The Masters: Top 10 power rankings at Augusta National

In his prime, Matt Kuchar’s calling card has been his consistency. You’d like to see more wins out of a talented player like him, but there’s something to be said for playing at a high level weekly.

So it goes for Kuch at the Masters where he introduced himself to the golf world with a T21 and low amateur honors in 1998. He only made it back to Augusta twice since between 1999-2010 but the second phase of his career has been more reliable.

Starting in 2010, Kuchar’s results at the Masters are: T24-T27-T3-T8-T5-T46-T24-T4-T28.

He’s up to 11 top-10s in majors and at age 40, he’s running out of opportunities.

Kuchar’s still playing some of the best golf of his career right now. He made a run to the WGC-Match Play finals where only the scorching hot Kevin Kisner could slow him down.

He also looked good in his final tuneup last week at the Texas Open (T7, 69-71-67-69) where he hit over 76% GIR.

Kuchar also won the Sony Open in January and has made 12 cuts in a row dating back to last summer.

PGA Tour ranks have him sixth in strokes gained approach and 11th tee to green. The rest of his game has made up for ranking 129th in SG putting, but it’s expected he’ll inch closer to his 31st mark in 2017-18.

Kuchar’s misdeeds with his caddie at Mayakoba and now the recent beef with Sergio at the Match Play have harmed his good guy image on Tour, but the civility required of Masters patrons and his Georgia Tech alumna status should make this a comfortable week for him as opposed to if he were at, say, TPC Scottsdale.