How many putts will there be in the 2026 Masters? Looking at 2025 data
How many putts will there be in the 2026 Masters? Let's take a look at the data from 2025.
It's time for the 2026 Masters , which means plenty of golf fans are setting their fantasy lineups for the tournament in the official Masters app. The tiebreaker is a simple but complex question: How many total putts will be recorded by the field for the entire tournament? Seems like an easy answer, but it's anything but.
Masters Fantasy is simple enough for anyone to do once they create an account. Fans will pick a player from each of the following categories: Past Champions, Americans, International, First Timers and a Wild Card. Then there's the tiebreaker.
The Masters media guide doesn't provide total putts per year, but the average Masters winner averages about 114 putts per tournament. Last year, Rory McIlroy took 111 swipes on the greens en route to his victory. How many putts in the 2025 Masters?
The Masters does not officially announce how many total putts there were in a given year. There were 8,798 putts in 2024, per Golf Monthly. Last year, that number was likely slightly higher because six more players teed it up in 2025 than did the year before.