Kisner made the cut Friday after posting a 5 over in his first two days in windy conditions.
"This tournament was just not for me", the four-time major victor said after weekend rounds of 83 and 78 at Augusta National, the latter completed alongside marker and club member Jeff Knox on Sunday.
Fred Couples, the 1992 Masters champion, has had quite a record in the Masters since he turned 50, an age when most players are simply happy to make the cut. The one-stroke loss to Mickelson, best remembered for Lefty's celebration leap on No. 18, took something out of Els, who never again finished better than 13th.
No tears were shed. "But I had a great day. It's the second time he's been my marker around here", he said.
A few yards away, on the first tee, came an announcement - "Fore please, Jon Rahm, now driving".
"It's just fun", he said. His ball hit a branch and fell into Rae's Creek. "If I played better, I think it would have been a different feeling".
Four-time major victor Els is not ruling out playing in Georgia again but admits it wouldn't be the end of the world if last week was his final hurrah. Otherwise he will not be on the list of invitees, and his career would end without a Masters on his golfing CV. But if I look back at the 23 years here, how many professional golfers get the opportunity to play the Masters 23 times? And having a chance to win it a couple of times was special and this tournament is just not for me.
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"I didn't think I could live without it", he said with a laugh. Some of Els's very favourite memories of Augusta are from this hole.
That year, he was 24 playing the Masters. I played with Jose Maria [Olazabal] in the third round that year, he went on to win. "Phil's a friend of mine and obviously one of the guys who beat me down". "Every time I chipped it close, I missed the putt or I didn't chip it close enough and I'd missed the putt". He was 16 at the time, and his father let him break his curfew as "a special treat".
"The guys in the locker-room are still the same guys". The guys in the locker room are still the same guys and the members I've met here through the years are the same people and they run an unbelievable event. To have been part of it for 23 years is special. "It's a place where you dream to get to once or twice and to do it for so long was great". Seasoned Masters fans enjoyed another chapter in the book of classic finishes, rewarding a competitor who once broke down in tears, exclaiming that he would never win a major.
He was the first player to suffer on that famous closing stretch of holes, but not the last on this Sunday finish to the 81st Masters. Over four rounds, he posted 17 bogeys, one double bogey and 11 birdies.
Another bogey on the par-three 16th put the final nail in the coffin and led to a 42 back-nine score.
While the victor of The Masters has to play the best round of golf in his life just to put on the jacket, there's still some strict rules he must follow, and the jacket has a pretty interesting history.
"I had a good day".
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