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Masters Best Bets: Finishing Positions

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The 2026 Masters Tournament tees off on Thursday morning from Augusta National Golf Course in Augusta, Ga.

The Action Network's team of betting experts have gone through all the odds and broken down their favorite angles worth betting this weekend.

Below, you will find our staff's best bets in the finishing positions market.

Here are our 2026 Masters best bets and expert golf picks this weekend.

Masters Best Bets: Finishing Positions

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Min Woo Lee Top 10

+245 at DraftKings

By Jake Zach

Min Woo Lee is showing everything that I want to see before coming into a Masters. A T2 at Pebble, T12 at the Genesis, T6 at API, and a T3 in Houston.

Lee is doing it all, especially on approach, one phase of his game that he has struggled with for most of his professional career.

Lee's best finish at Augusta was a T14 back in 2022, and has struggled since then. Last year, Lee finished 49th here, but that was coming off a win the week prior in Houston.

Given Lee's prowess off the tee, highly improved approach game, and filthy short game, I believe he has his best start yet at Augusta. He's just playing too well right now and I think he carries over his strong play to the first major of the year in Georgia.

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Matthew Fitzpatrick Top 20

-114 at DraftKings

By Tony Sartori

Matthew Fitzpatrick brings elite greenside ability to Augusta, as he ranks in the 98th percentile on the PGA Tour in strokes gained: around the green. Success on the greens is often underpinned by strong mid-to-long-iron play.

Last season, 19.6% of approach shots at Augusta came from the 150-175-yard range, the highest distribution of any 25-yard grouping at this course. Entering this week, Fitzpatrick ranks third on the PGA Tour in birdie-or-better percentage from that distance.

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Si Woo Kim Top 5

+1075 at DraftKings

By Derek Farnsworth

Si Woo Kim is having the most consistent season of his career. He's made nine straight cuts to start the year and has already posted four top-10 finishes.

He's a great total driver of the ball, he's an elite iron player, and he's an underrated scrambler.

He's not a good putter by any means, but he has gained strokes putting in each of the last six Masters.

If the tee-to-green game continues, and he gains strokes on the greens, there's no reason why he can't finish in the top 5.

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Chris Gotterup Top 20

+130 at BetMGM

By Chris Gimino

He made the cut at The Players. He shipped "The People's Open." He shipped Hawaii. He's top 10 in OWGR.

Chris Gotterup is finally in form and now gets a crack at Augusta as a debutant. Despite the trend that the course is hard to tame on the first go-around, he has the skills to at least have a chance: top 25 in Strokes Gained: Off-the-Tee, top 40 in Strokes Gained: Approach and Strokes Gained: Around-the-Green, and the sixth-best Driving Distance on tour.

It would be amazing to see him topple a field of this magnitude on a stage this big, but let's be more realistic. I like the profile and the upside, and I think he can have a good week here without getting all the way home.

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Patrick Reed Top 20

+150 at DraftKings

By Kyle Murray

Obviously Patrick Reed has won here before, and he now has top-five finishes in two of his last three appearances here, in addition to a T12 in 2024 and a T8 in 2021.

He just consistently performs well here, and this is a course where history is by far the most important aspect compared to other courses we're going to see throughout the year. It just comes down to the knowledge of the course, and it's so crucial.

Outside of the top four or five names on the odds board, there's just not that many names that I'm seeing with positive grades in all parts of the model metrics I'm using for this tournament, but Reed is one of them. He grades out as the 11th-best player in the field, so I will gladly take him to finish in the top 20 at +150.

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When is the Masters?

The 2026 Masters tees off on Thursday, April 9, 2026.

  • What: 2026 Masters Tournament
  • When: April 9-12, 2026
  • Where: Augusta National Golf Course, Augusta, Ga.
  • Par: 72
  • Length: 7,555
  • Purse: $21 million (estimated)

Where to Watch the Masters?

2026 Masters TV Schedule

Round 1: Thursday, April 9

  • Live stream: Masters.com (7:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. ET)
  • TV coverage: ESPN (3 to 7:30 p.m. ET)

Round 2: Friday, April 10

  • Live stream: Masters.com (7:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. ET)
  • TV coverage: ESPN (3 to 7:30 p.m. ET)

Round 3: Saturday, April 11

  • Live stream: Masters.com (10:15 a.m. to 7 p.m. ET); Paramount+ (12 to 2 p.m. ET)
  • TV coverage: CBS (2 to 7 p.m. ET)

Round 4: Sunday, April 12

  • Live stream: Masters.com (10:15 a.m. to 7 p.m. ET); Paramount+ (12 to 2 p.m. ET)
  • TV coverage: CBS (2 to 7 p.m. ET)

Who is Favored to Win the 2026 Masters?

Masters Odds, Favorites

via DraftKings as of Monday

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Scottie Scheffler+490
Jon Rahm+910
Bryson DeChambeau+1075
Rory McIlroy+1100
Ludvig Aberg+1650
Xander Schauffele+1800
Cameron Young+2300
Tommy Fleetwood+2300
Matt Fitzpatrick+2350
Hideki Matsuyama+2800
Collin Morikawa+3100
Min Woo Lee+3400
Robert MacIntyre+3500
Justin Rose+3500
Brooks Koepka+3700
Chris Gotterup+4200
Jordan Spieth+4200
Patrick Reed+4400
Si Woo Kim+4700
Viktor Hovland+4700
Russell Henley+4700
Justin Thomas+5400
Akshay Bhatia+5700
Patrick Cantlay+5800
Adam Scott+6100
Jason Day+6700
Jake Knapp+6700
Shane Lowry+6900
Sam Burns+7000
J.J. Spaun+7200
Sepp Straka+7400
Tyrrell Hatton+7600
Nicolai Hojgaard+7800
Corey Conners+8000
Maverick McNealy+8400
Kurt Kitayama+8600
Jacob Bridgeman+9200
Cameron Smith+9800
Harris English+10000
Gary Woodland+10500
Daniel Berger+10500
Ben Griffin+11000
Sung-Jae Im+11500
Max Homa+12000
Rasmus Hojgaard+12500
Keegan Bradley+13500
Marco Penge+14000
Harry Hall+15500
Alex Noren+16000
Ryan Gerard+16500
Nick Taylor+18000
Sam Stevens+18500
Brian Harman+20000
Aaron Rai+21000
Ryan Fox+21000
Wyndham Clark+21000
Michael Kim+22500
Max Greyserman+22500
Kristoffer Reitan+23000
Sergio Garcia+24000
Casey Jarvis+24000
Carlos Ortiz+25000
Dustin Johnson+26000
Tom McKibbin+26000
Haoton Li+30000
Matt McCarty+30000
Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen+31000
Andrew Novak+31000
Nico Echavarria+34000
Aldrich Potgieter+39000
Sami Valimaki+40000
John Keefer+40000
Michael Breena+41000
Charl Schwartzel+55000
Bubba Watson+55000
Zach Johnson+57500
Davis Riley+87500
Brian Campbell+250000
Danny Willett+250000
Mason Howell+300000
Ethan Fang+300000
Angel Cabrera+325000
Pongsapak Laopakdee+350000
Naoyuki Kataoka+450000
Brandon Holtz+500000
Vijay Singh+500000
Mike Weir+500000
Fred Couple+500000
Jose Maria Olazabal+500000
Mateo Pulcini+500000
Jackson Herrington+500000
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