List of winners of the Masters Tournament Par-3 contest

The 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 56 years ago before the 1960 tournament, and was won by three-time Masters champion Sam Snead.^[1] The contest takes place on a course at Augusta designed by George Cobb and club founder Clifford Roberts.^[2]

No winner of the Par-3 contest has gone on to win the Masters in the same year.^[3]

List of winners

Year	Winner	Country	To par^[4]^[a]	Ref.
1960	Sam Snead	United States	004 !−4	^[1]
1961	Deane Beman	United States	005 !−5	^[5]
1962	Bruce Crampton	Australia	005 !−5	^[5]
1963	George Bayer	United States	004 !−4	^[5]
1964	Labron Harris, Jr.	United States	004 !−4	^[5]
1965	Art Wall, Jr.	United States	007 !−7	^[6]
1966	Terry Dill	United States	005 !−5	^[5]
1967	Arnold Palmer	United States	004 !−4	^[5]
1968	Bob Rosburg	United States	005 !−5	^[5]
1969	Bob Lunn	United States	004 !−4	^[5]
1970	Harold Henning	South Africa	006 !−6	^[5]
1971	Dave Stockton	United States	004 !−4	^[5]
1972	Steve Melnyk	United States	004 !−4	^[5]
1973	Gay Brewer	United States	007 !−7	^[6]
1974	Sam Snead (2)	United States	005 !−5	^[5]
1975	Isao Aoki	Japan	004 !−4	^[5]
1976	Jay Haas	United States	006 !−6	^[5]
1977	Tom Weiskopf	United States	004 !−4	^[7]
1978	Lou Graham	United States	005 !−5	^[5]
1979	Joe Inman	United States	005 !−5	^[5]
1980	Johnny Miller	United States	005 !−5	^[5]
1981	Isao Aoki (2)	Japan	005 !−5	^[8]
1982	Tom Watson	United States	004 !−4	^[9]
1983	Hale Irwin	United States	005 !−5	^[5]
1984	Tommy Aaron	United States	005 !−5	^[10]
1985	Hubert Green	United States	005 !−5	^[5]
1986	Gary Koch	United States	004 !−4	^[5]
1987	Ben Crenshaw	United States	005 !−5	^[11]
1988	Tsuneyuki Nakajima	Japan	003 !−3	^[5]
1989	Bob Gilder	United States	005 !−5	^[5]
1990	Raymond Floyd	United States	004 !−4	^[5]
1991	Rocco Mediate	United States	003 !−3	^[5]
1992	Davis Love III	United States	005 !−5	^[5]
1993	Chip Beck	United States	006 !−6	^[12]
1994	Vijay Singh	Fiji	005 !−5	^[13]
1995	Hal Sutton	United States	004 !−4	^[14]
1996	Jay Haas (2)	United States	005 !−5	^[15]
1997	Sandy Lyle	Scotland	005 !−5	^[16]
1998	Sandy Lyle (2)	Scotland	003 !−3	^[5]
1999	Joe Durant	United States	005 !−5	^[5]
2000	Chris Perry	United States	004 !−4	^[17]
2001	David Toms	United States	005 !−5	^[18]
2002	Nick Price	Zimbabwe	005 !−5	^[19]
2003*	Pádraig Harrington David Toms (2)	Ireland United States	006 !−6	^[20]
2004	Pádraig Harrington (2)	Ireland	004 !−4	^[21]
2005	Jerry Pate	United States	005 !−5	^[22]
2006	Ben Crane	United States	004 !−4	^[23]
2007	Mark O'Meara	United States	005 !−5	^[24]
2008	Rory Sabbatini	South Africa	005 !−5	^[25]
2009	Tim Clark	South Africa	005 !−5	^[25]
2010	Louis Oosthuizen	South Africa	006 !−6	^[25]
2011	Luke Donald	England	005 !−5	^[26]
2012*	Jonathan Byrd Pádraig Harrington (3)	United States Ireland	005 !−5	^[27]
2013	Ted Potter, Jr.	United States	004 !−4	^[2]
2014	Ryan Moore	United States	006 !−6	^[28]
2015	Kevin Streelman	United States	005 !−5	^[29]
2016	Jimmy Walker	United States	008 !−8	^[3]

* – the contest ended in a tie. – the contest ended in a playoff.

