Of the pressent 85 envelopes postmarked ‘Augusta, GA’ and despatched in the days leading-up to the end of this year, 13 of those will be headed to golfers for the first time.
Among those are four amateurs (Jose Luis Ballester, Evan Beck, Hiroshi Tai and Noah Kent), seven first-time PGA Tour winners (Rafael Campos, Nico Echavarria, Tom Hoge, Taylor Pendrith, Aaron Rai, Matt McCarty and Maverick McNealy) South African Thirston Lawrence and Max Greyserman and with the American posting three second-place and four other top-10 results on this year’s PGA Tour.
Both Lawrence and Greyserman earned a maiden Masters invitation in being among the world’s top-50.
One of the best invitations in golf – An invitation to tee-up at Augusta National.
Fellow American Lucas Glover can count himself one of the fortunate as the recently-turned 45-year-old had slipped outside of the top-50 on the World Rankings following the first cut-off point for 2025 Masters selection but he found his way back to 50th in the world following Monday’s posting of the final World Ranking standings for this year.
Glover earned his invitation by just .0120 of a World Ranking point over Chris Kirk who had already qualified.
Glover now gets to drive down Magnolia Lane for an 11th time in his career since a maiden appearance in 2006 though he’s not finished higher than T20th in 2007 and last year.
Joining Glover to earn the last of the 2025 Augusta invitations was Tom Kim of South Korea (World No. 21), Nick Dunlap (No. 32), Max Greyserman (No. 35), Jason Day of Australia (No. 37), of Denmark (No. 39), Corey Conners of Canada (No. 41), Denny McCarthy (No. 44), Justin Rose of England (No. 46) and Min Woo Lee of Australia (No. 49).
Rose, 44, won the 2013 U.S. Open and placed second at the Masters in 2015 and 2017. Day (2015 PGA Championship) is also a prior major champ.
At this stage, the 2025 Masters will feature 85 players and that’s four less than a year ago.
Of course, this number could increase once the 2025 PGA Tour gets underway and we have players winning who have not already qualified for Augusta while the winner of next month’s Latin American Amateur Championship is also afforded a Masters invitation.
Hereunder is the official list of those who will be teeing-up in the 2025 Masters and you will note five-time Augusta winning Tiger Woods name is not listed.
Masters champions
Scottie Scheffler, Jon Rahm, Hideki Matsuyama, Dustin Johnson, Tiger Woods, Patrick Reed, Sergio Garcia, Danny Willett, Jordan Spieth, Bubba Watson, Adam Scott, Charl Schwartzel, Phil Mickelson, Angel Cabrera, Zach Johnson, Mike Weir, Vijay Singh, Jose Maria Olazabal, Bernhard Langer, Fred Couples.
PGA champions (five years)
Xander Schauffele, Brooks Koepka, Justin Thomas, Collin Morikawa.
U.S. Open champions (five years)
Bryson DeChambeau, Wyndham Clark, Matt Fitzpatrick.
British Open champions (five years)
Brian Harman, Cameron Smith.
NCAA champion
a-Hiroshi Tai.
U.S. Amateur champion and runner-up
a-Jose Luis Ballester, a-Noah Kent.
U.S. Mid-Amateur champion
a-Evan Beck.
Latin American Amateur champion
To be held Jan. 16-19.
Top 12 and ties from the 2024 Masters
Ludvig Aberg, Max Homa, Will Zalatoris, Tyrrell Hatton, Cameron Young, Matthieu Pavon, Adam Schenk, Cameron Davis.
Top 4 and ties from the 2024 PGA Championship
Viktor Hovland, Thomas Detry.
Top 4 and ties from the 2024 U.S. Open
Rory McIlroy, Patrick Cantlay, Tony Finau.
Top 4 and ties from the 2024 British Open
Thriston Lawrence.
PGA Tour winners since the 2024 Masters (full FedEx Cup points)
Taylor Pendrith, Davis Riley, Robert MacIntyre, Davis Thompson, Jhonattan Vegas, Aaron Rai, Keegan Bradley, Patton Kizzire, Kevin Yu, Matt McCarty, J.T. Poston, Nico Echavarria, Austin Eckroat, Rafael Campos, Maverick McNealy.
Field from the 2024 Tour Championship
Sam Burns, Sungjae Im, Sahith Theegala, Shane Lowry, Byeong Hun An, Russell Henley, Akshay Bhatia, Billy Horschel, Tommy Fleetwood, Sepp Straka, Chris Kirk, Tom Hoge, Christiaan Bezuidenhout.
Top 50 from the final world ranking in 2024
Tom Kim, Nick Dunlap, Max Greyserman, Rasmus Hojgaard, Jason Day, Corey Conners, Denny McCarthy, Justin Rose, Min Woo Lee, Lucas Glover.
Top 50 from the March 31, 2025 world ranking
TBD.
Special invitations
TBD.
