Okay, so today I tried to figure out how many pars are in the Masters. Let me tell you, it was kind of a winding road, but I got there in the end. I started off just poking around the internet, just generally looking up stuff about the Masters Tournament.
First, I looked for some general info about the Masters, like its history and past winners. Then I searched for recent leaderboards to see if they had any info on pars. I found the 2022 Masters Tournament leaderboard, but it did not mention the specific number of pars I was looking for. After that, I tried to use a search engine to find more academic-style articles or blog posts, hoping they’d have the number I wanted.
I stumbled upon some stuff about incident management, but it was not what I needed. Then I found some technical documents about plugin file formats, which was a complete dead end. I found a couple of posts about postgraduate study and how to apply to them, which again, had nothing to do with what I was after. I even found some articles about how many credit hours are needed for a master’s degree, but again, not useful.
Then I hit another dead end with some scientific stuff about DNA repair, which was way off topic. Eventually, I decided to go back to the basics and just use a simple search for “how many pars in the Masters.”
After all that digging, I finally found the answer I was looking for. Turns out, it’s pretty straightforward. Each hole is designed to be completed in a certain number of strokes, and those add up to the par for the course. I just did not have the patience to add them up manually when I looked at the leaderboard initially.
So here’s how I finally cracked it:
- The Masters is played at Augusta National Golf Club.
- Augusta National is a par-72 course.
- That means there are 72 pars in a standard round.
- The tournament is four rounds, so 72 pars/round 4 rounds = 288 pars.
Conclusion
There you have it. After a long and winding search, I found out that there are 288 pars in the Masters Tournament. It was a bit of a roundabout way to get there, but hey, that’s how it goes sometimes. At least I learned a lot of random stuff along the way!
