Sandy Lyle lost a $10 bet to fellow Masters champion Ian Woosnam after closing with a 77 for a 14-over-par aggregate of 302 in a round taking just 3hr 20min.
With son Stuart on the bag calling his father "Sir", the 50-year-old Scot foundered with three double-bogeys in a row from the ninth and, although Woosnam was two groups behind, he said: "I think I'll be paying out."
He was right. The Welshman, like Lyle a rookie on the Champions Tour this year, closed with a 78 for 300.
Boos were ringing out from the first tee as Lyle finished, perversely as encouragement for Boo Weekley, who was starting out in seventh place.
"I took a bit of a bashing out there," said Lyle who started in a slight wind which had reached around 20mph with sand flying out of the bunkers by the time he finished. "I was just short at the ninth and didn't get my first chip up. I tried to get a little closer than I would have done if it mattered."
Then his ball found an unplayable lie at the 10th - he had to return to play his third shot from the tee - and at the 11th, where his approach ran along the left side of the green and stopped momentarily before falling into the water hazard.
Lyle was still encouraged by the way he was striking the ball, specifically his previously flawed impact position, which was sending the ball left and causing pain to his hands.
Asked if could foresee another Scottish winner of the Masters, he completed the question with a laugh and "or even one playing in it." He added: "You can never say no'. Another young player could spring up very quickly."
After his 78 on Saturday, Lyle was last of the 45 qualifiers and because the final two rounds are in two-balls, Lyle was the odd man out and was offered a playing marker, which he accepted.
The marker was 45-year-old Jeff Knox, an Augusta member who holds the course record from the members' tees of 11-under-par 61 and who played with Miguel Angel Jimenez on Saturday. With Larry Mize and Charles Howell both having missed the cut it meant an Augusta native had played in the last two rounds after all.
They teed off at 10.35am on a chilly but sunny morning, two hours before the beer concessions opened. In this bible belt the selling of alcohol is forbidden before morning service is over, and Lyle had a sobering experience at the first.
While Knox hit his second up to 10 feet and holed out for a 3, exchanging a high-five with Lyle, the Scot missed the green right and chipped up to four feet, from where he missed. He took a long, hard look at the line that had betrayed him before moving on and recovering that shot with a birdie at the long second, which he reached in two and two-putted.
In a round that promised to be as up and down as a fiddler's elbow, Lyle then carved his tee-shot at the third into trees. As spectators gathered round his ball, a referee urged them to keep their shadows still while Lyle was playing.
He surveyed the shot right, left and up and over before announcing: "Hmm, I'm coming right through that gap, so be careful."
The gallery moved back in alarm, but never fear. He did as he nominated, though unfortunately the ball found a bunker and another bogey resulted, that was recovered with a 2 at the difficult par-3 fourth.
By the turn he had only one par on his card, the 3 at the sixth. There was one more birdie at the long eighth, bogeys at the fifth and seventh and a double-bogey 6 at the ninth on his way out in 39.
Double bogeys followed at the 10th and 11th, by which time he was seven shots adrift of the field, but he rallied with birdies at the 14th and 15th, before a steady finish that will mark the start of a week off before returning to the Champions Tour.
His first scheduled visit to Scotland this year is for the Senior British Open at Royal Troon in July. He is currently undecided over the Barclays Scottish Open at Loch Lomond a fortnight earlier.
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