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About Masters Tournament 2027
The 91st Masters Tournament is played April 8 to 11, 2027, at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia, opening men's major championship golf for the year with its signature mix of pine straw, azaleas, and Amen Corner theatrics. The Masters is the first of the four men's majors each season and the only one contested at the same course every year, giving its history an unbroken continuity from Horton Smith's inaugural victory in 1934 to the present champion's title defense.
Administered by the invitation-only Augusta National membership under chairman Fred Ridley, the Masters features a compact field of roughly 90 players drawn from past champions, major winners, top-ranked competitors, and amateur invitees. The tournament's traditions, including the par-3 contest on Wednesday, the Champions Dinner hosted by the reigning winner, and the green jacket ceremony in Butler Cabin, have become as iconic as any shot-making on the course.
Augusta National's Alister MacKenzie and Bobby Jones design has been refined over decades, with recent lengthening and tree work keeping the course competitive against modern distance. Past champions include Jack Nicklaus with a record six green jackets, Tiger Woods with five, and a recent roster of winners led by Scottie Scheffler's victories in 2022 and 2024 and Rory McIlroy's career-completing win in 2025. The 2027 edition offers a purse in the vicinity of 21 million dollars, with a champion's share north of 4 million.
Overview
Why this sports page exists
The 91st Masters Tournament at Augusta National Golf Club. The first men's major of 2027, with the green jacket awarded on Sunday evening.
Why it matters
The Masters is golf's most-watched major and the only one played on the same storied course every year, making each edition a direct addition to a single century of history.
The details
Key highlights
- Venue
- Augusta National Golf Club, Augusta, Georgia
- Format
- 72-hole stroke play, four rounds Thursday through Sunday
- Prize
- Green jacket and a purse in the vicinity of 21 million dollars
- Audience
- Patrons on-site plus tens of millions watching worldwide
Reading the timer
How to use this sports countdown
Masters Tournament 2027 sits inside the sports calendar as a golf date that people are likely to check more than once. This page is meant to do more than show a raw countdown number: it keeps the tracked date, source quality, location context, and release confidence in one place so the page stays useful even when the final event details are still tightening.
Right now the key public signal is April 8-11, 2027, with confirmed status and date confirmed precision. That distinction matters. A confirmed datetime is very different from a month-level or date-only signal, and people planning watch parties, travel, ticketing, launch coverage, or newsroom publishing need that nuance instead of a misleadingly precise timer.
We are tracking Masters Tournament 2027 from Masters Tournament plus the official event source. For this page, that means the safest way to read the countdown is as a reference layer: use the timer for awareness, then use the source, precision, location, and event facts together before you commit to travel, viewing plans, promotional scheduling, or time-sensitive announcements.
The most practical reading of this countdown is: Masters Tournament 2027 is being watched for Augusta National Golf Club, Augusta, United States, and the current page focus is the main golf milestone rather than every surrounding rumor or speculative date. Sport: Golf. Type: Major championship.
Masters Tournament 2027 is a sports countdown, so the page has to orient around match-stage context, venue expectations, and tournament timing rather than entertainment-release language. Sports searchers usually care about the exact round, final, opener, host city, and likely planning window for kickoff coverage or travel. This page currently anchors that context with sport: Golf, type: Major championship, precision: Confirmed date. That is especially useful when several golf, masters, augusta national, major pages exist in the same competition and need to stay distinct.