Golf-Player ace lights up Par-3 contest as Walker triumphs (Reuters)

AUGUSTA, Georgia, April 6 (Reuters) - Gary Player kicked his right leg into the air, hugged his granddaughter Alex and grandson Paul and received congratulations from playing competitors Jack Nicklaus and Tom Watson.

No, this was not the 1978 Masters, when Player won his third and final Green Jacket with a one-shot victory over Watson and was four better than Nicklaus.

This was the Par-3 contest on the eve of the 2016 Masters, when the 80-year-old South African fired a hole-in-one at the 115-yard seventh hole, one of a record nine aces made by the field on Wednesday to shatter the old mark of five.

"That's number 31," as in career hole-in-ones, a delighted Player told Watson as they walked off…