The first round of the 2026 Masters is in the books, setting up for a thrilling Friday before the cut is made at Augusta National Golf Club. Defending champion Rory McIlroy (-5) is a co-leader alongside Sam Burns, as the latter seeks his first major win. The top of the Masters 2026 leaderboard also features Kurt Kitayama (-3), Jason Day (-3) and 2018 champion Patrick Reed (-3).<\/p>\n
According to the latest 2026 Masters odds, McIlroy is the +270 favorite (risk $100 to win $270), with Scottie Scheffler, who is 3 shots back at -2, next in line at +350. There’s then a sizeable gap as Xander Schauffele (-2) is at +1000, with Burns at +1300. Round 2 will tee off at 7:40 a.m. ET on Friday.<\/p>\n
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One surprise the model is calling for in the Masters 2026: Burns, who enters Friday as a co-leader, stumbles down the stretch and barely cracks the top 10!\u00a0Another surprise: Tommy Fleetwood, a +2000 longshot who is four strokes back of the co-leaders at 1-under-par, makes a strong run at the title. He’s a target for anyone looking for a HUGE payday!<\/p>\n
Also,\u00a0the model is targeting three OTHER golfers with odds of +2500 or higher, including an enormous longshot who would return well over +5000\u00a0to make a stunning run!\u00a0Anyone who backs these golfers could hit it BIG. You ABSOLUTELY need to see who they are before locking in any 2026 Masters picks for the final three rounds!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first round of the 2026 Masters is in the books, setting up for a thrilling Friday before…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-575516","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}