The Masters Golf Betting Tips
The 2025 PGA Tour season began in January but for many the season starts and ends with the four majors. The first of golf's most important events — the Masters — begins at Augusta National on Thursday.
The only one of the four majors to come back to the same venue each season, the Masters is arguably the most coveted of the major championships, in part down to the prestige that comes with winning at Augusta.
The Georgia venue, among the most famous golf courses in the world, has always hosted this tournament.
It's known for its pristine flora and fauna but, for the 95-man field who compete this week, it will provide a fearsome tee-to-green examination.
A par-72 layout which measures 7,555 yards in total, Augusta features room off the tee but it's a second-shot course where approach play and hitting the right spots on large, undulating greens tends to be the key to success.
Scheffler and McIlroy dominate Masters market
Scottie Scheffler won the Masters last season and is considered the man to beat this year at 9/2, but the world number one has yet to win in 2025 and the odds suggest he'll face stiff competition from Rory McIlroy, who seeks to complete the career grand slam this week by claiming the only major to elude him.
McIlroy, winless in major championships in more than a decade, has always fallen short at Augusta National but he returns in sparkling form having won the Pebble Beach Pro-Am and Players Championship already this year.
The top two in the market are followed in the betting by two-time major champion Collin Morikawa and Jon Rahm, who won the Masters in 2023.
Tip 1 – Collin Morikawa EW @ 14/1
Scheffler and McIlroy both merit huge respect but the former is arguably not playing as well as he was when winning 12 months ago, while the latter has to prove he's mentally capable of winning this title following so many near-misses.
Given how much they dominate the market, others appeal at a more backable each-way price.
That starts with Morikawa, who has done everything but win in recent months and looks primed to challenge for this title again.
Morikawa teed off in the final pairing alongside Scheffler last year, eventually finishing third, and it's no secret that he's struggled to get over the line since winning his second major at the 2021 Open Championship.
However, the Californian has been playing superbly in the run-up to the Masters, finishing second in the Sentry at the start of the year and then finding top form in Florida, where he was an unlucky runner-up at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, then 10th at the Players.
He tops the PGA Tour strokes-gained tee-to-green statistics and on approach and, while others have more power, he's shown he can compete at Augusta before with 18th, fifth and 10th-placed finishes prior to last year's career-best effort.
Tip 2 – Justin Thomas EW @ 20/1
Like Morikawa, Justin Thomas has always had the attributes to compete for the green jacket — he is a superb iron player and a wonderful scrambler — and this looks a fine opportunity for him to return to winning ways.
A two-time PGA Championship winner, Thomas finished fourth at Augusta in 2020 and eighth in 2022 and, while he comes into the 2025 edition having missed the cut in the two previous years, his overall form this season is much more positive.
Thomas was a runner-up in the American Express at the start of the year then sixth in the Phoenix Open and ninth at the Genesis Invitational.
The 31-year-old then finished runner-up at the Valspar Championship and, while he would ultimately have been disappointed having held a commanding lead at Copperhead, he shot 65-66 over the weekend and only an inspired Viktor Hovland was good enough to collar him.
Tip 3 – Patrick Reed EW @ 80/1
Complete a trio of American Masters selections with 2018 champion Patrick Reed, who has a fine Augusta National record and has been competing well on the LIV Golf circuit this year.
Reed, who boasts a magical short game, has Augusta form figures of 36-10-8-35-4-12 since he won his first and, so far, only major title in gutsy fashion seven years ago, seeing off a charging Rickie Fowler and Jordan Spieth.
Brooks Koepka and Bryson DeChambeau have both shown that competing on LIV is no barrier to major success and Reed, seventh in LIV Miami on Sunday, can prove likewise.
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