Masters '25: Augusta's 3rd Hole So Cleverly Designed It Doesn't Get Tweaked

The shortest par 4 at Augusta National is the same distance - all of 350 yards - as it was when the first Masters was held in 1934. There are no water hazards to be found. There is one bunker left of the green.

By modern standards, this would be considered a drivable par 4.

And yet there has been only one change to No. 3 in club history, 42 years ago, when the large bunker left of the fairway was replaced by four smaller ones.

Small wonder Alister MacKenzie considered the third hole - named "Flowering Peach" - to be as fine as any hole he designed at Augusta National.

He wrote in a 1933 letter to co-founder Clifford Roberts, "It is holes of this description that keep up one's interest in golf year after year, stimulate players to improve their game and prevent golf from becoming stale."