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Masters Tournament Par 3 Contest

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Masters Par 3 Contest
Tournament information
LocationAugusta, Georgia, U.S.
Established1960
CourseAugusta National Golf Club
Par27
Length1,060 yards (970 m)[1]
Organized byAugusta National Golf Club
FormatStroke play
Month playedApril
Tournament record score
To par−8 Jimmy Walker (2016)
Current champion
Colombia Nico Echavarría

The Masters Tournament Par 3 Contest is a golf competition that precedes the Masters Tournament at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia. The first Par 3 Contest was held before the 1960 tournament, and was won by three-time Masters champion Sam Snead.[2] The contest takes place in a single round on a nine-hole, par-27 course in the northeast corner of the club's grounds, designed in 1958 by George Cobb and club founder Clifford Roberts.[1][3][4]

Traditionally, the contest participants have invited family members to caddie for them, sometimes allowing them to play shots on their behalf. Through the 2019 contest, 115 holes in one have been recorded, including nine in the 2016 event.[4][5]

Snead became the contest's first multiple winner in 1974, fourteen years after his first. The most recent is Tom Watson, who won his second Par 3 Contest in 2018, 36 years after his first in 1982. Pádraig Harrington is the only one with three wins; he won his first pair in consecutive years (2003, 2004), as did Sandy Lyle (1997, 1998). Seven players have multiple wins; the other three are Isao Aoki, Jay Haas, and David Toms.

Jimmy Walker holds the course record of 19 (–8), set in 2016, which included an ace. The contest has been decided by a playoff on 21 occasions, and concluded with a tie twice. Just 15 of the 60 winners (including ties) are non-American. No winner of the Par 3 Contest has gone on to win the Masters in the same year.[4]

