Who is the youngest player to win the Masters?

Tiger Woods is the youngest player to win the Masters, taking the title at age 21 years and 104 days in 1997.

Woods won his first green jacket at Augusta National on April 13, 1997. He finished at 18-under-par 270 and defeated Tom Kite by 12 strokes, setting the tournament’s record for its largest margin of victory. The win also made Woods the first golfer of Asian or African-American heritage to win the Masters.

His age record is often confused with Jack Nicklaus’s. Nicklaus was 23 when he won the 1963 Masters, making him the youngest champion before Woods broke the mark. Jordan Spieth was also only 21 when he won in 2015, but he was several months older than Woods had been in 1997.

Woods later won the Masters again in 2001, 2002, 2005, and 2019. His 2019 victory, at age 43, came 22 years after his first and remains one of the most celebrated comebacks in golf history.