Look away now! Here are the worst shots from the Masters 2025 – with videos that should come with a warning

From four-putts to tournament-ending quadruple bogeys, the 2025 Masters wasn’t short on drama. We round up the worst shots that left players red-faced and fans in disbelief.

The Masters is a stage where legends are made, but it’s also a place where dreams can unravel in a single swing. The 2025 Masters has been a testament to the game’s unpredictability, reminding us that even the best can falter under pressure. As fans, we cherish the brilliance, but it’s the less-than-brilliant moments – the missteps and embarrassments – that remind us even the world’s most seemingly infallible players are still only human.

Here are some of the 2025 Masters’ biggest blunders – all caught on camera.

“Oh my goodness” – Cameron Young four-putts from 12′, including three from 2′

Starting Friday’s second round, Cameron Young was level-par and looking good to make the halfway cut and spend the weekend at Augusta.

The 27-year-old, making his fourth Masters appearance, got off to a decent start, playing his first four holes in level-par.

He bogeyed the fifth but then made four straight pars and a birdie on 10 to get back to level par. With eight holes to go and two shots inside the projected cut line, things were looking promising for the American. And then, very quickly, they weren’t.

A double-bogey at the par-3 12th was followed by a birdie at 13 but then another dropped shot at 14. Now at +2, Young needed to play the final four holes in level par or better to make the weekend. Any dreams of that quickly ended on the par-3 16th. Leaving his tee shot short and right of the green, Young left his chip shot short, and faced a 12-footer to save par.

That putt slid past the hole, leaving what looked like a straightforward tap-in. Alas, Young’s bogey putt caught the lip and left himself the same distance again. The next putt barely touched the hole and left himself further from the hole than he’d been two shots prior. Having taken the time to mark his ball and compose himself, he eventually, thankfully, holed out for a triple-bogey six.

Two closing bogeys probably did little to lift his mood as he signed for a seven-over-par 79 before packing his bags.

Rory McIlroy chips it into the water

Rory McIlroy’s Masters got off to a dream start. Through 14 holes, he’d made four birdies and 10 pars. At four-under par standing on the 15th tee, his quest to end his major drought and finally complete the career grand slam was heading in the right direction.

With the reachable par-5 15th in front of him, McIlroy attacked the hole to perfection. He bombed his drive down the middle of the fairway — 294 yards, to be exact — and left himself 241 to the pin. From there, he grabbed a long iron and smashed a towering shot at the flagstick. The ball cleared the water and pitched pin high, bounding just over the green to leave him an up-and-down away from reaching five under.

Instead of chipping it to within birdie range, though, McIlroy’s chip ran through the green and into the water. Having to drop back the other side and tackle a tricky pitch, what looked like a birdie chance ended up in a double-bogey seven.

McIlroy would go on to double bogey the 17th and sign for a ‘what could have been’ level-par 72.

If he ends up finishing close to the leader but not quite getting it done, this error will sting even more.

Tyrrell Hatton hit an 18″ putt to about 6′

As someone who’s had some issues with short putting in recent years, I feel videos like this should come with a public advisory warning. So, if you don’t like seeing great players hit putts that your mates wouldn’t let you live down, look away now.

Tyrrell Hatton was going along nicely as he stood over a birdie putt on the par-4 17th. His effort slipped past the hole and left a short one back, which looked like a par was a dead cert. A rush of blood saw Hatton pull his putt and hit it so hard that some said “If he’d hit it much harder it would have been on the tee box for the next hole”. The par putt was hit with such power the lip-out ended up about 6′ from the hole, which Hatton impressively knocked straight into the middle of the cup – having taken time to blame the putting surface for the one he missed, of course.

Straka became a hacker on the final hole

The Austrian had struggled to a 78 in the opening round but a Friday six-birdie blitz (with just one bogey) had him sat at one over with two holes to play and every chance of making the cut. A par and a bogey would have done it. He did the easier part of that on 17, making a bogey having found the trees off the tee and had to chip out before failing to get up and down from 127 yards.

That left him sitting at +2 as he started the 18th, right on the projected cut line, needing a par to make the weekend.

Here’s what happened next – and take a deep breath…

He hit his tee shot on the final hole miles left, into the trees, had to declare it unplayable and take a penalty drop, then chipped it out… but into the trees on the other side of the fairway, could only hit his fourth shot left of the green, hit a chip that didn’t make the green, hit his second chip close, and then tapped in for a triple-bogey seven.

The net result of all that was a one-under-par 71 that left him at five over for the tournament, three shots outside the cut line.

Brooks Koepka melted with a snowman on what proved to be his final hole of the tournament

If you thought Straka’s meltdown to miss the cut was bad, Brooks Koepka’s was worse.

He Friday’s second round at two over par following an opening 74, but had worked his way back to level par with three birdies, three bogeys, and an eagle on the par-5 15th. With two holes to play, Koepka looked odds-on to make the weekend.

A bogey on 17 added a little peril, but the five-time major champ still only needed a bogey or better to make the cut.

His tee shot on the 18th was yanked so far left into the woods he may well have asked a squirrel for directions.

Declaring an unplayable, his best option was to go back to the tee and hit what would be his third shot.

His reload found the fairway, but the 34-year-old LIV player then hit his approach left and long, into the patrons. He putted onto the green, shaved the hole for a double, then didn’t threaten the hole with a short putt before tapping in for a snowman.

You can’t stand there, mate

Perhaps harsh on Homa for this to be included in a gathering of the worst shots, but this moment was too funny not to be mentioned somewhere.

Having found himself in the trees on the left of the par-5 8th, Homa got himself back into play but could have been in a better position were it not for this inattentive flag-carrier.

“Oh come on, dude!”

Scottie Scheffler and the teddy bears’ picnic

The world no.1 needed a par on Friday’s final hole for a two-under-par 70 that would have put him six under for the tournament and just two shots behind leader Justin Rose.

Unfortunately for the defending champion, his usually reliable fade turned into a vicious double-cross that went straight into the trees on the left.

We don’t have footage of the shot itself, but the images of Scheffler reflecting on it, sat among the trees, are arguably even better.

He hacked out sideways, blasted his approach over the green, and made a gutsy up-and-down to limit the damage with a bogey five. Koepka and Straka, take note.