Justin Thomas 25/1

Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 8/7
Best Career Finish: 4th (2020)
Top 5s: 1
Top 10s: 2
Top 20s: 4

Justin Thomas is making his ninth Masters appearance. He has Top 25s in six of the past seven years at Augusta National, finishing fourth in 2020 and T-8 in 2022. Thomas is a two-time PGA champion, winning in 2017 at Quail Hollow in North Carolina and in 2022 at Southern Hills in Oklahoma, which is his last victory anywhere. Last year was JT’s first missed cut at Augusta. He missed the cut in three of four major championships in 2023 and finished just T-65 in his PGA Championship defense. Last season was miserable for Thomas, but he has started to show signs of life as he has four Top 12 finishes worldwide in La Quinta, Pebble Beach, Phoenix, and Orlando this year. He ended 2023 and began 2024 with four finishes of 6th or better. His game looks about halfway there as his approach game, which is typically world-class, is back to that standard, and he has been tidy as usual with his scrambling. The driver and the putter are still works in progress, but Thomas looks better than he did most of last season.

Tiger Woods 130/1

Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 25/24
Best Career Finish: 1st (1997, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2019)
Top 5s: 12
Top 10s: 14
Top 20s: 17

Tiger Woods is making his 26th Masters appearance. In 2023, the five-time champion and 1995 Low Amateur made more history at Augusta National when he tied Gary Player and Fred Couples for most consecutive Tournament cuts made with 23. He is one of three with at least four Masters wins with Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer. Since rewriting the history books with his 12-stroke victory in the 1997 Masters, the World Golf Hall of Fame member has gone on to earn 15 major championship titles and 82 PGA Tour wins. Last year, Tiger had to withdraw after making the cut on the number. He also withdrew from the Genesis Invitational, which he and his Tiger Woods Foundation hosted, back in February. Tiger has only completed four rounds in an event twice in the last two years. Tiger’s contributions to the game have been more off the course of late as one of the six players on the PGA TOUR Board of Directors and has been at the forefront of its business endeavors as they pertain to discussions with investors both here and abroad. It is almost impossible to determine how Tiger is going to play this year at Augusta National, but he will always see some casual betting action.

Cameron Young 40/1

Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 2/1
Best Career Finish: T-7th (2023)
Top 5s: 0
Top 10s: 1
Top 20s: 1

Cameron Young is making his third Masters appearance. Two weeks after finishing runner-up to Sam Burns in the Match Play in Austin, he finished T-7 at Augusta National to record his third Top 10 in a major championship to go with his T-3 in the PGA Championship at Southern Hills and runner-up in The 150th Open at St Andrews in 2022. Young has three Top 10 finishes worldwide in 2024, including a runner-up at the Valspar Championship in March, third in Dubai in January and T-4 at the Cognizant Classic in March. Last July, he finished T-8 in The Open at Royal Liverpool for his fourth top 10 in a major. Young was named the 2022 PGA TOUR Rookie of the Year after finishing inside the top three seven times that season. The form sheet shows a world-class player, but something is missing, and that’s a win. Young has already finished runner-up seven times on the PGA TOUR and is still seeking his maiden victory. He is one of the best ball strikers in the game, and it is only a matter of time before he can put it all together and finish one off. Young is ranked Top 15 in the OWGR, but it is time to start winning like a Top 15 player should.

Will Zalatoris 28/1

Total Appearances/Cuts Made: 2/2
Best Career Finish: 2nd (2021)
Top 5s: 1
Top 10s: 2
Top 20s: 2

Will Zalatoris is making his third Masters appearance. In his first two starts at Augusta National, he finished runner-up and one stroke behind Hideki Matsuyama in 2021 and T-6 in 2022. He has six Top 8 finishes in major championships, including runner-up in both the PGA Championship and US Open in 2022. After withdrawing prior to starting last year’s Masters, he underwent back surgery and missed the rest of the PGA TOUR season. Following his return to competition, he finished runner-up at the Genesis Invitational in Los Angeles back in February and T-4 at the Arnold Palmer Invitational in Orlando back in March. Zalatoris looked like he was peaking to earn his second PGA TOUR victory but then missed the cut at THE PLAYERS and finished T-74 in Houston. He adapted to a broomstick-style putter in the offseason and if you examine the form, it has mixed results as he has been a horror show on the greens in his last two events. He looks like he is back health-wise, and his ball striking has returned to its high standard, and he has proven to already have the game to contend here in just two starts, but the putting has to be better on these slick, Augusta greens.

Odds to MAKE the cut at The Masters


▪️ Tiger Woods +100
▪️ Phil Mickelson +115

Tiger and Phil are the most bet players to make the cut at BetMGM

Updated The Masters betting at BetMGM

Favorites
▪️ Scottie Scheffler +500
▪️ Rory McIlroy +1100
▪️ Jon Rahm +1200

Highest Ticket%
▪️ Scheffler 14.5%
▪️ Brooks Koepka 8.6%
▪️ McIlroy 8.5%

Highest Handle%
▪️ Scheffler 19.2%
▪️ Koepka 11.0%
▪️ McIlroy 8.9%

What color will Tiger's shirt be on Thursday at
The Masters


+125 White
+275 Black
+325 Blue
+500 Gray
+1600 Pink
+3000 Green
+4000 Yellow, Purple
+5000 Red, Orange

Well, it was certainly an exciting first round at the Masters… hopefully it’s not the only one, because that guy Scottie Scheffler’s back up on the leaderboard again.

