The Masters 2025 LIVE: Tee times, field, leaderboard and how to follow as stars return to damaged Augusta
Scottie Scheffler will defend his Masters title for a second time this week as he headlines the first major of the year at Augusta National.
The Masters ushers in the start of grand slam season in the golf calendar each year, and the traditions and pageantry of Augusta make the tournament one of the great sporting highlights.
Scheffler became a two-time Green Jacket winner last April as he held off his rivals to romp to victory.
It was the showpiece win of a stellar year for the American and he will be among the favourites in Georgia once again.
The chasing pack will include the likes of Rory McIlroy, Jon Rahm, Xander Schauffele and Bryson Dechambeau.
McIlroy is still striving for Masters glory as he seeks to complete the coveted career Grand Slam and he’ll be desperate to finally end his major drought this year.
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And the Northern Irishman is in fine form having already won The Players Championship and AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am this year.
The Masters 2025: Date and how to follow
The 2025 Masters Tournament will get going on Thursday, April 10.
It will take place at Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia and will be played over four days until Sunday, April 13.
The action will get started at 12:40pm UK time (7:40am in Georgia) over the opening two days and at 2pm UK time over the weekend.
Sean O'Brien and Rupert Bell will have regular updates from Augusta live on talkSPORT throughout the week.
To tune in to talkSPORT or talkSPORT 2 through the website, click HERE for the live stream. You can also listen via the talkSPORT app, on DAB digital radio, through your smart speaker and on 1089 or 1053 AM.
The event will be broadcast live on Sky Sports in the UK too.
The Masters 2025: Field and tee times
The tournament has the smallest field of the four major championships with 95 players teeing it up before Friday’s cut.
The full field has been confirmed and the likes of Scheffler, McIlroy, Schauffele, Collin Morikawa and Justin Thomas head up the all-star cast.
The top 50 players in the world rankings will all be in action.
A number of LIV Golf stars will be in attendance too including Rahm, DeChambeau, Brooks Koepka, Dustin Johnson and Cameron Smith.
Five-time champion Tiger Woods was hoping to tee it up once again as all past winners of The Masters are invited back but he ruptured his Achilles in early March and had to undergo another surgery.
Angel Cabrera, champion in 2009, is set to make his playing return at Augusta following his release from prison for assault.
2000 Masters champion Vijay Singh has had to withdraw from the tournament due to injury.
Jose Luis Ballester won the 2024 US Amateur and will lead the five-strong contingent of amateur players in the field.
The Masters has announced two special exemptions with Joaquin Niemann and Nicolai Hojgaard invited to compete.
The full field, tee times and groupings for the opening two rounds have been confirmed and can be found here.
Recent Masters champions
2024: Scottie Scheffler -11
2023: Jon Rahn −12
2022: Scottie Scheffler −10
2021: Hideki Matsuyama −10
2020: Dustin Johnson -20
2019: Tiger Woods −13
2018: Patrick Reed −15
2017: Sergio Garcia −9
2016: Danny Willett −5
2015: Jordan Spieth −18
The Masters 2025: The course
Augusta National is a par 72 and measures a maximum of 7,555 yards in length.
Augusta suffered 'catastrophic' damage in the wake of Hurricane Helene in September, with several trees falling down and severe flooding.
Past champion Patrick Reed recently revealed that the iconic 16th green in the storms and had to be rebuilt.
Club chairman Fred Ridley said in January that while some trees have been lost from the course, it looks in 'spectacular condition'.
There will not be any courses changes for the 2025 tournament with the par-5 second hole lengthened by ten yards last year.
The course has been steadily extended over the last few years and is 120 yards longer than it was when Jordan Spieth won ten years ago.
As ever, the world-famous par-3s of Golden Bell and Redbud will take centre-stage as will the treacherous run of holes at Amen Corner.
The 520-yard par-4 White Dogwood 11th was the most difficult hole last year, just ahead of the 18th finishing hole Holly.
A hole-by-hole guide to Augusta National can be found here.
The Masters 2025: What has been said?
Scheffler was visibly emotional following his win at Augusta last year as his wife Meredith was due to give birth while he claimed victory.
Amid his celebrations, Scheffler said: "I am coming home. I will be home as quick as I can. I love you and I am coming home.
"You are going to make me cry. It is a very special time for us. I can't put it into words what it means to win this tournament again and I can't put into words what it's going to be like to be a father for the first time.
“I am looking forward to getting home and celebrating with Meredith, it has been a long week here without her."
He added: "I did my best to stay calm and stay patient on the course and was able to make some key shots and putts to keep my round going.
"I hadn't hit many good iron shots which is a bit unusual for me. I hit some good ones but they weren't ending up where they were supposed to.
“I had that bogey on seven, birdie putt on eight and going to nine it was nice to get the feeling of hitting a really well-hit shot and it set me up for the back nine."
Meanwhile, US Open champion DeChambeau believes it’s ‘just a matter of time’ before he claims Masters glory.
He said: "I've just always wanted to win the Masters. That dates backs to my amateur days and even before that as a junior when I was watching Tiger win it. His chip in on 16 in 2005 really sold it for me.
"I thought to myself 'OK, this is an event that I want to be a part of.' When I saw Augusta for the first time and experienced the people there and the pro shop, the people in the shop and the head pros that are there, they're just fantastic.
"I just love coming back to Augusta every single year, and I really believe that I'm going to get it done there one of these days. It's just a matter of time and continued hard work and learning from my failures."
DeChambeau added: "The career grand slam is number one on the top of my priority list. I've won two of them (US Opens) but I've got to win three more to get the career grand slam.
"I gave myself some good chances last year and [the goal] every year is to continually give myself good chances."
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