With Augusta National Golf Club releasing its qualification criteria for the 2027 Masters Tournament on April 8-11, 2027, here is what the current field looks like:<\/p>\n
(64 players as of Sept. 21)<\/p>\n
1. Masters Tournament Champions (Lifetime)<\/p>\n
Angel Cabrera<\/p>\n
Fred Couples<\/p>\n
Sergio Garcia<\/p>\n
Dustin Johnson<\/p>\n
Zach Johnson<\/p>\n
Hideki Matsuyama<\/p>\n
Rory McIlroy<\/p>\n
Phil Mickelson<\/p>\n
Jose Maria Olazabal<\/p>\n
Jon Rahm<\/p>\n
Patrick Reed<\/p>\n
Scottie Scheffler<\/p>\n
Charl Schwartzel<\/p>\n
Adam Scott<\/p>\n
Vijay Singh<\/p>\n
Jordan Spieth<\/p>\n
Bubba Watson<\/p>\n
Mike Weir<\/p>\n
Danny Willett<\/p>\n
Tiger Woods<\/p>\n
2. U.S. Open Champions (Honorary, non-competing after five years)<\/p>\n
Wyndham Clark<\/p>\n
Bryson DeChambeau<\/p>\n
Matt Fitzpatrick<\/p>\n
J.J. Spaun<\/p>\n
3. The Open Champions (Honorary, non-competing after five years)<\/p>\n
Ryan Fox<\/p>\n
Brian Harman<\/p>\n
Xander Schauffele<\/p>\n
Cameron Smith<\/p>\n
4. PGA Champions (Honorary, non-competing after five years)<\/p>\n
Brooks Koepka<\/p>\n
Justin Thomas<\/p>\n
Aaron Rai<\/p>\n
5. Winners of the Players Championship (Three years)<\/p>\n
Cameron Young<\/p>\n
6. Current Olympic Gold Medalist (One Year)<\/p>\n
N\/A<\/p>\n
7. Current U.S. Amateur Champion (7-A) (Honorary, non-competing after one year) and the Runner-up (7-B) to the current U.S. Amateur Champion<\/p>\n
a-Jack Whaley<\/p>\n
a-Jay Leng Jr.<\/p>\n
8. Current The Amateur Champion (Honorary, non-competing after one year)<\/p>\n
a-Stuart Grehan<\/p>\n
9. Current Asia-Pacific Amateur Champion (One year)<\/p>\n
TBD (Oct. 29-Nov. 1)<\/p>\n
10. Current Latin America Amateur Champion (One year)<\/p>\n
TBD (Jan. 14-17, 2027)<\/p>\n
11. Current U.S. Mid-Amateur Champion (One year)<\/p>\n
TBD (Sept. 26-Oct. 1)<\/p>\n
12. Current NCAA Division I Men\u2019s Individual Champion (One year)<\/p>\n
a-Preston Stout<\/p>\n
13. The first 12 players, including ties, in the previous year\u2019s Masters Tournament<\/p>\n
Sam Burns<\/p>\n
Patrick Cantlay<\/p>\n
Jason Day<\/p>\n
Tyrrell Hatton<\/p>\n
Russell Henley<\/p>\n
Max Homa<\/p>\n
Jake Knapp<\/p>\n
Collin Morikawa<\/p>\n
Justin Rose<\/p>\n
14. The first 4 players, including ties, in the previous year\u2019s U.S. Open<\/p>\n
Tom Kim<\/p>\n
Keith Mitchell<\/p>\n
J.T. Poston<\/p>\n
15. The first 4 players, including ties, in the previous year\u2019s The Open Championship<\/p>\n
N\/A<\/p>\n
16. The first 4 players, including ties, in the previous year\u2019s PGA Championship<\/p>\n
Ludvig Aberg<\/p>\n
Matti Schmid<\/p>\n
Alex Smalley<\/p>\n
17. Individual winners of PGA Tour events that award a full-point allocation applied to the season-ending Tour Championship<\/p>\n
Michael Brennan<\/p>\n
Bud Cauley<\/p>\n
Jackson Koivun<\/p>\n
Kristoffer Reitan<\/p>\n
Michael Thorbjornsen<\/p>\n
18. Those qualifying and eligible for the previous year\u2019s season-ending Tour Championship<\/p>\n
Akshay Bhatia<\/p>\n
Jacob Bridgeman<\/p>\n
Alex Fitzpatrick<\/p>\n
Ryan Gerard<\/p>\n
Si Woo Kim<\/p>\n
Min Woo Lee<\/p>\n
Robert MacIntyre<\/p>\n
Gary Woodland<\/p>\n
19. Current Scottish Open Champion (One year)<\/p>\n
N\/A<\/p>\n
20. Current Spanish Open Champion (One year)<\/p>\n
TBD (Oct. 8-11)<\/p>\n
21. Current Japan Open Champion (One year)<\/p>\n
TBD (Oct. 15-18)<\/p>\n
22. Current Hong Kong Open Champion (One year)<\/p>\n
TBD (Oct. 22-25)<\/p>\n
23. Current Australian Open Champion (One year)<\/p>\n
TBD (Dec. 3-6)<\/p>\n
24. Current South African Open Champion (One year)<\/p>\n
TBD (March 4-7, 2027)<\/p>\n
25. The 50 leaders on the final Official World Golf Ranking for the previous calendar year<\/p>\n
TBD (In as of Sept. 21: 21. Alex Noren, 26. Ben Griffin, 35. Sepp Straka, 36. Joaquin Niemann, 39. Kurt Kitayama, 40. Shane Lowry, 42. Nicolai Hojgaard, 44. Harris English, 48. Maverick McNealy, 49. Rickie Fowler, 50. Keegan Bradley)<\/p>\n
26. The 50 leaders on the final Official World Golf Ranking published during the week prior to the current Masters Tournament<\/p>\n
TBD<\/p>\n
PAST CHAMPIONS NOT EXPECTED TO COMPETE:<\/p>\n
Tommy Aaron<\/p>\n
Charles Coody<\/p>\n
Ben Crenshaw<\/p>\n
Nick Faldo<\/p>\n
Raymond Floyd<\/p>\n
Trevor Immelman<\/p>\n
Bernhard Langer<\/p>\n
Sandy Lyle<\/p>\n
Larry Mize<\/p>\n
Jack Nicklaus<\/p>\n
Mark O\u2019Meara<\/p>\n
Gary Player<\/p>\n
Craig Stadler<\/p>\n
Tom Watson<\/p>\n
Ian Woosnam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With Augusta National Golf Club releasing its qualification criteria for the 2027 Masters Tournament on April 8-11, 2027,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":857538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-857537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857537","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=857537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/857538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}