Ian Carter

The US Open last year, he was right in the mix until the 71st hole and then made a mess of that.

And JJ Spawn went on to win and Bob McIntyre went past him.

And it almost feels like he's always having to play catch up in these majors.

He's never gone out there and taken a tournament by the scruff of the neck as he has done at DP World Tour level.

You think these are kind of false top fives, not false top fives, top fives, but he's arriving late into those positions.

Yeah, that's what it feels like to me.

Maybe I'm being harsh.

Especially when you consider how well he played the back nine last year, how he played the final round last year with 10 birdies in the final round and making the birdie on the last to make sure that he got into the playoff ultimately.

And so I didn't see the...

the the hitting the buffers as as it happened but it just shows you what a difficult test Augusta is if you have that tumultuous front nine as he did going to the turn in 32 maintaining that momentum amid the excitement with the stresses and strains of trying to win a title that you are so desperate to win at your 21st attempt I guess it's

It caught up with him.

As you say, 11 bogey there is not a disaster.

And actually, you know, the difference between the two, between Rose and McElroy was McElroy made a really, really important putt on the 11th there to save par and Rose didn't.

And then on 12, you had the Duff chip.

We talked about it in the preview, didn't we, Eddie?

That grass is sticky.

And I felt that was the only part of Rose's game that looked a bit shaky throughout the week.

He was uncertain on a number of occasions around the green with his chips, often got the fairway wood out or a rescue club and was experimenting, wondering whether to go with that or to go with the wedges.

And then for the club to stick in the way that it did and not get it onto the green from that little hollow at the back of 12, that was really when it all started to unravel.

Absolutely.