'This sport is awfully lonely sometimes' - Tiger Woods reflects on septuple bogey 10 at...

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It was a nightmare which would have been painfully familiar to any amateur club golfer. A septuple-bogey 10 on a short par-three in which you visit the water three times, the bunker twice, and generally want the ground to swallow you up in embarrassment. Only this wasn’t any old amateur. It was Tiger Woods. And it was at the Masters. Woods’s extraordinary meltdown at the 12th was by a distance the most agonising moment of Sunday’s final round; the sport’s biggest superstar reduced to the level of club hacker in front of a global audience of millions. It was painful to witness. And it must have been mortifying for Woods himself. His 10 was the highest score the 15-time major champion had posted on any hole in his entire 26-year professional career (albeit not the highest score ever posted at Augusta’s 12th, which belongs to Tom Weiskopf who shot a 13 in 1980). But it also led to one of the most impressive comebacks of the week, Woods making birdie on five of his final six holes, including Augusta's final four holes for the first time in his career.

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