It’s the best time of year baby.
Welcome to the official 2024 Barstool Masters Tournament betting guide.
We’re back at the crowned jewel of the golf world, Augusta National Golf Club.
It really doesn’t get any better than this.
We spend weeks and months counting down the days for the Masters to arrive and it’s finally here.
Whole gang is back together.
Last year’s tournament was a duel between heavyweights.
Brooks Koepka and Jon Rahm each shot Thursday 65’s alongside Viktor Hovland.
Saturday was even wetter and messier, and the two only got 6 holes in.
Koepka managed to extend his lead and sleep on a 4 shot lead with 30 holes left to play.
Sunday was all Rahm.
Fella absolutely took it to Koepka.
Rahm fired another crispy 69, while Koepka just simply did not have it.
Koepka fell back far enough for Phil of all people to backdoor a T-2.
Last year’s leaderboard and recent winners of The Masters Tournament.
2023 Leaderboard
Recent Masters Champions
The Course
Come on y’all.
We know what this course is all about.
It’s the only major that’s played at the same course every single year.
That’s what makes this such a treat.
There’s no 2nd cut of rough anywhere on this course.
The thing that makes Augusta National what it is is the undulating nature of the entire place.
The greens are traditionally some of the fastest and most challenging on Tour.
And the hills aren’t just obstacles around the greens.
There’s hardly an even lie on the entire course that isn’t a teebox.
Most years there are a handful of tweaks to the course.
This year there’s a subtle change to the 2nd teebox.
If you’re looking for some historical data on the holes themselves, here ya go.
Regardless, barring inclement weather, everybody goes off of 1 at Augusta National.
The Conditions
It feels like weather has been way too disruptive to the Masters recently.
This year may prove to be no different.
Thunderstorms and heavy winds are expected to hit on Thursday and surely looks like a delay waiting to happen.
That may push the 1st round into Friday, which inevitably pushes the 2nd round back too.
The upside is that the weekend looks immaculate, which has not been the case more recently.
I love a good QZ or hoody out there, but not at Augusta National.
By the way, rain has been experienced during 48 of the 87 Masters Tournaments.
The Media Guide literally has a round by round detail of how weather has affected the Masters.
TV Coverage
Courtesy of theMasters website, here is your schedule for wall to wall coverage the Masters Tournament.
The Field
Thursday and Friday Tee Times
Fresh off the presses, here are your tee times.
Jack Nicklaus was the oldest Masters champion in 1986 at 46 years young.
Most these guys are well past that age and these guys ain’t Mr. Nicklaus.
So he’s in this thing for a paycheck in a different category.
These guys qualified by one of these 4 ways:
1.
Winning a PGA Tour event between last year’s Masters and now
2.
Making the Tour Championship back in September
3.
Placing in the Top 12 at last year’s Masters
4.
Being in the World Top 50 at calendar year end 2022.
Some caught fire one week and were able to steal a PGA Tour win to get into this field.
Some had a good 2022 and managed to maintain their spot in the OWGR at year-end.
Sorry, but these guys aren’t winning the 2024 Masters, period.
He would have been firmly in this group had I been writing this blog in 2016.
The Veterans
These guys have been around the block before.
Some are former major winners.
All have played the Masters and a few have even won it.
But these guys aren’t likely to win.
A couple may contend, but this ain’t their year.
The Young Guns
Ross Kinnaird.
Most are multiple time winners, some of them even major winners.
But all are certainly talented of flipping the switch during golf’s biggest week and stealing this thing.
Who The Hell Knows?
He had goals to play once a month and it’s April and he’s played once all year.
It’ll be a grind for him to make the cut.
Obviously I hope he does.
The guy is 53 going on 54 in June and is totally washed.
You could say the same going into last year.
YET…. the scary motherfucker somehow pulled a T-2 out of his ass last year.
Obviously he knows his way around this place and he’s got the Mickelson magic going for him.
So who the hell knows what’s going to happen with him.
Nothing should shock anybody.
The Heavyweights
These guys are the backbones of their respective Tours.
Can Rory finally break through?
Will Brooks Koepka flex his muscles at a major yet again?
The Favorite
Everything points to Scottie winning this thing.
The odds reflect it.
Tee-to-green he is just an absolute savage.
The putting is talked about relentlessly and rightfully so.
But it’s certainly trending in the right direction.
He’s gained strokes on the field putting in each of the last 3 events.
He won 2 of those and had 6 feet to send the other one to a playoff.
And baaarely gained strokes putting in that one.
And if he putts better than above average, you might as well pack it in.
Enjoy the best tournament of the year……
