Ernie Els shoots worst score ever recorded on Augusta’s first hole
AUGUSTA, Ga.—They say you can’t win the Masters on the first day, but Ernie Els did his best to prove you can lose it on the very first hole.
Els carded an unbelievable 10—that would be six strokes over par—on the very first hole of the Masters. Even worse: Els had a two-foot putt for par, and somehow seven-putted.
One hole in, Els was in third-to-last place, 11 strokes behind the leader.
Els’ turkey vulture—that’s a term we just made up for a six-over-par score—wasn’t just aesthetically awful. It was all-time historically terrible. The 10 was the worst shot ever recorded during a Masters at the par-4 first. It’s tied for the fifth-worst score at a Masters hole all-time.
How did it possibly happen? Well, here’s a clue:
Yeesh.
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