • Kevin Yu
  • Will Zalatoris

The 2025 Masters is set for April 10-13. There are still a few ways for those not yet in the field to earn their way in:

  • Win a PGA Tour event that awards full FedEx Cup points
  • Be in the top 50 of Official World Golf Ranking on Dec. 31, 2024
  • Win of the Latin America Amateur Championship on Jan. 19, and remain an amateur
  • Be in the top 50 of OWGR on March 31, 2025
  • Receive a special invitation as an international player from the Masters Tournament Committee

The 2025 Masters will be the 90th edition.

Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player, Tom Watson want ‘best outcome’ of PGA Tour-LIV dispute

Wise words from three of the all-time greats, who still care deeply about the state of professional golf.

AUGUSTA, Ga. – Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player and Tom Watson want to see the PGA Tour-LIV Golf dispute get settled.

Speaking during a joint press conference after the three legends hit the ceremonial tee shots to the 88th edition of the Masters, Watson shared a special moment during the Champions Dinner, which brought together 33 of the past winners – seven of them members of LIV – in their Green Jackets and Augusta National Golf Club Chairman Fred Ridley, on Tuesday evening.

“We were sitting down and we were having great stories about Seve Ballesteros and people were laughing and talking. I said to Mr. Ridley, I said, ‘Do you mind if I say something about being here together with everybody?’ He said, ‘Please do.’

“And I got up and I said – I’m looking around the room, and I’m seeing just a wonderful experience everybody is having. They are jovial. They are having a great time. They are laughing. I said, ‘Ain’t it good to be together again?’ ” Watson recalled.

He added that he hoped the players would take it upon themselves to reach a resolution, sooner rather than later.

“We have to do something,” Watson said. “We all know it’s a difficult situation for professional golf right now. The players really kind of have control I think in a sense. What do they want to do? We’ll see where it goes. We don’t have the information or the answers. I don’t think the PGA Tour or the LIV Tour really have an answer right now. But I think in this room, I know the three of us want to get together. We want to get together like we were at that Champions Dinner, happy, the best players playing against each other. The bottom line: that’s what we want in professional golf, and right now, we don’t have it.”

Nicklaus echoed that sentiment and placed his trust in PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan to lead the way.

“The best outcome is the best players play against each other all the time. That’s what I feel about it. And how it’s going, I don’t know, I don’t want to be privy to it,” Nicklaus said. “I talked to Jay not very long ago, and I said, ‘Jay, don’t tell me what’s going on because I don’t want to have to lie to the press and people that ask me questions.’ I said, ‘How are you doing?’ He said, ‘We’re doing fine.’ I said, “OK, that’s all I want to know.’ If Jay thinks we’re doing fine, we’ll get there, I think we’ll get there. And I certainly hope that happens, the sooner the better.”

Player touched on how that division in golf and attention on the greed in the game has turned off the public. But he also noted that the players who had stayed loyal to the PGA Tour needed to be compensated in some way (which they will be through the infusion of capital into the Tour’s new for-profit arm from private equity investment.)

“Anytime in any business whatsoever, not only in the golf business, there’s confrontation, it’s unhealthy. You’ve got to get together and come to a solution. If you cannot, it’s not good. The public don’t like it, and we as professionals don’t like it, either,” Player said. “But it’s a big problem because they paid all these guys to join the LIV Tour fortunes, I mean, beyond one’s comprehension and the players that were loyal, three of us and others. Now these guys come back and play, I really believe the players, that if they are loyal, should be compensated in some way or another. Otherwise, there’s going to be dissension.”

Wise words from three of the all-time greats, who still care deeply about the state of professional golf.

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Wyndham Clark has support of Dan Lanning and the Ducks ahead of Masters debut

We know who Dan Lanning is pulling for this year at The Masters.

Growing up, every golfer’s dream is to make it to the PGA Tour, and eventually have a chance to drove down Magnolia Lane in Augusta, Georgia, gearing up for The Masters Championship. It is among the most legendary tournaments in all of golf, and awards arguably the most prestigious trophy in all of sports — the green jacket.

