2026 Masters Tournament

Shane Lowry tips his cap to the gallery after his hole-in-one on the sixth hole during the third round of the Masters at Augusta National Golf Club on Saturday.

 MASTERS PHOTO BY ANDREW JOWETT

Matt Fitzpatrick, Brooks Kopeka, Shane Lowry and reigning champions Ben Griffin and Andrew Novak headline a field of 148 golfers for the , tournament officials announced Saturday.

The 74-team field will begin play in the $9.5 million tournament on Thursday at the TPC of Louisiana in Avondale.

The field includes 10 players currently ranked in the top 50 of the World Golf Rankings, led by Fitzpatrick, Griffin and Lowry, who are ranked Nos. 7, 16 and 34, respectively. The field includes several players who have risen in the World Golf Rankings in recent weeks, including Ryan Gerard (No. 32); Marco Penge (No. 37); Aaron Rai (No. 41); Sam Stevens (No. 45); Kristoffer Reitan (No. 46); Michael Brennan (No. 47); and Matt McCarty (No. 48).

The 148-man field features 74 two-man teams to reflect the addition of Koepka, who will make his since 2019. In his first year back on the PGA Tour since returning from a three-plus-year run with LIV Golf, Koepka, a five-time major winner, will team with Lowry in one of the fieldโ€™s marquee pairings.

As usual, the field features some notable up-and-coming and under-the-radar players, including Penge, Michael Thorbjornsen, Karl Vilips, Michael Brennan and Johnny Keefer. Vilips, who won the 2025 Puerto Rico Open, teamed withย  Thorbjornsen to finish fourth in last yearโ€™s Zurich. Penge, a rising young English standout who will team with Matt Wallace, has multiple wins on the DP World Tour. Brennan, 24, tied for 24th at the Masters and won the 2025 Bank of Utah Championship. Keefer, 25, tied for third at the Houston Open last month.

The field also includes 11 former Zurich champions, including Griffin, Novak and 2023 champions Nick Hardy and Davis Riley. Two-time champion Billy Horschel, who won the 2013 Zurich and the 2018 Zurich while partnering with Scott Piercy, will team with Tom Hoge at this yearโ€™s tournament. Past champions Nick Watney (2007), Jason Dufner (2012), Brian Stuard (2016) and Ryan Palmer (2019) are also scheduled to compete.

The relative lack of top-10 star power in the field reflects concerns expressed last month by tournament director Steve Worthy, who forecast the potential for many top players to skip the Zurich because of its spot on this yearโ€™s PGA Tour schedule. Sandwiched between three signature eventsย โ€” RBC Heritage (April 16-19), Cadillac Championship (April 30-May 3) and Truist Championship (May 7-10)ย โ€” and two weeks removed from the Masters (April 9-12), many Tour stars elected to bypass the Zurich this year to rest from competition rather than compete for six consecutive weeks from early April to mid-May.

By comparison, the field at last yearโ€™s Zurich included seven top 25 players and 16 top 50 players, including headliners Rory McIlroy, Collin Morikawa and Sepp Straka.

โ€œWe have a good following,โ€ said Worthy, the CEO of Fore!Kids Foundation, which operates the tournament for the PGA Tour, at a press conference last month. โ€œGuys like coming here. They enjoy what we do. But for this year, given the circumstance we're in, a guy's either going to have to skip one (tournament) or play six in a row.โ€

The tournament again will be played using a two-man team format, with best ball competition on Thursday and Saturday and alternate shot competition on Friday and Sunday.

The tournament will again feature some of the best hospitality and entertainment on the PGA Tour, with food provided by 39 local restaurants at seven venues through the ถถา๕h Hospitality Foundation.

