The Masters Tournament Par3 Contest is a semi-social golf competition that precedes the Masters Tournament at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia. The first Par3 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 participants have invited family members to caddie for them, sometimes allowing them to play shots on their behalf. Through the 2026 contest, 119 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 Par3 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 22occasions, and concluded with a tie three times; overall, across 64contests, 17 of the 59winning golfers (including ties) have been non-American. No winner of the Par3 Contest has gone on to win the Masters in the

Winners

Year Winner Country To par Masters finish 1960 1961 CUT 1962 1963* 1964 43 1965 1966 1967* 4 1968 1969* CUT 1970 CUT 1971* 1972 1973 1974* 1975* CUT 1976 CUT 1977* 1978* CUT 1979 1980 1981 1982* 1983 1984 CUT 1985 CUT 1986* 1987 1988 1989* 39 1990 2 1991* 1992 1993 2 1994 1995* CUT 1996* 1997* 1998 CUT 1999 CUT 2000* 2001 2002* 2003 CUT 2004* 2005 DNP 2006 CUT 2007 CUT 2008 CUT 2009 2010 CUT 2011 2012 2013* CUT 2014 CUT 2015* 2016 2017 2018 DNP 2019* CUT 2020 2021 2022 CUT 2023 CUT 2024 2025* 51 2026 48 Key * - playoff  - tie

(a) - amateur

Masters champions who also won a Par 3 Contest

Winner Par3 wins Masters winsSam Snead 1960, 1974 1949, 1952, 1954Art Wall Jr. 1965 1959Arnold Palmer 1967 1958, 1960, 1962, 1964Gay Brewer 1973 1967Tom Watson 1982, 2018 1977, 1981Tommy Aaron 1984 1973Ben Crenshaw 1987 1984, 1995Raymond Floyd   1990 1976Vijay Singh 1994 2000Sandy Lyle 1997, 1998 1988Mark O'Meara 2007 1998Mike Weir 2022 2003

No player has won the Par3 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 Par3 Contest. Tom Watson is the only player to hold both titles at once, for four days, winning the Par3 Contest in 1982 as defending Masters champion.

Notes 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.

References

External links About Golf  – The Masters Par-3 Contest winners