The Augusta MastersThe contest for Antontonasia of the Golf of the Planet. A total of eighty players will fight to dress with the green jacket, one of the most important tropes in the sport world. Among them, many names seem to stand out to others.
According to the state of form, Scottie Schefflerundoubtedly number 1 in the world, and Rory mcilroy They seem to be a step ahead to fight the title. But if one thing has a golf it’s a sport where it is very difficult to make pools and where each error is paid very much. Therefore, there are many other names that appear as candidates for the masters. Among them was the contest champion in 2023, Jon Rahm.
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Scottie Scheffler
He is the great favorite in the title for a variety of reasons. The first, because he is the current champion and is closely linked to the second: he is very good for the field of Augusta National, where he also crowned in 2022. Therefore, he searched for his third green jacket. But, in addition, he was the undeniable king of the PGA tour, with seven successes in 2024, and combined the hunger needed to win at the beginning of 2025 after a complex start of the year due to an injury in his hand.
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Rory mcilroy
For eleven consecutive years, the Norwegian stands in Augusta with a great desire to complete the Grand Slam. Of the two PGA championships, a US Open and a British in his note, Augusta fought over time. This is not for its disagreement, as it has accumulated four top5 and seven top10 in his career, even though he has not fought for the title in these last two years. Of course, it came in 2025 at a sweet moment: it accumulated two titles at the start of the year and, besides them, were the players who won a few weeks ago.
3
Xander Schauffele
He is a man with great appointments. Last year he signed a stratospheric season after being crowned both at the PGA championship and the British Open. Not only that, but it ended at the eighth in the Masters and the seventh in the US Open. It has accumulated those two titles and six top10 in the last ‘majors’ and is missing on its record a masters where it has four top10 in seven participants.
4
Collin Morikawa
He has not won this time yet, but his results are there: second to the Sentry Tournament of Champions, second to Arnold Palmer Invitational, Top10 to players and at least Top17 of the five contests played. He has not won a title since October 2023, but the gallons have not disappeared: championship of championship in 2020 and British Open in 2021, he is looking for his third ‘major’.
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Russell Henley
His results in this 2025 season have no doubt: Arnold Palmer Invitational champion, Fifth in AT&T Pebble Beach, sixth in the Cognizant Classic and Tenth at Sony Open. Its presence in positions in front of the tournaments continued and that in recent years (fourth in 2023 masters, fifth in 2024 and seventh British in the US tomorrow 2024) showed that it could be in ‘majors’.
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Jon Rahm
It will not be lost between the payroll of the great candidates for the Augusta Jon Rahm masty. It is true that last year he did not have the best performance, but also that he was the 2023 champion and he usually adapted to thousands of wonders in Augusta National, with five top10 in eight participants. RAHM usually reaches a high level of ‘majors’ and is facing 2025 as the current champion of the Liv Circuit and after the Saudi Circuit has begun this season.
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Viktor Hovland
The winner of Valspar in recent weeks, has left two completely opposite faces in the Grand Slam in recent times: or very high, as their four top10 and two other top20 shows since 2022 British, or cut has not been passed, as happened to three ‘majors’ last year. She is confident that her beautiful moment serves to show her best version.
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Brooks Koepka
This is a real superclass in big tournaments, so it’s always among the candidates for success. Three PGA championships and two US opens reflect on him and proved to be able to perform at a high level in Augusta, where he adds two seconds and seventh. It is true that in 2024 it was far from the leading positions in ‘Majors’, but it was one of the great Liv flag bearers, which some controversy appeared in recent weeks, to try to conquer Augusta.
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Bryson Dechambeau
He faces this Augusta Masters after signing the best time in his ‘Majors’ history in 2024: US Open Champion, second to the PGA Championship and sixth of the Masters. His regularity in large tournaments, therefore, makes him a candidate’s label to conquer the second Grand Slam in his career. It will be another of Liv’s great Bazas in the contest.
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Sepp Straka
He was one of the most pga tour players, where he gathered six Top15 in the last eight contests he played. Among them, his success in the American Express lasts last January. In 2023, he fought for the British and also became a top10 in the PGA championship and his must have a need to take a step forward in the ‘main’ after being away from the former in 2024.
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Other players: Jordan Spieth, Dustin Johnson, Ludvig Aberg or Hideki Matsuyama
Golf is not math and, therefore, many men who may aspire to win the August Masters. Among them, perhaps, men such as Hideki Matsuyama (contest champion in 2021 and with the Top10 could be included in all ‘majors’, winners of the tournament of champions Sentry Top10 in Grand Slam since then) or Ludvig Aberg (second masters at 2024 and upward players on PGA tour).
Source: La Verdad
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