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]

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Masters Par-3 Contest

Tournament information
Location	Augusta, Georgia, U.S.
Established	1960
Course(s)	Augusta National Golf Club
Par	27
Length	1,060 yards (970 m)[1]
Organized by	Augusta National Golf Club
Format	Stroke play
Month played	April
Tournament record score
To par	−8 Jimmy Walker (2016)
Current champion
Rickie Fowler

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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.^[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 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.^[4]

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

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Key

* - playoff ^[7]

† - tie ^[7]

(a) - amateur

• No player has won the Par-3 contest and the Masters in the same year, a fact well known by the players.^[4][40]
  Raymond Floyd came the closest in the 1990 tournament, but lost in a sudden-death playoff.^[41]
• 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]

• ^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]