Past Masters Results: First appearance
2025 PGA Tour Results: 47 – 22 – MC* – MC* – 53* – 1 – 48* – 15 – 53 – 5
At 32 years old, Detry still feels like an up-and-coming talent. He picked up his first professional win at the WM Phoenix Open in February, showcasing massive upside by finishing seven strokes clear of the field—one of the largest winning margins in recent PGA Tour history.
He’s also shown the ability to contend in big events. He was T-9 at the Olympics last summer and finished 14th or better in each of his last three major starts, including a T-4 at the PGA Championship at Valhalla. The Belgian hasn’t been great since his February win—though he has gained three strokes on approach in consecutive starts—but he has never been someone who strings together consistent quality results. In fact, the win and those three strong major finishes all came after results outside the top 40.
After a T-47 last time out in Houston, he has the opportunity to continue that trend—though finishing near the top 10 feels like a tall task in his first trip to Augusta.
Nick Dunlap
Past Masters Results: MC
2025 PGA Tour Results: MC – MC* – MC* – 17* – 57 – 58* – 34 – 10 – 55
Patrons beware: this guy genuinely cannot keep a golf ball between the ropes with a driver at the moment. He has lost at least 2.1 strokes off the tee in all nine starts in 2025. In March, he was dead last in SG: Off-the-Tee in three straight starts. He lost 7.8 off-the-tee at the Players, 7.7 at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, and somehow lost 6.8 in Houston, where he hit just 26.9% of Memorial Park’s wide fairways. The rest of his game is fine, but the talented 21-year-old is going to keep missing cuts if he continues hemorrhaging strokes off the tee.
Nicolas Echavarria
Past Masters Results: First appearance
2025 PGA Tour Results: 32 – 16 – MC* – MC – 34* – MC – 77* – MC – 2
Of the players who teed it up during the PGA Tour’s Fall swing, Echavarría might have been the best. He earned his Masters invite with a win at the Zozo Championship in October and added two runner-up finishes and another top 10 by mid-January—an early-season surge that put him firmly on the radar.
Since then, the results have cooled. Despite currently leading the PGA Tour in SG: Putting, he’s struggled to find consistency due to below-average ball-striking and shaky scrambling. He ranked among the top three putters in the field each of the last two weeks—but could only manage T-32 and T-16 finishes, both in relatively weak fields.
The putter has been elite, but Augusta demands more than that. Unless he finds a lot more tee-to-green, it’s hard to see him doing much more than hanging around for the weekend.
Austin Eckroat
Past Masters Results: First appearance
2025 PGA Tour Results: MC – 61* – 34* – MC – MC* – MC – 13* – MC – MC – 15
Impressively secured two PGA Tour wins during the 2024 calendar year, but hasn’t been close to replicating that form in 2025. Eckroat has missed the cut in six of nine starts since January, and has lost strokes tee-to-green in all but two.
The statistical profile isn’t as ugly as some of the other names in the field, but it’s still a massive drop-off for a 25-year-old who looked poised for a breakout just a few months ago. On current form, it’s hard to see him improving on the missed cut from his Masters debut.
Harris English
Past Masters Results: 22 – 43 – 21 – 42 – MC
2025 PGA Tour Results: 18 – 30* – MC* – 24* – 73 – 1 – 43 – MC
English has three career top 10 finishes in majors—all of them at the U.S. Open. He ended a four-year winless drought in January with a victory at the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines, a two-time U.S. Open host. He has played unspectacular golf before and after that win, only managing two top 25 finishes while relying heavily on his putter. English has felt capable of finishing better than his career-best T-21 at the Masters, but that hasn’t materialized. He is clearly more comfortable on U.S. Open-style setups, and appears to have limited upside at Augusta. Another middle-of-the-pack finish feels like the most likely result this week.
Tony Finau
Past Masters Results: 55 – 26 – 35 – 10 – 38 – 5 – 10
2025 PGA Tour Results: 56 – 32 – MC* – 36* – 5* – 13* – MC – MC – 15
Finau has consistently been a top 10 iron player during his time on Tour, but he currently sits outside the top 100 in SG: Approach this season. He’s lost strokes on approach in the majority of his starts since January, and hasn’t shown much upside even in the few events where he’s earned marginal gains. His two decent finishes this year were propped up by outlier short game performances that feel unlikely to repeat at Augusta.
After three top 10s in his first four trips to Augusta, Finau hasn’t been a factor here in any of his last three starts—and he feels incredibly hard to trust this week when the best part of his game isn’t working.
