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AUGUSTA, Ga. — Once the first group leaves the tee Thursday morning at Augusta National Golf Club at the Masters, it’s all business.
In Wednesday’s Par 3 Contest, it was all fun.
And boy, was it fun.
Justin Thomas and playing partner Rickie Fowler made back-to-back aces on the fourth hole of the annual fun-loving event.
“It was awesome,” Thomas told PGAtour.com. “I don’t know if it’s ever been done, back-to-back shots like that. But to play with two good buddies and make a hole-in-one and to have my mom on the bag in my first Masters, it’s a bucket list kind of thing.
“It was too cool. And Rickie to do it on top of it, it was pretty funny for Jordan. Today was just so much fun.”
Defending green jacket champion Jordan Spieth, who hit next, had to do the same thing, right?
“It might’ve been the hardest shot I ever had to hit, trying to follow them,” Spieth told PGATour.com. “Boy, that was so much fun.”
Aces weren’t just for the young guns, though. Gary Player — yes, that Gary Player, the 80-year-old golf star — nailed a hole-in-one on the seventh hole from the right.
Player became the oldest player in Masters history to make a hole-in-one on the Par 3 Contest. Nine players carded aces on the day, the most in Tour history.
Watch the record-setting collection: all nine holes-in-one from today's Par 3 Contest. #themastershttps://t.co/PcFbOXHKr7
— Masters Tournament (@TheMasters) April 6, 2016
