Masters 2025: Saturday tee times and guide, including where to watch

Apr 12, 2025 - 13:30

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Masters 2025: Saturday tee times and guide, including where to watch

Scottie Scheffler is back to defend his Master crown - Getty Images/Michael Reaves

The Masters is the first of the year’s four major golf tournaments, a fixture that emphasises that spring has indeed sprung in the northern hemisphere and the most picturesque of the sporting calendar’s perennials.

What are the third-round tee times?

All times BST

2.50pm
Tom Kim

3pm
Joaquin Niemann, Jordan Spieth

3.10pm
Stephan Jaeger, Max Greyserman

3.20pm

Danny Willett, JT Poston

3.30pm

Jon Rahm, Zach Johnson

3.40pm

Patrick Cantlay, Akshay Bhatia

3.50pm

Denny McCarthy, JJ Spaun

4.10pm

Maverick McNealy, Charl Schwartzel

4.20pm

Brian Campbell, Byeong Hun An

4.30pm

Aaron Rai, Justin Thomas

4.40pm

Sahith Theegala, Davis Thompson

4.50pm

Matt Fitzpatrick, Wyndham Clark

5pm

Nick Taylor, Daniel Berger

5.10pm

Tom Hoge, Max Homa

5.30pm

Harris English, Min Woo Lee

5.40pm

Sam Burns, Nico Echavarria

5.50pm

Brian Harman, Bubba Watson

6pm

Davis Riley, Michael Kim

6.10pm

Xander Schauffele, Tommy Fleetwood

6.20pm

Patrick Reed, Collin Morikawa

6.30pm

Ludvig Aberg, Hideki Matsuyama

6.50pm

Jason Day, Sungjae Im

7pm

Rasmus Hojgaard, Viktor Hovland

7.10pm

Scottie Scheffler, Tyrrell Hatton

7.20pm

Matt McCarty, Shane Lowry

7.30pm

Rory McIlroy, Corey Conners

7.40pm

Justin Rose, Bryson DeChambeau

How can I watch the Masters on TV?

In the UK, the Masters is broadcast exclusively on Sky Sports Golf and large parts of it will also be on the network’s flagship channel, Sky Sports Main Event. In the United States, CBS will continue to broadcast the tournament as it has done in an unbroken run starting in 1956.

Free-to-air coverage is on the Masters website, where viewers can watch every individual shot a few minutes after it happens.

Radio coverage of the tournament in the UK is on Talksport and Talksport 2.

The BBC deal to show highlights at the end of play of rounds three and four, having previously held exclusive live rights for decades, expired in 2023 and has not been renewed. Consequently Sky is the sole rights-holder.

Alternatively, you can also bookmark this page and return to follow the tournament on our live blog, with commentary and analysis from James Corrigan and Oliver Brown from Augusta National.

Where is the Masters held?

Unlike the US Open, PGA Championship and the Open, the Masters is the only one of the four majors that is held at the same course each year.

Augusta National Golf Club is in the north east of the city of Augusta and of Georgia, close to the state line with South Carolina. The Peach State institution is one of the most exclusive golf clubs in the world. Membership is by invitation only and restricted to about 300 members, among them Bill Gates, Peyton Manning and Rex Tillerson. The course is not open to the public and can be played only at the invitation of a member.

The club’s exclusivity used to extend to barring African Americans and women from membership, only admitting its first African American member, Ron Townsend, in 1990 and first women, Condoleeza Rice and Darla Moore, in 2012.

The course was severely damaged by Hurricane Helene last October which uprooted trees and left fairways gouged but round-the-clock work for six months has restored it to its usual glory.

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What is the Masters prize money?

This year’s total purse is expected to be $20 million (£15.5 million), the same as it was last year when it was raised from $18 million. The winner will receive $3,600,000 (£2.8 million), the runner-up $2,160,000 (£1.67 million), third place $1,360,000 (£1.05 million) with incrementally less prize money until the man in 50th who will take home $50,400 (£39,000)

The winner is also awarded a replica of the official trophy (which never leaves the club). The champion golfer also receives a gold medal and, most coveted of all, a green jacket.

There are also trophies for finishing second, being the leading amateur golfer, recording the lowest score of the day, making a hole in one, an eagle and an albatross.

How do players qualify for the Masters?

Officially players are invited to play in the Masters rather than qualify for it through an ‘open’ qualification process like those held for the US Open or the Open Championship.

But technically there are qualifying criteria, starting with being a past winner, 19 of whom are expected to play this year. Fifteen, who are entitled to play, including Jack Nicklaus, Sir Nick Faldo and Tom Watson, no longer accept the invitation. The top 12 players from the 2024 Masters also earn a place.

All top 50 players in the world rankings on January 1 are entitled to be in the field as well as all PGA Tour event winners in 2024, all players who finished in the top-four of the other three majors last year and any major winner from 2020 onwards.

Any player in the world’s top 50 the week before the Masters will also be invited. The Masters also reserves the right to invite wildcard players.

The rest of the field is made up of the winners of the amateur game’s most distinguished events, making up a total field of about 90 players which is significantly smaller than most tournaments.

At this year’s Masters Britain and Ireland’s invitees so far are Danny Willett, Matt Fitzpatrick, Tommy Fleetwod, Tyrrell Hatton, Justin Rose, Robert MacIntyre, Aaron Rai, Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry.

Will LIV golfers be at the Masters?

Yes, but diminishing in number given their absence from most tournaments carrying world ranking points on the tours they left.

The LIV golfers who have received invitations to the 2025 Masters are Bryson DeChambeau (because he won the 2020 US Open), Cameron Smith (who won the 2023 Open Championship), Brooks Koepka (who won the PGA Championship in 2023), Jon Rahm, Patrick Reed, Phil Mickelson, Sergio García, Charl Schwartzel, Dustin Johnson and Bubba Watson (who are all past Masters champions), Tyrrell Hatton (in the top 12 at last year’s Masters) and Joaquín Niemann (who, like last year, has received a special invitation).

Will Tiger Woods be playing?

No. It was revealed at the beginning of March that the five-time winner at Augusta had undergone surgery on a ruptured Achilles tendon.

How do you get tickets for the Masters?

Tickets for this year’s tournament have sold out unless you are willing to pay StubHub prices, starting at around £1,400. Tickets at more reasonable prices for the 2026 Masters via the official route are open for application from June 1-20 this year. Tickets are allocated by ballot, with successful applicants notified in July, giving them nine months to plan their visit.

A ticket via that route for one of the three days of practice costs $100 (£77.00). A ticket for one of the tournament days is $140 (£108).

What is the Champions Dinner?

All surviving Masters champions who are able to attend sit down to dinner in their Green Jackets two nights before the tournament proper for the event officially known as the Masters Club Dinner.

The previous year’s winner chooses the food, and this year they will sit down to Scottie Scheffler’s second go at the menu incorporating most of the elements of his first dinner in 2023 after his first victory at Augusta National the year before.

Drawing on his Texan tastes, he is subjecting the guests to cheeseburger sliders and firecracker shrimps for starters, followed by a main course of rib-eye steak or blackened redfish and a warm chocolate chip skillet cookie with vanilla bean ice cream for pudding. He has added two new starters this year, Texas-style chilli, and, with a nod to the freak hand injury he sustained in January while using a broken glass as a pasta cutter, “Papa Scheff’s” meatball and ravioli bites.