By Mark Garrod, PA Sport Golf Correspondent, Augusta

Nick Price won the eve-of-Masters par three competition at Augusta - but Japan's Toshi Izawa will remember it as well.

Izawa, paired with Tiger Woods in the first two rounds of the tournament proper, holed-in-one at the 130-yard fifth and then did it again on the 140-yard sixth.

It was the first time there had been back-to-back aces in the "fun" event since Claude Harmon did it in 1968.

Price took the title, though, when he beat Mark Calcavecchia in a play-off after both had posted five-under-par scores of 22 over the nine-hole short course which adjoins the championship lay-out.

But the Zimbabwean is only too aware that he now carries a jinx into the Masters. No par three winner has ever become champion four days later.

Izawa said: "I didn't see the first one go in the hole, but I did the second.

"They came too early - I don't want to use up all of my luck in the par three. I want to save some for the tournament."

He did not come even close to winning the competition because he had taken seven on the 130-yard fourth. But following the two aces he did chip in at the 115-yard seventh.

There were a record five holes-in-one in all, the others coming from Stewart Cink, Kirk Triplett and 48-year-old Jerry Pate, who, while not playing in the Masters, was invited to the par three event as a former Major winner.