Masters Tournament Par 3 contest

The Masters Tournament Par-3 contest is a golf competition which precedes the Masters Tournament at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia. The first Par-3 contest was held 57 years ago, before the 1960 tournament, and was won by three-time Masters champion Sam Snead. The contest takes place in a single round on a nine-hole, par-27 course in the northeast corner of Augusta National Grounds, which was designed in 1958 by George Cobb and club founder Clifford Roberts.

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• Winners
• Masters champions who also won a Par 3 contest
• References

Traditionally the golfers playing in the contest have invited family members onto the course to caddy for them, sometimes allowing them to play shots on their behalf. Numerous holes in one have been made during the history of the tournament, including nine in the 2016 tournament.

Snead became the tournament's first multiple winner when he triumphed in the 1974 event. The most recent winner, in 2016, is Jimmy Walker who won with a course-record round of 8 below par, which included a hole in one. Snead, Sandy Lyle, Pádraig Harrington, Isao Aoki and David Toms are the five players to have won the tournament on more than one occasion. The result of the tournament has been decided by a playoff on 20 occasions, while the contest has concluded with a tie twice. Just 14 of the 59 winners (including ties) are non-American. No winner of the Par-3 contest has gone on to win the Masters in the same year.