Has anyone ever won back-to-back at The Masters?

Winning The Masters in itself is a career-defining feat in golf, but has anyone ever had back-to-back Masters wins in their career?

Scottie Scheffler was wholly dominant in 2022 when he won The Masters. After sitting tied for third after the first round, he fired off a 5-under round of 67 on a very difficult Friday at Augusta National Golf Club to take a five-shot lead into the weekend. He didn’t let up.

On the weekend Scheffler was 1-under on Saturday and had a three-shot lead going into Sunday and ended up winning by three strokes with another 1-under 71 on Sunday, one that looked even worse on the scorecard than the play itself after a nervous four-putt on the 18th green caused him to double-bogey the final hole. Still, it was more than enough to win The Masters.

Since that win (and leading up to it, truthfully), Scheffler has established himself among the truly elite players in the game of golf. He now enters The Masters in 2023 as the defending champion but also as the favorite. And that has golf fans asking if a golfer has ever won The Masters in back-to-back years.

Has anyone every won back-to-back at The Masters?

As we head into the 87th Masters Tournament, there have only been 17 players who have ever won multiple times at Augusta National Golf Club, much less register back-to-back wins. However, three players have accomplished that incredible feat and, frankly, it’s no surprise who those three golfers are.

Jack Nicklaus, Nick Faldo and Tiger Woods are the only players who have ever won back-to-back Masters Tournaments, the two players who have notched the most victories in this historic tournament at six and five wins, respectively.

Nicklaus accomplished the back-to-back victories in 1965 and 1966, the second and third wins at Augusta in his career. He also came exceptionally close to going back-to-back-to-back-to-back at this event as he won his first in 1963, finished T2 in 1964, and then won the following two years. Interestingly, he actually missed the cut the following year in 1967.

Faldo came next, going back-to-back at Augusta in 1989 and 1990. He captured a third Green Jacket six years after the second of the two wins when he was victorious in 1996.

In the case of Tiger, his back-to-back wins, to no one’s surprise, came in 2001 and 2002, when he was at the peak of his domination of the golfing world. Coincidentally, those were also Woods’s second and third wins at The Masters as well.

It has only happened thrice in history but, if anyone could do it, Scheffler in his current form could join Jack and Tiger as an absolute Augusta legend.

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