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Ernie’s six-putt nightmare at the Masters
Ernie Els was amongst the headlines at the Masters for making the highest score in tournament history on the par 4 – first hole after six putting from six feet for a 9 (quintuple bogey).
"I couldn't putt with a stick," Els said. "You make some stuff up in your brain, you know, it's difficult. It's something that, what holds you back from doing your normal thing? I don't know what it is. I can go to that putting green now and make 20 straight 3-footers. And then you get on the course, and you feel a little different, and you can't do what you normally do. So it's pretty difficult."
"I couldn't get the putter back," he said. "I was standing there, I've got a 3-footer, I've made thousands of 3-footers, and I just couldn't take it back."
Els missed and then did so again from distances of 3 feet, 10 inches, 11 inches and 2 feet. The last two putts he hit one-handed in disgust.
"And then I just kind of lost count after, I mean, the whole day was a grind," he said. "I tried to fight. I'm hitting the ball half-decent, and I can't make it from 2 feet.
"I don't know how I stayed out there," he said. "But you love the game, and you've got to have respect for the tournament and so forth. But it's unexplainable. It's very tough to tell you what goes through your mind. It's the last thing you want to do is do that on a golf course at this level. So it's very difficult."
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