It's time once again for the best golf betting week of the year at the Masters.

Familiarity is one of the things that makes this such a special tournament. While the other three big ones annually bounce around from course to course – many of which we only see every 5 or 10 years –  starting each major season at Augusta National is strangely comforting. Golf fans know every hole front and back and remember not only the winner from each year but how that winner played certain shots all over the back nine.

It also removes a lot of the guesswork when handicapping. While Augusta has evolved and certain holes have been tweaked, the course is largely the same as it was 20 years ago. We can get a great idea of how well this course suits a given player’s game by looking at their career scoring average at the Masters.

There are a few outliers near the top, as always, with players who have only played a few rounds. Usually, that's not enough to draw any meaningful conclusions. The field will also see a few more additions before the start of the tournament, and we'll keep this list updated with the current field in the weeks leading up to the 2024 Masters at Augusta National.

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Masters Scoring Average Of 2024 Field

1. Jon Rahm – 70.5, 28 rounds
2. Will Zalatoris – 70.5, 8 rounds
3. Jordan Spieth – 70.6, 38 rounds
4. Scottie Scheffler – 70.7, 16 rounds
5. Sahith Theegala – 70.8, 4 rounds
6. Tiger Woods – 71.1, 96 rounds
7. Tony Finau - 71.3, 24 rounds
8. Phil Mickelson – 71.3, 114 rounds
9. Xander Schauffele – 71.3, 22 rounds
10. Nick Taylor – 71.3, 4 rounds
11. Collin Morikawa – 71.4, 16 rounds
12. Rickie Fowler – 71.5, 38 rounds
13. Tom Kim – 71.5, 4 rounds
14. Brooks Koepka – 71.5, 28 rounds
15. Hideki Matsuyama – 71.5, 46 rounds
16. Rory McIlroy – 71.5, 54 rounds
17. Dustin Johnson - 71.5, 48 rounds
18. Sungjae Im – 71.6, 14 rounds
19. Cameron Smith – 71.6, 28 rounds
20. Viktor Hovland - 71.7, 16 rounds
21. Justin Thomas – 71.7, 30 rounds
22. Justin Rose – 71.8, 68 rounds
23. Corey Conners – 71.9, 20 rounds
24. Jason Day – 71.9, 41 rounds
25. Patrick Reed – 71.9, 36 rounds
26. Ryan Fox – 72.0, 4 rounds
27. Thorbjorn Olesen – 72.0, 12 rounds
28. Russell Henley – 72.1, 26 rounds
29. Matthew Fitzpatrick – 72.2, 34 rounds
30. Tommy Fleetwood - 72.2, 26 rounds
31. Fred Couples - 72.3, 138 rounds
32. Bubba Watson – 72.3, 56 rounds
33. Patrick Cantlay - 72.4, 24 rounds
34. Si Woo Kim – 72.4, 26 rounds
35. Charl Schwartzel – 72.5, 48 rounds
36. Adam Hadwin – 72.6, 10 rounds
37. Shane Lowry – 72.6, 26 rounds
38. Adam Scott – 72.6, 84 rounds
39. Chris Kirk – 72.7, 14 rounds
40. Cameron Young – 72.7, 6 rounds
41. Danny Willett – 72.9, 26 rounds
42. Sam Burns - 73.0, 6 rounds
43. Bryson DeChambeau - 73.0, 24 rounds
44. Sergio Garcia - 73.0, 78 rounds
45. Keegan Bradley - 73.1, 26 rounds
46. Jose Maria Olazabal – 73.1, 106 rounds
47. Taylor Moore – 73.2, 4 rounds
48. Joaquin Niemann – 73.2, 14 rounds
49. Brian Harman – 73.3, 14 rounds
50. Min Woo Lee – 73.3, 6 rounds
51. Zach Johnson - 73.3, 60 rounds
52. J.T. Poston – 73.3, 6 rounds
53. Vijay Singh – 73.3, 97 rounds
54. Gary Woodland – 73.4, 33 rounds
55. Sepp Straka – 73.5, 8 rounds
56. Harris English - 73.6, 14 rounds
57. Mike Weir – 73.8, 72 rounds
58. Tyrrell Hatton – 73.9, 24 rounds
59. Emiliano Grillo – 74.0, 12 rounds
60. Max Homa – 74.0, 12 rounds
61. Camilo Villegas – 74.0, 18 rounds
62. Lucas Glover – 74.1, 28 rounds
63. Luke List – 74.3, 6 rounds
64. Byeong Hun An - 74.4, 10 rounds
65. Adrian Meronk – 74.5, 2 rounds
66. Cameron Davis – 75.0, 4 rounds
67. Stewart Hagestad – 75.7, 6 rounds
68. Kurt Kitayama – 76.0, 2 rounds
69. Erik Van Rooyen – 76.0, 3 rounds
70. Ludvig Aberg – DEBUT
71. Akshay Bhatia - DEBUT
72. Wyndham Clark – DEBUT
73. Eric Cole – DEBUT
74. Santiago de la Fuente – DEBUT
75. Nick Dunlap – DEBUT
76. Austin Eckroat - DEBUT
77. Ryo Hisatsune – DEBUT
78. Lee Hodges – DEBUT
79. Nicolai Hojgaard – DEBUT
80. Stephan Jaeger - DEBUT
81. Jake Knapp – DEBUT
82. Christo Lamprecht – DEBUT
83. Peter Malnati - DEBUT
84. Denny McCarthy - DEBUT
85. Grayson Murray – DEBUT
86. Matthieu Pavon – DEBUT
87. Adam Schenk – DEBUT
88. Neal Shipley – DEBUT
89. Jasper Stubbs - DEBUT

