What Are Your Odds Of Winning The Masters Ticket Lottery?
The first email usually arrives in early June.
The 2023 Masters ticket lottery opened on June 1. Applicants have three weeks to apply ahead of the June 22 deadline. The lottery is the best chance to score a coveted tournament ticket. There is endless demand and limited supply of tickets. Some people can buy lifetime passes for $375. Others can score tickets through corporate hookups or the secondary market. The tickets are often around $1,000-$3,00 for a single one-day ticket for Augusta National.
The Masters doesn't release attendance figures or the number of Series Badge Patrons or Masters Lottery ticket holders. The odds of winning the lottery are educated guesses. The tournament is Thursday-Sunday. It's possible to win the Masters through the Lotteries.
Daily attendance for the Masters is estimated to be 40,000. The next step is to figure out how many of those 40k patrons are Series Badge holders and how they accessed tickets in the lottery. The odds of winning the ticket lottery are very low.
Augusta National issues 18,000 weekly Series Badges each year. The most recent badge is from 2019, labeled 15014. Online market for Masters souvenirs offers old badges for sale. The highest price for a badge was $450. There are 40,00 patrons at a tournament and 18k weekly badge holders. Augusta National can redistribute badges by lottery. It's estimated that each badge holder gets 22,500 tickets per day. For example, a 2019 badge labeled 15015 is available for $ 450. This is the highest number since the introduction of the online lottery, but it's less than the current number.
The Masters Lottery is open to anyone with a Masters.com account. Applicants can apply for four tickets per day Monday-Wednesday and two tickets a day Thursday-Sunday. They can only apply once per household. The maximum number of applications per person is two.
The Masters is held at Augusta National. There is a lottery to buy tickets. Last year's final round attracted 9.45 million viewers. About 25% of those viewers applied for the lottery. The lottery tickets are reasonably priced. They don't cover airfare or hotel costs. Augusta is two hours from the nearest major airport in Atlanta. The U.S. has approximately 12 million tech workers and Google fields about 3 million job applications per year. It is estimated that 2 million people apply for this lottery each year, or 25%.
There are 40,000 patrons per tournament day and 22,00 tickets for the lottery. The chances of winning are split in half, leaving 11, 000 winners for 22k tickets.
There are 11,000 winners per day in the Masters lottery. The odds of winning the lottery for a single-day tournament ticket are 0.55%. The chances are slightly better than 1/200. It's better to apply for 2023 Masters tickets than to win next year's Super Bowl. The online lottery has only been in existence for 10 years. Detroit Lions have better odds to won next years Superbowl at +15000.
