Hatton hoping to master the Augusta National in Georgia to win first major title

Marlow’s Tyrrell Hatton will be hoping he can break his duck in major tournaments when The Masters gets underway at the Augusta National in Georgia from April 10-13.

Hatton will be hoping he can rediscover some of his early season form, when he consistently challenged at the top of the leaderboard and won the Dubai Desert Classic.

Scottie Scheffler - who has won The Masters in three of the last four years - and Rory McIlroy - who is hoping to emulate the game’s greatest players by winning the one major to have eluded him so far - are rightly favourites to pull on the Green Jacket. However, Hatton has the attributes to do well at Augusta and won’t be too far down the betting order.

Hatton is one of 12 members of the breakaway LIV Golf Tour contingent that are expected to be in the mix at Augusta. They’ll also be keen to disprove a widely held theory that the limited field 54-hole shotgun start team format played on LIV is detrimental to major chances.

Hatton’s compatriot McIlroy is hoping he can join the likes of Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player, Ben Hogan and Gene Sarazen in achieving golf’s ‘Slam’.

However, while the Northern Irishman is in excellent form ahead of the event - having recently won the Players Championship after defeating JJ Spaun in a play-off - he is nursing an elbow issue ahead of the year’s first major.

Hatton meanwhile has been off the boil following an excellent start to the season. He’ll play the Miami Individual in Florida this weekend looking to recapture the elements of his game that saw him compete so well in the early weeks of the year.

He hasn’t though featured highly in any LIV event in 2025 so far so will need to iron out some kinks in his game if he’s to master the Augusta course and better his finest Masters result so far, which was a share of ninth place last year.

The 33-year-old remains in the world's top 20, no mean feat while playing a circuit that does not receive world ranking points. And he undoubtedly possesses the attributes to contend at Augusta.