Sleeper picks to win The Masters: Major champion, Scottish lefty and 125/1 shot among potential Augusta contenders

The 2025 Masters is just days away and there’s going to be a star-studded field at Augusta looking to claim the iconic green jacket. World No.1 Scottie Scheffler got his hands on the trophy for the second time last year as he cruised to victory by four shots. Thomas and Horschel are outside bets for The MastersGetty He’ll be aiming to claim back-to-back titles, but there are sure to be other contenders, and there’s a chance we could see an unexpected winner. Here, talkSPORT.com runs through five outsider bets for The Masters, courtesy of the latest odds from talkSPORT BET at the time of writing. Justin Thomas – 22/1 Thomas is making his 10th start at The Masters and he’s aiming to win his first green jacket after coming close in previous years. JT’s highest finish at this showpiece major is 4th and that came in 2020, with a T8 finish coming two years later in 2022. However, since then, he’s missed the cut in the last two tournaments and that recent form at Augusta will certainly bring some doubts. On top of that, his last win on the PGA Tour came in the 2022 PGA Championship, so he’s not managed to get over the line in three years. But Thomas has come close multiple times in 2025 already, finishing second in The American Express, sixth in the Phoenix Open and ninth in the Genesis. Most recently, he was beaten by one shot in the Valspar Championship, as Viktor Hovland took advantage of two late JT bogeys. It represents some good form though, and he could carry that into The Masters. Thomas comes into The Masters off the back of a second-placed finishGetty Joaquin Niemann – 25/1 LIV Golf star Niemann is enjoying another fine season and some may fancy him to continue his impressive run at The Masters. The Chilean has won four LIV events in the space of 13 months, claiming glory in Singapore most recently. He finished above Brooks Koepka and Jon Rahm in that tournament and he sits at the top of the LIV Golf standings this season. Whether he can take this good form into the golf’s showpiece event remains to be seen, but he can’t be ignored. His eye-catching play recently earned him one of just two Special Invitations from Augusta bosses to play this year. He has featured in five Masters to date, finishing T22 last year. Niemann has been flying on the LIV Golf tourGetty Shane Lowry – 35/1 Lowry will be looking to add a second major title to his CV at The Masters this year. The Irishman, whose last PGA Tour title came at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans last April, was Open champion on home soil in 2019 and he’d love another run at a major. He performed well at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am in February when he finished second to good friend Rory McIlroy. Lowry has also had a number of other good weeks already this year. His best performance at Augusta came in 2022 when he challenged McIlroy and Scheffler at the top before coming joint third. Lowry’s best finish at Augusta is 3rd in 2022Getty Robert MacIntyre 50/1 Augusta National is known to aid left-handers. Thanks to the number of dog-legs and the need to shape shots, in the last 22 events, a lefty has won it six times and given how right-handers vastly outnumber leftys in the field each year, this is a remarkable stat. The top left-hander in the tournament this year will be Scotland’s Robert MacIntyre. Bob enjoyed his breakout season last year, winning his first PGA Tour event at the RBC Canadian Open before claiming a famous win at the Scottish Open a month later. Those victories have set him up for a real shot at the majors this summer. In his two Masters appearances to date, he has put in two highly respectable displays, finishing T12 and T23. Justin Rose – 100/1 To get to 44-year-old Rose, we take a big jump in odds. This will be the English veteran’s 20th start at The Masters as he looks to win his second career major, 11 years on from his US Open victory. Rose’s 2025 campaign has been up and down on the PGA Tour, missing three cuts in five events but finishing T3 and T8 in the other two. He has finished inside the top 25 in 11 of the last 14 Masters, with his best finishes being two runner-ups in both 2015 and 2017. That record at the Masters is impressive and you can’t rule him out of a potential high finish again as he looks for his 26th career win. Rose proved he is still a major-calibre player last year having finished T6 at the PGA Championship and second at The Open. Rose has been consistent at The Masters for yearsGetty Billy Horschel – 125/1 Horschel is the longest shot in these outside picks, but he is going into The Masters full of confidence. The 38-year-old’s 18-foot birdie won his team the inaugural TGL title and that indoor golf glory followed a strong PGA Tour showing. The reigning BMW PGA Championship winner finished T4 at the Valspar Championship a few days earlier in wha

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Sleeper picks to win The Masters: Major champion, Scottish lefty and 125/1 shot among potential Augusta contenders

The 2025 Masters is just days away and there’s going to be a star-studded field at Augusta looking to claim the iconic green jacket.

