Justin Hastings is one of the five amateurs in the 2025 masters field.
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It is not only the winner of the Masters 2025 tournament which will end up in the Butler cabin after the last round of Sunday, sitting by Jim Nantz and Augusta national chairman Fred Ridley.
Even the low amateur will be there.
Was Neal Shipley last year. Victor Hovland won honors in 2019. There are other names you know well, in the years before: Bryson Dechambeau. Patrick Cantlay. Hideki Matsuyama. Sergio Garcia. Tiger Woods.
There are others who will make a bell, even if you haven’t heard them for a while: guan tianling. Casey Wittenberg. Ricky Barnes.
Five am made this year’s field. Here are those – and how they arrived at Augusta National:
2025 Masters: Tap 5 amaters
Jose Luis Ballester
How did it: Won 2024 Ameatur
Top-20 chances (through Fanduel): 12-1
Ballester became the first Spaniard to win the American amateur last year. Spanish players have historically reached quite historically in Augusta National, of course – think Ballesteros, Olazabal, Garcia, Rahm – and has added to their collective device when Carla Bernat Escuder won the national amateur of women Augusta Over the weekend. She and Ballester have been good friends since childhood. They both worked with Sergio’s father, Victor, as a shaky coach. It would be appropriate to see them both on Butler Cabin a weekend away.
Noah Kent
How did it do it: Garrier, 2024 US amateur
Top-20 chances: 35-1
Kent transferred from Iowa to Florida and will remove it by representing Gators in Augusta National. Josho Berhow I became acquainted with Kent in the SH.BA Last year and how the Rory Mcilroy meeting helped to shake his interest from hockey in Golf; That bottle of that power in its swinging and placed it to use it while ripped through the most reached amateurs in Hazeltin last summer.
Hiroshi Tai
How did it: Winner, 2024 NCAA Individual Title
Top-20 chances: 28-1
Although his game has cooled down in the year since his victory in Omni La Costa, Tai will be the first player from Singapore to compete in masters. Georgia Tech’s golf will hope to follow the footsteps of a high profile alum, Matt Kuchar, on the road to low amateur honors.
Evan Beck
How did it: Winner, SH.BA
Top-20 chances: 12-1
Beck is far from the oldest amateur of the tour at 34; A year after being lost in the 2023 final, he left with the 2024 edition of Kinloch. This will be his first major championship, though not his last – he is also on the field for US Open.
Justin Hastings
How did it do it: Winner, 2025 Latin American amateur
Top-20 chances: 12-1
Hastings won last amateur place in the field. State Star San Diego will also become the second player to represent the Kajman Islands in Masters after Aaron Jarvis won the same event in 2022; Next to an impressive feat for a place with only 27 holes. Hastings sparked a lot of game at a last T13 finish in Mexico Open.
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Low amateurs, last 30 years
The passing of the years when no amateur made cuts.
1995 – Tiger Woods
1998 – Matt Kuchar
1999 – Sergio Garcia
2000 – David Gossett
2003 – Ricky Barnes
2004 – Casey Wittenberg
2005 – Ryan Moore
2010 – Matteo Manasseer
2011 – Hideki Matsuyama
2012 – Patrick Cantlay
2013 – guan tianlang
2014 – Oliver Goss
2016 – Bryson dechambeau
2017 – Stewart HAGESTAD
2018 – Doug Pin
2019 – Victor Hovland
2020 – Andy OgleTree
2023 – Sam Bennett
2024 – Neal Shipley