โ€œWe are very proud of what we do, what our members and our volunteers execute, from a product standpoint,โ€ Worthy said. โ€œWeโ€™re looking forward to another great event.โ€

A look at the full field of 74 two-man teams:

  • Wyndham Clark โ€“ Taylor Moore

  • Matt Fitzpatrick โ€“ Alex Fitzpatrick*

  • Brooks Koepka โ€“ Shane Lowry

  • Michael Brennan โ€“ Johnny Keefer

  • Rafael Campos โ€“ Alejandro Tosti

  • Cam Davis โ€“ Geoff Ogilvy

  • Nick Dunlap โ€“ Gordon Sargent

  • Austin Eckroat โ€“ Davis Thompson

  • Tony Finau โ€“ Max Greyserman#

  • Brice Garnett โ€“ Lee Hodges

  • Ryan Gerard โ€“ David Ford

  • Ben Griffin โ€“ Andrew Novak

  • Garrick Higgo โ€“ Matt Kuchar

  • Billy Horschel โ€“ Tom Hoge#

  • Stephan Jaeger โ€“ Jackson Suber

  • Tom Kim โ€“ Kevin Yu

  • Chris Kirk โ€“ Patton Kizzire

  • Peter Malnati โ€“ Russell Knox

  • Matt McCarty โ€“ Mac Meissner#

  • William Mouw โ€“ Takumi Kanaya#

  • Matthieu Pavon โ€“ Martin Couvra*

  • Taylor Pendrith โ€“ Mackenzie Hughes#

  • Aaron Rai โ€“ Sahith Theegala

  • Davis Riley โ€“ Nick Hardy

  • Adam Schenk โ€“ Tyler Duncan

  • Karl Vilips โ€“ Michael Thorbjornsen#

  • Sam Stevens# โ€“ Zach Bauchou

  • Matti Schmid# โ€“ Seamus Power

  • Erik van Rooyen# โ€“ Christiaan Bezuidenhout#

  • Rico Hoey# โ€“ David Lipsky

  • Max McGreevy# โ€“ Kevin Roy#

  • Alex Smalley# โ€“ Hayden Springer

  • Vince Whaley# โ€“ Greyson Sigg

  • Eric Cole# โ€“ Hank Lebioda

  • Keith Mitchell# โ€“ Brandt Snedeker

  • Mark Hubbard# โ€“ Ryan Brehm

  • Chad Ramey# โ€“ Justin Lower

  • Chandler Phillips# โ€“ Carson Young

  • Danny Walker #โ€“ Jimmy Stanger

  • Blades Brown* โ€“ Luke Clanton

  • Jacob Skov Olesen* โ€“ Rasmus Neergaard Petersen

  • Casey Jarvis* โ€“ A.J. Ewart

  • Marco Penge โ€“ Matt Wallace

  • Kristoffer Reitan โ€“ Kris Ventura

  • John Parry โ€“ Dan Brown

  • Haotong Li โ€“ Jordan Smith

  • Keita Nakajima โ€“ Kensei Hirata

  • Chandler Blanchet โ€“ John VanDerLaan

  • Austin Smotherman โ€“ Andrew Putnam

  • Neal Shipley โ€“ Christo Lamprecht

  • Adrien Dumont de Chassart โ€“ Davis Chatfield

  • Jeffrey Kang โ€“ Doug Ghim

  • Trace Crowe โ€“ Ben Martin

  • Zecheng Dou โ€“ Dylan Wu

  • Pontus Nyholm โ€“ Jesper Svensson

  • Adam Svensson โ€“ Adam Hadwin

  • Marcelo Rozo โ€“ Camilo Villegas

  • Beau Hossler โ€“ Sam Ryder

  • Patrick Fishburn โ€“ Zac Blair

  • Charley Hoffman โ€“ Nick Watney

  • Kevin Streelman โ€“ Joel Dahmen

  • Lanto Griffin โ€“ Ben Kohles

  • Frankie Capan III โ€“ Noah Goodwin

  • Chan Kim โ€“ Ryan Palmer

  • Harry Higgs โ€“ Jeremy Paul

  • Henrik Norlander โ€“ Luke List

  • Taylor Montgomery โ€“ Scott Piercy

  • Ben Silverman โ€“ Cameron Champ

  • Paul Peterson โ€“ Will Gordon

  • David Skinns โ€“ Trey Mullinax

  • Jonathan Byrd โ€“ Chez Reavie

  • Austin Cook โ€“ Jason Dufner

  • James Hahn โ€“ Kyle Stanley

  • Troy Merritt โ€“ Robert Streb

*Sponsor exemption

#PGA of America section exemption