World No.1 Scottie Scheffler got his hands on the trophy for the second time last year as he cruised to victory by four shots.

Thomas and Horschel are outside bets for The Masters

He’ll be aiming to claim back-to-back titles, but there are sure to be other contenders, and there’s a chance we could see an unexpected winner.

Here, talkSPORT.com runs through five outsider bets for The Masters, courtesy of the latest odds from talkSPORT BET at the time of writing.

Justin Thomas – 22/1

Thomas is making his 10th start at The Masters and he’s aiming to win his first green jacket after coming close in previous years.

JT’s highest finish at this showpiece major is 4th and that came in 2020, with a T8 finish coming two years later in 2022.

However, since then, he’s missed the cut in the last two tournaments and that recent form at Augusta will certainly bring some doubts.

On top of that, his last win on the PGA Tour came in the 2022 PGA Championship, so he’s not managed to get over the line in three years.

But Thomas has come close multiple times in 2025 already, finishing second in The American Express, sixth in the Phoenix Open and ninth in the Genesis.

Most recently, he was beaten by one shot in the Valspar Championship, as Viktor Hovland took advantage of two late JT bogeys.

It represents some good form though, and he could carry that into The Masters.

Thomas comes into The Masters off the back of a second-placed finish

Joaquin Niemann – 25/1

LIV Golf star Niemann is enjoying another fine season and some may fancy him to continue his impressive run at The Masters.

The Chilean has won four LIV events in the space of 13 months, claiming glory in Singapore most recently.

He finished above Brooks Koepka and Jon Rahm in that tournament and he sits at the top of the LIV Golf standings this season.

Whether he can take this good form into the golf’s showpiece event remains to be seen, but he can’t be ignored.

His eye-catching play recently earned him one of just two Special Invitations from Augusta bosses to play this year.

He has featured in five Masters to date, finishing T22 last year.

Niemann has been flying on the LIV Golf tour

Shane Lowry – 35/1

Lowry will be looking to add a second major title to his CV at The Masters this year.

The Irishman, whose last PGA Tour title came at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans last April, was Open champion on home soil in 2019 and he’d love another run at a major.

He performed well at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am in February when he finished second to good friend Rory McIlroy.

Lowry has also had a number of other good weeks already this year.

His best performance at Augusta came in 2022 when he challenged McIlroy and Scheffler at the top before coming joint third.

Lowry’s best finish at Augusta is 3rd in 2022

Robert MacIntyre 50/1

Augusta National is known to aid left-handers.

Thanks to the number of dog-legs and the need to shape shots, in the last 22 events, a lefty has won it six times and given how right-handers vastly outnumber leftys in the field each year, this is a remarkable stat.

The top left-hander in the tournament this year will be Scotland’s Robert MacIntyre.

Bob enjoyed his breakout season last year, winning his first PGA Tour event at the RBC Canadian Open before claiming a famous win at the Scottish Open a month later.

Those victories have set him up for a real shot at the majors this summer.

In his two Masters appearances to date, he has put in two highly respectable displays, finishing T12 and T23.

Justin Rose – 100/1

To get to 44-year-old Rose, we take a big jump in odds.

This will be the English veteran’s 20th start at The Masters as he looks to win his second career major, 11 years on from his US Open victory.

Rose’s 2025 campaign has been up and down on the PGA Tour, missing three cuts in five events but finishing T3 and T8 in the other two.

He has finished inside the top 25 in 11 of the last 14 Masters, with his best finishes being two runner-ups in both 2015 and 2017.

That record at the Masters is impressive and you can’t rule him out of a potential high finish again as he looks for his 26th career win.

Rose proved he is still a major-calibre player last year having finished T6 at the PGA Championship and second at The Open.

Rose has been consistent at The Masters for years

Billy Horschel – 125/1

Horschel is the longest shot in these outside picks, but he is going into The Masters full of confidence.

The 38-year-old’s 18-foot birdie won his team the inaugural TGL title and that indoor golf glory followed a strong PGA Tour showing.

The reigning BMW PGA Championship winner finished T4 at the Valspar Championship a few days earlier in what was his highest finish of the 2025 season so far.

That will motivate him heading into his 10th Masters event, looking to better his best finish in the tournament, which was T17 back in 2016.

A concern will be that he has missed four cuts in 10 events so far in 2025.