Matt Fitzpatrick
Past Masters Results: 22 – 10 – 14 – 34 – 46 – 21 – 38 – 32 – 7 – MC
2025 PGA Tour Results: MC – MC* – 22* – 49* – MC – 48* – 24
Another once-formidable player who’s massively struggling for form this season. Fitzpatrick has just one top-25 finish in 2024, and it came in a week where he gained eight strokes putting. He hasn’t gained on the greens in any other start since January—so that spike looks unsustainable—and the rest of his bag hasn’t shown signs of helping, as he ranks outside the top 150 on Tour in both SG: Approach and Around-the-Green. He’s made the cut in nine straight trips to Augusta, but currently looks like a player that will be fighting to play the weekend.
Tommy Fleetwood
Past Masters Results: 3 – 33 – 14 – 46 – 19 – 36 – 17 – MC
2025 PGA Tour Results: 62 – 16 – 14* – 11* – 5* – 22*
2025 DP World Tour Results: 21
In a year when a lot of big names in golf have been flailing, Fleetwood just keeps stacking top 20s and cashing checks. Say what you will about his inability to win on the PGA Tour, but this man is as consistent as they come. He’s made over $26 million without ever earning one of those top heavy winner’s checks—which says a lot about how often he’s near the top of the leaderboard.
Now, please bear in mind that the man writing this thinks Fleetwood can win every week, and is now completely disregarding the recent 62nd finish in Texas as a random outlier. But honestly, his game is so close. He ranked inside the top 10 in SG: Tee-to-Green in four consecutive elevated events from February through March, finishing those tournaments 22nd, fifth, 11th, and 14th. He was really just one hot putting week away from a win—which unfortunately came the one week his irons went cold at the Valspar Championship.
The pieces are there, and the man shows up for the majors. He has seven career top fives in majors, including a T-3 at Augusta last year. Sure, this is probably too big a stage for him to finally get that first U.S. win—but I have dreams. And at the very least, we can expect Fleeetwood to cash a pretty big check.
Sergio Garcia
Past Masters Results: MC – MC – 23 – MC – MC – MC – 1 – 34 – 17 – MC – 8 – 12 – 35 – 45 – 38
2025 LIV Golf Results: 3 – 32 – 1 – 18 – 6
I think I’m supposed to be excited about Garcia at the Masters because he outlasted Dean Burmester and 54-year-old Phil Mickelson a month ago in Hong Kong. Honestly, I’m not sure what to make of that. He won a 54-hole event on a course where Chieh-Po Lee and Andy Ogletree shot three rounds in the 60s—not exactly ideal prep for Augusta National.
His recent third-place finish at LIV Miami, on the much tougher setup at Doral, is probably more encouraging. Then again, he finished second in that same event last year and still missed the cut at the Masters the following week. In fact, Garcia has now missed the cut in five of six Masters appearances since his 2017 win. That’s a strong enough trend that I’m not particularly interested in Segio this week despite a few podium finishes on LIV.
Lucas Glover
Past Masters Results: 20 – 30 – MC – 42 – 49 – MC – MC – 36 -20 – MC
2025 PGA Tour Results: 8 – 3* – 36* – MC – 31* – MC – 3*
At 45 years old, Lucas Glover looks determined to play himself onto his first Ryder Cup team. He had T-3 finishes at the Players Championship and AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am and was in the hunt again at the Valspar Championship. All three of those finishes came at courses where distance isn’t a major factor, and his inability to handle Augusta’s length is probably why he’s never finished better than 20th in ten starts. It’s hard to see that changing now.
Max Greyserman
Past Masters Results: First appearance
2025 PGA Tour Results: MC – MC* – 22* – 11 – 24* – 49 – 48 – 7 – 24
Qualified for the Masters by finishing 2024 inside the top 50 of the OWGR thanks to an excellent close to his rookie season that included 10 straight made cuts and three runner-up finishes. That made-cut streak extended through his first seven starts of 2025, but he now enters Augusta on the heels of back-to-back missed cuts.
Greyserman is a world-class putter and an excellent scrambler, and that short-game consistency is what fueled those 17 straight made weekends. During that run, the ball-striking was quietly above Tour average, but that part of his game has fallen off recently. He’s lost over a stroke off-the-tee in four straight starts and more than 2.8 strokes on approach in three consecutive events. It’s hard to imagine him high on leaderboards in his first trip to Augusta National without a dramatic turnaround in ball-striking.
