Min Woo Lee will make his fourth straight Masters start in 2025 (Thomas Lovelock/ANGC)
It’s not official until invitations from Augusta National Golf Club start arriving in players’ mailboxes after Christmas, but once Nosferatu speaks it’s unofficially a done deal.
Based on calculations from the online Official World Golf Ranking guru, the year-end projections for the OWGR top 50 will include Australia’s Min Woo Lee at No. 49 and American Lucas Glover at No. 50. That will let them join seven other players further up the year-end ranking in the field for the 2025 Masters.
“BREAKING This is the final end-of-year Top 50 #OWGR projection! These 9 players (not currently exempt) should qualify for @TheMasters!”
The top-50 inclusions bring the qualified Masters field to 85 players. Winners of 14 scheduled PGA Tour events leading up to the Masters as well as anyone otherwise not qualified inside the OWGR top 50 the week before the Masters (on March 31) are the only remaining guaranteed avenues into 2025’s first major championship. Non-American players on LIV or other world tours who sit outside the top 50 will have to rely on the discretion and generosity of the Masters committee for special exemptions.
Christmas will be a little merrier for Lee and Glover, who had to sweat out the last month while the global schedule played out with players trying to bump them out. Glover will slip back inside the top 50 next week after surviving the last potential threat of Christiaan Bezuidenhout needing a top-four finish at last week’s Alfred Dunhill Championship in South Africa.
Lucas Glover has played 10 Masters already from 2006-24 (Chloe Knott/ANGC)
The 26-year-old Lee — brother of LPGA star Minjee Lee — will be making his fourth consecutive appearance at Augusta. He’s made the cut and posted top-25 finishes twice, his best a T14 in his Masters debut in 2022 when he went out in a record-tying 30 on the front nine on Sunday.
The 45-year-old Glover, who won the 2009 U.S. Open at Bethpage Black, will mark his 11th start in the Masters. A six-time PGA Tour winner, Glover has made the cut six times at Augusta and finished T20 twice in 2007 and 2024.
Through Dec. 31, 2024
Here’s how the 85 players currently qualified to play in the 2025 Masters got into the field
# first-timers (17); * amateurs (4); Americans (44); Internationals (41); Seniors (6)
Masters Tournament Champions (Lifetime)
Angel Cabrera (1) – Argentina
Fred Couples (1)
Sergio Garcia (1) – Spain
Dustin Johnson (1)
Zach Johnson (1)
Bernhard Langer (1) – Germany
Hideki Matsuyama (1, 17, 18, 19) – Japan
Phil Mickelson (1, 4)
Jose Maria Olazabal (1) – Spain
Jon Rahm (1, 2, 19) – Spain
Patrick Reed (1, 13)
Scottie Scheffler (1, 5, 6, 13, 17, 18, 19)
Charl Schwartzel (1) – South Africa
Adam Scott (1, 18, 19) – Australia
Vijay Singh (1) – Fiji
Jordan Spieth (1)
Bubba Watson (1)
Mike Weir (1) – Canada
Danny Willett (1) – England
Tiger Woods (1)
U.S. Open champions (Honorary, non-competing after 5 years)
Wyndham Clark (2, 18, 19) – through 2028
Bryson DeChambeau (2, 13, 19) – through 2029
Matthew Fitzpatrick (2, 19) – England – through 2027
British Open Champions (Honorary, non-competing after 5 years)
Brian Harman (3, 19) – through 2028
Collin Morikawa (3, 4, 13, 18, 19) – through 2026
Xander Schauffele (3, 4, 13, 18, 19) – through 2029
Cameron Smith (3, 5) – Australia – through 2027
PGA Champions (Honorary, non-competing after 5 years)
Brooks Koepka (4) – through 2028
Justin Thomas (4, 18, 19) – through 2027
The Players Championship Winners (3 years)
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Current Olympic Gold Medalist (for 2025)
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Current U.S. Amateur champion (A, Honorary, non-competing after 1 year) and runner-up (B)
#*Jose Luis Ballester (7) – Spain
#*Noah Kent (7)
Current British Amateur Champion (Honorary, non-competing after 1 year)
Jacob Skov Olesen (Denmark) forfeited his spot by turning professional
Current Asia-Pacific Amateur Champion
Wenyi Ding (China) forfeited his spot by turning professional
Current Latin America Amateur Champion
TBD Jan. 19, 2025
Current U.S. Mid-Amateur Champion
#*Evan Beck (11)
Current NCAA Individual Champion
#*Hiroshi Tai (12) – Singapore
First 12 players (including ties) in previous year’s Masters
Ludvig Åberg (13, 18, 19) – Sweden
Cam Davis (13, 17) – Australia
Tommy Fleetwood (13, 18, 19) – England
Tyrrell Hatton (13, 19) – England
Max Homa (13, 19)
Mattieu Pavon (13, 18, 19) – France
Adam Schenk (13)
Cameron Young (13, 19)
Will Zalatoris (13)
First 4 players (including ties) in previous year’s U.S. Open
Patrick Cantlay (14, 18, 19)
Tony Finau (14, 18, 19)
Rory McIlroy (14, 17, 18, 19) – Northern Ireland
First 4 players (including ties) in previous year’s British Open
Billy Horschel (15, 18, 19)
#Thriston Lawrence (15, 19) – South Africa
Justin Rose (15, 19) – England
First 4 players (including ties) in previous year’s PGA Championship
#Thomas Detry (16) – Belgium
Viktor Hovland (16, 18, 19) – Norway
Winners of non-opposite PGA Tour events from previous Masters to current Masters
Keegan Bradley (17, 18, 19)
#Rafael Campos (17) — Puerto Rico
#Nico Echavarria (17) — Colombia
Austin Eckroat (17, 19)
Patton Kizzire (17)
Robert MacIntyre (17, 18, 19) – Scotland
#Matt McCarty (17, 19)
#Maverick McNealy (17, 19)
#Taylor Pendrith (17, 18, 19) – Canada
J.T. Poston (17, 19)
#Aaron Rai (17, 18, 19) – England
#Davis Riley (17)
#Davis Thompson (17, 19)
Jhonattan Vegas (17) – Venezuela
#Kevin Yu (17) – Taiwan
Eligible qualifiers for previous year’s season-ending Tour Championship
Byeong Hun (Ben) An (18, 19) – South Korea
Christiaan Bezuidenhout (18) – South Africa
Akshay Bhatia (18, 19)
Sam Burns (18, 19)
Russell Henley (18, 19)
Tom Hoge (18)
Sungjae Im (18, 19) – South Korea
Chris Kirk (18)
Shane Lowry (18, 19) – Ireland
Sepp Straka (18, 19) – Austria
Sahith Theegala (18, 19)
Top 50 on final Official World Golf Ranking for previous calendar year
Corey Conners (19) – Canada
Jason Day (19) – Australia
Nick Dunlap (19)
Lucas Glover (19)
#Max Greyserman (19)
#Rasmus Højgaard (19) – Denmark
Tom Kim (19) – South Korea
Min Woo Lee (19) – Australia
Denny McCarthy (19)
Top 50 on Official World Golf Ranking published week prior to current Masters
TBD
The Masters Committee, at its discretion, also invites players otherwise not qualified
TBD
