2025 Masters pool picks: Five players to help you win
2025 Masters pool picks: Five players to help you win
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The Masters
The Masters is all about celebrating the world's best golfers. It's about the best in the sport coming together at one of America's best courses and vying for a coveted green jacket.
It also presents a great opportunity for gambling.
Yes, while the Masters is a beautiful mixture of golf's best aspects, it's also a gambler's haven, with fans creating pools and placing bets on a rather unpredictable event. However, just because golf is tough to predict doesn't mean you can't win those pools with a little research. Following trends and understanding who's been hot lately are key factors in determining whether or not you make like Scottie Scheffler and walk away victorious.
Here are five golfers at the Masters flying under the radar that could help you win your pools.
What is a Masters pool?
A Masters pool is usually a tiered system that distinguishes how well golfers do at Augusta compared to their World Golf Ranking. Usually, this process has each person in the pool picking eight players, with each person's top six earning them points while the bottom two are tossed out.
Essentially, in order to do well, you want to choose a mix of golfers that are expected to do well and a few that are flying under the radar that could earn you massive points. While choosing the eight favorites to win the green jacket certainly gives you a high floor, the ceiling isn't high enough for it to be a very viable strategy. Furthermore, selecting players that other members of the pool are likely to pick isn't a great strategy because if they do well, you might get points, but so does everyone else. It does very little to separate you from the rest of the pack.
So, who are some of the lesser-known golfers that could help you win big?
Five players to help you win your Masters pool
*All odds provided by BetMGM
Jason Day (+6600)
Day has four top-10 finishes at Augusta throughout his career. While the most recent one came in 2019, he's playing phenomenally well in 2025 with his putter being one of the best in golf right now. The short game wins big events and if he can find a little consistency with his woods and irons, he could drastically outperform his odds.
Sepp Straka (+6600)
Straka is second in FedEx Cup points currently and has quietly risen to 13th in the World Golf Rankings. Despite his stellar play and methodical rise, his odds place him around 25th. He could easily outperform that.
Patrick Reed (+6600)
Here's someone who has not only won the Masters before, but has finished top-12 or better in four of his last five tournaments at Augusta. Reed may not be the golfer he once was, but he still consistently flashes streaks of greatness. He's also playing his best golf of the year right now, finishing top-10 in two of his last three tournaments with LIV.
Shane Lowry (+3300)
Lowry is someone who has been playing very well recently. In seven events played in 2025, he's finished top-25 in five of them, leaning heavily on his consistency with his woods and irons. While he has struggled somewhat with his putter, he's able to find greens quicker than most, which tends to be the biggest issue most golfers face when playing Augusta. Lowry has finished tied for third at this event before and has three other top-25 finishes, as well.
Maverick McNealy (+9000)
Coming off a third-place finish at the Valero Texas Open, McNealy has been playing surprisingly well with four top-10 finishes to his name in 2025. In fact, he's playing so well that his Official World Golf Ranking saw him climb into the top-10 in the most recent update. Despite that, though, McNealy has odds that would place him outside the top-30.
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