How the top 10 stood when Tiger Woods incredibly won the Masters in 2019 and where they all are now

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While The Masters taking place at the same course every year can make it slightly trickier to immediately recall when exactly each event took place, the 2019 tournament will hold a special place in the heart of many fans as Tiger Woods won a 15th major title.

No-one would have ever imagined that when Tiger Woods won the 2008 US Open – essentially on one leg – that he would go more than a decade before winning another major.

The 2019 Masters was not only special for seeing Woods win his 15th major, but it also saw the former world number one only rise up to the top of the leaderboard well into the back nine on Sunday. So it almost came as a surprise when he did make a charge as many around him were faltering.

What makes Woods’ win even more remarkable is the strength of the names directly behind him. Eight of the top 11 players were major champions or have since won major titles.

With that in mind, here is a look at the stacked final leaderboard from that Sunday at Augusta National…

The top 10 at the 2019 Masters

T9th – Patrick Cantlay, Rickie Fowler, Jon Rahm (-10)

Two of the players on the leaderboard still yet to win a major finished on 10 under par, with Patrick Cantlay actually having his best finish at The Masters in 2019. Cantlay, of course, has since established himself as a star of the American team in the Ryder Cup and Presidents Cup.

2024 meanwhile, was the first year where Rickie Fowler played all four majors since 2019 after a dip in form. He had a phenomenal chance to win the 2023 US Open before a final round collapse.

The most successful of the trio was Jon Rahm, with the Spaniard winning the US Open in 2021 before clinching The Masters crown in 2023. He won the individual standings on LIV Golf in 2024.

T5th – Webb Simpson, Francesco Molinari, Tony Finau, Jason Day (-11)

Francesco Molinari and Tony Finau were in the final group with Woods on Sunday in Georgia. Molinari led by two shots going into the final round before falling away. The Italian has not won on either the PGA Tour or the DP World Tour since 2019. Finau was the highest-ranked player who has not won a major, but he would win three times in 2022.

Webb Simpson won twice in 2020, but has failed to recapture the success which saw him win the 2012 US Open. He would miss the cut at the two majors he would play across 2023 and 2024.

Jason Day has enjoyed something of a career resurgence having gone to number one in the world in 2015. He would miss the cut at the 2020 and 2021 Masters – and not play at all in 2022 – before finishing in the top 40 in each of the last two years.

T2nd – Xander Schauffele, Brooks Koepka, Dustin Johnson (-12)

Dustin Johnson would succeed Woods as Masters champion in 2020. But, as of 2024, the LIV Golf star is yet to add a third major title to his list of achievements.

Brooks Koepka on the other hand, has become the most successful player in the current game not named Tiger Woods or Phil Mickelson. The American has already won five major titles, with the most recent coming at the 2023 PGA Championship.

Perhaps Xander Schauffele will be one of those to chase him down. Schauffele was gaining a reputation for being someone who could not quite get the job done on the biggest stages when he won the 2024 PGA Championship at Valhalla. A second major title would, of course, come shortly after at The Open Championship at Royal Troon.

1st – Tiger Woods (-13)

While few could have ever imagined Woods not winning another major in 2008, the 2019 Masters felt immediately poignant because there was an awareness that there was a chance that this may be Woods’ final major given everything he had gone through to get back to the top.

Woods has unfortunately dealt with more injury problems in the years since, with his most recent victory on any tour coming at the 2019 ZOZO Championship. So it may indeed be that 2019 marked the last great act of Woods’ major career.

However, that week showed that one thing you can never do when it comes to Tiger Woods is count him out.