Brian Harman’s second round at the 2022 Masters on Friday started on a spectacular note.
He holed out from the right bunker for an eagle 3 on the 575-yard, par-5 second hole. That shot, per Masters tradition, earned him a pair of Crystal Glasses.
However, it wasn’t enough to get Harman to the weekend, as his scores of 74 and 75 kept him one stroke from making the cut.
Along the way, though, Harman was witness to a hole-in-one. On the 16th hole, playing partner Stewart Cink made an ace at the par-3, 170 yard hole. He did it on his son/caddie Reagan’s 24th birthday. It was the 24th ace in Masters history at the 16th, and the sixth for Cink in his PGA Tour career.
Ace! Stewart Cink makes a hole-in-one on No. 16. #themasters pic.twitter.com/Wss03ghX21
— The Masters (@TheMasters) April 8, 2022
Harman witnessed another, much more raucous, hole-in-one earlier this season at TPC Scottsdale.
It also happened on the 16th hole at the wet and wild WM Phoenix Open. You remember that one: Sam Ryder’s Saturday ace ignited a beer-can launch sequence that would certainly never happen at Augusta National.
🗣 ACE ON 16 🗣
What a place for @SamRyderSU's first ace on TOUR! pic.twitter.com/5AemLzhVG2
— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) February 12, 2022
In Phoenix, Harman was next to hit but had to wait about 15 minutes for the grounds crew to pick up the thousands of aluminum beer cans and bottles.
“The rules official asked me if I wanted to hit with all the beer cans out there,” he said. “I declined and asked them to go clean it up.”
At Augusta, Harman said: “I was there in Phoenix for that shot Sam hit. I’ve been watching a lot of holes-in-one lately.”
Dennis Knight of the Savannah Morning News contributed to this article.
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