Gavin Cooney

So the vibes were good, and then it just got away from him.

And it's the same...

So at the start of the week, he talked to us about acceptance was going to be very important this week.

Acceptance being the golfer's serenity prayer that when I had a great shot and it rolls off into some horrible lie or some leaving me some awful up and down that I don't deserve, I can't get angry at the universe or I can't get angry at myself.

I've just got to hit the next shot and move on.

He used the phrase in one of his TV interviews before Sunday, maybe on Saturday, what I did, what went out there was being kind to myself so that he'd stop getting in on himself and he'd stop compounding mistakes and compounding scores.

But for the second straight year, on a Sunday at the Masters, he went out with a chance to win.

As it turns out, he needed to shoot, what, 68 to win it, I think, and 69 would have got him into a playoff.

We didn't think he had the firepower to go out and shoot a 65-66 if the scoring was low.

But as it turns out, he had it in his arsenal to go and win this Masters.

And he couldn't do it.

He made double on five and that was kind of it.

The body language got bad.

The mistakes started compounding.

He ended up in the water on 11, I think.

I was following Rory, but because Shane was the group ahead, every now and again, you couldn't ignore the kind of glimpses you were given of his torture.

And I think the lowest moment was when he was walking up the 13th fairway and

The big leaderboard up there still had his name up on the board.

It was up there overnight because he was in that top five.

But as he was woken up 13 and he looked at that leaderboard, they were taking his name down.