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8th April 2016
10:55am BST

"It's hard to explain. I can't explain it. "It's something that I'm sure up there somewhere that you just can't do what you normally do. It's unexplainable. "A lot of people have stopped playing the game, you know, it's unexplainable. I couldn't get the putter back. "I was standing there, I've got a three‑footer, I've made thousands of three‑footers and I just couldn't take it back."
For Els, it got much worse after shots number four and five on the par-four opener:Ernie Els 7 putted the first hole, it's excruciating to watch pic.twitter.com/0SJIyncF9k
— The Cauldron (@TheCauldron) April 7, 2016
"And then I just kind of lost count after... I mean, the whole day was a grind. I tried to fight. "I'm hitting the ball half decent and I can't make it from two feet. "I missed from two feet on 18 and a four‑footer on 17. Six‑footer on... when you count them up, it's too many shots just out there, just on the green. "So it's very difficult. I'm not sure where I'm going from here."Els is extremely unlikely to make the weekend. The best he can hope for is to go under par and try bloody the nose of a course that has left him reeling.

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