Masters Tickets at Augusta: What They Actually Cost and How to Get Them

Official Masters tickets cost $125 to $150 for a practice round, $160 for a tournament round, and $525 for a Series Badge that covers all four days every year, but that last one isn’t for sale to new patrons. The only route in for most people is the annual ticket lottery at Masters.com, which runs a roughly 1-in-200 shot per day. If you don’t win, expect resale prices from about $2,000 for a Monday practice ticket to well over $10,000 for a tournament round, bought at real risk since Augusta National strictly prohibits resale and enforces it with RFID-tracked badges.

How much do Masters tickets actually cost?

Here’s the full official price list for 2026, the most recent cycle Augusta National has priced, per Golf.com’s breakdown of the 2026 increase, alongside what the same tickets have actually traded for on the secondary market this year.

Ticket / badge type	Who can buy it officially	Face value (2026)	Typical resale price
Monday practice round	Lottery winner	$125	~$2,000
Tuesday practice round	Lottery winner	$125	~$3,800
Wednesday practice + Par 3 Contest	Lottery winner	$150	~$6,800
Thursday, Round 1	Lottery winner	$160	$15,000-$17,000+
Friday or Saturday, Rounds 2-3	Lottery winner	$160 each	~$10,000 each
Sunday, final round	Lottery winner	$160	~$11,000
Series Badge (all 4 tournament days, every year)	Existing patron only	$525/year	~$8,000 (if found at all)

Two things jump out. First, the $525 Series Badge is the best value in golf on paper, at roughly $131 a day for four days of major-championship access, but it’s not actually purchasable by anyone who doesn’t already hold one. Second, the practice-round gap between Monday and Wednesday is stark: the same $125-$150 face value buys wildly different demand, because Wednesday includes the Par 3 Contest, where past champions bring their kids as caddies and hole-in-ones are common. That single detail is why Wednesday resale runs more than triple Monday’s, even though the official price difference is $25.

How does the Masters ticket lottery work, and what are your odds?

Augusta National opens applications at Masters.com every June 1 through June 20 for the following year’s tournament. You create a free account, then request up to four tickets across the practice days (Monday-Wednesday) and up to two tickets per tournament day (Thursday-Sunday). Tournament-day tickets are drawn first; anyone not selected for those is automatically rolled into the practice-round drawing.

The odds are genuinely long. Bookies.com estimates about 22,000 tournament tickets available per day against roughly 2 million applications per day, which works out to about 0.55%, or slightly better than 1-in-200. Augusta National doesn’t publish official attendance or applicant numbers, so that figure is an estimate, but it lines up with how the lottery feels to anyone who has entered it for a decade without a hit. Applying for more days doesn’t change your per-day odds; each entry is drawn independently, so there’s no strategy that beats patience and repetition.

For 2027, the window closed June 20, 2026. If you applied, Masters.com notifies winners by email in late July, so if you’re reading this in mid-July and haven’t heard anything yet, the notification is likely still a couple of weeks out.

Can you still get on the patron badge waitlist?

This is the part most price roundups gloss over, and it’s the most important thing to understand before you plan around a Masters trip: the Series Badge waitlist is not open, and hasn’t been for nearly five decades. Augusta National created the list in 1972, and it filled up so fast that the club closed it to new names in 1978. It reopened briefly in 2000 and has stayed closed since, per Golf.com’s reporting on Series Badges. There is no form, deposit, or fee anywhere that puts a new patron on that list today, and anyone offering to “get you on the Masters waitlist” for a price is selling something that doesn’t exist.

Badges also aren’t transferable in the way a lot of fans assume. When a Series Badge holder passes away, the badge doesn’t pass to a spouse or child automatically; it’s not something you can will to family the way you might a car or a house. That scarcity is exactly why a $525 official badge changes hands for roughly $8,000 on the secondary market when one does surface, and why some patron families guard that badge as a genuine heirloom.

Is it safe to buy Masters tickets on StubHub or TickPick?

It’s legal to buy a resold ticket in Georgia, but Augusta National’s own rules make it a real gamble. The club’s terms state plainly that tickets “may not be offered for sale, bartered, sold or rented through/to third party resellers,” and holders of resold tickets “may be excluded from attendance to the tournament.” That’s not an idle threat: badges carry RFID chips that let Augusta National track movement in and around the property, which is part of how the club flags credentials that have passed through known resale channels before they ever reach the gate, according to Yahoo Sports’ reporting on the 2026 resale crackdown.

The enforcement got sharply more visible in 2025, when Augusta National representatives questioned hundreds of ticket holders on-site about how they got their credentials and voided a number of passes over the tournament weekend. The fallout showed up fast: SeatGeek became the first major reseller to pull out of the Masters market entirely for 2026, and its ticket page for the event now shows no listings at all, as Front Office Sports reported. StubHub, Vivid Seats, and TickPick are still listing 2026 tickets, but availability is thinner than in past years, and pricing reflects both real scarcity and a real risk premium. If you buy on any of these platforms, treat it the way you’d treat a non-refundable bet: you might walk through the gates without a problem, or you might not.

What do you actually get with a Masters badge?

A Masters ticket, whether it’s a single lottery day or a full Series Badge, is a laminated credential that must stay visible on your person the entire time you’re on Augusta National property. It gets you full grounds access for that day: every hole, the merchandise shop, concessions priced well below what you’d expect at a major (this is still the tournament that sells a pimento cheese sandwich for $1.50), and, on practice days, unusually close access to players during warm-ups. Series Badge holders get one additional perk lottery winners don’t: they can bring a junior guest at no extra charge, every year, for as long as they hold the badge.

What it doesn’t get you is a reserved seat. Grandstands around holes like 16 and the Amen Corner fill up early on tournament days, and patrons who want a specific view plan their arrival time around it rather than counting on a spot being open at 11 a.m.

What’s the cheapest way to attend the Masters?

A Monday practice-round ticket at $125 is the official floor, and honestly the best value on the list: you get full grounds access, a look at every player’s short-game work, and none of the tournament-day crowding, for a quarter of Thursday’s face value. Tuesday runs the same $125 and tends to be slightly less contested in the lottery than Monday, since more applicants gravitate toward the Wednesday Par 3 Contest.

If the lottery hasn’t worked out and a badge isn’t in the family, the honest options left are official hospitality packages sold through Augusta National’s approved partners, or accepting the resale risk described above with eyes open. There’s no reliable secret entry point beyond those three paths, and anyone claiming otherwise is either overstating a long-shot lottery strategy or selling something that will get you turned away at the gate.

Planning ticket strategy for more than one major this year? Our guide to Ryder Cup 2027 tickets at Adare Manor breaks down a different, equally strict resale ban in Ireland, and our Ryder Cup military ticket guide covers a discount path the Masters doesn’t currently offer. If tennis is also on your list, Wimbledon’s ticket ballot is a useful contrast: unlike Augusta’s closed patron list, Wimbledon’s public ballot reopens every year. For everything else in the golf calendar, from majors coverage to gear guides, start at our golf hub.

The bottom line on Masters tickets

Treat the Masters as the hardest ticket in American sports, not a “if I just apply enough years” inevitability. The patron badge route has been shut to new applicants since 1978, the annual lottery pays out to roughly 1 in 200 applicants per day, and the resale market that used to be a reliable backup is actively shrinking under Augusta National’s own enforcement. That leaves three honest paths: win the lottery, buy an official hospitality package, or accept the real risk of a resale ticket. None of them are cheap or guaranteed, and anyone telling you otherwise hasn’t read Augusta National’s own terms.