# Masters Tournament Par 3 Contest

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. 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.
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, ninety-four holes in one have been recorded, including nine in the 2016 event.
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 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.

## Winners

| Year | Winner | Country | To par | Masters finish |
| 1960 | Sam Snead | United States | −4 | T11 |
| 1961 | Deane Beman (a) | United States | −5 | CUT |
| 1962 | Bruce Crampton | Australia | −5 | T29 |
| 1963* | George Bayer | United States | −4 | T28 |
| 1964 | Labron Harris Jr. (a) | United States | −4 | 43 |
| 1965 | Art Wall Jr. | United States | −7 | T45 |
| 1966 | Terry Dill | United States | −5 | T17 |
| 1967* | Arnold Palmer | United States | −4 | 4 |
| 1968 | Bob Rosburg | United States | −5 | T29 |
| 1969* | Bob Lunn | United States | −4 | CUT |
| 1970 | Harold Henning | South Africa | −6 | CUT |
| 1971* | Dave Stockton | United States | −4 | T9 |
| 1972 | Steve Melnyk | United States | −4 | T12 |
| 1973 | Gay Brewer | United States | −7 | T10 |
| 1974* | Sam Snead (2) | United States | −5 | T20 |
| 1975* | Isao Aoki | Japan | −4 | CUT |
| 1976 | Jay Haas (a) | United States | −6 | CUT |
| 1977* | Tom Weiskopf | United States | −4 | T14 |
| 1978* | Lou Graham | United States | −5 | CUT |
| 1979 | Joe Inman | United States | −5 | T23 |
| 1980 | Johnny Miller | United States | −5 | T38 |
| 1981 | Isao Aoki (2) | Japan | −5 | T45 |
| 1982* | Tom Watson | United States | −4 | T5 |
| 1983 | Hale Irwin | United States | −5 | T6 |
| 1984 | Tommy Aaron | United States | −5 | CUT |
| 1985 | Hubert Green | United States | −5 | CUT |
| 1986* | Gary Koch | United States | −4 | T16 |
| 1987 | Ben Crenshaw | United States | −5 | T4 |
| 1988 | Tsuneyuki Nakajima | Japan | −3 | T33 |
| 1989* | Bob Gilder | United States | −5 | 39 |
| 1990 | Raymond Floyd | United States | −4 | 2 |
| 1991* | Rocco Mediate | United States | −3 | T22 |
| 1992 | Davis Love III | United States | −5 | T25 |
| 1993 | Chip Beck | United States | −6 | 2 |
| 1994 | Vijay Singh | Fiji | −5 | T27 |
| 1995* | Hal Sutton | United States | −4 | CUT |
| 1996* | Jay Haas (2) | United States | −5 | T36 |
| 1997* | Sandy Lyle | Scotland | −5 | T34 |
| 1998 | Sandy Lyle (2) | Scotland | −3 | CUT |
| 1999 | Joe Durant | United States | −5 | CUT |
| 2000* | Chris Perry | United States | −4 | T14 |
| 2001 | David Toms | United States | −5 | T31 |
| 2002* | Nick Price | Zimbabwe | −5 | T20 |
| 2003† | Pádraig Harrington David Toms (2) | Ireland United States | −6 | CUT T8 |
| 2004* | Pádraig Harrington (2) | Ireland | −4 | T13 |
| 2005 | Jerry Pate | United States | −5 | DNP |
| 2006 | Ben Crane | United States | −4 | CUT |
| 2007 | Mark O'Meara | United States | −5 | CUT |
| 2008 | Rory Sabbatini | South Africa | −5 | CUT |
| 2009 | Tim Clark | South Africa | −5 | T13 |
| 2010 | Louis Oosthuizen | South Africa | −6 | CUT |
| 2011 | Luke Donald | England | −5 | T4 |
| 2012† | Jonathan Byrd Pádraig Harrington (3) | United States Ireland | −5 | T27 T8 |
| 2013* | Ted Potter Jr. | United States | −4 | CUT |
| 2014 | Ryan Moore | United States | −6 | CUT |
| 2015* | Kevin Streelman | United States | −5 | T12 |
| 2016 | Jimmy Walker | United States | −8 | T29 |
| 2017 | Contest canceled due to rain | Contest canceled due to rain | Contest canceled due to rain | Contest canceled due to rain |
| 2018 | Tom Watson (2) | United States | −6 | DNP |
| 2019* | Matt Wallace | England | −5 | CUT |
| 2020 | Contest canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic | Contest canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic | Contest canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic | Contest canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic |
| 2021 | Contest canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic | Contest canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic | Contest canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic | Contest canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic |
| 2022† | Mackenzie Hughes Mike Weir | Canada | −4 | T50 CUT |
| 2023 | Tom Hoge | United States | −6 | CUT |
| 2024 | Rickie Fowler | United States | −5 | T30 |
    Key
    * - playoff
    † - tie
    (a) - amateur

## Masters champions who also won a Par 3 Contest

| Champions | Par-3 wins | Masters wins |
| 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. Raymond Floyd came the closest in the 1990 tournament, but lost in a sudden-death playoff.
* 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.