Masters Recent Winners: The Last 10 Champions
Want to know who wins the Masters? Study who already has. Augusta National is the only major played on the same course every year, which makes its roll of honour the sharpest filter in golf betting — it tells you the profile, the form line and the price range the green jacket tends to come from.
Here are the last ten Masters champions, how they won, and the patterns that matter when you’re building a shortlist. Cross-reference them with live Statz projections in Masters week and you’ve got a repeatable way to attack the first major of the year.
The Last 10 Masters Champions
| Year | Champion | Score | Margin |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Rory McIlroy | −11 | Playoff |
| 2024 | Scottie Scheffler | −11 | 4 shots |
| 2023 | Jon Rahm | −12 | 4 shots |
| 2022 | Scottie Scheffler | −10 | 3 shots |
| 2021 | Hideki Matsuyama | −10 | 1 shot |
| 2020 | Dustin Johnson | −20 | 5 shots |
| 2019 | Tiger Woods | −13 | 1 shot |
| 2018 | Patrick Reed | −15 | 1 shot |
| 2017 | Sergio Garcia | −9 | Playoff |
| 2016 | Danny Willett | −5 | 3 shots |
The 2020 Masters was played in November due to the pandemic, on a soft course — hence Dustin Johnson’s record 20-under total. Every other year on this list was the traditional April staging.
How They Won
McIlroy (2025) finally completed the career grand slam, surviving a nervy back nine and a Justin Rose fightback before winning the green jacket at the first extra hole — the emotional bookend to a decade of Augusta near-misses. Scheffler (2024) was imperious, pulling away from Ludvig Åberg and the field with the best ball-striking week on tour. Rahm (2023) shrugged off a double-bogey start to Thursday and never looked back, powering to a four-shot win.
Scheffler (2022) announced himself as world number one with a wire-to-heavy weekend lead. Matsuyama (2021) became the first Japanese man to win a major, holding his nerve down the stretch. Reed (2018) and Woods (2019) both won grinding, one-shot Sunday battles, while Willett (2016) was the 40/1 outsider who capitalised when a five-shot lead evaporated up ahead of him — the reminder that Augusta’s second nine writes its own scripts.
Different prices, different stories, one common thread: every champion arrived ranked among the field’s elite ball-strikers with Augusta mileage behind them. Run that filter on the current Leaders table and the Trending page as the Masters approaches.
What the Green Jacket Roll of Honour Tells You
- Experience is close to non-negotiable. Nearly every recent champion had multiple Masters starts and a prior Augusta top-10 before winning. First-timers almost never lift the jacket — filter your shortlist for genuine course pedigree, and lean on the course fit guide to weigh it properly.
- Ball-striking wins here. Augusta’s premium is on iron play and shot-shaping into firm greens. The winners cluster at the top of strokes-gained tee-to-green — check who’s leading strokes gained approach before you bet.
- Favourites hold up better than at other majors. Scheffler and Rahm won as market leaders. The green jacket rewards the best players more reliably than a links Open — but don’t ignore the odd 40/1 shot when the leaders wobble on Sunday.
- The winning score tracks the weather. Firm-and-fast April Augusta usually yields a single-digit-to-low-teens winner; soft conditions (see 2020’s −20) let the scoring run. Read the forecast into your staking.
Turning History Into a Bet
The roll of honour is a shortlist filter, not a tip sheet. To turn it into an actual bet, layer live data on top:
- Screen the field for Augusta experience and elite iron play using the Leaders table.
- Check who’s trending into form on the Trending page — Augusta rewards players arriving hot.
- Compare your final two or three picks head-to-head in the Compare tool.
- Price each name against the projection model’s top-5 and outright probabilities before you take a price.
Then bet it the smart way. Augusta’s deep, elite field and generous major place terms make it a prime each-way event, and the roll of honour shows why respecting a mid-range price — as with McIlroy in 2025 or Willett in 2016 — is rarely a mistake here.
Masters Recent Winners FAQ
Who won the last Masters?
Rory McIlroy won the 2025 Masters at Augusta National, beating Justin Rose in a playoff to complete the career grand slam — his first green jacket and the fourth leg of a set that had eluded him for over a decade.
Who has won the Masters in the last 10 years?
The last ten green jackets went to Rory McIlroy (2025), Scottie Scheffler (2024), Jon Rahm (2023), Scottie Scheffler (2022), Hideki Matsuyama (2021), Dustin Johnson (2020), Tiger Woods (2019), Patrick Reed (2018), Sergio Garcia (2017) and Danny Willett (2016).
Has anyone won back-to-back Masters recently?
Not in the last decade of consecutive stagings. Scottie Scheffler won in 2022 and 2024 but not in the year between. The last man to defend the green jacket successfully remains Tiger Woods, who won in 2001 and 2002. Back-to-back Masters wins are one of the rarest feats in golf.
Do favourites win the Masters?
Augusta rewards the elite more than any other major, so favourites and near-favourites win more often here than at, say, The Open. Scheffler (2022, 2024) and Rahm (2023) went off among the market leaders. But the course also throws up bigger prices — Danny Willett at 40/1 in 2016 — usually driven by second-nine chaos on Sunday.
What is the lowest winning score at the Masters?
Dustin Johnson holds the Masters scoring record at 20 under par, set in the pandemic-delayed November 2020 edition when Augusta played soft and receptive. In a typical firm-and-fast April, the winning score usually lands between about 8 and 13 under.
Does course experience matter at the Masters?
Enormously. Augusta National is the only major venue played every single year, and local knowledge of its greens and pin positions is a genuine edge. Most recent champions had multiple Masters starts and prior top-10s before winning — first-timers rarely lift the jacket, which is a useful filter when you build a shortlist.