The Masters Par 3 Tournament: How winners do in the main tournament
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The Curse of the Masters Par 3 Tournament: How past winners have got on in the main tournament
The Masters Par 3 Contest first began in 1960 and has become an annual Wednesday fixture prior to the start of the year’s first major, but there is a so-called jinx that goes with winning it.
Sam Snead was the first winner of the Par-3 contest, and although he was a three-time champion at Augusta, his 11th place finish in 1960 set what would be a decades-long pattern where winners of the Par 3 have never yet won The Masters that same year.
There have been several Masters champions who have won the Par 3 contest, but never both in the same year (i.e Sam Snead, Arnold Palmer, Mark O’Meara, Sandy Lyle etc…)
Yet whilst players may never have won both the Par 3 and Masters tournament in the same year, we wondered where the winners have actually placed? It doesn’t make great reading, though there have been a couple of runner-ups and quite a few top 10s – the last of which was Padraig Harrington in 2012, when he finished T8.
| Year | Winner | Par 3 Score | Masters Position |
| 1960 | Sam Snead | -4 | T11 |
| 1961 | Deane Beman | -5 | CUT |
| 1962 | Bruce Crampton | -5 | T29 |
| 1963 | George Bayer | -4 | T28 |
| 1964 | Labron Harris Jr | -4 | 43 |
| 1965 | Art Wall Jr | -7 | T45 |
| 1966 | Terry Dill | -5 | T17 |
| 1967 | Arnold Palmer | -4 | 4th |
| 1968 | Bob Rosburg | -5 | T30 |
| 1969 | Bob Lunn | -4 | CUT |
| 1970 | Harold Henning | -6 | CUT |
| 1971 | Dave Stockton | -4 | T9 |
| 1972 | Steve Melnyk | -4 | T12 |
| 1973 | Gay Brewer | -7 | T10 |
| 1974 | Sam Snead | -5 | T20 |
| 1975 | Isao Aoki | -4 | CUT |
| 1976 | Jay Haas | -6 | CUT |
| 1977 | Tom Wieskopf | -4 | T14 |
| 1978 | Lou Graham | -5 | CUT |
| 1979 | Joe Inman | -5 | T23 |
| 1980 | Johnny Miller | -5 | T38 |
| 1981 | Isao Aoki | -5 | T45 |
| 1982 | Tom Watson | -4 | T5 |
| 1983 | Hale Irwin | -5 | T6 |
| 1984 | Tommy Aaron | -5 | CUT |
| 1985 | Hubert Green | -5 | CUT |
| 1986 | Gary Koch | -4 | T16 |
| 1987 | Ben Crenshaw | -5 | T4 |
| 1988 | Tsuneyuki Nakajima | -3 | T33 |
| 1989 | Bob Glider | -3 | 37th |
| 1990 | Raymond Floyd | -4 | 2nd |
| 1991 | Rocco Mediate | -3 | T22 |
| 1992 | Davis Love III | -5 | T25 |
| 1993 | Chip Beck | -6 | 2nd |
| 1994 | Vijay Singh | -5 | T27 |
| 1995 | Hal Sutton | -4 | CUT |
| 1996 | Jay Haas | -5 | T36 |
| 1997 | Sandy Lyle | -5 | T34 |
| 1998 | Sandy Lyle | -3 | CUT |
| 1999 | Joe Durant | -5 | CUT |
| 2000 | Chris Perry | -4 | T14 |
| 2001 | David Toms | -5 | T31 |
| 2002 | Nick Price | -5 | T20 |
| 2003 | David Toms | -6 | T8 |
| 2004 | Padraig Harrington | -4 | T13 |
| 2005 | Jerry Pate | -5 | DNP |
| 2006 | Ben Crane | -4 | CUT |
| 2007 | Mark O’Meara | -5 | CUT |
| 2008 | Rory Sabbatini | -5 | CUT |
| 2009 | Tim Clark | -5 | T13 |
| 2010 | Louis Oosthuizen | -6 | CUT |
| 2011 | Luke Donald | -5 | T4 |
| 2012 | Padraig Harrington / Jonathan Byrd | -5 | T8 / T27 |
| 2013 | Ted Potter Jr | -4 | CUT |
| 2014 | Ryan Moore | -6 | CUT |
| 2015 | Kevin Streelman | -5 | T12 |
| 2016 | Jimmy Walker | -8 | T29 |
| 2017 | EVENT CANCELLED |
