The 2025 Masters starts on Thursday and as you can tell, I’m pretty geeked up about it.

Bob Weeks and the Golf Talk Canada crew is live on location and will have you covered all week with all the storylines you need to follow until the final putt is dropped on Sunday.

Today, I’m here to give you my personal power rankings on every player in the field. Starting at the top, I’ll give you a few sentences on why I have placed players in their category and I’ll list one major concern I have for them as well.

As we get lower on the chart, I’ll start to zoom out on the breakdowns and give more of a general overview of the tier because I simply don’t have the time to write about all 95 players this week.

Buckle up because we have a long way to go.

Rory McIlroy

This is his tournament to lose. Nobody in the world right now is on his level, and everyone else around him at the top has a very reasonable question mark attached to them. Rory obviously does too; this is his 11th attempt to win the Masters and complete the career grand slam. No player has taken more than three attempts to achieve this feat. If not this year, he might never.

Main Concern: Old scar tissue

Scottie Scheffler

Has been elite, but not his 2024 self to start the season. The floor is still incredibly high as his worst finish is T25 at WM Phoenix. I would be pretty surprised if he wasn’t inside the top 15 at the end of Sunday.

Main Concern: Left miss off the tee

Collin Morikawa

Collin feels like the safest option on the board this week after the two big guys at the top. At this point, I might trust him more than Scheffler, if I’m being truthful. Morikawa has made five starts this year and has finished inside the top 20 in all of them, has terrific course history, and is flushing his irons. Currently, he leads the PGA Tour in SG: Approach and SG: Tee to Green.

Main Concern: Putter can turn ice cold on Sunday

Jon Rahm

Our first LIV name on the list, Rahm is an interesting option this year. I don’t put very much stock in LIV results, so the fact he has top-10’d in every LIV event or the fact he’s failed to win one of them doesn’t really move me. I think Rahm’s stock is low right now, and it’s a good time to buy. His title defence in 2024 went about as poorly as it could with a tie for 45th, and for someone with as much pride as Rahm has, I’m thinking he’ll respond this year with a good showing, which would reflect more of his previous course history that includes four top 10s from 2018-2022 before winning in 2023.

Main Concern: LIV has taken the edge away, and he’s not sharp

Xander Schauffele

It’s incredible to think Xander is a win away this week from needing the U.S. Open to complete the grand slam. Just 12 months ago, we were wondering if he was ever going to win one of these. A rib injury kept him away for a few months this year, and he has been pretty hot and cold since returning. He just had the best week of his career with his irons (gained 11.21 on approach) at Valspar, but hasn’t contended, and his short game has been very meh.

Major Concern: Short game could get leaky

Bryson DeChambeau

In 2024, he showed up to this tournament with poor course history and tied for sixth despite not playing his best on the weekend. His LIV stuff has been fine in 2025, and statistically, he was the second-best player in the majors last year. All that being said, his best finish at the Masters before last year was a T21 in 2016, and he might be haunted on this property after calling it a Par 67 in 2020.

Major Concern: Might be haunted

Ludvig Aberg

His history in majors is limited, but shows a lot of boom/bust with a solo second at Augusta last year, a tie for 12th at the U.S. Open, and two missed cuts. He enters this week on the heels of two missed cuts and a win four starts ago. I’m tempted to buy on him after the missed cuts as he continues to drive it well. Last week, he gained over 1.5 strokes tee to green but lost 2.45 putting to miss the cut.

Main Concern: Short game

Hideki Matsuyama

It’s been very quiet for Hideki since his win to start the year at Sentry—a little too quiet. The 33-year-old has missed two straight cuts, despite gaining strokes tee to green in both, and hasn’t had a top 10 since his win in January. I wouldn’t be surprised if he contends or is a non-factor. It’s also worth noting that Hideki had to withdraw from a Wednesday Pro Am last month with a neck........

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