Family golf day returns at Masters 2022

30 competitors participated in this year’s Par3 Contest, including Jon Rahm, Justin Rose, Sergio Garcia and retired champions such as Raymond Floyd, 79 years old, Gary Players 86 years old, Tom Watson 72 years old. Rose played with his wife – Kate Phillips and two sons – Charlotte, Leo. Garcia, winner of the 2017 Masters, accompanied by his wife – Angela with Azalea four years old, Enzo two years old.

The “Par3 Contest” entered the Masters program in 1960 with the positioning as a family golf day, when the players brought friends or relatives such as wives, children, grandchildren, and showed their talents in a cluster of nine holes, all par3s. Main course in Augusta National Golf Club.

This activity also helps to refresh the player’s spirit before the Masters.

Par3 Contest at Masters 2022

“It’s a good way to clear your mind and realize what’s important before the opening match,” Rahm, the Spanish golfer currently ranked second in the world, commented on the fun day on the par3 course.

The contest on April 6 opened an hour later than expected, took place less than three hours and had to end unfinished because of bad weather.

The length of the holes in the par3 yard cluster ranges from 70-140 yards. To date, this place has recorded a total of 101 holes-in-one, of which Jason Kokrak is the latest author, at hole 4, 130 yards long.

In the history of Masters, no competitor who won the Par3 Contest has been able to hold the Masters in the same period. In 1990, Floyd finished first at Par3, but only finished second when entering the race for the prestigious championship. Three years later, Chip Beck was the same case.

This year, the 82-year-old Jack Nicklaus monument decided to be a Par3 audience. “I would play if I had another grandchild as a caddy. But now, I don’t have any troops because every grandchild has been through that position,” Nicklaus witty above. ESPN.

Nicklaus holds the record of six Masters lifts. He and Players, Watson performed the opening ceremony of the Masters match 86 tonight 7/4 Hanoi time.

Par3 Contest is initiated by Clifford Roberts and Bobby Jones – two co-founders of Augusta National as well as Masters. When building the main course in the early 1930s, architect Alister MacKenzie also included a practice court for putting greens and finishing holes. But the category was unfinished due to lack of money and Jones’ lack of determination. In the late 1950s, Roberts rebooted the old idea. He thinks the par3 course could become a “hot spot” ahead of the main round of Masters week. And like that, the work was quickly completed for the Par3 Contest to debut at the Masters in 1960.

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