2025 Masters Tournament

The 2025 Masters Tournament was the 89th edition of the Masters Tournament and the first of the men's four major golf championships held in 2025. The tournament was played from April 10–13 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia, United States. Rory McIlroy won the tournament after the first hole of a sudden-death playoff against Justin Rose. In doing so, McIlroy became the sixth player, and the first European, to complete the modern career Grand Slam, this being his 11th attempt. Additionally, McIlroy became the third player, after Tiger Woods in 2001 and Scottie Scheffler in 2024, to win the Masters and The Players Championship in the same calendar year.

In September 2024, Hurricane Helene caused damage to the course. In January 2025, Augusta National chairman Fred Ridley said the course was in "spectacular condition" and that, while some trees had been lost, the damage had been "minor".

The 12th and 16th holes were among the areas most affected by the tree removals which altered sightlines and may have had a minor impact on wind patterns, particularly at the 12th hole. However, the overall layout and playing characteristics of the course remained largely consistent with the prior year.

Participation in the Masters Tournament is by invitation only, and the tournament has the smallest field of the major championships. There are a number of criteria by which invitations are awarded, including all past winners, recent major champions, leading finishers in the previous year's majors, leading players on the PGA Tour in the previous season, winners of full-point tournaments on the PGA Tour during the previous 12 months, leading players in the Official World Golf Ranking, and some leading amateurs. There were 21 first time Masters competitors this year.

The below list details the qualification criteria for the 2025 Masters Tournament and the players who have qualified under them; any additional criteria under which players qualified are indicated in parentheses.

1. All past winners of the Masters Tournament

• Past winners who did not play: Tommy Aaron, Charles Coody, Ben Crenshaw, Nick Faldo, Raymond Floyd, Trevor Immelman, Sandy Lyle, Larry Mize, Jack Nicklaus, Mark O'Meara, Gary Player, Vijay Singh, Craig Stadler, Tom Watson, Tiger Woods, Ian Woosnam, Fuzzy Zoeller.

2. Recent winners of the U.S. Open (2020–2024)

3. Recent winners of The Open Championship (2020–2024)

4. Recent winners of the PGA Championship (2020–2024)

5. Recent winners of The Players Championship (2023–2025)

6. The winner of the gold medal at the Olympic Games

7. The winner and runner-up in the 2024 U.S. Amateur

8. The winner of the 2024 Amateur Championship

• Jacob Skov Olesen forfeited his exemption by turning professional.

9. The winner of the 2024 Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship

• Ding Wenyi forfeited his exemption by turning professional.

10. The winner of the 2025 Latin America Amateur Championship

• Justin Hastings (a)

11. The winner of the 2024 U.S. Mid-Amateur Golf Championship

• Evan Beck (a)

12. The winner of the 2024 NCAA Division I men's golf individual championship

• Hiroshi Tai (a)

13. The leading 12 players, and those tying for 12th place, from the 2024 Masters Tournament

14. The leading four players, and those tying for fourth place, in the 2024 U.S. Open

15. The leading four players, and those tying for fourth place, in the 2024 Open Championship

16. The leading four players, and those tying for fourth place, in the 2024 PGA Championship

17. Winners of tournaments on the PGA Tour between the 2024 Masters Tournament and the 2025 Masters Tournament

18. All players who qualified for and were eligible for the 2024 Tour Championship

19. The leading 50 players on the Official World Golf Ranking as of December 31, 2024

20. The leading 50 players on the Official World Golf Ranking as of March 31, 2025

21. Special Invitations

Wednesday, April 9

Nico Echavarría won the annual Masters Tournament Par 3 Contest, becoming the first player from Colombia to do so. He secured victory with a birdie on the second hole of a playoff against J. J. Spaun, after both finished five under par through nine holes. Keegan Bradley, Tom Hoge, and Brooks Koepka recorded holes in one, also known as an ace.

Thursday, April 10, 2025

Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player and Tom Watson started the tournament as the honorary starters. Fred Couples was the first in the field to make an eagle, doing so on the 14th hole, and was followed by Collin Morikawa who made an eagle on the 13th hole.

Justin Rose led for the fifth time after 18 holes at the Masters, setting a new tournament record for most 18-hole leads. He made eight birdies to finish with a round of 65 (−7) and a three-shot lead. Defending champion Scottie Scheffler finished tied for second with a round of 68 (−4) alongside Corey Conners and 2024 runner-up Ludvig Åberg.

Rory McIlroy, attempting a career grand slam, finished with 72 (E) tied for 27th. Nick Dunlap finished with a round of 90 (+18).

