Tiger Woods has won the Masters Tournament five times, a total that still puts him second on Augusta National’s all-time list and keeps his name at the center of the event every spring. He captured the green jacket in 1997, 2001, 2002, 2005 and 2019.
Jack Nicklaus is the only player with more Masters victories, finishing with six. Arnold Palmer won four, while five players — Jimmy Demaret, Sam Snead, Gary Player, Nick Faldo and Phil Mickelson — are tied with three. Tom Watson, Seve Ballesteros, Ben Crenshaw, Bernhard Langer, Bubba Watson, José María Olazábal and Scottie Scheffler have each won two, but no active player has matched Woods’ five titles.
That gap mattered again at the 2026 Masters, where Woods was not in the field. He had stepped away from competition to focus on his health and recovery, leaving Augusta with the same central question that has followed him for years: whether anyone will ever catch the standard he set there.
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For Woods, the answer remains in the record book. His five Masters victories make him the clearest benchmark in modern Augusta history, and the chase behind Nicklaus is still one of golf’s defining numbers.
