2022 Masters Tournament

This list details the qualification criteria for the 2022 Masters Tournament and the players who qualified under them; any additional criteria under which players qualified is indicated in parentheses.[11]

1. All past winners of the Masters Tournament

• Past winners not playing: Tommy Aaron, Jack Burke Jr., Ángel Cabrera, Charles Coody, Ben Crenshaw, Nick Faldo, Raymond Floyd, Trevor Immelman, Phil Mickelson (4,15,16,18,19), Jack Nicklaus, Mark O'Meara, Gary Player, Craig Stadler, Tom Watson, Ian Woosnam, Fuzzy Zoeller[12]

2. Recent winners of the U.S. Open (2017–2021)

3. Recent winners of The Open Championship (2017–2021)

4. Recent winners of the PGA Championship (2017–2021)

5. Recent winners of The Players Championship (2020–2022)

6. The winner of the gold medal at the Olympic Games

7. The winner and runner-up in the 2021 U.S. Amateur Championship

8. The winner of the 2021 Amateur Championship

9. The winner of the 2021 Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship

10. The winner of the 2022 Latin America Amateur Championship

11. The winner of the 2021 U.S. Mid-Amateur Golf Championship

12. The leading 12 players, and those tying for 12th place, from the 2021 Masters Tournament

13. The leading four players, and those tying for fourth place, in the 2021 U.S. Open

• Harris English (16,17,18,19) did not play due to an injury.[13]

14. The leading four players, and those tying for fourth place, in the 2021 Open Championship

15. The leading four players, and those tying for fourth place, in the 2021 PGA Championship

• Paul Casey (18,19) did not play due to an injury.[14]

16. Winners of PGA Tour events[lower-alpha 1] between the 2021 Masters Tournament and the 2022 Masters Tournament

17. All players who qualified for the 2021 Tour Championship

18. The leading 50 players on the Official World Golf Ranking as of December 31, 2021

19. The leading 50 players on the Official World Golf Ranking as of March 28, 2022

20. Invited international players

• None

Thursday, April 7, 2022

Im Sung-jae became the first Korean player to hold the lead after a round at the Masters following a five-under-par 67. Im birdied his first three holes and was four-under after seven holes before consecutive bogeys on holes 10 and 11. At the par-5 13th, Im hit his approach shot to 12 feet and made the putt for eagle before also birdieing the par-5 15th to take sole possession of the lead.[20][21]

Cameron Smith, who finished tied for second with Im in 2020, opened with a double-bogey at the first hole. Beginning with a chip-in for birdie at the fifth, however, Smith went eight-under-par over a span of 14 holes. At the par-3 16th, Smith hit his tee shot to five feet and made the putt to get to six-under for the round before another double-bogey on the 18th dropped him back to four-under and a round of 68.[22]

Scottie Scheffler, playing his first tournament as World No. 1, did not make a bogey until the 18th hole in a 3-under-par round of 69. He was in a group tied for third place that also included past champions Dustin Johnson and Danny Willett, as well as Joaquín Niemann, who holed out for an eagle on the par-4 ninth hole.[23]

Harold Varner III, in his Masters debut, went four-under-par in a 4-hole stretch from the 13th to the 16th hole, including a near albatross from the pine straw at the 13th. He finished with a one-under-par 71.[24]

Tiger Woods was playing in his first tournament since the 2020 Masters and opened with a one-under-par 71, tied for 10th place after 18 holes.[25] Defending champion Hideki Matsuyama shot an even-par 72.[26]

Overnight rain meant that the start was delayed by 30 minutes, with the first players teeing off at 8:30 a.m. local time.[27]

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Im Sung-jae	67	−5
2	Cameron Smith	68	−4
T3	Dustin Johnson	69	−3
	Joaquín Niemann
	Scottie Scheffler
	Danny Willett
T7	Patrick Cantlay	70	−2
	Corey Conners
	Jason Kokrak
T10	Daniel Berger	71	−1
	Tony Finau
	Matt Fitzpatrick
	Harry Higgs
	Kevin Na
	Webb Simpson
	Harold Varner III
	Tiger Woods
	Will Zalatoris

