The 2025 Masters Tournament at Augusta sees world number one Scottie Scheffler bid to emulate the peerless Jack Nicklaus as only the second golfer to have won the Augusta major three times in a four-year period.
However, the 2022 and 2024 winner comes into this year’s event in modest form by his own stratospheric standards, having yet to win any of the six PGA tour events he’s entered in 2025.
If the 9/2 favourite is to be denied in his bid to join The Golden Bear in one of the sport’s most exclusive hypothetical club houses these are the men most likely to do so according to the Betzone odds compilers.
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The man with more top-10 finishes at Augusta in the last decade than anyone else bids to finally complete his long-sought career Grand Slam just over a decade on from winning his third Major.
Devotees of the former boy-wonder are used to thinking he’s never had a better chance but this time that’s surely the case. He’s already posted two wins and T5 in five outings this year and leads the PGA tour for Scoring Average and Total Shots Gained.
The 2023 champion and LIV Golf rebel finished a lowly T45 in his green jacket defence last year, failed to make the cut at the PGA Championship and missed the US Open entirely with an injured foot. However he did bounce back to place T7 at the Open Championship.
Like Scheffler, he’s yet to register a victory this season, but he’s been in very consistent form in LIV action, registering finishes of T2, 6, T6, T5 and T9. Impossible to discount given he’s finished T9 or better in six of his past eight Augusta outings.
Dual Major winner Morikawa is a certified course-form pick having finished 5, T10, T3 in his last three green jacket tilts. Two silver medals in five PGA Tour starts this term confirm that he’s in the form to add to that enviable record.
The chief concern with the University of California, Berkeley alumni is with how irregularly he’s seen through on his consistent excellence in recent years. His 2023 ZOZO Championship win remains his sole victory since he landed his second Major at the 2021 Open Championship.
DeChambeau had to wait eight years to better the T21 he carded when top amateur on his Masters debut in 2016, with finishes of T38, T29, T34, T46, CUT, CUT. Last year his T6 finish could have been so much better given he was tied for the lead after two rounds.
The LIV Golf card holder followed that up with second at the PGA Championship and victory at the US Open to suggest he’s becoming an ever more consistent Major contender. A season’s best fifth at the breakaway tour’s Miami even means he arrives in good touch.
Five tournaments into his 2025 PGA Tour campaign the Swedish sensation would surely have been trading a good deal shorter than 17/1 to win the Masters one year on from a sensational second place in what was his first ever Major of any kind at Augusta.
However, after going T5, T42, WD, 1, T22 at the start of the season (including victory in the Genesis Invitational) the 25-year-old has back-to-back missed cuts at the Players Championship and the Valero Open on his resume.
Betzone’s verdict
Scottie Scheffler is going to be very difficult to depose as he bids for a third Masters victory and while Rory McIlroy looks the obvious form pick to oppose him, preference is for COLLIN MORIKAWA, who has never had a bad tournament at a Masters.
Yet to finish worse than T17 this season, there’s a sense that he can reap the rewards of his supreme consistency and add the green jacket to his Major collection ahead of a bid to complete the career Grand Slam that’s eluded Rory at the US Open later this summer.
