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There was no question that Adam Scott had the most unfortunate break at the Masters on Friday, a miserable fortune that put the Australian’s famous sense of fairness to the test.
Scott was just three strokes behind the leader playing par five 15 in the first round at Augusta National, but found the pond protecting the green with his second shot and had to take a penalty.
No problem, he thought, just go up and down from 60 yards, rescue pair, and there won’t be any real damage.
So he threw his pitch with precision, the ball looked good in the air, too good, because it bounced, hit the flagpole, and bounced all the way back to the pond.
He took another penalty stroke and went up and down in the second half calling for a double bogey.
“The first mistake was not getting the first ball over the water well enough … but then composing that with a bad break,” Scott said after scoring a total of 142 two-under that put him seven shots behind the leader of the the clubhouse.
“I’ve seen that happen before at the 15th hole. I was nervous when I was hitting my sixth shot because the six can turn into eight, and the spiral really gets out of control.
“I was happy to do a double, but it’s a momentum killer, not so much from the bad break, but if I’d managed to make a four there and be five under for the tournament, the momentum is really wearing off.
Scott in 2013 became the first from his proud golf nation to win the Masters, a victory made all the more special by his late collapse at the previous year’s British Open, where he nearly handed Ernie Els the Claret. Jug.
He has a lot of ground to make up this weekend to have a chance of another victory.
“I felt like I did better than my score showed,” he said of his performance on Friday, a day in which he played 29 holes, including the last 11 holes of the weather-delayed first round.
“I don’t know why, I just didn’t start it up.”