Brian Harman
Past Masters Results: MC – MC – MC – 12 – 44 – MC
2025 PGA Tour Results: 1 – MC* – 40* – 32 – 17* – 25 – 53* – MC – 21 – 58
The 2023 Open Champion delivered a timely reminder of his class last week, winning the Valero Texas Open and snapping out of a prolonged slump in dramatic fashion. It marked his first PGA Tour top-10 finish since last June and his first win since lifting the Claret Jug at Hoylake.
Before the win, his form had been concerning—but after gaining over seven strokes on approach and nearly six with the putter, it feels fair to pull back some of the skepticism and open the door to renewed optimism heading into the Masters. That said, Augusta has historically been a tough fit for Harman, whose lack of length off the tee puts him at a disadvantage. He has missed the cut in each of his last three starts here, and while the win certainly raises his ceiling this week, it probably only pushes it into top-20 territory.
Justin Hastings (a)
Past Masters Results: First appearance
2025 PGA Tour Results: MC – 13
World Amateur Golf Ranking: 24
Hastings earned his spot at Augusta by winning the 2024 Latin America Amateur Championship, representing the Cayman Islands. A senior at San Diego State, he’s already made three PGA Tour starts—missing two cuts, but finishing an impressive T-13 at the Mexico Open in February, ahead of fellow amateur José Luis Ballester. That showing proves he’s more than capable of contending for low amateur honors this week.
Tyrrell Hatton
Past Masters Results: 9 – 34 – 52 – 18 – MC – 56 – 44 – MC
2025 LIV Golf Results: 33 – 19 – 20 – 23 – 6
2025 DP World Tour Results: 1
From September to January, Tyrrell Hatton looked like one of the best players in the world. He teed it up in five DP World Tour events and earned two wins, a runner-up, and two other top 10s. The wins came in two of the more competitive European events—featuring big names from both the PGA Tour and LIV, including Rory McIlroy, Tommy Fleetwood, Shane Lowry, Jon Rahm, and Brooks Koepka.
That form hasn’t carried over to LIV, where he’s been well outside the mix in all but one start. But as perhaps the most profane and openly irritable personality in modern golf, I’m happy to chalk that up to a lack of interest and an inability to deal with the noise and extracurriculars that come with LIV stops in Adelaide, Hong Kong, and Singapore.
Hatton hasn’t always clicked with Augusta either, once saying, “I’m glad it’s over… this course doesn’t really suit my eye.” But his relationship with the course may be improving after earning his first top 10 finish here last year. I put far more stock in his recent wins in Europe than his LIV results (a view shared by Data Golf’s analytics), so I wouldn’t be overly surprised if he’s on the front page of the leaderboard again this year.
Russell Henley
Past Masters Results: 38 – 4 – 30 – 15 – 11 – 21 – 31 – MC
2025 PGA Tour Results: 30* – 1* – 6 – 39* – 5* – 10 – 30
While he’s not often considered among golf’s elite, Henley looks like a lock for the U.S. Ryder Cup team and is playing as well as almost anyone right now. Importantly, he’s been a constant presence in big events over the past year. Last season he finished T-7 at the U.S. Open and T-4 at both the Open Championship and Tour Championship. He rolled that form into 2025 with an early top-five finish at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am and a massive win against a stacked field at the Arnold Palmer Invitational.
Henley has one of the most balanced games on Tour, consistently gaining strokes in all four major categories this season. The only real knock heading into Augusta is his below-average driving distance, but even that hasn’t limited his upside as he stacked top 10s at bomber-friendly venues like Quail Hollow, Pinehurst No. 2, East Lake, and Bay Hill in the past 10 months.
He came close at Augusta in 2023 and enters this year playing the best golf of his career. Don’t rule him out.
Joe Highsmith
Past Masters Results: First appearance
2025 PGA Tour Results: MC – 22 – 20* – MC* – 1 – 17 – MC – MC – 68
If you don’t know Highsmith’s game, think skinny (and slightly taller) Brian Harman with a bucket hat. The slender southpaw got his maiden PGA Tour win at the Cognizant Classic this March with a pair of 64s on the weekend after making the cut on the number. He displayed some good follow-up form after his win with a T-20 at the Players and a T-22 at the Valspar. Highsmith has been one of the best putters on Tour over the past two months, and has also displayed incredibly consistent ball-striking—he’s not likely to lead a tournament in either category, but he has gained strokes off-the-tee and on approach in six of his past eight starts.
