{"id":381431,"date":"2026-04-08T13:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T13:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/381431\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T13:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T13:47:09","slug":"masters-par-3-contest-updates-from-iconic-masters-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/381431\/","title":{"rendered":"Masters Par 3 Contest: Updates from iconic Masters tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"chakra-text css-lqkr0z\">1 Min Read<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"chakra-link css-1jfg7sy\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pgatour.com\/news\/latest\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"chakra-text css-lqkr0z\">Latest<\/p>\n<p><\/a>*:not(style){overflow:hidden;position:absolute;top:0px;right:0px;bottom:0px;left:0px;display:-webkit-box;display:-webkit-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;-webkit-box-pack:center;-ms-flex-pack:center;-webkit-justify-content:center;justify-content:center;-webkit-align-items:center;-webkit-box-align:center;-ms-flex-align:center;align-items:center;width:100%;height:100%;}.css-g2vo12>img,.css-g2vo12>video{object-fit:cover;}.css-g2vo12::before{height:0px;content:&#8221;&#8221;;display:block;padding-bottom:66.66666666666666%;}@media screen and (min-width: 768px){.css-g2vo12::before{padding-bottom:56.25%;}}]]><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Par3-topper.jpg\" alt=\"Scottie Scheffler walks with his wife, Meredith, and son, Bennett, during the Par 3 Contest prior to the 2025 Masters Tournament. (Andrew Redington\/Getty Images)\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;object-fit:cover\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"chakra-text css-16ejlxd\">Scottie Scheffler walks with his wife, Meredith, and son, Bennett, during the Par 3 Contest prior to the 2025 Masters Tournament. (Andrew Redington\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>*:not(style)~*:not(style){margin-top:0.5rem;-webkit-margin-end:0px;margin-inline-end:0px;margin-bottom:0px;-webkit-margin-start:0px;margin-inline-start:0px;}]]><\/p>\n<p class=\"chakra-text css-lqkr0z\">A<\/p>\n<p class=\"chakra-text css-17sz9ey\">Change Text Size<\/p>\n<p>Written by Staff  <\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family:var(--font-suisse-intl), &quot;Suisse Intl&quot;, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:1.7rem;line-height:2.6rem;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0rem;position:relative\">The Par 3 Contest at the Masters has been a Wednesday tradition dating back to 1960 with the inaugural competition won by Sam Snead. Tournament participants as well as all past champions are invited to play the nine-hole course designed by George Cobb and Cliff Roberts, which is set around DeSoto Springs Pond and Ike&#8217;s Pond.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family:var(--font-suisse-intl), &quot;Suisse Intl&quot;, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:1.7rem;line-height:2.6rem;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0rem;position:relative\">Colombia&#8217;s Nico Echavarria won the 2025 Par 3 Contest in a playoff against J.J. Spaun after both finished at 5-under-par (22). The contest featured holes-in-one from Tom Hoge (No. 4), Keegan Bradley (No. 6) and Brooks Koepka (No. 6), bringing the total to 115 in event history. No Par 3 Contest winner has won the Masters the same year as his short-course victory.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family:var(--font-suisse-intl), &quot;Suisse Intl&quot;, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:1.7rem;line-height:2.6rem;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0rem;position:relative\">Stay tuned for live updates here from this year&#8217;s contest, which begins at noon. <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"chakra-link css-vqpqpw\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pgatour.com\/article\/news\/latest\/2026\/04\/07\/how-to-watch-masters-par-3-contest-2026-augusta-national-tee-times-scores-scottie-scheffler-rory-mcilroy-amazon-prime\">Here&#8217;s how to watch<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family:var(--font-suisse-intl), &quot;Suisse Intl&quot;, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:1.7rem;line-height:2.6rem;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0rem;position:relative\">Masters Par 3 Contest viewing:<\/p>\n<p>Noon-4 p.m., Masters.com, Masters appNoon-4 p.m., ESPN app2-4 p.m., ESPN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1 Min Read Latest *:not(style){overflow:hidden;position:absolute;top:0px;right:0px;bottom:0px;left:0px;display:-webkit-box;display:-webkit-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;-webkit-box-pack:center;-ms-flex-pack:center;-webkit-justify-content:center;justify-content:center;-webkit-align-items:center;-webkit-box-align:center;-ms-flex-align:center;align-items:center;width:100%;height:100%;}.css-g2vo12>img,.css-g2vo12>video{object-fit:cover;}.css-g2vo12::before{height:0px;content:&#8221;&#8221;;display:block;padding-bottom:66.66666666666666%;}@media screen and (min-width: 768px){.css-g2vo12::before{padding-bottom:56.25%;}}]]&gt; Scottie Scheffler walks with his wife, Meredith, and son,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-381431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}