Every year, the Masters delivers. Every single year it gives us all we could have hoped for and much more. Every year we think we know what’s going to happen and how it’s going to take place, but then all of a sudden, Jordan Spieth is hitting two in the water on No. 12 and the sports world is upside down.

We have no clue how next Sunday’s finale at Augusta will unfold, but we do have some rich narratives heading into Masters week. Here are 10 worth discussing in front of the 81st Masters.

1. Dustin Johnson’s streak -- You know the numbers by now. Johnson is trying to become the first golfer since 1953 not named Tiger Woods to win four straight on the PGA Tour. He already has just the 11th streak of three-plus wins in a row.

He takes the hottest game of any athlete (not just golfer) in the world to Augusta National. He is the runaway favorite. He has two straight top 10s at this tournament. The Masters is Dustin Johnson’s to lose. 

2. Rory McIlroy’s Slam -- It’s hard for McIlroy to even blow his nose under the radar, but he’s coming in this year about as invisibly as he possibly can. An early-season rib injury derailed him for a month and a half, but he has played two tournaments leading into Augusta and finished top 10 in both. McIlroy has the most to gain this week as a win here would mean the immortality of joining Tiger Woods, Ben Hogan, Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus and Gene Sarazen as the only six to win all four major championships.

3. Tiger Woods is out -- I don’t know if you’ve heard this yet, but Woods will miss his third Masters in four years. As much as we don’t want that to be a storyline, anything Woods does (good and bad) as it relates to the Masters will be a storyline until he’s been retired for a good 10 years. 

4. Jordan Spieth’s redemption -- Come the 12th hole on Thursday, what will be going through Jordan Spieth’s head? After last year’s cataclysmic final round, Spieth has gamely taken questions about that hole for the last 12 months. He puts on a brave face and talks a confident game, which is what I’d expect, but you know the nightmare will at least flash once he sinks his putt on No. 11 in Round 1.

5. Phil Mickelson’s last stand (?) -- In case you were wondering how Phil Mickelson’s year is going, the man is wearing a logo of himself from his first Masters win and shooting 68s while traipsing through every shrub known to man at a variety of events. 

A win here would put him easily into the top 10 all-time list of best golfers, and it would also give him the title of “oldest to win the Masters” which you know he craves. Despite his solid play all year, Mickelson still has not won a tournament in nearly four years.

6. The quest continues for Sergio Garcia and Lee Westwood -- The two have combined for nine top 10s with no wins at the Masters alone. Garcia won the Dubai Desert Classic earlier this season, which is the same tournament last year’s winner Danny Willett took on his way to Augusta National. Westwood has a bunch of top 30s but no wins to speak of recently. What he does have is six top 11s in seven years at this event. Can one of them finally get it done?

7. Danny Willett plagued by inconsistent play -- Speaking of the 2016 champion, Willett has struggled since putting his arms through that jacket last April. He has no top 30s this season on the PGA Tour and just a single top 10 this year on the European Tour. That doesn’t mean he can’t go back-to-back, but he seems like an unlikely candidate to do something nobody has done since Woods in 2002.

8. Young guns, including Jon Rahm, take over -- Want to know who the fourth-biggest favorite is this week, according to Bovada? That would be Jon Rahm, who won the Farmers Insurance Open and nearly took a pair of WGC events. He’s all of 22 years old.

He’s not the only young stud who could contend, either. Hideki Matsuyama and Justin Thomas are both big favorites as well. The combined number of Masters played as pros for that trio is five. That’s fewer than the number of tournaments they have won on the PGA Tour (5) this season.

9. Jason Day’s burden -- Day had to pull out of the WGC-Dell Match Play recently to tend to his mother who is undergoing treatment for lung cancer. It sounds like he is encouraged by the progress that has been made, but he knows there is a long road ahead. Will that free him up to play his best or weigh him down when he needs it (at least professionally) the least?

10. Bubba Watson’s dip -- After finishing strong in 2016, the two-time winner doesn’t have a single top 10 at a stroke play event so far this season. The other blemish on his major championship card is that he only has two other top 10s at majors save his Masters wins. He’s all or nothing here, but the all has been pretty tremendous.