He’s coming off a missed cut in Houston, but that was on a long, waterlogged course that massively favored bombers—not his game. Distance will be an issue at Augusta, but he’s got a solid long-iron game to help compensate and has shown enough all-around form over the past month to warrant at least a look in the Top First-Timer market.
Tom Hoge
Past Masters Results: MC – 39
2025 PGA Tour Results: 5 – 3* – 40* – 67 – 54* – MC – 17* – 29 – 45 – 8
After losing more than 4.8 strokes tee-to-green and finishing outside the top 40 in four straight starts, Hoge came roaring out of a slump with a T-3 finish at the Players, showcasing his elite iron play while leading the field in SG: Approach at TPC Sawgrass. He carried that momentum into his next start where he had another quality approach week and top five at the Valero. This is particularly encouraging as Hoge has shown the ability to string together multiple high-level approach weeks, and on a course that demands long iron precision, he could be poised for another spike at Augusta as one of the better long iron players on Tour.
While the recent form is encouraging, it’s worth noting that Hoge hasn’t done much in two Masters starts, and there is a broader concern about his overall major championship record. Outside of two decent finishes at the PGA Championship, he has seven missed cuts and has no finish better than T-39 in 18 major appearances. The ball-striking gives him a chance to surprise on this course, but I would like to see him prove it on a bigger stand before I buy into his ceiling at Augusta.
Nicolai Hojgaard
Past Masters Results: 16
2025 PGA Tour Results: MC – MC – MC* – 18 – 8 – 36 – MC
2025 DP World Tour Results: 65
This is the Højgaard twin who found himself in contention on Saturday at Augusta last year. Nicolai has three DP World Tour wins and a Ryder Cup appearance under his belt, all by age 24.
He’s incredibly talented, routinely generating 190-plus mph ball speed, gaining strokes both on approach and with the putter, and consistently piling up birdies. On the other hand, he’s wild off the tee and a below-average scrambler, which contributes to a high bogey rate and plenty of missed cuts. That volatility shows up clearly in the results—after a solid stretch in February, he’s now missed three straight cuts, none of them particularly close.
Still, he found his way into the mix last year at Augusta following a similarly uneven stretch, and his ability to go low gives him some appeal as a volatile sleeper pick this week.
Rasmus Hojgaard
Past Masters Results: First appearance
2025 PGA Tour Results: 32 – MC – MC* – 34 – MC* – 12 – 22*
2025 DP World Tour Results: 12
At just 24 years old, Rasmus already has a prolific DP World Tour résumé with five career wins. He showed promise early this year in his first full PGA Tour season, but has missed three cuts and finished outside the top 30 in five straight starts since early February.
Even if he were coming in on a heater, I’d still have a hard time trusting Rasmus thanks to a rough major championship record. In seven major starts, he’s missed three cuts and finished T-60, T-68, T-60, and T-79. It’s honestly impressive to make four cuts and fail to finish inside the top 60. He’s better suited to Augusta than the tighter major setups, but he’s not a first-timer I’m backing this year.
Max Homa
Past Masters Results: 3 – 43 – 48 – MC – MC
2025 PGA Tour Results: MC – MC* – MC* – MC* – MC – 53* – 26
Homa’s struggles are no secret—he hasn’t made a weekend in a cut event all season, and the numbers show issues throughout the bag. He’s been extremely open and vulnerable about this slump, and if you’re a fan looking for signs of hope, he’s encouraged by the way he’s swinging it in practice, trusts the work, and believes a breakthrough on the course is near. He works too hard for this slump to linger long-term, and I personally think we’ll see him back in the mix soon—but we can pretty confidently say it won’t be this week at Augusta. Especially with a new caddie.
Billy Horschel
Past Masters Results: 52 – 43 – 50 -38 – 56 – MC – 17 – MC – 37
2025 PGA Tour Results: 4 – 42* – MC* – 25 – MC* – MC – 9* – 21 – MC – 51
Billy might be the favorite if the Masters were a team even played in a simulator arena, but he unfortunately has to tee it up at Augusta National where he hasn’t finished better than T-38 since 2016.
There is at least a little reason for optimism this year. The TGL champion and Atlanta Drive GC hype man enters Augusta off his best outdoor golfing performance of the season, gaining strokes in every category en route to a T-4 at the Valspar. Still, that’s his only good result in the last two months, and his consistently mediocre track record at Augusta outweighs whatever confidence that one week might inspire. He feels destined to finish somewhere between 40th and 60th.