Source:[6]

Friday, April 8, 2022

World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler added a five-under-par round of 67 to his first round 69, for an aggregate score of 136, 8-under-par. Four players, including first-round leader Im Sung-jae and defending champion Hideki Matsuyama, were in second place. Scheffler's five-stroke lead tied the 36-hole tournament record, with 4 of the 5 previous record holders going on to win.[28]

Tiger Woods shot a 74, and had an aggregate score of 145, one-over-par, tying him for 19th place nine strokes behind the leader. Stewart Cink made a hole-in-one at the par-3 16th hole.[29]

52 players made the cut of 148, 4-over-par. None of the six amateurs made the cut. Other notable players to miss the cut include 2015 Masters champion Jordan Spieth, 2019 Masters runner-ups Brooks Koepka and Xander Schauffele, and 2020 U.S. Open champion Bryson DeChambeau.[30]

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Scottie Scheffler	69-67=136	−8
T2	Im Sung-jae	67-74=141	−3
	Shane Lowry	73-68=141
	Hideki Matsuyama	72-69=141
	Charl Schwartzel	72-69=141
T6	Dustin Johnson	69-73=142	−2
	Kevin Na	71-71=142
	Cameron Smith	68-74=142
	Harold Varner III	71-71=142
T10	Corey Conners	70-73=143	−1
	Collin Morikawa	73-70=143
	Joaquín Niemann	69-74=143
	Justin Thomas	76-67=143
	Danny Willett	69-74=143
	Will Zalatoris	71-72=143

Source:[6]

Saturday, April 9, 2022

Scottie Scheffler, beginning the round with a five-shot lead, made four birdies on the front-nine to get to 11-under and open a six-shot advantage at the turn. On the par-3 12th hole, Scheffler hit his tee shot into the bunker in front of the green and had his second roll over the green, leading to a bogey. After an up-and-down for birdie on the par-5 13th, his approach on the 14th spun off the green and led to another bogey. He found the green on the par-5 15th hole in three shots but three-putted for his third bogey over his last four holes.[31]

With his lead now cut to just three shots, Scheffler played his approach on the 17th to five feet and made the birdie to get back to 10-under. At the 18th, he was forced to take a drop from underneath a tree after a drive well to the left, but was able to hit his third shot from the pine straw over the green and salvage a bogey to finish at nine-under following a round of 71.[32]

Cameron Smith began the round six shots behind but went five-under from the sixth to 15th holes. Despite a bogey at the par-3 16th after failing to get up-and-down from a greenside bunker, Smith shot a four-under 68, the best round of the day by two shots, to finish at six-under, three behind Scheffler.[33]

First-round leader Im Sung-jae double-bogeyed his first hole and was four-over through six holes, but played the remainder of his round in five-under to finish with a 71 and jump up to solo third place at four-under. 2011 champion Charl Schwartzel, playing in the final group with Scheffler, holed out from the fairway on the 10th for an eagle to get within three of the lead but made four bogeys over his final eight holes to drop back to two-under, tied for fourth with Shane Lowry.[34]

Five-time champion Tiger Woods had four three-putts and a four-putt, his first in this tournament since 2005, in a six-over round of 78, the worst score of his career at the Masters.[35]

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Scottie Scheffler	69-67-71=207	−9
2	Cameron Smith	68-74-68=210	−6
3	Im Sung-jae	67-74-71=212	−4
T4	Shane Lowry	73-68-73=214	−2
	Charl Schwartzel	72-69-73=214
T6	Corey Conners	70-73-72=215	−1
	Justin Thomas	76-67-72=215
8	Danny Willett	69-74-73=216	E
T9	Tommy Fleetwood	75-72-70=217	+1
	Dustin Johnson	69-73-75=217
	Jason Kokrak	70-76-71=217
	Rory McIlroy	73-73-71=217
	Collin Morikawa	73-70-74=217

Source:[6]

Sunday, April 10, 2022

Scottie Scheffler shot a one-under round of 71 to win his first Masters and major championship by three shots.[36]

