This 12 months’s Augusta Nationwide Girls’s Novice individuals are in for a particular deal with.
As soon as every of the 72 gamers full their apply spherical Friday at Augusta Nationwide Golf Membership, they’ll head over to the membership’s Par 3 Course for a twilight 9. It is going to mark the primary time within the championship’s five-year historical past that rivals will be capable of play the brief course.
Davis, 18, enters her third Augusta Nationwide Girls’s Novice contemporary off the very best end of her younger school profession.
Final 12 months, Anna Davis, Megha Ganne and Amari Avery took half in a closest-to-the-hole problem on the Par 3 Course’s ninth gap for a video for the championship’s web site and social channels.
“I feel that’ll be actually enjoyable,” stated Auburn’s Megan Schofill, the reigning U.S. Girls’s Novice champion. “It’s simply nice for everybody to maintain seeing completely different components of Augusta Nationwide. The property is so massive, so I do know everyone seems to be trying ahead to doing that.”
The Par 3 Course has hosted the annual Par 3 Contest on the Wednesday of Masters week since 1960. Previous to final 12 months’s event, the course underwent an intensive renovation, with gap Nos. 1-5 being rerouted and several other timber eliminated to enhance patron walkways and viewing areas.