So, I was chilling at home yesterday, just scrolling through random stuff online, and I stumbled upon this question about the 2023 Masters. You know, the golf tournament? The question was: “How many pars will be made at the Masters?” It got me thinking, and I got really curious, you know?
I started digging around, trying to find an answer. First, I checked some golf news sites, but they were more focused on who won and the big moments, not the number of pars.
- Then, I found this one article that talked about one player who parred 44 out of 72 holes. But then it said that was less than 1.5 percent of all pars made. I was like, “Whoa, that’s a lot of pars!”
- The article mentioned that 93 players played at least one round during the Masters, and together they made 3029 pars. That’s a huge number!
Further investigation
I kept looking and found out that only the top 50 players and ties play the final two rounds. So, a bunch of players get cut after the first two rounds. They still get some money, though – like 10 grand just for showing up, which is pretty sweet.
Then I found out that there were no holes-in-one during the 2023 Masters. I learned the most recent one was in 2022! So I searched again, this time for the total number of holes-in-one ever at the Masters. Turns out, there have been only 34 in the whole history of the tournament!
Anyway, I never found a super clear answer to the exact number of pars made, but it got me thinking about how many pars are usually made in a tournament like this. It’s definitely a lot, and it’s cool to think about all those players, all those swings, all those pars. It made me appreciate the game a bit more, even though I’m not really a golfer myself.
So, yeah, that’s how I spent a chunk of my day yesterday – diving into the world of golf stats. It was a fun little rabbit hole to go down, even if I didn’t get all the answers I was looking for.
