Masters Tickets: How to Get Them and What They Cost

The application window for the 2027 Masters ran from 1 to 20 June 2026 and is closed. If you are reading this outside that three-week window — which is most of the year — there is nothing to apply for, and the next opportunity is the ballot that opens in early June 2027 for the 2028 tournament.

That is worth saying plainly, because almost every guide to Masters tickets was written in the week the window opened and never revised. All prices below are face values published for the 2027 Masters, played at Augusta National with practice rounds on 5–7 April and competition from 8–11 April 2027.

Can you still get tickets for the 2027 Masters?

Not through Augusta National. The ballot has closed and there is no late entry, no waiting list and no second round of applications. Successful applicants were notified by email in late July 2026 along with payment details.

Three routes remain, and only one of them is straightforward:

• Official hospitality, sold through Augusta National’s own on-site venues and a small number of authorised operators. Expensive, and inventory for 2027 is largely committed.
• Someone in your life holds a badge. Badges are not transferable, so this means being their guest under the club’s rules, not borrowing their badge.
• The resale market, which carries a risk explained below and is shrinking fast.

If none of those apply, the honest answer is to register your email on masters.com now so you are notified when the 2028 window opens, and plan for April 2028 rather than 2027. For every other major event’s application window, see our guide to sports ticket ballots.

How the Masters ticket ballot works

Augusta National calls it an application process rather than a lottery, but selection is random. It is deliberately simple and deliberately short.

Applications are accepted only online at masters.com, in a window that has recently opened on 1 June and closed on 20 June. Applicants are notified in late July. There are two important structural rules that catch people out:

1. You may apply for any and all days, but you can only be selected for one day. Applying for all seven does not multiply your chances of a week’s golf — it gives you more chances at a single day.
2. The caps differ by round. For practice rounds you may request up to four tickets per day. For tournament rounds the maximum is two per day.

That second rule is the most useful thing in this article for anyone planning. Practice rounds are both cheaper and available in greater number, which makes them the realistic way in.

What Masters tickets cost at face value

2027 round	Day	Face value	Max per applicant
Practice round	Monday 5 April	$125	4
Practice round	Tuesday 6 April	$125	4
Practice round + Par 3 Contest	Wednesday 7 April	$150	4
Tournament round	Thursday 8 April	$160	2
Tournament round	Friday 9 April	$160	2
Tournament round	Saturday 10 April	$160	2
Tournament round	Sunday 11 April	$160	2

Set that against what the tournament pays out and the numbers look absurd. The 2026 Masters purse was $22.5 million with $4.5 million to the winner, funded by an event that charges $160 to watch its final round. Augusta National also holds concession prices down to famous levels. At face value this is the cheapest ticket in major championship golf and one of the cheapest in elite sport.

The catch is the word “face”. Almost nobody pays it.

Why the secondary market is disappearing, and the risk nobody prices

Augusta National prohibits resale outright. It is the only authorised seller, tickets are non-transferable, and the name on the badge must match the person at the gate — a rule the club has begun enforcing far more strictly.

The enforcement has teeth. Lifetime badge holders found selling their passes have them revoked, and a badge passes only to a surviving spouse when its holder dies, not to children or other family. For a buyer, the consequence is stated in Augusta’s own policies: a ticket obtained from a third party, by any means, may result in being excluded from the tournament.

The market has responded. In 2026 SeatGeek chose not to list Masters tickets at all, and StubHub warned of extremely low inventory — for Thursday’s opening round there were three badges listed, priced from $9,065 to $69,723. Reported daily prices across the shrinking secondary market ran roughly $2,000 to $8,700 and up, and four-day badges traded around $8,000 per person against a series badge face value of about $525 in 2026. That is a markup of roughly fifteen times.

So the arithmetic for a would-be buyer is worse than it first appears. You are paying about 15× face value, from a market with almost no inventory, for a ticket that may not admit you. Compare that with a Super Bowl seat, where resale is permitted and a verified transfer actually gets you through the turnstile — the Super Bowl costs more in dollars but far less in risk.

What are the odds of being selected?

Nobody outside Augusta National knows, and any percentage you see quoted is invention.

The club publishes neither the number of applications it receives nor how many badges exist. Both figures are treated as private, which is why reporting on the subject deals in anecdote rather than data. What can be said with confidence is directional: practice rounds carry better odds than tournament rounds, because more tickets are released and the per-applicant cap is twice as high.

We would rather tell you the number is unknown than estimate one. If a page gives you a precise percentage, ask where it came from.

Series badges and the patron list

A series badge covers all four competition days and is the item everyone actually wants. It cannot be bought.

Badges belong to patrons on a list Augusta National created in 1972. A waiting list was opened alongside it, became flooded, and closed in 1978. It has never reopened. Nobody outside the club knows how many badges are in circulation.

This is the structural reason the ballot exists and the reason it is so oversubscribed: the good tickets were allocated to a closed group two generations ago, and the public competes for what is left over. It is a stricter version of the pattern behind most premium sporting events, where the seats that reach the open market are the remainder after institutional allocation — the same dynamic that makes Super Bowl face value unobtainable, though Augusta enforces it far harder.

Practice rounds: the realistic way in

If your goal is to walk Augusta National rather than to watch the back nine on Sunday, apply for a practice round and treat the tournament days as a bonus you are unlikely to win.

Monday to Wednesday costs $125 or $150 rather than $160, the per-day cap is four tickets rather than two, and the course is fully open. Players practise, walk with families, and sign autographs — which does not happen once competition starts. Wednesday carries the Par 3 Contest, the most relaxed and most photographed day of the week, which is why it is priced above the other two practice days.

For a first visit, most people who have done both will tell you a Wednesday practice round is the better day out than a Thursday.

How the Masters ballot compares with other major-event access

Every premium event solves the same problem — far more demand than seats — and the mechanism it picks tells you what it values.

Event	Public route	Face value	Resale
The Masters	Ballot, 3-week window, one day per winner	$125–$160 per day	Prohibited and enforced
Super Bowl	NFL random drawing, ~1 Feb–1 Jun the year before	$950–$8,500	Permitted and enormous
Wimbledon	Public ballot, plus the day queue	Varies by court and day	Restricted
The Open 2027	Ballot via free One Club	£150–£190; under-16s free	Restricted
Ryder Cup 2027	Worldwide ballot, 4-week window	€499 per match day	Restricted

The Masters is the outlier in charging least and controlling most. The Open charges more for a competition day but lets under-16s in free — the most generous family policy in major championship golf. The Ryder Cup, by contrast, runs a ballot and charges €499 a day — see Ryder Cup tickets. The Super Bowl charges more at face value and then lets an open market set the real price. Augusta suppresses the price and rations access instead — which is why its ticket is simultaneously the best value and the hardest to obtain in world sport. For what these events pay out rather than charge, see our prize money guides.

How we checked these numbers

Face values, application dates and the round schedule for the 2027 Masters were taken from Augusta National’s own ticketing pages and policies, corroborated against Golf Digest, GOLF.com and the Post and Courier from the week the window opened in June 2026. Resale figures and platform behaviour come from TicketNews and Front Office Sports reporting on the 2026 tournament, and are a snapshot of a market the club is actively shrinking rather than a current quote.

Where Augusta National does not publish a figure — selection odds, and the number of badges in existence — we have said so rather than estimated. Series badge and daily ticket prices are separate products and are labelled with the year they belong to.

This page will be revised in the first week of June 2027, when the window for the 2028 Masters opens and the prices are republished.

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