That’s a trophy that former Oregon Duck Wyndham Clark will be competing for later this week down in Augusta, making his Masters debut. While Clark has been finding success on the PGA Tour for a few years now, it was his win in the U.S. Open a year ago that got him qualifying status for the first major of 2024.

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While Clark has a large group of fans rooting him on from across the country in Eugene, the most notable may be Oregon Ducks head football coach Dan Lanning.

“I’m going to try and catch as much as I can,” Lanning said when asked about The Masters on Tuesday. “We’ll be busy with practice on Thursday and Saturday, but I hope Wyndham goes out there and takes care of business.”

Clark has three career wins on the PGA Tour, one of which came earlier this year at Pebble Beach. He is playing alongside Viktor Hovland and Cameron Smith, teeing off at 7:54 a.m. PT on Thursday morning, and 11 a.m. PT on Friday morning.

At the moment, according to FanDuel Sportsbook, Clark has +4000 odds to win the tournament, which is tied for the 12th best in the field.

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All the holes-in-one at Augusta National for the Masters

The 16th has had the most aces over the years.

In the history of the Masters Tournament at Augusta National, there have been 34 holes-in-one, the most recent coming in the 2022 edition of the event.

The fourth has just one ace ever.

The sixth has had six holes-in-one.

The most famous par 3 is the 12th, known as Golden Bell, and there have been just three aces there.

The 16th hole has recorded the most aces of any hole at Augusta National with 24.

Below is a list of all the aces.

In tournament history, five aces were made by amateurs, one was made by a golfer using a mashie niblick and one was made by a golfer using a spade mashie. (Bonus points if you know what those two clubs look like).

Jon Rahm’s 2024 Masters champions dinner menu serves up some Spanish flair

If you’re not hungry now, you will be after reading this.

Jon Rahm is giving the past winners at Augusta National a taste of Spain with his 2024 champions dinner menu.

Officially known as the Masters Club Dinner, the gathering of past Masters champions happens every Tuesday of tournament week and dates to Ben Hogan in 1952. This year, the dinner will be held April 9, 2024, and feature a variety of Spanish cuisine, the majority of which hales from Rahm’s native Basque region of the country.

“With the help of José Andres, the chef who I feel like needs no introduction for a lot of people, we made what would be a northern Spanish Basque country Bilbao menu and basically put in all of my favorites and even included a dish from my grandma,” said Rahm of his menu. “He called my grandma for the recipe. If somebody doesn’t like it, please just don’t tell me.  Don’t tell anyone actually. It means a little bit too much to me to hear it.”

From tapas and pinxtos to a first-course salad, main course fish and steak and a creamy desert, here’s what will be served in honor of Mr. Jon Rahm at the 2024 Masters Club Dinner.

MORE: Masters Champions Dinner menus over the last 30 years

Starters (tapas y pinxtos)

Ibericos: Acord-fed iberian ham cured pork loin

Idiazabal con Trufa Negra: Idiazabal cheese, black truffle

Tortilla de Patatas: Spanish omelette, onions, confit potatoes

Chistorra con Patata: Spicy basque chorizo, potato

Lentejas Estofadas: Mama Rahm’s classic lentil stew

Croqueta de Pollo: Creamy chicken fritters, confit potatoes

First course

Ensalada de Txangurro: Basque crab salad, potato

Main course (choice of)

Chuleton a la Parilla: Basque ribeye, tudela lettuce, piquillo peppers

“Usually traditionally they will basically serve it to you already cut up and then you have a hot plate that you can cook it up to your temperature,” Rahm said. “Most people in northern Spain go about as much as medium rare. If you go past that, you’re going to get a weird look just because that’s how we are. Very proud people of what we do, and meat usually is high quality.”

“That would be essentially what’s my favorite. Every time I go back home I try to eat it. It’s in a serving size, so usually those steaks are about four pounds, and you’re searing it. It’s not single service,” he added. “You’re searing it with at least three or four people. They usually also come with peppers, sometimes fries, sometimes a little salad; this is lettuce, onions, olive oil and vinegar.”

