Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson are two of the great Masters champions(Image: Getty Images)

Who has won the Masters? Every winner at Augusta including Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson

The Masters is one of the biggest competitions in golf and has been won by some of the greatest players in the sport has ever produced - including Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus

13 Apr 2024, 05:00 by Tom Blow · The Mirror

A total of 56 men have won the Masters since the tournament was established in 1934, with 39 of those champions coming from the United States.

The first major of the year is considered by many fans as the biggest tournament in golf thanks to the winner receiving the iconic green jacket. It's also held at the same venue, Augusta National in Georgia, each year.

No one has won the Masters more than Jack Nicklaus, who is a six-time champion (1963, 1965, 1966, 1972, 1975, 1986). Nicklaus won his final title at Augusta at the age of 46, making him the oldest winner of the tournament. He is widely regarded as the greatest golfer of all time, with a record 18 major wins.

Yet if Nicklaus is the greatest, there's no doubt who stands right behind him in golf's pantheon of greats. Tiger Woods is a 15-time major champion and has won five times at the Masters (1997, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2019).

Woods' first title was one of the most historic in the tournament's history, as he became the youngest player to win it - aged just 21. He was also the first non-white player to be victorious at Augusta, and his winning margin of 12 shots remains a record today.

Woods made even more history with his triumph in 2019, as it ended his 11-year wait for a major title. By that point, many fans thought Woods' chance to be a major winner again had been and gone due to his dreadful luck with injuries. Yet the iconic player, who is part of the field this year, defied the odds to claim victory.

Nicklaus and Woods are the only two players to win the Masters five or more times, but there are six other players with three or more wins to their name. Arnold Palmer (1958, 1960, 1962, 1964), Jimmy Demaret (1940, 1947, 1950), Sam Snead (1949, 1952, 1954), Gary Player (1961, 1974, 1978), Nick Faldo (1989, 1990, 1996) and Phil Mickelson (2004, 2006, 2010) are all rightly regarded as legends of Augusta.

Click here to follow the Mirror US on Google News to stay up to date with all the latest news, sport and entertainment stories.

No one has enjoyed more success at the Masters than Jack Nicklaus( Image: Getty Images)

The other nine multiple champions are Horton Smith (1934, 1936), Byron Nelson (1937, 1942), Ben Hogan (1951, 1953), Tom Watson (1977, 1981), Seve Ballesteros (1980, 1983), Bernhard Langer (1985, 1993), Ben Crenshaw (1984, 1995), Jose Maria Olazabal (1994, 1999) and Bubba Watson (2012, 2014).

Americans dominated the Masters during the first 45 years of the competition. In fact, the only non-American to win at Augusta during this time was Player. Yet Ballesteros' victory in 1980 paved the way for Europeans to win the Masters. The likes of Sandy Lyle (1988), Ian Woosnam (1991), Danny Willett (2016) and Sergio Garcia (2017) have enjoyed success at Augusta since Ballesteros became a household name.

Vijay Singh became the first player from South Asia to win the Masters in 2000, while Angel Cabrera became South America's first winner at Augusta in 2009. More recently, Hideki Matsuyama became the first men's Japanese player to win a major with his triumph at the Masters three years ago.

Jon Rahm won the Masters in 2023( Image: Getty Images)

The defending champion is Jon Rahm, who finished four shots ahead of Brooks Koepka and Phil Mickelson last time out. Rahm returned to Augusta this year as a LIV Golf member following his £450million move from the PGA Tour last December.

He is one of eight Masters winners now playing on the Saudi-backed circuit, with Mickelson, Garcia, Bubba Watson, Dustin Johnson, Patrick Reed and Charl Schwartzel being the others. Here is the full list of previous Masters winners...

Who has won the Masters?

1934: Horton Smith
1935: Gene Sarazen
1936: Horton Smith
1937: Byron Nelson
1938: Henry Picard
1939: Ralph Guldahl
1940: Jimmy Demaret
1941: Craig Wood
1942: Byron Nelson
1943: Tournament not held due to the Second World War
1944: Tournament not held due to the Second World War
1945: Tournament not held due to the Second World War
1946: Herman Keiser
1947: Jimmy Demaret
1948: Claude Harmon
1949: Sam Snead
1950: Jimmy Demaret
1951: Ben Hogan
1952: Sam Snead
1953: Ben Hogan
1954: Sam Snead
1955: Cary Middlecoff
1956: Jack Burke Jr
1957: Doug Ford
1958: Arnold Palmer
1959: Art Wall Jr
1960: Arnold Palmer
1961: Gary Player
1962: Arnold Palmer
1963: Jack Nicklaus
1964: Arnold Palmer
1965: Jack Nicklaus
1966: Jack Nicklaus
1967: Gay Brewer Jr
1968: Bob Goalby
1969: George Archer
1970: Billy Casper
1971: Charles Coody
1972: Jack Nicklaus
1973: Tommy Aaron
1974: Gary Player
1975: Jack Nicklaus
1976: Raymond Floyd
1977: Tom Watson
1978: Gary Player
1979: Fuzzy Zoeller
1980: Seve Ballesteros
1981: Tom Watson
1982: Craig Stadler
1983: Seve Ballesteros
1984: Ben Crenshaw
1985: Bernhard Langer
1986: Jack Nicklaus
1987: Larry Mize
1988: Sandy Lyle
1989: Nick Faldo
1990: Nick Faldo
1991: Ian Woosnam
1992: Fred Couples
1993: Bernhard Langer
1994: Jose Maria Olazabal
1995: Ben Crenshaw
1996: Nick Faldo
1997: Tiger Woods
1998: Mark O'Meara
1999: Jose Maria Olazabal
2000: Vijay Singh
2001: Tiger Woods
2002: Tiger Woods
2003: Mike Weir
2004: Phil Mickelson
2005: Tiger Woods
2006: Phil Mickelson
2007: Zach Johnson
2008: Trevor Immelman
2009: Angel Cabrera
2010: Phil Mickelson
2011: Charl Schwartzel
2012: Bubba Watson
2013: Adam Scott
2014: Bubba Watson
2015: Jordan Spieth
2016: Danny Willett
2017: Sergio Garcia
2018: Patrick Reed
2019: Tiger Woods
2020: Dustin Johnson
2021: Hideki Matsuyama
2022: Scottie Scheffler
2023: Jon Rahm