Blog#230 INTRODUCTION TO 2025 MASTERS APRIL 8, 2025

Monday Practice Round was suspended at 11:30AM due to rain and threat of lightning.

The 2025 Masters will have 96 players. All players receive a letter of invitation based on certain criteria. Here is a list of participants and the reason they qualified. There are several ways for qualifying, but only 1 is necessary. * indicates 12 LIV players in the field.

Past Master Champions 19 US Open Champions 2020/2024 3

Fred Couples *Bryson DeChambeau

Angel Cabrera Matt Fitzpatrick

*Sergio Garcia Wyndham Clark

* Dustin Johnson

Zach Johnson

Bernard Langer THE OPEN 2

Hideki Matsuyama Brian Harman

*Phil Mickelson Colin Morikawa

Jose Maria Olazabal

*Jon Rahm PGA Championship 2020/2024 4

*Patrick Reed *Brooks Koepka

Scottie Scheffler Justin Thomas

*Charles Schwartzel Xander Schauffele

Danny Willett *Cameron Smith

Mike Weir

Adam Scott The Players Championship 2025 1

Vijay Singh Rory McIlroy

Jordan Spieth

*Bubba Watson Top 50 OWGR between 2024&2023 Masters 43 Ludvig Aberg Ben An Akshay Bhatia

Amateurs 5 Keegan Bradley Sam Burns Jason Day

Even Beck USA Corey Conners Patrick Cantlay Nick DunlapTai Hiroshi SingaporeTommy Fleetwood Lucas Glover Tony Finau

J Luis Ballester Spain Max Greyersman *Tyrrell Hatton Max Homa

Noah Kent USA Russel Henley SJ Im Billy Horschel

Justin Hastings Rasmus Hojgaard Tom Kim Viktor Hovland

Davis Thompson Daniel Berger Aaron Rai

Qualified for 2024 Tour Championship 3 Lawrence Thriston Min Woo Lee Shane Lowry

Christian Bezuidenhout Robert MacIntyre Matt McCarty J T Poston

Tom Hoge Denny McCarthy Mav McNealy Matt Pavon

Chris Kirk Cameron Young Justin Rose T Pendtich Special 2 Sahith Theegaa Laurie Canter Sepp Straka

Nicolia Hojgaard Stephen Jaeger JJ Spahn A Eckroat

*Joaquin Niemann Michael Kim

Winners of a PGA event in past year 12

Brian Campbell Rafael Campos Joe Highsmith

Davis Cameron Thomas Detry Nic Echavarria

Top 12 in last years Masters 2 Harris English. Patton Kizzire Davis Riley

Adam Schank Nicki Taylor Jhon Veges Kevin Yu

Will Zalatoris

HOLES TO WATCH Jack Nicklaus has stated that these are the 6 most important shots:

Tee shot #2 and #11, also 2nd shot at #11.

Tee shot #12 Shot cost Jordan Spieth the 2024 Masters won by Danny Willett(see blog#231)

Tee shot #13 Last hole of the famous AMENS CORNER.

Second shot #15 Par 5, as all par 5’s it is reachable on 2 by better players, but the 2nd shot must go over a pond and away from a bunker guarding the green.