Career Masters Scoring Average Betting Tips

Augusta is a second-shot course that tends to reward the best iron play and allows players a little more freedom off the tee as opposed to traditional tight, rough-lined fairways at the U.S. Open. Looking at past Augusta National scoring averages for the current Masters field, we can compile a few tips and betting takeaways to apply in April as a tradition unlike any other plays out in Augusta, Georgia.

The Cream Rises

There’s no question that Augusta National brings the best out of the top players in the world. Of those with at least 30 Masters rounds under their belt, the top three in lifetime scoring average are Jordan Spieth (70.6), Tiger Woods (71.1) and Dustin Johnson (71.3). Phil Mickelson is fourth at 71.3 after he turned back the clock to finish T-2 last year.

Spieth is a future Hall of Famer and Woods, Johnson and Mickelson have been the four most prolific winners on Tour over the past three decades by far. This course always seems like the perfect playground for the world’s best to thrive, as we’ve seen with Woods winning five times and Mickelson three times. 

It also shows the importance of looking at the big picture – while it took Johnson a while to break through, he has been one of the best Masters performers for years and finally got it done with a record-setting win in 2020.

Pay Attention to Newcomers

As we’ve seen in recent years, first-year players and relative newcomers can still seriously contend over the weekend. Will Zalatoris, who missed the 2023 Masters due to a back injury, is currently second on the list with a 70.5 scoring average after finishing solo second in his Masters debut in 2021 and T-6 in 2022. 

Sahith Theegala finished ninth in his Masters debut in 2023. While experience is clearly a huge advantage in the Masters, finding the right rookie with a made-for-Augusta game can pay off in the short term.

The Masters Sweet Spot

The average number of rounds played from the top 50 on our list is 36.96. That makes perfect sense at a course like Augusta National. It’s so nuanced that players learn new tricks every year and gradually amass an understanding of how to play certain shots over time.

It’s also a brutally demanding test that requires a lot of distance on certain tee shots, even more so in recent years with several renovations. Augusta National lengthened the par-4 11th hole by 15 yards and the par-5 15th hole by 20 yards ahead of the 2022 Tournament. 

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The No. 5 hole is also especially tough and now plays as a 495-yard par-4 with the tee box moved back some 40 yards in 2019. Experience is extremely helpful here as long as a player still has the physical skills required on certain drives and approach shots. The course is just too much to handle after a certain age.

Our average of 36.96 rounds played among the top 50 would be roughly nine tournaments if the player had made every cut. With a few missed cuts it would take roughly 11-12 years to amass 36 competitive rounds at Augusta. Keep an eye out for players in this wheelhouse – they should in theory be the ones with the best combination of course knowledge and physical ability.

Not For Everyone

Conversely, we know that certain players who are good enough to win on Tour and qualify for the Masters each year aren’t necessarily a good fit at Augusta. Some players just can’t quite break into contention even with significant experience.

Billy Horschel, who is not in the field this year, is a perfect example here – Horschel has seven Tour wins from 2013-2023 and eight Masters appearances in that timespan. But he has never cracked the top 15 and is firmly in the bottom half with a career scoring average of 73.61. Same goes for guys such as Gary Woodland (73.4, 33 rounds) and Tyrrell Hatton (73.9, 24 rounds).

Even if a player is in good form coming into Augusta, we can conclude that some players with a significant amount of experience probably just aren’t a great fit for the golf course.