page_title: Masters Tournament Par-3 contest
section_title: Masters champions who also won a Par-3 contest
hierarchical_section_title: Masters Tournament Par-3 contest / Masters champions who also won a Par-3 contest
caption_attribution_description: English: President Barack Obama takes a practice putt with a golf club presented to him by golf legend Arnold Palmer prior to the signing ceremony for H.R. 1243, the Arnold Palmer Congressional Gold Medal Act, in the Oval Office, Sept. 30, 2009.
context_page_description: 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 Augusta National Grounds, which was designed in 1958 by George Cobb and club founder Clifford Roberts.
  Traditionally, the golfers playing in the contest have invited family members onto the course to caddie for them, sometimes allowing them to play shots on their behalf. Through the 2019 contest, ninety-four holes in one have been made during the history of the tournament, including nine in the 2016 event.
  Snead became the tournament's first repeat winner when he triumphed in the 1974 event. The most recent winner, in 2018, is Tom Watson, who won his second Par-3 contest 36 years after winning his first in 1982. Jimmy Walker holds the course record, which he set in 2016, with a round of 8 under par, including a hole in one.
context_section_description: 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.
caption: Arnold Palmer (pictured in 2009) won the Par-3 contest in 1967 having won the Masters four times between 1958 and 1964.
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