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Jon Rahm of Spain celebrates skipping in for a hole-in-one on the 16th during a practice round prior to the Masters at Augusta National Golf Club.
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And the crowd went wild! Or, it would have. If there was one.
Regardless, living up to its billing as “a tradition unlike any other,” the Masters tees off this week in a coronavirus-delayed return to golf’s most storied major championship.
Part of the fun was served up Tuesday with the 60-year-old Par 3 competition, billed as a “family affair” in which “wives and girlfriends, children and grandchildren, nieces and nephews all happily serve as caddies.” The pregame show didn’t disappoint. Jon Rahm made sure of that with this incredible shot, hailed as “perhaps the greatest hole-in-one in history”:
Now, it might not be much of a consequential Masters moment, along the lines of Tiger Woods’s epic chip shot back in 2005, but still, wow.
Believe it or not, as impossible as it might seem, Vijay Singh executed a similar shot a decade ago. If you listen closely to the video, somebody says, “You will never see that again.” Really?
As for Augusta National’s main event, it finally begins Thursday after getting pushed back nearly seven months due to the pandemic. Woods, unlike in his prime, is no longer a favorite, but he still looks to contend with the likes of Bryson DeChambeau, Dustin Johnson, and, yes, Jon Rahm.