Masters champions who also won a Masters 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	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

No player has won the Par-3 contest and the Masters in the same year, a fact well-known by the players.^[30]
Raymond Floyd came the closest in 1990, but lost in a sudden-death playoff.^[31]
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.^[9]

Notes

^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 tournament was completed in the predetermined number of strokes.^[4]

References

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1 2 "Watson takes Par-3 tournament in playoff". Gadsden Times (Alabama). Associated Press. April 8, 1982. p. 17.
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↑ Dorman, Larry (April 8, 1993). "Kite Expects To Tee Off Despite An Aching Back". Sun-Sentinel. Retrieved April 7, 2016.
↑ Mayo, Michael (April 7, 1994). "Another Foreign Affair Set To Bloom At Augusta". Sun-Sentinel. Retrieved April 7, 2016.
↑ Dorman, Larry (April 6, 1995). "Golf; Woods Has Injury Scare on Eve of Masters". The New York Times. Retrieved April 7, 2016.
↑ Mayo, Michael (April 11, 1996). "Haas wins Par-3". Sun-Sentinel. Retrieved April 7, 2016.
↑ "USA: Augusta: Golf: Sandy Lyle wins annual Par-3 Contest". Associated Press. October 4, 1997. Retrieved April 7, 2016.
↑ "Wednesday notebook: Perry prevails". ESPN. April 6, 2000. Retrieved April 7, 2016.
↑ "Wednesday notebook: Is Toms cursed?". ESPN. April 4, 2001. Retrieved April 7, 2016.
↑ "Price wins par-3; Izawa has pair of aces". USA Today. April 11, 2002. Retrieved April 7, 2016.
↑ "Harrington, Toms tie in Masters prelude". United Press International. April 9, 2003. Retrieved April 7, 2016.
↑ Ferguson, Doug (April 7, 2015). "Tiger Woods to play in Par 3 competition at the Masters". Yahoo Sports. Retrieved April 7, 2016.
↑ "Jerry Pate wins Masters par-3 tourney". United Press International. April 6, 2005. Retrieved April 7, 2016.
↑ Mell, Randall (April 6, 2006). "Crane Hopes To End Par 3 Curse". Sun-Sentinel. Retrieved April 7, 2016.
↑ "O'Meara wins Par 3 contest". WRDW-TV. April 6, 2007. Retrieved April 7, 2016.
1 2 3 "Louis Oosthuizen wins par-3 Contest at Augusta". BBC Sport. April 7, 2010. Retrieved April 7, 2016.
↑ Fine, Larry (April 6, 2011). "Luke Donald wins Masters Par-3 Contest". Reuters. Retrieved April 7, 2016.
↑ McAllister, Mike (April 4, 2012). "Harrington, Byrd share Par 3 victory". PGA Tour. Retrieved April 7, 2016.
↑ "The Masters: Ryan Moore wins Augusta Par 3 Contest". CNN. April 9, 2014. Retrieved April 7, 2016.
↑ Ballengee, Ryan (April 8, 2015). "Kevin Streelman won Masters Par 3 Contest with special caddie". Yahoo Sports. Retrieved April 7, 2016.
↑ "Par 3 jinx resting on pro's shoulders". Eugene Register-Guard (Oregon). April 11, 1991. p. 6D.
↑ Shearer, Ed (April 9, 1990). "Floyd devastated after late collapse". Wilmington Morning Star (North Carolina). Associated Press. p. 4B.

External links

Masters.com – About the Par-3 contest
About Golf – The Masters Par-3 Contest winners

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