Top of the 2025 Masters leaderboard is who is who is the best golfers on the planet this season. Almost every star in the game has been playing that way for two days at Augusta National. The top 20 includes all four current major winners, 18 total major championships, and 14 of the four current or former world No. 1S golfers, as well as the top 25 players in their official world golf rankings.
That’s what golf supporters want to leave the majors, especially Masters Masters who love to see the best players in the world, tested by one of the best courses in the world.
However, despite top star power, there are some big names that won’t reach the weekend at this year’s Masters after not reaching the +2 cut line.
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Famous players who missed the 2025 Masters cut
Russell Henry (+3) Dustin Johnson (+3) Bernhard Langer (+3) Fred Couple (+4) Sergio Garcia (+4) Tony Finau (+4) Brooks Coepka (+5) Cep Straca (+5) Cameron Smith (+5) Cameron Smith (+5) Phil Mickelson (+5) Robert McInteel (+6)
Henry moved to the top ten in the world this year, but Thursday’s 79 was too much to overcome despite his best efforts to film 68 on Friday (a bogey of 18 cost over the weekend). Cep Straca also made a big push to the cut line on Friday, but a Bosey triple finish bouncing him over the weekend.
The two legends were in the cut line all the way through to the end of the second round, so we’ll make a list. Langer, 67, fell to +3 in the 18th with 41st and final master. The 65-year-old couple had T11 on Friday, but he made three bogeys in the final five holes and missed two cuts.
The three previous champions on the LIV Tour were also short for the weekend. Johnson missed the cut on one stroke as he won’t play on the weekend for the second time since the 2020 champion won. Mickelson went +1 to +1 later in the round, but was washed away at Nos. 15 and Nos. 16, bringing himself backwards outside the cut line. Garcia has seen his career comeback with LIV golf this year, but was unable to bring that form to Augusta National, slipping outside the cut line on Friday at 76.
Koepka has continued his run with a poor finish at his standards, 74-75 for the past few years. Smith left Friday with a solid 71, then marking the first time he missed a cut at the Masters when he left for the first time. MacIntyre was a popular pick that appeared this week, but it didn’t get anything from the ’75s successive ones. Young played well for the Masters in the past, but was sent off on Friday, on the 16th on four putts, including a two-foot mistake from the Cup. Zalatoris has once won the top 10 with three Masters appearances, but has not been able to take away the magic at Augusta National.
