Every once in a while, someone at The Masters will make a hole-in-one at the 16th, perhaps the second-most famous par three on the course to its evil cousin, the 12th.
The traditional Sunday pin placement allows a player to use the slope to the right of the hole to land the ball and make it feed toward the hole.
There was a very early roar from the 16th, not long after the lead groups teed off.
It was Ireland’s Shane Lowry holing out an eight-iron from 171-yards.
As if that wasn’t enough, next came Davis Love III, shortly after Lowry. Love chose seven-iron and once again, started it by landing on the right slope and once again, the ball fed down, down and into the hole. Ace No. 2.
Then things would get really crazy.
J.B. Holmes and Louie Oosthuizen were playing together. Holmes had just hit a great shot that stopped three feet from the hole. Then Oosthuizen’s tee shot landed on the magic slope and headed directly for Holmes’ ball. It hit Holmes ball, glanced to the right as Holmes’ ball looked as if it would go in. It barely missed but Louie’s ball broke back to the left and wound up in the bottom of the cup.
More history at 16.
Aces wild.
