The ball just didn’t want to stop, says Sergio García after nightmare 13

• Defending Masters champion hits meltdown on 15th hole
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Not even a Jordan Spieth charge could spare the blushes of Sergio Gárcia. What Augusta giveth, Augusta taketh away. Masters drama arrives in the most varying of forms.

Gárcia, the defending champion and an individual for whom nothing could apparently douse an upbeat Masters mood, was front and centre of an extraordinary scene on the return to the course which yielded his greatest triumph. The Spaniard has entered the record books after taking 13 strokes at the par-five 15th. It was the joint highest score ever on a single Masters hole and the biggest tally – by two – on that hole. Amateur golfers the world over nodded in quiet appreciation of what Gárcia encountered.

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