Tiger Woods is the big name on the list this year as one of 16 past Masters champions not playing in the 2025 tournament at Augusta National

Sarazen was 90 when he told this gem of a conversation with the Masters chairman: “I told Hord Hardin I was getting too old to play in the Masters, but he kept saying: ‘Gene, they don’t want to see you play. They just want to see if you’re still alive.”

Tiger Woods has won the Masters five times in his career: 1997, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2019. It's the second most tournament victories of all time behind Jack Nicklaus. Woods won the tournament as a 21-year-old, making him the youngest champion in the history of the tournament.