Rodaballo al Pil-Pil: Turbot, navarra white asparagus

“It’s a white fish, very local from where I come from, which actually most common is cod or sea bass, but I don’t like cod so I refuse to have something I don’t like at my dinner,” said Rahm.

Dessert

Milhojas de Crema y Nata: Puff pastry cake, custard and chantilly cream

“Then dessert, the translation from Spanish, which is Milhojas, would be 1,000 leaves. It’s basically a puff pastry with custard and just very little layers,” he explained. “It was basically Kelley and I’s wedding cake. It varies a little bit where you’re doing it in Spain, but it’s absolutely one of my favorites.”

Wine

Rahm will serve a Basque white wine from Vizcaya, called Txakoli, which is a bit drier than normal white wine. He will also serve a red win, Imperial.

“I wanted to put a little bit of my heritage and my family into this dinner, which is going to make it even more special,” said Rahm. “Hopefully I get to do it again, but I wanted to make sure the Basque Heritage was there. I know José has done it twice, but where he’s from and where I’m from is a little bit different, so I wanted to put a little bit of my essence into it, and I’m hoping they really like it.”

If all that tastes as good as it sounds, the past champions are in for quite a treat.

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Annika Sorenstam named member at Augusta National Golf Club

There’s a new 10-time major winner who’s a member at Augusta National.

Annika Sorenstam, winner of 10 women’s majors and 72 LPGA Tour titles, was recently fitted for a green jacket.

According to multiple sources who spoke to Golfweek on the condition of anonymity, Sorenstam, 53, officially became a member at Augusta National Golf Club earlier this month when the club opened for the current season. A spokesperson for Augusta National Golf Club declined to comment. Mike McGee, Sorenstam’s husband and manager, also declined to comment.

Augusta National has traditionally cited membership as a private matter and gone to great lengths to keep its membership list, which is believed to be in the neighborhood of 300 and includes a group of some of the wealthiest and most powerful businessmen — and since 2012 women — private.

Augusta National was founded as a men’s-only club in 1932. It began hosting the Masters in 1934. Twenty years ago, women’s activist Martha Burk, from the National Council of Women’s Organizations, demonstrated and campaigned about the lack of women members in Augusta National.

Nearly a decade passed until then-Augusta National Chairman Billy Payne welcomed former U.S. Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, and South Carolina financier, Darla Moore, to join the club in 2012.

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Se Ri Pak, Lorena Ochoa, Nancy Lopez and Annika Sorenstam are the honorary starters at the first tee ceremony during the final round of the Augusta National Women’s Amateur. (Photo: Rob Schumacher-USA TODAY Sports)

Other confirmed female members at Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia include Heidi Ueberroth, co-chairman of Pebble Beach Co., former USGA president Diana Murphy, former IBM CEO Ginni Rometty and Ana Botin, executive chairman of the Santander Group. Sorenstam is the first LPGA pro to become a member at one of golf’s most prestigious clubs in the country, where membership remains one of the most sought after affirmations of success.

A decade after the first female members were admitted, Fred Ridley, the current club chairman, reflected on that decision during his pre-tournament press conference at the Masters. “I don’t know about you, but when anything happens or any idea that you had turns out well and you’re pleased about it, initiative, whatever, you might always say, well, why didn’t we do that sooner?  And that’s a fair, that’s a fair thought. And so I wish – I wish we had have,” he said.

He added: “Women members are a very important part of our membership, and you will continue to see over the years, if you look, more green jackets that are women. I’m going to make sure of that.

“We have a number of women members who we are delighted are part of our organization. I think you know, certainly, who some of them are. They have been great contributors to our organization, both I would say substantively and things they are doing to help us, both with the Masters and otherwise.”

