Pre-Tournament Information – 2025 Masters Tournament

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Scottie Scheffler

 In his sixth appearance, 2022 and 2024 Masters champion seeks to become the ninth player with three or more victories at Augusta National; with a victory, would join Jack Nicklaus (1963, 1965, 1966) as the only players to win three Masters Tournaments in a four-year stretch
 Seeks to join Jack Nicklaus (1956, 1966), Nick Faldo (1989, 1990) and Tiger Woods (2001, 2002) as players to successfully defend their title at the Masters Tournament
 Never finished outside the top 20 in five prior starts at the Masters Tournament (T19/2020, T18/2021, Won/2022, T10/2023, Won/2024)
 With his last three finishes at the Masters Tournament (Won/2024, T10/2023, Won/2022), is one of two players to finish among the top 10 in each of the last three years (Collin Morikawa: 5th/2022, T10/2023, T3/2024)
 World No. 1 and reigning FedExCup champion in search of first official victory since the 2024 TOUR Championship (won 2024 Hero World Challenge)
 In addition to wins at THE PLAYERS, Masters Tournament and TOUR Championship in 2024, captured four titles at Signature Events: Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard, RBC Heritage, the Memorial Tournament presented by Workday and Travelers Championship
 Seventh start of the 2025 season, with three top-10 finishes (T2/ Texas Children’s Houston Open, T3/The Genesis Invitational, T9/AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am)

Rory McIlroy

 Making 17th start at the Masters Tournament; runner-up finish in 2022 marks best performance among seven top-10 results

 Past winner of the PGA Championship, U.S. Open and The Open Championship attempts to become the sixth player to complete the career Grand Slam (Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods)
 Victory at the 2025 PLAYERS Championship marked his 28th win on TOUR (T20 all-time)
 World No. 2 looks to become the third player to win THE PLAYERS Championship and the Masters Tournament in the same year: Tiger Woods (2001), Scottie Scheffler (2024)
 Current FedExCup leader is the only multiple winner this season (AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, THE PLAYERS Championship)
 Fourth consecutive season with multiple victories on TOUR (2021-22/3, 2022-23/2, 2024/2)
 First-round 71 in 2024 marked his first under-par score in an opening round at the Masters Tournament since 2018; owns two career# sub-70 scores in the opening round at Augusta National (65/2011/T15, 69/2018/T5)
 Final-round 64 in 2022 marks his low round at Augusta National, where his scoring average is 71.60 (58 rounds), the lowest among players with 50-74 career rounds

Xander Schauffele

 World No. 3 is making his eighth Masters Tournament appearance; owns four top-10s in seven prior starts (T2/2019, T3/2021 T10/2023, 8th/2024)
 Second-round 65 in 2019 marks his career-low at Augusta National
 Fifth start of the season after returning from a rib injury at the Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard
 Nine-time TOUR winner captured two of the last three major championships (2024 Open Championship, 2024 PGA Championship)

 Holds the TOUR’s current longest streak of consecutive made cuts at 60; finished T12 in his most recent start at the Valspar Championship

Collin Morikawa
 With a victory at the Masters Tournament, World No. 4 and two-time major champion (2020 PGA Championship, 2021 Open Championship) would join three active players (Rory McIlroy, Jordan Spieth, Phil Mickelson) with three legs of the career Grand Slam
 With his last three finishes at the Masters Tournament (5th/2022, T10/2023, T3/2024), joins Scottie Scheffler (Won/2022, T10/2023, Won/2024 ,) as the only players to finish among the top 10 in each of the last three years at Augusta National
 Two runner-up finishes in five starts this season (2nd/The Sentry, 2nd/Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard), as well as a T10 at THE PLAYERS Championship
 Making his 28th start since his most recent of six PGA TOUR titles at the 2023 Baycurrent Classic

Ludvig Åberg

 Sweden native finished runner-up at the 2024 Masters Tournament, his first major championship appearance
 Was a cumulative 3-over on the par-5 15th hole at Augusta National in 2024, but played the other three par5s (Nos. 2, 8 and 13) 9-under for the week
 Posted first-round 73 in 2024; one of three players since 2008 to open with an over-par score and finish runner-up or better at the Masters Tournament (Rory McIlroy/2022/73/2nd, Xander Schauffele/2019/73/T3)
 World No. 5 seeks his third PGA TOUR title and second this season after his victory at The Genesis Invitational in February; claimed first PGA TOUR title at the 2023 RSM Classic; won the 2023 Omega European Masters on the DP World Tour and was selected for the 2023 European Ryder Cup team
 First player to finish No. 1 in the PGA TOUR University Rankings (2022-23) and earn PGA TOUR membership

Masters Tournament notes:

 2015 Masters champion Jordan Spieth makes his 12th start at Augusta National; owns five top-3 results in 11 prior appearances (T2/2014, Won/2015, T2/2016, 3rd/2018, T3/2021); in 40 rounds at Augusta National, his 70.95 scoring average marks the lowest of any player with 25-49 career rounds); underwent wrist surgery in August following the 2024 FedEx St. Jude Championship and returned to competition at the 2025 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am
 2021 Masters champion and World No. 6 Hideki Matsuyama, the only male major championship winner from Japan, has made 12 cuts# in 13 appearances at the Masters Tournament (MC/2014)
 2023 Open Championship winner and last week’s Valero Texas Open winner, Brian Harman heads to his seventh Masters Tournament where he has missed the cut in his last three appearances; made the cut twice in prior six starts (T44/2018, T12/2021)
 England’s Tommy Fleetwood seeks his first PGA TOUR win in his 152nd start; last player to earn first PGA TOUR win at a major championship: England’s Matt Fitzpatrick (2022 U.S. Open); finished T3 at the 2024 Masters Tournament, his best result in eight career appearances
 After missing the 2024 Masters Tournament due to injury, Bernhard Langer makes his 41st and final start at the Masters Tournament

 2013 Masters champion Adam Scott holds the longest active streak of starts in major championships: 93 (streak began at 2001 Open Championship)
 2017 Masters champion Sergio Garcia makes his 100th major championship appearance; won the Masters Tournament in his 19th attempt, the most of any winner; one of 19 past champions in the field
 Cameron Smith is the only player to shoot all four rounds in the 60s in a single tournament (67-68-69-69/2020/T2)
 Eight lefthanders (Akshay Bhatia, Brian Harman, Joe Highsmith, Robert MacIntyre, Matt McCarty, Phil Mickelson, Bubba Watson, Mike Weir) in the field marks the most in Masters Tournament history (previous: 6/2008, 2018)
 25 different countries and territories are represented this year, the most since 2015 (24)
 95 invitees are scheduled to compete this year

PGA TOUR season notes
 Three of the five first-time PGA TOUR winners this season earned an invitation to the Masters Tournament by virtue of their victory (others: Min Woo Lee, Karl Vilips): Thomas Detry/WM Phoenix Open, Brian Campbell/Mexico Open at VidantaWorld, Joe Highsmith/Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches; Min Woo Lee (Texas Children’s Houston Open) will make his fourth career appearance and was previously qualified as one of the top 50 players in the Official World Golf Ranking at the end of the previous calendar year
 Five players qualified for the Masters Tournament via the top 50 in the Official World Golf Ranking through the Texas Children’s Houston Open: No. 28 J.J. Spaun, No. 42 Stephan Jaeger, No. 44 Daniel Berger, No. 48 Laurie Canter, No. 50 Michael Kim; the winner of last week’s Valero Texas Open, 2023 Open champion Brian Harman, was previously exempt