Every Shot from the 2026 Masters, Mapped

There are dozens of ways to tell the story of this year's Masters. Rory McIlroy confidently proving it's not a fluke, Scottie Scheffler showing a side we don't often see, Justin Rose gracefully maintaining his legacy as a top-performer at Augusta National. The narrative paths are endless. We all watched the grit across 72 holes and felt the emotion in that final tap-in to win, now let's zoom out a touch.

A new data visualization from longtime tournament partner, IBM, maps every single shot struck at Augusta National. Thousands of swings, reduced to patterns. Decisions, revealed as shapes.

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Following the final round of the 2026 Masters, IBM went to work and produced another graphic that's part data, part work of art to show us every shot taken at Augusta National during the tournament.

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The map is color coded: purple for a hole-in-one, pink for eagles, yellow is birdie, white is par and different shades of blue for bogeys and up.

If you're looking for McIlroy's blue line on 18, you'll see it mixed in his 3 yellow birdies for the week.

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There's a slight shade of purple on No. 6 that Shane Lowry takes the honors for his ace during the third round. There were 29 eagles or better at Augusta National last week. No. 8 took the lion's share with 8 players leaving the hole two better.(Fun Fact: Each of those players leaving the week with an eagle earn a pair of crystal highball glasses for the feat.)

Holes 2, 13 and 15 are the most colorful and that's not a major surprise. With a challenging opening hole, No. 2 serves as a tiny sigh of relief to get things back in line. As long as you find the fairway on No. 2, a birdie is gettable—and there were 111 of them this year. The next most-birdied hole was No. 13 with 110 birdies, followed by No. 8 with 109 birdies and No. 15 with 96.

Holes with a darker shade of shots include No. 5 with a painful 93 bogeys (and 11 doubles), and No. 18's 79 bogey record.

The beauty of this kind of tracking isn’t just in the volume of data, it’s in what it shows you about intent. Where players chose to miss. Where they didn’t.

Every shot taken at the Masters has its exact coordinates captured by laser as soon as it comes to rest. IBM technology then compares those coordinates against historical data for the given hole location to calculate scoring probability going forward.

Earlier this week, we got a sneak peek of the data center that powers all this and a snapshot of what IBM has captured over the last 30 years working with Augusta National.

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