Ten Players That Could Win Their First Masters This Weekend

America’s favorite golf tournament, The Masters, is set to begin on Thursday. These ten players, among others, will be looking to take home their first Green Jacket.

It’s finally Masters Week, folks. 96 golfers will head to picturesque Augusta National Golf Club to try to win a Green Jacket. These ten golfers could be poised to win their first Green Jacket this weekend.

Sahith Theegala

Theegala has the ability to go low, and has played well at Augusta National with a T9 and a T45 in his few starts. The course fits him well, and he could be a sleeper this week.

Brooks Koepka

Brooks Koepka is one of the best players in Major Championships of this generation, arguably the best. He has two runner-up finishes at Augusta, and it seems like just a matter of time he breaks through and wins a Green Jacket.

Rory McIlroy

He’s the best player in the world that hasn’t won The Masters, but he’s been oh-so-close. Rory had seven top tens in the tournament, and that doesn’t count a Sunday back-nine meltdown in 2011. Surely he’s going to win one of these, right?

Joaquin Niemann

Let’s face it, Niemann has not played well in major championships in his career. His best finish in 22 majors is a T22. But, right now, he’s playing as well as anyone in the world, having won twice on the LIV Tour this year. And, we know he has game the caliber of what’s needed to win The Masters.

Collin Morikawa

Morikawa, arguably the best ball striker on tours, has three straight top tens at Augusta National. It will come down to one thing, the same thing it always does for Morikawa. He has to make putts.

Viktor Hovland

Viktor has the all-around game to win The Masters. Can he put it together for a full 72 holes?

Ludvig Aberg

Aberg was a runner-up in his first-ever appearance in a major championship at Augusta National last year. Everyone thinks it’s a matter of when, not if, the Swede will win his first major.

Patrick Cantlay

While people don’t like his slow play, Cantlay is one of the best players in the world that have yet to win a major. He nearly won in 2019, and can absolutely win this week.

Justin Thomas

Justin Thomas is often feast or famine in major championships, but has shown he has the game to get it done. He’s playing pretty well right now, and has the game to get it done.

Bryson DeChambeau

Two-time US Open Champion Bryson DeChambeau has not been shy about the fact that he wants a Green Jacket more than anything else in the game of golf. The player who once described Augusta as a par 68 due to his length off the tee has just one finish inside the top 20 at the course. But, that finish, a T6, came last year.