Winners

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File:Sam Snead 1967.JPG
Sam Snead (pictured in 1967) won the inaugural contest in 1960, and again in 1974
File:Vijay Singh.jpg
Vijay Singh (pictured in 2007) won in 1994
File:Sandy Lyle.jpg
Sandy Lyle (pictured in 2006) won consecutive contests
in 1997 and 1998
File:Pádraig Harrington, Open 2007.jpg
Pádraig Harrington (pictured in 2007) has three contest victories;
two shared and one playoff win
Year Winner Country To par[6][a] Masters finish Ref.
1960 Sam Snead File:Flag of the United States (1959–1960).svg United States −4 T11 [2]
1961 Deane Beman (a) File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States −5 CUT [7]
1962 Bruce Crampton File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia −5 T29 [7]
1963* George Bayer File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States −4 T28 [7]
1964 Labron Harris Jr. (a) File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States −4 43 [7]
1965 Art Wall Jr. File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States −7 T45 [8]
1966 Terry Dill File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States −5 T17 [7]
1967* Arnold Palmer File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States −4 4 [7]
1968 Bob Rosburg File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States −5 T29 [7]
1969* Bob Lunn File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States −4 CUT [7]
1970 Harold Henning File:Flag of South Africa (1928–1982).svg South Africa −6 CUT [7]
1971* Dave Stockton File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States −4 T9 [7]
1972 Steve Melnyk File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States −4 T12 [7]
1973 Gay Brewer File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States −7 T10 [8]
1974* Sam Snead (2) File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States −5 T20 [7]
1975* Isao Aoki File:Flag of Japan.svg Japan −4 CUT [7]
1976 Jay Haas (a) File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States −6 CUT [7]
1977* Tom Weiskopf File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States −4 T14 [9]
1978* Lou Graham File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States −5 CUT [7]
1979 Joe Inman File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States −5 T23 [7]
1980 Johnny Miller File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States −5 T38 [7]
1981 Isao Aoki (2) File:Flag of Japan.svg Japan −5 T45 [10]
1982* Tom Watson File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States −4 T5 [11]
1983 Hale Irwin File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States −5 T6 [7]
1984 Tommy Aaron File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States −5 CUT [12]
1985 Hubert Green File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States −5 CUT [7]
1986* Gary Koch File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States −4 T16 [7]
1987 Ben Crenshaw File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States −5 T4 [13]
1988 Tsuneyuki Nakajima File:Flag of Japan.svg Japan −3 T33 [7]
1989* Bob Gilder File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States −5 39 [7]
1990 Raymond Floyd File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States −4 2 [7]
1991* Rocco Mediate File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States −3 T22 [7]
1992 Davis Love III File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States −5 T25 [7]
1993 Chip Beck File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States −6 2 [14]
1994 Vijay Singh File:Flag of Fiji.svg Fiji −5 T27 [15]
1995* Hal Sutton File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States −4 CUT [16]
1996* Jay Haas (2) File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States −5 T36 [17]
1997* Sandy Lyle File:Flag of Scotland.svg Scotland −5 T34 [18]
1998 Sandy Lyle (2) File:Flag of Scotland.svg Scotland −3 CUT [7]
1999 Joe Durant File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States −5 CUT [7]
2000* Chris Perry File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States −4 T14 [19]
2001 David Toms File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States −5 T31 [20]
2002* Nick Price File:Flag of Zimbabwe.svg Zimbabwe −5 T20 [21]
2003† Pádraig Harrington
David Toms (2)		 File:Flag of Ireland.svg Ireland
File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States		 −6 CUT
T8		 [22]
2004* Pádraig Harrington (2) File:Flag of Ireland.svg Ireland −4 T13 [23]
2005 Jerry Pate File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States −5 DNP [24]
2006 Ben Crane File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States −4 CUT [25]
2007 Mark O'Meara File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States −5 CUT [26]
2008 Rory Sabbatini File:Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa −5 CUT [27]
2009 Tim Clark File:Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa −5 T13 [27]
2010 Louis Oosthuizen File:Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa −6 CUT [27]
2011 Luke Donald File:Flag of England.svg England −5 T4 [28]
2012† Jonathan Byrd
Pádraig Harrington (3)		 File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States
File:Flag of Ireland.svg Ireland		 −5 T27
T8		 [29]
2013* Ted Potter Jr. File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States −4 CUT [3]
2014 Ryan Moore File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States −6 CUT [30]
2015* Kevin Streelman File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States −5 T12 [31]
2016 Jimmy Walker File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States −8 T29 [4]
2017 Contest canceled due to rain [32]
2018 Tom Watson (2) File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States −6 DNP [33]
2019* Matt Wallace File:Flag of England.svg England −5 CUT [34]
2020 Contest canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic [35]
2021
2022† Mackenzie Hughes
Mike Weir		 File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada −4 T50
CUT		 [36]
2023 Tom Hoge File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States −6 CUT [37]
2024 Rickie Fowler File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States −5 T30 [38]
2025 Nico Echavarría* File:Flag of Colombia.svg Colombia −5 51 [39]
Key
* - playoff [7]
† - tie [7]
(a) - amateur

Masters champions who also won a Par 3 Contest

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File:Arnold Palmer (cropped).jpg
Arnold Palmer (pictured in 2009) won the Par 3 Contest in 1967 having won the Masters four times between 1958 and 1964.
Champions Par-3 wins Masters wins[40]
Sam Snead 1960, 1974 1949, 1952, 1954
Art Wall Jr. 1965 1959
Arnold Palmer 1967 1958, 1960, 1962, 1964
Gay Brewer 1973 1967
Tom Watson 1982, 2018 1977, 1981
Tommy Aaron 1984 1973
Ben Crenshaw 1987 1984, 1995
Raymond Floyd   1990 1976
Vijay Singh 1994 2000
Sandy Lyle 1997, 1998 1988
Mark O'Meara 2007 1998
Mike Weir 2022 2003
  • No player has won the Par 3 Contest and the Masters in the same year, a fact well known by the players.[4][41]
    Raymond Floyd came the closest in the 1990 tournament, but lost in a sudden-death playoff.[42]
  • Ben Crenshaw and Vijay Singh are the only players to win a Masters after winning a Par 3 Contest.
  • Tom Watson is the only player to hold both titles at once, for four days, winning the Par 3 Contest in 1982 as defending Masters champion.[11]

Notes

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  • a Par is a predetermined number of strokes that a golfer should require to complete a hole, a round (the sum of the total pars of the played holes), or a tournament (the sum of the total pars of each round). E stands for even, which means the round was completed in the predetermined number of strokes.[6]

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