AUGUSTA, Ga. — Like everything else at Augusta National Golf Club, how the tee times are determined for the annual Par 3 contest is top secret. But judging from the pairing sheet that developed for Wednesday’s proceeding, players with wives and toddlers in tow got first dibs on the earliest tee times.
That included 2017 Masters champion Sergio Garcia, who played with Paul Casey and Justin Rose and a whole horde of children of various sizes and ages. Angela and Sergio’s kids, 4-year-old Azalea and 2-year-old Enzo, were among some of the youngest dressed in the traditional white caddie’s coveralls with their dad’s last name on the back.
Herding them together to tee off on No. 1 proved an exhausting endeavor. Taking cue from the gallery guards she has seen posted around Augusta National this week, Azalea ran to the front of the tee box with two dried-brown magnolia leaves and began to flag to the group ahead on the green. When Garcia jogged up ahead to her, Enzo took sensed the opening and made a bee line for the fairway.