Sure, Bryson DeChambeau sits one stroke better after Thursday’s play, but he also putted at a rate of success that you’d think can only go one way after gaining an incredible 3.64 strokes over the field (according to Datagolf.com). Meanwhile, Scheffler is continuing to look like a tee-to-green god with room to improve with his putter as the tournament goes on.

It will be interesting to see what Nicolai Hojgaard and Max Homa can do in the morning to close out their opening rounds, but it will be a tricky turnaround for them then going to have to play another 18 tomorrow in their second round.

The weather, or more like just the wind, will be interesting to monitor tomorrow. It was clear heavy gusts were affecting the golfers with later tee times today.

With Scheffler near the lead, it’s tough to recommend much in the outright market. Live Top 20s for Tony Finau and Patrick Cantlay both stick out at +110 at DraftKings. They were excellent with their irons today, but struggled to find a rhythm putting. Corey Conners at -105 stands out as well. He came into the tournament in pretty good form and has three top 10 finishes at the Masters over the past four years.

Tiger Woods (+100) makes the cut at The Masters


Tiger was the most bet player to MAKE the cut at BetMGM

Round 2 of the Masters is in the books! It was a wild one with brutal winds in the afternoon, and never really easy the whole day. Only eight golfers actually shot under par in their second round. The conditions do appear to lighten up Saturday with no rain in the forecast, not much wind in the morning, and only up to about 10 mph in the afternoon.

It’s Max Homa, Scottie Scheffler and Bryson DeChambeau atop the leaderboard at -6 and it sure feels like that’s going to be a tough group for anyone else to top. I did add a live outright on Max Homa while he was on the 17th hole at +650, but that’s when I thought the wind might be so bad, that the day could end with him one or two shots clear of the pack. Tip of the cap to DeChambeau and Scheffler, though, who kept things tight.

Patrick Cantlay had a brutal back nine, but he’s still leading the field on approach stats and is someone to consider adding a live top 20 in at +115.

Updated odds to win The Masters


Scheffler +140
DeChambeau +450
Homa +550
Mrikawa +1400
Aberg +1800
Hojgaard +2500
C. Smith +3000
Schauffele +3000

World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler (-115) made a blistering start to round three, but things threatened to unravel with three dropped shots in two holes around the turn, before an eagle at the 13th turned his day around.

Scheffler added a birdie at the 15th and with all those around him beginning to find trouble, he responded to a bogey at the tough 17th with a rare birdie at the 18th to post -7 and assume odds-on favoritism heading into Sunday’s final round.

Recent years have been, for the most part, kind to OWGR No. 1 players attempting to close out The Masters with the 54-hole lead:

1991 Ian Woosnam – WIN
1996 Greg Norman – 2nd
2001 Tiger Woods – WIN
2002 Tiger Woods – WIN
2020 Dustin Johnson – WIN
2022 Scottie Scheffler – WIN
2024 Scottie Scheffler – ?

Scheffler will be joined in Sunday’s final pairing by two-time major champion Collin Morikawa (+350), who is one back of after shooting 69, one of just two rounds in the 60’s all day.

Morikawa’s Ryder Cup partner and fellow Cal Golden Bear Max Homa (+750) sits in third at -5 after a round of 73 that included 17 pars.

Swedish debutant Ludvig Åberg (9/1) is at -4 and is seeking to become the first man ever to win the Masters on their first major championship start and the first debutant to win at Augusta National since Fuzzy Zoeller in 1979.

At -3, Bryson DeChambeau (20/1) stayed in the hunt just barely. He dropped four shots over a six-hole span on the back nine before carding a birdie at the last which saw him hole a wedge shot from the fairway just as his hopes appeared to have gone.

A trio of players – Xander Schauffele (30/1), Nicolai Højgaard (80/1), and Cam Davis (130/1), are five strokes back at -2, but likely too far back to win.

The last time a player won the Masters via a more than a four-shot comeback was 1996 when Nick Faldo trailed by six strokes and his comeback required a major meltdown from Greg Norman. That makes it 27 straight Masters winners have been within four shots after 54 holes, so this appears to be a five-man tournament with either Scheffler, Morikawa, Homa, Åberg, or DeChambeau likely to put on the green jacket in Butler Cabin tomorrow. In fact, 28 of the last 33 Masters winners were in the Sunday final pairing.

Odds to win The Masters at BetMGM

Scottie Scheffler -120
Collin Morikawa +350
Max Homa +750
Ludvig Aberg +850
Bryson DeChambeau +2000
Xander Schauffele +3000
All other golfers +8000 or longer odds

Scheffler winning would be a good outcome for bettors