We’ve already given you a listing of the very best bets to win the inexperienced jacket this 12 months, however to allow you to fill out your Masters playing card, listed here are a couple of extra players who may not win however may nonetheless do fairly effectively, together with a couple of to fade.
Odds taken Monday by way of DraftKings sportsbook.
Xander Schauffele (+2000 to win, $9,600 DraftKings DFS value): Schauffele’s odds counsel he’s much less of a “sleeper” and extra of a “contender no one really seems to be talking about,” however the defending Olympic gold medalist has to be thought-about right here. Take away a weather-spoiled missed lower on the Players Championship and Schauffele has gone T-12, T-13, T-3, T-18 in his final 4 stroke-play tournaments. He additionally tied for third on the Masters final 12 months — he was on the verge of catching eventual winner Hideki Matsuyama till he hit his tee shot into the water at No. 16, carding a triple bogey — and tied for second in 2019.
Russell Henley (+3500, $7,800): Henley hasn’t missed a lower since final 12 months’s British Open, and that good type has him again on the Masters for the primary time since he tied for fifteenth in 2018. The Georgia native leads the PGA Tour in strokes gained: method this season, and good irons go a great distance at Augusta National.
Shane Lowry (+5500 to win, $8,800): The 2019 British Open winner doesn’t have a really distinguished Augusta National monitor report, with three missed cuts in six tries and a greatest end of T-21 final 12 months. But he hasn’t completed worse than T-24 in his previous six stroke-play occasions and has gained strokes off the tee, together with his irons and — most crucially for Lowry, who’s inconsistent on the greens — together with his putter in every of his final three tournaments.
Matthew Fitzpatrick (+5500, $7,700): The Englishman has high 10 finishes in 4 of his final 5 stroke-play occasions, together with his one current weak spot — his irons — abruptly firing once more. Fitzpatrick completed T-7 at Augusta National in 2016 however hasn’t cracked the highest 20 since, although he additionally has made the lower yearly since then. He’s in high type at simply the suitable second.
Joaquin Niemann (+6500, $8,200): Niemann, who’s simply 23 however seemingly has been round endlessly, has performed effectively at programs which are seen as good comparisons to Augusta National, successful wire-to-wire earlier this 12 months at Riviera and putting within the high 5 twice on the Tournament of Champions at Kapalua.
Max Homa (+8000, $7,100): Homa has two missed cuts on his Masters résumé, however each got here by one stroke. Maybe that is the 12 months he can break by and make some noise on the weekend, as his current stroke-play finishes would possibly counsel (T-13, T-17, T-10, T-14 in his final 4 tournaments, with all 4 coming in relatively robust fields). One of his three profession PGA Tour wins got here at Riviera, which is an effective comparability to Augusta National.
Si Woo Kim (+9000, $7,100): Kim doesn’t have a high 10 end since October, however in case you’re searching for an affordable choice to fill out your DFS lineup, he’s your man as a result of if there’s one factor he does effectively, it’s make the lower. The final time Kim failed to play the weekend at a stroke-play event — not counting his WD on the Players Championship — was on the Shriners in October. He has additionally made the lower in 4 consecutive Masters appearances and tied for twelfth final 12 months.
Gary Woodland (+10000, $6,900): Woodland’s sport went a bit awry after his 2019 U.S. Open title, thanks primarily to a torn labrum in his left hip that was sluggish to heal, and he has by no means completed larger than a tie for twenty fourth in 9 journeys to Augusta National (and that got here in his first profession look 11 years in the past). But he has completed no worse than eighth in three of his previous 5 PGA Tour occasions, he hits the ball a mile off the tee and he has been robust on method and together with his quick sport.
Jordan Spieth (+2200, $9,800): Spieth may effectively have gone within the first part due to his Masters monitor report: a win, two seconds and two thirds, together with one final 12 months. But the putter was his downfall in 2021, and his inconsistent quick sport has introduced him again to Earth after a scorching summer season final 12 months. Of all of the players who made the lower eventually weekend’s Texas Open, Spieth was next-to-last in strokes gained: placing.
Will Zalatoris (+3500, $9,200): Last 12 months, the 25-year-old was oh-so-close to changing into the primary Masters champion to win in his first try since Fuzzy Zoeller in 1979, ending one stroke again of Hideki Matsuyama. But he did so by placing to date above his regular degree that he’s laborious to again this 12 months, together with his general résumé on the greens not getting any higher. Zalatoris hasn’t gained strokes placing in a event since October.
Bryson DeChambeau (+4500, $9,100): DeChambeau has by no means missed the lower in 5 Masters begins. That’s the nice news. The dangerous news is that he has additionally by no means completed higher than T-21, which got here in his first go to as an novice in 2016. Oh, and he additionally has been injured all 12 months, enjoying in solely 5 2022 tournaments (with one WD and one MC).
Sergio Garcia (+8000, $7,800): Garcia’s sport isn’t in really dismal form, as he has made the lower in his final seven stroke-play tournaments. But the 2017 champion additionally doesn’t have a high 10 end this calendar 12 months, and he missed the lower in all three Masters he has performed in since successful his inexperienced jacket.
Patrick Reed (+8000, $7,400): Recent inexperienced jacket winners normally make fairly good bets on the Masters, contemplating that course historical past has been a reasonably good indicator of success. But Reed, the 2018 champion who additionally has high 10 finishes in every of the previous two years, is enjoying so poorly proper now that he simply can’t be really helpful. He’s been poor each off the tee and within the fairway, with three straight missed cuts previous his tie for twenty sixth on the Players Championship.
Tiger Woods (+5000, $8,500): Gamblers are operating to the window to wager Woods after he introduced Tuesday that he goals to play. I can’t be a part of them, just because nobody outdoors of a really small circle of individuals is aware of precisely how he’s going to deal with any of this. How may you probably predict what Woods goes to do right here? Yes, few individuals on the planet know Augusta National higher than him; Woods has 5 inexperienced jackets and 9 different high 10s as proof. But he’s coming off catastrophic accidents, the course is a hilly minefield that’s enjoying longer than ever after a couple of holes have been adjusted, and the projected wind and chilly temperatures will make it play even longer. And it’s not like Woods was enjoying all that effectively earlier than his leg wanted intensive surgical reconstruction and bodily remedy. His final event earlier than this one was a tie for thirty eighth on the pandemic-delayed 2020 Masters, a event performed in very forgiving November situations. Woods shot a 4-under-par 68 and was solely three photographs off the lead after the primary spherical however shortly pale, ending 19 photographs behind winner Dustin Johnson after a dismal final-round 76, his worst-ever 18 holes as an expert at Augusta National and a day that featured a ten on the par-3 twelfth, his worst single-hole rating as an expert.
The two tournaments that preceded that Masters have been even worse, with Woods carding a U.S. Open missed lower at Winged Foot and a tie for 72nd on the Zozo Championship (solely three golfers completed with a better rating on the no-cut occasion).
That’s the golfer Woods was earlier than his automobile crash and 14 months of rehabilitation, a golfer not to be backed with any confidence, particularly in DFS, the place that $8,500 price ticket is just ludicrous in contrast with different choices at that value level.