10 golfers (except Rory McIlroy) who won the 2026 Masters

Here we are the rest winners from the 2026 Masters. Engagement Jackets, if you will. Let’s get to them.

Honorable mention: All of us

After a week at Augusta with gloriously limited screen time I returned to social media on post-Masters Monday to catch up on what I had missed. This seemed like a stupid way to process a golf tournament; somehow the conversation has shifted to burning topics like whether Rory McIlroy should keep score or what the governor of Florida thought about his scouting trip to Augusta.

Look, small holdings are encouraged. I’m more than happy to hear you nit-picking about golf course setups or TV productions or Jason Day’s vest selection of birds or whatever your heart desires – as long as we remember that, as far as golf tournaments go, this one was pretty good. So this is a reminder to me, and I think to you, dear reader, that it is everything the winners are how it all went down. Augusta National proved, the weather cooperated and we got an official back-and-forth Masters Sunday, twisting the plot between some of the best golfers in the world.

10. Michael Brennan

Brennan announced his arrival at last year’s Bank of Utah Championship, where he entered the field with a sponsor’s exemption and — in his first PGA Tour start as a pro — won the entire thing. It’s been uneven since then, but Brennan held his own in his first speech as a pro; his T24 at Augusta National is his best finish in 2026.

8. Maverick McNealy

He’s not a flashy person, he doesn’t play a flashy game and he doesn’t have a flashy song in the big leagues. But Mav McNealy posted his first career 20 thanks to a hot regular putter and a Sunday 67; it was a great result when he shot 77 on Thursday.

9. Russell Henley

When Henley bogeyed four of the first eight holes on Sunday to move to 10 under par, he suddenly had a legitimate chance to win his first championship. Instead he couldn’t make a birdie putt and played the final 10 holes even for par. The good news: that was his fifth top-10 finish in his seven major starts and the first top-three start of his career. Trends in 37 years.

“I hit it amazingly today. I gave myself a lot of looks. Unfortunately, I didn’t use those looks in the back as much as I would have liked,” he said. “I felt like I handled the pressure well, I handled the situations well.

7. Tyrrell Hatton

LIV Golf had a very disappointing week; just one of its players finished below or within the top 30. But while that golfer, Tyrrell Hatton, saw his chances of winning all but vanish with Saturday’s 72, his superb Sunday 66 left him in T3 and very satisfied with his finish. Finishing the top 12 also confirmed that he will be back next year, which he said was on his mind with the baby on the way.

“To be honest, most of the players on the back 9 wanted to make birdies because my wife is coming in six weeks and I thought it would be good to come back next year, and our little girl will be 11 months, so it would be amazing to see her in a boiler suit,” Hatton said, referring to the caddy uniforms worn by families at Wednesday’s Par-3 Contest. “Obviously you see all the other dads and their families and the little ones in the hot suits are so cute.”

6. Scottie Scheffler

There is no chance that the World No. 1 is interested in the Engagement Jacket (the more times I write that sentence the more I plan to trademark it) but Scheffler entered the week as a new father, coming off his first two “worst” in a year and sitting 12 shots back of the halfway mark; if he was someone else he would be No. 1 on this list. (Instead we’ll put him a bit lower at number 6.)

A flawless weekend left Scheffler one second behind, just one shot away from McIlroy’s winning number, and will do more than quiet the doubters. McIlroy won the tournament; Scheffler is still the best golfer in the world. Between them the two have won four of the last five majors and four of the last five Masters, while McIlroy now has six of Scheffler’s four majors. The game is open.

“I think big tournaments bring out the best in me sometimes, and I had a good start last year and obviously had a good week this week,” Scheffler said. “There are a few shots I’d like to take back, but I fought a good fight.”

5. Jordan Spieth

Speaking of trending irons: Jordan Spieth is rocking it right now. His T12 is his best result in three years and comes largely because of his performance game, which DataGolf has him fifth best in the field. Spieth has remained remarkably reliable at Augusta National, where he has finished nine of 15 in his 13 career starts. He tends to be reliable everywhere else, too, if he can get his putter to cooperate.

“I hit it better [this year] there’s a year where I won and I hit it a lot better than any of the second or fourth places,” he said. That part is a little frustrating. Again, placing can be tough so just get in the right lineup and try to win next week.”

3. Cameron Young

If you take Young at his word, he left Masters disappointed with the result but pleased with his performance.

“There is no negative outcome that I can take away except that I obviously would have liked a different outcome,” he said. “But in terms of golf, I played well enough to win today and I played well enough to win a couple I think. So, it’s just one of those days. When you go through the back nine I had a really good chance for birdies on every hole and I didn’t make it. It happens sometimes.”

The tournament felt like Young’s victory when McIlroy, his playing partner, three-putted from five feet on No. 4 and giving Young a two-shot lead. But there was still a lot of golf to be played; Young went bogey-bogey-birdie-bogey on 6-7-8-9 and then rattled off nine consecutive pars as McIlroy slid past him.

So why does he get the Engagement Jacket? Because he just held his own to win The Players, because he just came off a T3-win-T3, because he’s No. 3 in the world — and because this time last year he missed the cut at the Masters and fell outside the top 60 at OWGR. That’s a hell of a few weeks and a hell of a year.

2. Max Homa

Max Homa didn’t win the 2024 Masters but he finished T3, which means he got an automatic invitation to the 2025 Masters, where he finished T12, which means he got an automatic invitation to the 2026 Masters, where he finished T9 thanks to a bogey-free Sunday 67 – and he got an invitation to the 2027 Masters. It could be that things are going well for Homa, his instrument playing and putting both things since the start of the season. Now it’s just a matter of pretending every other course is Augusta National…

“Yes, it feels high,” Homa said of his result, smiling. “I would like next time to be in contention early, without needing a miracle on Sunday. [and] my mind was very good. Yes, it was fun.”

1. Collin Morikawa

It takes some circumstances to be shocked by the world’s 7th ranked golfer finishing seventh in a golf tournament, but given Collin Morikawa’s pre-tournament form (he bogeyed his second hole at the Players with a back injury, then sat out the next three weeks) and his tournament week form (he was clearly in pain, he felt the pain. shot) this could be a no-win. the most impressive of his impressive young career.

“Trust me, it’s going to be one of the best tournaments ever,” Morikawa said. “I’ll remember this for a lot of reasons, but mostly how strong the mind is, to be able to go out and convince yourself that everything is going to be okay.”

You can watch more analysis of the 2026 Masters in the video below.

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