Sorenstam has been a trailblazer of sorts for the women’s game. In 2008, she became the first woman to play a PGA Tour event since 1945 when she competed in what was then known as the Bank of America Colonial. When the club introduced the Augusta Women’s National Amateur in 2019, Sorenstam served as one of the first tee starters.

Augusta National accepting job applications for 2024 Masters Tournament

Interested in getting to Augusta National for the Masters but can’t find and/or afford tickets?

Interested in getting to Augusta National for the Masters but can’t find and/or afford tickets?

Here’s one way to get on the hallowed grounds: work at the golf course during tournament week.

Augusta National’s official Masters website has a jobs page for prospective employees. The club says it’s looking for thousands of people to fill jobs in concessions, hospitality and merchandise operations. Specific jobs include barista, forklift driver, cashier, overnight sandwich prep and merchandise.

The application process opened last Monday and will stay open until Dec. 4. ANGC is looking to staff three events: the Augusta National Women’s Amateur (April 6), the Drive, Pitch and Putt National Finals (April 7) and Masters Tournament week (April 8 to April 14). If you intend to apply, you have to work all nine days. Be ready for long days, too, as the jobs site indicates: “Depending on your position, you may work between 10-14 hours each day.”

ANGC is asking people to only apply for one position and notes that “selected applicants will receive offer letters via email beginning in mid-January and continuing through March 2024.”

The jobs page makes no mention of whether any of these positions allow for free time to watch any of the events.

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Masters: Wanna play Augusta National? Here are your options

Here are a few ways you can pull off the seemingly impossible (but it certainly won’t be easy).

Watching golf inherently makes you want to play golf, which makes Masters week equal parts pleasure and pain.

From the sounds of birds chirping and Jim Nantz on the call to the breathtaking drone aerials of the undulating fairways, golf viewers spend all week drooling over the mere thought of driving down Magnolia Lane for a round at Augusta National Golf Club, ranked No. 3 among Golfweek’s Best classic courses.

So how does one go about scoring a round on one of golf’s most famous courses? Here are a few ways you can pull off the seemingly impossible (but it certainly won’t be easy).

Masters Leaderboard: Live leaderboard, schedule, tee times

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Masters caddies wear the ‘tuxedo of all caddie uniforms’ at Augusta National

Caddies at the Masters are decked out what is described as the “tuxedo of all caddie uniforms.”

Caddies are as much a part of the tradition at the Masters as the pink azaleas, pimento cheese sandwiches and the green jacket.

Did you know that for 46 years Augusta National Golf Club provided Masters participants with a caddie?

In 1982, Craig Stadler won the tournament with Ben Bussey on the bag. Little did anyone know at the time that would mark the end of an era, as seven months later, on Nov. 12, 1982, the club announced that professional golfers would be allowed to bring own caddies.

The loopers at Augusta are easy to spot. They are decked out what the official Masters.com website describes as the “tuxedo of all caddie uniforms”:

A bright white, long-sleeved jumpsuit, with the green-outlined Masters logo on the right breast pocket, the caddie number on the left breast pocket and the player name on back – all Velcroed to the white fabric – topped by a green ball cap.

Check out some photos of the caddies at the Masters Tournament.

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The red jackets all over Augusta National at the 2023 Masters, explained

It’s not just green jackets at this year’s Masters Tournament

Everyone knows that the signature jacket of the Masters Tournament is green. The best golfer at the end of the four rounds gets to take home a trophy, a few million dollars and that evergreen garment. But this year, you may see some other fancy sport coats floating around Augusta National.

Masters Leaderboard: Live leaderboard, Schedule, Tee times

Fireball Cinnamon Whisky ran a contest to give 10 golf fans the chance to don a bright red jacket (and take home $1000) at this year’s tournament, asking people to submit their favorite “Fireball golf tradition.”

They certainly aren’t subtle, but that’s pretty much the point. For a members only club that’s notoriously strict on decorum, this is a pretty sneaky way for advertisers to get around the rulebook.

We’ll see if more companies try it out in the future — or if Augusta National finds a way to stop the practice altogether.

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