Erik,
I guess I would disagree with the usage of the term "great" shot.
There have been 33 HIOs in Masters history and 23 of 33 or 70% of them have come at 16.
If anything 16 doesn't differentiate enough between great, good, and just OK shots especially with the Sunday pin due to the massive bowl effect. Throw in that these guys are now hitting short irons, it would seem its a relatively easy hole for them. And while poor approach shots are punished pretty hard, that's true of nearly every green at Augusta.
I’ve been suspicious that for a while now the smallest most minute contours adjacent to what’s become the usually 4th day hole location have been measured to the last millimetre and adjusted to aid a last day hole-in-one. Golf vrs hooping and hollering crowds, whoops I mean patrons, and razzamatazz TV viewing?? Betting opportunities too??
Atb