Masters Winners Trivia Quiz

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Tiger Woods may well have been the first name you selected and, if so, you were right to do so. Tiger won the Masters in 2001, 2002, 2005 and 2019 during the timescale set for the quiz. These wins added to the one he won in 1997. His total of five wins, which he is unlikely to add to due to his back injuries, is second only to Jack Nicklaus who won the event six times between 1963 and 1986.

Mike Weir was the winner in 2003. This Canadian golfer is naturally right-handed but plays golf as a left-hander. His win at the Masters is his only major title at the time of writing, in 2025. Weir was followed as champion by Phil Mickelson, another man to play left-handed while doing everything else with his right hand. 2004 was the first of three wins for Mickelson who also won in 2006 and 2010.

The 2007 winner was Zach Johnson, another American, who also won the Open Championship, held at St. Andrews in Scotland, in 2015. South Africa provided the 2008 champion in Trevor Immelman, who won the only major title of career that year. Injury has ended his professional career. Angel Cabrera became another non-American winner the following year, winning in 2009 to add to his US Open win of 2007. The Argentinian was playing on the senior tour in the 2020s.

Another South African claimed the win in 2011 in the form of Charl Schwartzel. He became the third man from his country to win the tournament, fifty years after the first - Gary Player who won his first Green Jacket in 1961. He eventually claimed three titles. Schwartzel's win remains his only major at the time of writing this quiz. 2012 saw Bubba Watson win the first of his two Masters titles - the second came in 2014.

An Australian winner came in 2013, with Adam Scott claiming the title. It remains his only win in a major tournament, and he is still the first and only Australian winner, in 2025. America reclaimed the Masters in 2015 when Jordan Spieth won the tournament. He went on to win the US Open the same year and claimed the Open in 2017. The PGA has eluded him, although he was the runner-up in 2015.

Englishman Danny Willett became the first British golfer to win the tournament since Ian Woosnam, who won in 1991. Like Nick Faldo, a triple winner, Willett is English while the previous UK winners were Scottish, in Sandy Lyle, and Welsh - Woosnam. Willett won in 2016 and it remains his only major at the time of writing this quiz. You wait a long time for a European winner and then another comes along in 2017. Spanish golfer Sergio Garcia was the successful player, after a run of second places at the PGA (twice) and the Open (also twice). He also finished third at the US Open in 2005.

We end with two American winners, or three if Woods' 2019 victory is included. Patrick Reed was the victor in 2018 and is another to have only one major win by 2025. Dustin Johnson was the final winner of the twenty years covered in the quiz, sealing his win in 2020. Dustin also has a 2016 US Open win and second place finishes in the PGA Championship in both 2019 and 2020 and another runner-up spot in 2011 in the Open Championship.

The wrong options include Australians Greg Norman and Jason Day, Norman has far too many second place finishes for comfort in the Masters, PGA and US Open, but does have two Open Championships to his name, winning in 1986 and 1993. Jason won the PGA in 2015 and, to date, has finished as a runner-up in all three of the other majors.

Ernie Els, from South Africa, has won both the US Open and the Open twice each, has two second place finishes in the Masters and two third places in the PGA. Brooks Koepka also has two runners-up spots at the Masters and finished fourth at the 2019 Open. He does has three wins at the PGA, from 2018, 2019 and 2023 and won in both 2017 and 2018 at the US Open.

Lee Westwood, from England, is very much a 'nearly man', having finished as runner-up at the Masters in both 2010 and 2016 and at the Open, also in 2010.. He also has third place finishes at the PGA and twice at the US Open. Finally we have Rory McIlroy, a British golfer from Northern Ireland. Rory has won the US Open in 2011, the PGA in 2012 and 2014, and the Open, in 2014. The Masters continued to frustrate him, eluding him throughout the period covered by this quiz, but he finally managed to claim a Masters win in 2025, too late to be included in this particular quiz.