🏆 Masters Tournament Field Hub
This page tracks how players qualified for the 2026 Masters and the current projected field heading into Augusta.
2026 Masters Field Overview
The Masters Tournament remains golf’s most exclusive invitation field. Augusta National draws its lineup from returning champions, recent major winners, PGA Tour victories, amateur titles, Tour Championship qualifiers, national open champions, and Official World Golf Ranking cutoffs.
This page now reflects the projected 2026 Masters field as of April 5, 2026, with only the Valero Texas Open left as the final automatic route into the tournament.
đź“Ś How Players Qualified for the 2026 Masters
- Former Masters champions
- U.S. Open, Open Championship, and PGA Championship winners from the last 5 years
- The PLAYERS Championship winners from the last 3 years
- 2025 U.S. Amateur champion and runner-up, U.S. Mid-Amateur champion, Amateur champion, Asia-Pacific Amateur champion, NCAA Division I individual champion, and 2026 Latin America Amateur champion
- Top 12 (including ties) at the 2025 Masters
- Top 4 (including ties) at the 2025 U.S. Open, Open Championship, or PGA Championship
- Winners of full-point PGA Tour events since the 2025 Masters
- PGA Tour players who qualified for the 2025 Tour Championship
- Winners of the 2025 Scottish, Spanish, Japan, Hong Kong, Australian, and South African national opens
- Inside the top 50 of the Official World Golf Ranking at the end of 2025
- Inside the top 50 of the Official World Golf Ranking the week prior to the 2026 Masters
đź‘Ą 2026 Masters Field of Players (Projected as of April 5, 2026)
The projected field currently sits at 93 players. Gary Woodland earned his place by winning the Texas Children’s Houston Open, while Daniel Berger, Jake Knapp, Nicolai Hojgaard, and Matt McCarty locked up Masters spots through the final OWGR top-50 cutoff.
The Valero Texas Open winner was the last remaining automatic addition to the field, provided that player is not already qualified. JJ Spaun won that event and was already a qualified Masters entrant.
- Projected field: 93 players
- Newest tournament qualifier: Gary Woodland (Texas Children’s Houston Open winner)
- Newest OWGR qualifiers: Daniel Berger, Jake Knapp, Nicolai Hojgaard, Matt McCarty
- Final open route: Valero Texas Open winner, if not already exempt
- Tiger Woods: still listed in the field as of March 29
- Ludvig Aberg
- Daniel Berger
- Akshay Bhatia
- Keegan Bradley
- Michael Brennan
- Jacob Bridgeman
- Sam Burns
- Angel Cabrera
- Brian Campbell
- Patrick Cantlay
- Wyndham Clark
- Corey Conners
- Fred Couples
- Jason Day
- Bryson DeChambeau
- Nicolas Echavarria
- Harris English
- Ethan Fang (a)
- Matt Fitzpatrick
- Tommy Fleetwood
- Ryan Fox
- Sergio Garcia
- Ryan Gerard
- Chris Gotterup
- Max Greyserman
- Ben Griffin
- Harry Hall
- Brian Harman
- Tyrrell Hatton
- Russell Henley
- Jackson Herrington (a)
- Rasmus Hojgaard
- Nicolai Hojgaard
- Brandon Holtz (a)
- Max Homa
- Viktor Hovland
- Mason Howell (a)
- Sungjae Im
- Casey Jarvis
- Dustin Johnson
- Zach Johnson
- Naoyuki Kataoka
- Johnny Keefer
- Michael Kim
- Si Woo Kim
- Kurt Kitayama
- Jake Knapp
- Brooks Koepka
- Fifa Laopakdee (a)
- Min Woo Lee
- Haotong Li
- Shane Lowry
- Robert MacIntyre
- Hideki Matsuyama
- Matt McCarty
- Rory McIlroy
- Tom McKibbin
- Maverick McNealy
- Phil Mickelson
- Collin Morikawa
- Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen
- Alex Noren
- Andrew Novak
- Jose Maria Olazabal
- Carlos Ortiz
- Marco Penge
- Aldrich Potgieter
- Mateo Pulcini (a)
- Jon Rahm
- Aaron Rai
- Patrick Reed
- Kristoffer Reitan
- Davis Riley
- Justin Rose
- Xander Schauffele
- Scottie Scheffler
- Charl Schwartzel
- Adam Scott
- Vijay Singh
- Cameron Smith
- J.J. Spaun
- Jordan Spieth
- Sam Stevens
- Sepp Straka
- Nick Taylor
- Justin Thomas
- Sami Valimaki
- Bubba Watson
- Mike Weir
- Danny Willett
- Gary Woodland
- Tiger Woods
- Cameron Young
- Gary Woodland — qualified by winning the Texas Children’s Houston Open
- Nicolai Hojgaard — qualified via March 30 OWGR top 50
- Daniel Berger — qualified via March 30 OWGR top 50
- Jake Knapp — qualified via March 30 OWGR top 50
- Matt McCarty — qualified via March 30 OWGR top 50
The final automatic invitation into the 2026 Masters will come from the Valero Texas Open.
If the winner is already in the field, the Masters stays at 93 players. If the winner is not already exempt, the field increases to 94 players.
Source references: Data Golf Masters field tracker, Masters Tournament qualification criteria, Golf Channel Houston update, Sky Sports field list
🟢 CaddyBytes Field Update Note
This page reflects the projected Masters field heading into tournament week. Once Augusta National finalizes the official field, this page can be updated one last time to reflect the confirmed invite list and any final change from the Valero Texas Open.