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You Won’t Believe the Highest Hole Score Ever Recorded at the Masters
The Masters is filled with a rich history of golf greatness—and many blunders.
The history book documents both sides of the ledger, the good and the bad, and a look back at the highest scores on each hole includes a few doozies.
The highest score recorded on a single hole at the Masters is a 13, which has happened three times: Tommy Nakajima on the 13th hole in 1978, Tom Weiskopf on the 12th hole in 1980 and Sergio Garcia on the 15th hole in 2018.
Garcia made a mess of the hole that was one of the keys to his victory one year earlier. He hit five—that’s right, five—balls into the water in his opening round en route to a total-round score of 81. (Yes, he went on to miss the cut.) The internet was there to document it.
Masters 2018: Sergio Garcia | 15th Hole, Round 1 pic.twitter.com/UEA4h6B4G1
— Masters Highlights (@MastersMoments) April 6, 2018
Weiskopf’s 13 stands out for being the only 10-over-par score on a single hole in Masters history. Like Garcia, Weiskopf rinsed five balls en route to his unlucky 13.
But there are 17 other holes at Augusta, and the Masters tracks them all. Here are the highest individual scores on each hole at Augusta National.
No. 1: 9, Ernie Els, 2016
No. 2: 10, Sam Byrd, 1948; David Duval, 2006
No. 3: 8, Douglas B. Clarke, 1980
No. 4: 8, Henrik Stenson, 2011
No. 5: 8, Bill Campbell, 1957; Sam Parks, 1957; Chick Harbert, 1960; Jerry Barber, 1964
No. 6: 7, Jose Maria Olazabal, 1991; Arnold Palmer, 1997; Branden Grace, 2016
No. 7: 8, DeWitt Weaver, 1972; Richard L. Von Tacky Jr., 1981
No. 8: 12, Frank Walsh, 1935
No. 9: 8, Jack Selby, 1948; Richard Davies, 1963; Clay Ogden, 2006; Luke Donald, 2014
No. 10: 9, Danny Lee, 2009
No. 11: 9, Dow Finsterwald, 1952; Bo Wininger, 1958; William G. Moody III, 1980; Charles Howell III, 2006; Sandy Lyle, 2017
No. 12: 13, Tom Weiskopf, 1980
No. 13: 13, Tommy Nakajima, 1978
No. 14: 8, Nick Price, 1993
No. 15: 13, Sergio Garcia, 2018
No. 16: 11, Herman Barron, 1950
No. 17: 7, 19 times, the most recent was Fred Couples and Ted Potter Jr., 2013
No. 18: 8, Denny Shute, 1959; Homero Blancas, 1970; Masashi "Jumbo" Ozaki, 1994; Ian Baker-Finch, 1995; Arnold Palmer, 2000; Camilo Villegas, 2007; Henrik Stenson, 2012; Jose Maria Olazabal, 2022
Jeff Ritter is the managing director of SI Golf. He has more than 20 years of sports media experience, and previously was the general manager at the Morning Read, where he led that business’s growth and joined SI as part of an acquisition in 2022. Earlier in his career he spent more than a decade at SI and Golf Magazine, and his journalism awards include a MIN Magazine Award and an Edward R. Murrow Award for sports reporting. He received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan and a master’s from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.