Top Picks For Masters 2022

This year’s Masters is as wide open as any in recent memory. There is no favorite in the single digits this time around, and nobody has emerged as the player to beat over 72 holes.

The two hottest players in the world — Cameron Smith and Scottie Scheffler — are both nice picks but not considered heavyweight favorites at Augusta.

Conversely, many of the top stars in the world have not won so far in 2022 and several of them have a dodgy history with this course.

Then there is the Tiger Woods conundrum. What do you do with a five-time Masters winner who has not played an official event in 17 months but also might know the golf course better than anyone who has ever played it?

Woods indicated that he is indeed going to tee it up on Thursday morning alongside Louis Oosthuizen and Joaquin Niemann, and the potential outcomes for him might be wider than anyone else in the field.

There are also predictions about Justin Thomas at Augusta National, where he clearly does not putt the ball well.

However, in the weeks leading into this one, it has felt (and looked, statistically) as if he was building toward a massive victory.

Thomas proved at the Players Championship that he has probably more game than anyone to stand up to it.

Si Woo Kim showed the propensity to win massive events before (he dominated the 2017 Players), and the second is that he low-key plays Augusta National tremendously.

Kim has four straight made cuts here, including three top 25s and a sneaky T12 in 2021 when he putted with his 3-wood for part of the tournament.

There are a handful of players at 50-1 or longer (Adam Scott and Russell Henley included) that stand out, but Kim is A favorite of the bunch.