Who needs to win to earn a Masters invitation at Valero Texas Open? Here's the full list
Who needs to win to earn a Masters invitation at Valero Texas Open? Here's the full list
For 120 of the 153 players in this week's Valero Texas Open, a victory won't mean a few days off to celebrate.
It will be back to work, and they will never be as glad to start grinding again because it will be in golf's most majestic office: the Augusta National Golf Club.
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There are 20 avenues to earn an invitation to the Masters Tournament next week and there's only one left now: win the Texas Open, which begins on Thursday at the TPC San Antonio Oaks Course.
Matt Kuchar acknowledges the gallery after finishing the final round of the 2012 Masters at the Augusta National Golf Club, Kuchar tied for third after sharing the lead with three holes to play.
The list of players needing to win to get in includes five major champions, four Players Championship winners, one FedEx Cup champion and 18 multiple PGA Tour winners.
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There's even a member of the PGA Tour Champions.
There are also 31 players who have already had a taste of competing in the Masters, combining for 179 career starts at Augusta National.
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Here are the players in the Valero Texas Open field who need a victory in San Antonio to get to the season's first major championship:
Past major champions
Padraig Harrington, Francesco Molinari, Webb Simpson, Jimmy Walker, Gary Woodland.
Notable: Harrington, who is on the Champions Tour, has the most career starts at Augusta of the players needing a victory to get back, with 16. ... Molinari, who has 12 starts in the Masters, led with seven holes to play in the 2019 final round until a tee shot in the water at No. 12 opened the door for Tiger Woods to take the lead. ... Woodland has played in 12 Masters and Simpson 11.
Francesco Molinari reacts to his third shot at the 15th hole of the Augusta National Golf Club during the final round of the 2019 Masters. Molinari had a two-shot lead with seven holes to play but Tiger Woods won by one shot.
Past Players champions
Rickie Fowler, Si Woo Kim, Matt Kuchar, Simpson.
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Notable: Kuchar has four top 10 finishes at Augusta, the last a tie for fourth in 2018 when he had the day's low round on Sunday with a 67. He eagled No. 15 to tie for the lead in 2012 but finished in a tie for third, two shots out of the Bubba Watson-Louis Oosthuizen playoff. ... Fowler was two shots off the lead entering the final round in 2014 and shot 73. He also made a late run at Patrick Reed in 2018 with a final-round 67 but finished one shot behind.
Past FedEx Cup champion
Brandt Snedeker.
Notable: Snedeker has 12 starts at Augusta. He was tied for the 54-hole lead with Angel Cabrera in 2013 and shot 75 to fall into a tie for sixth.
Multiple PGA Tour winners
Aaron Baddeley, Fowler, Harrington, Charley Hoffman, Emiliano Grillo, Si Woo Kim, Kevin Kisner, Kuchar, Martin Laird, Luke List, Molinari, Ryan Palmer, Seamus Power, Simpson, Snedeker, Camilo Villegas, Walker, Woodland.
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Notable: Hoffman shot 67-68 in the first two rounds in 2015 and was six shots off Jordan Spieth's lead entering the final round. He finished tied for ninth. ... Palmer had two eagles on the weekend in 2011 and finished 10th. ... Baddeley made the last of his seven appearances at Augusta in 2012.
Past Masters participants
Baddeley, Fowler, Grillo, Harrington, Hoffman, Takumi Kanaya, Si Woo Kim, Kisner, Kurt Kitiyama, Jake Knapp, Kuchar, Laird, Nate Lashley, List, Peter Malnati, Matteo Manassero, Keith Mitchell, Molinari, Thorbjørn Olesen, Palmer, Victory Perez, Aldrich Potgieter, Power, Simpson, Snedeker, Adam Svensson, Erik van Rooyen, Villegas, Walker, Matt Wallace, Woodland.
Notable: Among the players in the Texas Open field, Olesen has made the most Masters appearances (four) without having a PGA Tour victory. In 2013 he shot 70 in the second round to make the cut on the 4-over number, then posted 68-68 on the weekend to tie for sixth.
Others in Texas Open field not eligible for Masters
Anders Albertson, Mason Andersen, Hayden Buckley, Bronson Burgoon, Frankie Capan III, Ricky Castillo, Bud Cauley, Will Chandler, Austen Christitiansen, Eric Cole, Trevor Cone, Vince Covello, Quade Cummins, Joel Dahmen, Cristobal Del Solar, Taylor Dickson, Patrick Fishburn, Steven Fisk, Ryan Fox, Brice Garnett, Ryan Gerard, Doug Ghim, Noah Goodwin, Chris Gotterup, Ben Griffin, Lanto Griffin, Blaine Hale, Harry Hall, Nick Hardy, Harry Higgs, Ryo Hisatsune, Lee Hodges, Rico Hoey, Rikuya Hoshino, Beau Hossler, Mark Hubbard, Ben James, Jared Jones, Takumi Kanaya, Chan Kim, Philip Knowles, Ben Kohles, Thriston Lawrence, David Lipsky, Hunter Logan, Ben Martin, Max McGreevy, Mac Meissner, Taylor Montgomery, William Mouw, Trey Mullinax, Niklas Norgaard, Henrik Norlander, Andrew Novak, Kaito Onishi, John Pak, Jeremy Paul, Paul Peterson, Chandler Phillips, Patrick Pockels, Andrew Putnam, Chad Ramey, Matthew Riedel, Patrick Rodgers, Thomas Rosenmueller, Kevin Roy, Antoine Rozner, Sam Ryder, Isaiah Salinda, Matti Schmid, Greyson Sigg, Ben Silverman, David Skinns, Alex Smalley, Sam Stevens, Jackson Suber, Preston Summerhays, Jesper Svensson, Michael Thorbjornsen, Braden Thornberry, Alejandro Tosti, Sami Valimaki, Kevin Velo, Kris Ventura, Danny Walker, Paul Waring, Vince Whaley, Tim Widing, Carson Young.
This article originally appeared on Florida Times-Union: Masters invites on the line at Valero Texas Open for these 120 players
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