Cameron Younger entered the Masters with excessive hopes of being in rivalry for a primary main title.
Ultimately he left it as a viral sensation for all of the fallacious causes after a outstanding 4 putt from 12 toes tumbled him effectively past the minimize and into an early exit.
2025 Masters Leaderboard
After two rounds
-8 Justin Rose
-7 Bryson DeChambeau, Tyrell Hatton
-6 Rory McIlroy, Corey Conners, Scottie Scheffler, Tyrrell Hatton
-5 Matt McCarty, Shane Lowry, Jason Day
The world no.59 has baggage of pedigree having completed second on the 2022 Open and much more noteworthy recorded a pair of prime 10 finishes on the Masters in every of the final two years.
A energetic outsider given his course type, Younger had fired a stage par opening spherical of 72 and would have had excessive hopes of shifting up quite than down the Masters leaderboard on Friday at Augusta.
Teeing it up on the par three sixteenth he was three-over for his spherical and proper on the projected minimize line after only one birdie to go along with two bogeys and a double bogey 5 on the twelfth.
Having pulled his tee-shot broad proper, his second discovered the sting of the inexperienced, tight to the perimeter to depart a difficult 12-footer to save lots of his par.
Younger pushed his try a couple of foot past the outlet.
To not fear, tidy issues up, take your drugs and get again on observe. Certainly?
Alas that was to not be.
Younger rushed into his effort from 12 inches and managed to ship it again from whence it got here – and at double the space.
Now confronted with two toes for double bogey, Younger rushed into his putt once more and left the CBS commentary crew horrified when he proceeded to do precisely the identical for the second time.
“That could be a signal of…….Oh my goodness,” exclaimed Dottie Pepper, halting her preliminary evaluation to be surprised by what was unfolding earlier than her.
“Whoops,” exclaimed one of many crew alongside her within the sales space, whereas one other merely stated “Wow” because the state of affairs appeared to depart everybody squirming.
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Younger lastly took a second, marked his ball and eventually sunk the putt.
Nonetheless he went on so as to add additional bogies on the seventeenth and 18th holes for a spherical of 79 and effectively past the minimize mark, leaving him dealing with an early exit.
Whereas sympathy was in brief provide for Younger from the sales space, followers had been fast to empathise.
“One in every of us,” one fan supplied, maybe echoing the ideas of many when out on the greens of their native golf equipment.
“Or. Actually good about my placing,” one other quipped, in response to journalist Dylan Dethier publish the clip and alluring followers on X to look at ‘if you wish to really feel actually, actually dangerous.
Younger was not the one contender to overlook the minimize, former champions Dustin Johnson, Sergio Garcia and Brooks Koepka – all gamers on the LIV Golf circuit – won’t be round for the weekend.
US Ryder Cup captain Keegan Bradley, three-time Masters champion Phil Mickelson and former Open champion Cam Smith had been additionally amongst these packing their baggage early.
On the different finish of the leaderboard, Justin Rose set the midway lead at eight-under-par and has Bryson DeChambeau respiratory down his subsequent only one shot adrift.
Rory McIlroy surged into rivalry, placing two double bogies in his closing 4 holes on Thursday behind him to card a bogey-free 66 to take a seat simply two pictures of the lead.
The Northern Irishman is chasing a primary Masters title, and one that might give him a profession Grand Slam – becoming a member of Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods, Ben Hogan, Gary Participant and Gene Sarazan in reaching the feat.