Masters Par 3 Contest winners list
The Masters Par 3 Contest is one of the best traditions of Masters weeks.
Masters contestants and their families take on the nine-hole Par 3 Course the Wednesday afternoon before play begins Thursday morning. Players wives, girlfriends and kids sports the famous caddie bibs and walk around the course with their significant others while droves of fans line the hills and watch the best players in the world and legends of the game entertain them for the afternoon.
It's the cutest afternoon in golf, too, as the wives, girlfriends and often time kids hit shots or putts, leading to adorable moments every single year.
The Par 3 Contest started in 1960 and has a notable list of winners throughout its history.
Masters Par 3 Contest winners, score
- 1960 Sam Snead 23
- 1961 Deane Beman 22
- 1962 Bruce Crampton 22
- 1963 George Bayer 23
- 1964 Labron Harris, Jr. 23
- 1965 Art Wall, Jr. 20
- 1966 Terry Dill 22
- 1967 Arnold Palmer 23
- 1968 Bob Rosburg 22
- 1969 Bob Lunn 23
- 1970 Harold Henning 21
- 1971 Dave Stockton 23
- 1972 Steve Melnyk 23
- 1973 Gay Brewer 20
- 1974 Sam Snead 23
- 1975 Isao Aoki 23
- 1976 Jay Haas 21
- 1977 Tom Weiskopf 23
- 1978 Lou Graham 22
- 1979 Joe Inman, Jr. 23
- 1980 Johnny Miller 23
- 1981 Isao Aoki 22
- 1982 Tom Watson 23
- 1983 Hale Irwin 22
- 1984 Tommy Aaron 22
- 1985 Hubert Green 22
- 1986 Gary Koch 23
- 1987 Ben Crenshaw 22
- 1988 Tsuneyuki Nakajima 24
- 1989 Bob Gilder 22
- 1990 Raymond Floyd 23
- 1991 Rocco Mediate 24
- 1992 Davis Love III 22
- 1993 Chip Beck 21
- 1994 Vijay Singh 22
- 1995 Hal Sutton 23
- 1996 Jay Haas 22
- 1997 Sandy Lyle 22
- 1998 Sandy Lyle 24
- 1999 Joe Durant 22
- 2000 Chris Perry 23
- 2001 David Toms 22
- 2002 Nick Price 22
- 2003 Padraig Harrington 21, David Toms 21
- 2004 Padraig Harrington 23
- 2005 Jerry Pate 22
- 2006 Ben Crane 23
- 2007 Mark O’Meara 22
- 2008 Rory Sabbatini 22
- 2009 Tim Clark 22
- 2010 Louis Oosthuizen 21
- 2011 Luke Donald 22
- 2012 Padraig Harrington 22, Jonathan Byrd 22
- 2013 Ted Potter, Jr. 23
- 2014 Ryan Moore 21
- 2015 Kevin Streelman 22
- 2016 Jimmy Walker 19
- 2017 Canceled – Weather
- 2018 Tom Watson 21
- 2019 Matt Wallace 22
- 2020 Canceled – COVID-19
- 2021 Canceled – COVID-19
- 2022 Mackenzie Hughes 23, Mike Weir 23
- 2023 Tom Hoge 21
- 2024 Rickie Fowler 22
Has the Par 3 Contest winner ever won the Masters?
Yes and no. Masters champions have won the Par 3 Contest, but no one as ever won both in the same year.
Who was last year’s Par 3 Contest?
Rickie Fowler won with a score of 5-under 22.
Has Tiger Woods ever won the Par 3 Contest?
No, Tiger Woods has never won the Par 3 Contest.
How many holes-in-one have there been at the Par 3 Contest?
In the history of the Contest, there have been 112 holes-in-one made.
This article originally appeared on Golfweek: Masters Par 3 contest: Who are the winners?
