{"id":522791,"date":"2026-04-10T05:34:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T05:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/522791\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T05:34:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T05:34:14","slug":"the-masters-2026-who-has-won-the-tournament-the-most-times-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/522791\/","title":{"rendered":"The Masters 2026: Who has won the tournament the most times?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">American golfer Jack Nicklaus holds the record for the most Masters Championship wins with six career titles at Augusta National.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nicklaus won the title in three different decades, claiming the famous green jacket in 1963, 1965, 1966, 1972, 1975 and 1986.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He is also one of three only three players to have successfully defended the title with wins in back-to-back years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fellow American Tiger Woods, the tournament&#8217;s second-most successful player with five wins, went back-to-back in 2001 and 2002.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England&#8217;s Nick Faldo also defended his Masters title in 1990, having also won it in 1989.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The trio are among only eight players with three or more career Masters titles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">American Arnold Palmer won four between 1958 and 1964, while Jimmy Demaret, Sam Snead, Gary Player and Phil Mickelson are all three-time Masters winners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ten other players have won the title twice, with current world number one Scottie Scheffler among that number following wins in 2022 and 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"American golfer Jack Nicklaus holds the record for the most Masters Championship wins with six career titles at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-522791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}