Scheffler began the final round with a three-shot lead but saw his advantage cut to one after Cameron Smith birdied his first two holes. Both players missed their drives left on the par-4 third hole and came up short on their second shots. Scheffler, playing first, hit a low shot that rolled into the hole for a birdie. Smith chipped past the hole and missed his par putt to fall back to three behind.[37] Smith also bogeyed the par-3 fourth from the front greenside bunker. They both birdied the seventh after close approaches and Scheffler made the turn with a four-shot lead at 11-under.[38]

On the 10th, Smith hooked his drive well left and was forced to pitch back out into the fairway, then missed a close putt for par. Scheffler, meanwhile, was in the middle of the fairway off the tee but hit his approach off the green to the left and failed to get up-and down. When Smith birdied the 11th hole by making a 15-foot putt, only the second birdie on the hole during the round, he cut the deficit to three heading to the 12th.[39]

Smith's approach on the par-3 12th came up short and landed in Rae's Creek. Taking a drop and now playing his third shot, he hit over the green and ended up with a triple-bogey to fall out of contention. Scheffler also missed the green with his tee shot but was able to scramble and save par. After laying up on the par-5 13th and making par, Scheffler knocked his approach on 14 to five feet and made another birdie to get to 11-under. He also got up-and-down from over the green on the par-5 15th to increase his lead to five.[40]

Rory McIlroy began the round 10 shots behind Scheffler before making four birdies on his front-nine. He then chipped in for birdie from over the green on the 10th, eagled the par-5 13th, and holed a shot from a greenside bunker on the 18th to shoot 64 (−8), tying a Masters record for the lowest final-round score. He finished at seven-under and moved up to solo second place, his best finish at the Masters. McIlroy shot the only bogey-free round of any player during the tournament in his final round.[41][42]

With a five-shot lead playing 18th, Scheffler missed a birdie putt from the top shelf of the green, then missed two short putts and tapped in for double-bogey to finish at 10-under, three ahead of McIlroy. Smith recovered from another bogey on the 14th with two straight birdies on the 15th and 16th to finish at five-under and in a tie for third with Shane Lowry.[43][44]

Hole	Prior	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Par		4	5	4	3	4	3	4	5	4	4	4	3	5	4	5	3	4	4
Scheffler	−9	−9	−9	−10	−10	−10	−10	−11	−11	−11	−10	−10	−10	−10	−11	−12	−12	−12	−10
McIlroy	+1	E	E	−1	−1	−1	−1	−2	−3	−3	−4	−4	−4	−6	−6	−6	−6	−6	−7
Lowry	−2	−2	−3	−3	E	E	−1	−1	−2	−3	−3	−3	−2	−3	−3	−4	−4	−4	−5
Smith	−6	−7	−8	−7	−6	−6	−6	−7	−7	−7	−6	−7	−4	−4	−3	−4	−5	−5	−5
Morikawa	+1	+1	E	E	+1	+2	+2	+1	E	−1	−1	E	E	−2	−2	−3	−3	−3	−4
Conners	−1	−1	−2	−1	−1	−1	−2	−1	−2	−2	−1	−1	E	E	−1	−1	−1	−2	−3
Zalatoris	+2	+2	+3	+3	+3	+2	+2	+3	+2	+1	E	E	E	−1	−1	−2	−3	−3	−3
Im	−4	−4	−4	−4	−3	−3	−3	−4	−4	−3	−3	−2	−1	−2	−3	−2	−2	−2	−1
Thomas	−1	−1	−2	−1	−1	−2	−2	−3	−3	−3	−2	−1	+1	+1	E	−1	−2	−2	−1

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

Eagle

Birdie

Bogey

Double bogey

Triple bogey+

Source:[6]

As is traditional, Scheffler was interviewed in Butler Cabin, where he discussed his victory:[45]

"The shot on 3 was not one I expected to go in. It didn’t change the complexion of the day but it definitely got things rolling for me and I played some good golf after that. I can’t put into words what it means to be able to come back here for a lifetime. We’re going to go home and celebrate a little bit. I’m kind of glad I had a little hiccup on the last hole that made me a little less emotional so I can get through this interview!"