2025 Masters Betting Futures

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Futures get a bad wrap sometimes in the betting industry, because it’s never fun to tie up your money for too long. PGA futures are often the exception. Place a Super Bowl bet in June, and you have to wait over half a year to potentially get paid out. Place a Masters future in February, and you only have to wait a couple months. Place a Masters bet right now, and you only have to wait a couple weeks!

Yet all the same arguments for futures betting still apply. There’s an edge, and it’s fun to try and predict the future! With the Houston Open in the rearview mirror, let’s see if we can find some good numbers on players for Augusta.

Best Futures for The Masters

Cameron Smith

45-1, DraftKings Sportsbook

Spoiler alert — short game wizardry goes a long way at Augusta National, and Cameron Smith has tons of it. Last year, he finished sixth while gaining all of his strokes on or around the greens. In fact, he gained over a full stroke per round for the entire year in the Major Championships. Do you realize how insane that is?? He’s disappeared to LIV, but he still has one of, if not the best, short games in the world.

Robert MacIntyre

80-1, DraftKings Sportsbook

MacIntyre won twice on Tour last year, and I think he’s taken another step forward with his game in 2025. He’s gone from a boom-or-bust player to a consistently great player and one reason for it is his improved short game. TPC Sawgrass presents one of the toughest short game tests all season, including plenty of tight-lie pitch shots where, like Augusta, players need to be precise with all of contact, trajectory, distance, and spin. He passed that test with flying colors, suggesting he’s ready to make a run at a Green Jacket. It doesn’t hurt that he’s a lefty, either…

Davis Thompson

100-1, DraftKings Sportsbook

As good as MacIntyre has become around the greens, he wouldn’t win a “most improved short game” award, because Davis Thompson has gone from pretty good to one of the world’s best this season. If Thompson deserves to be as far down the odds board as he is, it’s because he’s struggled this season when in contention. He was leading the Genesis after two rounds and failed to even record a top 10. He was -8 through 14 holes and tied for the lead on Saturday at the Houston Open before bogeying two of the easiest holes on the course and then falling to 27th Sunday. A pessimist would say he doesn’t have the stones to win a major championship. I, on the other hand, would say he’s getting himself into contention an awful lot for a player who has the skill-set to thrive around Augusta’s hallowed greens.

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