How Many English Golfers Have Won The Masters? Plus Full List Of Englishman Playing At Augusta In 2025

As golf fans lock themselves in for the 89th running of the first major of the season – we look at how many English golfers have won the Masters.

Plus, who was the first and who are the top Englishman heading to Augusta in 2025.

How Many English Golfers Have Won The Masters?

The Masters was first staged back in 1934, and being held in Augusta, Georgia – it’s no shock the bulk have been won by an American-born golfer.

In fact, the first 24 Masters tournaments were all won by a US player and over the 88 events we’ve seen a homegrown winner 64 times.

Meaning a US golfer has won 73% of the Masters over the years. With the most recent Scottie Scheffler, who was measured up for the green jacket in 2024.

In of winning countries – next best is Spain with six past winners. These included Seve Ballesteros back in 1980 and 1983 and more recently Jon Rahm in 2023.

South Africa is next with five, but just how many English golfers have won the Masters?

The answer is FOUR – but we’ve also only seen TWO different English winners of the green jacket.

These were Nick Faldo, who won the Masters three times, and Danny Willett.

Who Was The First English Golfer To Win The Masters?

With the US players dominating the Masters between 1934 and 1979.

However, there was a period in the 1980’s and mid 1990’s where the Masters saw more European winners than US ones.

Spain’s Seve Ballesteros started this run in 1980 and over the next sixteen year’s the event saw NINE more winners from around Europe – three of these where by Englishman Nick Faldo.

Faldo become the first Englishman to win the Masters in 1989 with a score of -5 and he made no mistake in this title defence a year later. Doubling his score to win on -10 in 1990.

These two wins were sandwiched with victories in 1988 from Scotland’s Sandy Lyle and in 1991 by Welshman Ian Woosnam – meaning the Masters wasn’t won by a US player for a four-year period.

Which was the first time this had ever happened in Masters history and this record remains to this day.

Faldo added a third Masters title in 1996 – seeing off Australian Greg Norman in a famous battle (watch below).

At the time this trio of wins saw him golfing greats Jimmy Demaret, Sam Snead, Arnold Palmer, Gary Player and Jack Nicklaus as 3+ time winners.

How Many English Golfers Have Won The Masters?

Danny Willett Became Only The Second English Masters Winner in 2016

Twenty years on from Nick Faldo’s Masters win in 1996, the tournament saw its second English winner when Danny Willett pulled off a shock win in 2016.

Yorkshireman Willett won that year’s event with a score of -5, which, remarkably, was 13 shots more than the previous year’s winner Jordan Spieth (-18).

Willett’s success that year will also be ed for the famous collapse of the current champion Spieth – who led by five shots on the final round at the 10th hole.

Before hitting a quadruple bogey on the par 3 12th hole – bringing him right back to the chasing pack, which Willett was in.

After that Masters win Willett saw his world golf ranking move up to 9th and heading into the 2025 Masters, he remains the most recent English golfer to win the Masters.

Danny Willett will be back in 2025.

Which English Golfers Are Playing In The 2025 Masters?

So, with only two English golfers having won the Masters there will be a whole host of new challengers trying to Nick Faldo and Danny Willett.

According to the best golf betting sites in the UK, Tommy Fleetwood is the most likely Englishman to land the green jacket – but he’s still 15th in the market with world number one Scottie Scheffler the favourite to win a third Masters before a ball has been hit.

Fleetwood’s best finish in the Masters was a tied-third in 2024 when posting a score of -4.

However, in 2020, despite finishing tied 19th – that year he shot -6.

Other high-profile English players in 2025 will be Justin Rose, who came 7th in 2021, and Tyrrell Hatton – his best finish came last year in 2024 when tied 9th.

Here are all the English players in action at the Masters 2025

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