Golf Central

Rory Sabatini recorded his first ever hole in one during the traditional Par-3 Masters curtain-raiser at Augusta yesterday. The chippy South African, whose even fierier other half Amy caddied for him, holed out at the 110-yard seventh, while David Toms aced the 142-yard fifth. Mark O’Meara won the tournament, but all the attention was on Luke Donald, clearly a keen golf historian, who 'didn't try' to hole his chip shot on the ninth hole. One of the oft-quoted cliches of Masters week is that no winner of the Par-3 tournament has ever gone on to win The Masters itself.