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Friday, April 11, 2025

Justin Rose continued to lead the pack with a solid second round consisting of one birdie to finish with a score of 71 (−1), for a 36-hole total of 136 (−8). After having holed out from a green side bunker on hole four for birdie, Bryson DeChambeau went four under in the second round, for 68, with a total score for 36 holes with 137. Rory McIlroy shot the low round of the day, a 66, to move to third place.

53 players at the end of the round made the cut, scoring +2 or better, and advanced to the weekend. No amateurs made the cut. By making the cut, Hideki Matsuyama extended his longest active streak at the majors having made 19 consecutive cuts.

Notables to miss the cut include: Bernhard Langer, two-time champion playing in his last Masters, five-time major champion Brooks Koepka, 2020 champion Dustin Johnson, three-time champion Phil Mickelson, and 2017 champion Sergio García.

Amateurs: Hastings (+4), Tai (+6), Beck (+9), Ballester (+10), Kent (+11).

Saturday, April 12, 2025

Rory McIlroy took the lead during the third round, including making six straight threes on holes one through six, a first in the tournament. He shot a third round 66, for a 54-hole score of 204 strokes taken. Bryson DeChambeau went three-under par in the third round, a 69, for a 54-hole score of 206 strokes taken. Zach Johnson tied for the lowest round of the day with a 66 (−6) while round one and two leader Justin Rose finished the round +3. Due to having an odd number of players, Augusta National Golf Club member Michael McDermott was paired with Tom Kim.

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Sunday, April 13, 2025

Rory McIlroy won his first Masters title and became the sixth men's golfer to complete a career grand slam.

The 89th Masters was the first full tournament since 2016 to finish without a weather delay in any round. The top 12 players will receive an invite to next year's tournament.

Third round leader Rory McIlroy shot a 73, one over par, tying Justin Rose. Rose shot a 66, six under par for the round to tie with McIlroy for a playoff.

McIlroy immediately lost his 54-hole lead after hitting his opening tee shot into a fairway bunker and three-putting the first green for a double bogey. On the second, he again hit his drive into a fairway bunker, missing his birdie putt while DeChambeau took the lead with a two-putt birdie. McIlroy regained a three-shot lead with birdies at 3 and 4, while DeChambeau bogeyed both holes.

At 5 and 7, McIlroy hit erratic tee shots but managed to hit extremely high recovery shots over trees at both holes, leaving himself a short uphill chip at 5 and a short birdie putt at 7. After four pars on holes 5 through 8, he made birdies on 9 and 10 to extend his lead.

On the 11th, McIlroy again drove into the trees right of the fairway, and had to hit a low second shot, which ricocheted off of the mounds short of the green and stopped inches short of the water hazard. DeChambeau then pulled a 9-iron from the middle of the fairway into the water hazard. McIlroy played a conservative chip shot away from the water and missed his par putt, but DeChambeau's double bogey left McIlroy with a four-shot lead.

Meanwhile, Rose's birdie at the 13th was his fifth in seven holes and moved him to −10, three shots behind McIlroy, who made a safe par at the 12th. Holding a three-shot lead in the middle of the 13th fairway, McIlroy decided to lay up short of the water hazard in front of the green, leaving himself 82 yards for his third shot into the par five. With ample room on the green long and left of the hole, McIlroy misplayed his wedge shot, shockingly finding the water hazard short and right of the hole. He failed to get up and down for bogey, reducing his lead to just one shot. He hit another towering approach shot from the trees right of the 14th fairway but failed to get up and down from short of the green, dropping him to −10 into a three-way tie for the lead with Rose and Åberg, who birdied the 15th.

Rose birdied the 16th to take the solo lead. McIlroy hit another remarkable iron shot into the 15th green, hooking a 7-iron around the trees on the left side of the fairway to six feet for a two-putt birdie to join Rose at −11. After bogeying the 17th, Rose holed a long putt on 18 for his tenth birdie of the day to post a score of −11 for the clubhouse lead. Åberg three-putted the 17th green to drop to −9 before triple-bogeying the 18th after hitting the face of the fairway bunker trying to hole his second shot for eagle to tie Rose.

After missing a short birdie putt on 16, McIlroy hit a towering shot from the middle of the fairway on the 17th to three feet, which he converted for birdie to take the lead at −12. After hitting his tee shot into the middle of the 18th fairway, he pushed his wedge shot into a greenside bunker and missed a short par putt to fall into the playoff with Rose.

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

Eagle

Birdie

Bogey

Double bogey

Triple bogey+

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In the playoff on the 18th hole, both found the fairway off the tee. After Rose hit the green with his approach, McIlroy redeemed his mistake in regulation with a wedge shot to four feet (1.2 m). After Rose missed his putt, McIlroy converted for birdie to cap an emotional day for his first Masters win, completing the career grand slam. McIlroy became the first to win the Masters while making four double bogeys, which included two in the final round (1,13).

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