During a third round at Augusta National that saw Rory McIlroy’s lead evaporate, Shane Lowry cemented his place as golf’s resident hole-in-one specialist with a historic ace.

How it played: When an ice storm in 2014 claimed the famous Eisenhower tree on the left side of the 17th fairway, there were worries about how tough the hole would play without it. No need. No. 17 has actually played more difficult since. Sunday, it was Augusta National’s hardest hole, the only one not to surrender a birdie during the final round.

Even if we go further back in time at Augusta, the last ace before Strange's on the 12th hole came another 29 years in the past, courtesy of amateur William Hyndman, in 1959. The only other one in Masters history was by Claude Harmon in 1947, the year before he won the green jacket.

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The 15th hole at Augusta National over the years has been the third-easiest hole at the Masters. That sure wasn't the case Thursday.

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Players constantly found the water as they neared the 18th hole, from McIlroy, to Young, to Lowry. But there was one hole in particular that Butch Harmon said was harder than he has ever seen.