The least-accomplished player to win The Masters in the past 25 playings

2007 - Zach Johnson
2006 — Phil Mickelson
2005 — x-Tiger Woods
2004 — Phil Mickelson
2003 — x-Mike Weir
2002 — Tiger Woods
2001 — Tiger Woods
2000 — Vijay Singh
1999 — Jose Maria Olazabal
1998 — Mark O'Meara
1997 — Tiger Woods
1996 — Nick Faldo
1995 — Ben Crenshaw
1994 — Jose Maria Olazabal
1993 — Bernhard Langer
1992 — Fred Couples
1991 — Ian Woosnam
1990 — x-Nick Faldo
1989 — x-Nick Faldo
1988 — Sandy Lyle
1987 — x-Larry Mize
1986 — Jack Nicklaus
1985 — Bernhard Langer
1984 — Ben Crenshaw
1983 — Seve Ballesteros

 

Johnson's on the list now. The question is whether he will be 10 years from now.

 

Johnson was on the Ryder Cup team last year, so he has some credentials. Larry Mize was a nobody who had lightning strike.

 

Weir doesn't belong in this list. He's won the Tour Championship, Nissan Open (twice) and a few other events.

 

Agreed. And he's challenged for other Majors too. Johnson is a good player. It's not a shock that he won. What is is how many other good players collapsed at the end.

 

The golfer less likely to win The Masters in the past 25 playings

We would have said the same thing about Jean Van De Velde (in reference to least-accomplished player to win The British) if he didn't go Three Mile Island on the 18th.

All he needed was to shoot a 5. He ended up with an 8.

 

Twenty years since I came in from playing baseball in the street just in time to see Mize's miracle.

Damn I'm old.

 

Mize had a win and 13 top 5 finishes before the 1987 Masters, including a runner-up at the Players and the Kemper

 

They don't invite golfers to the Masters without a record of SOME accomplishments. Even the poor SOB who won last year's Mid-Amateur and goes 84-79 took a competition it's damn hard to win.

 

Van de Velde only needed a double-bogey six to win the Open. He sunk a seven-footer for a triple-bogey 7 to get into a playoff with Paul Lawrie and Justin Leonard.

 

"Least" is a relative term. Always.