Sergio Garcia has hole-in-one as Adam Scott finds the water on famous island green at Sawgrass
US Masters winners Sergio Garcia and Adam Scott used consecutive shots at golf’s most famous par-3 to showcase the ecstasy and agony of golf.
Garcia - who claimed his first major at Augusta in April - scored a brilliant hole-in-one at the island green that is the 17th at the TPC Sawgrass course in Florida, setting the stage for Scott who immediately followed him.
Scott, who won the 2013 US Masters, hit his tee-shot a little right of the pin before watching it roll back down the slope at the front of the green and into the water.
Adam Scott had a terrible finish to his first round. (AAP)
He was one of almost two dozen players to find the water on the day, but the only one to do it after the player before him had an ace.
Scott arrived at the 17th tee as the outright leader of the tournament at six-under-par. He walked off the green with a double-bogey five.
Things would only get worse for the Queenslander. He also found the water on the 18th and had another double bogey.
Despite dropping four shots in his final two holes, Scott is still only three shots adrift of joint leaders Willie McGirt (USA) and Mackenzie Hughes (Canada).
He is joined on -2 by fellow Australians Jason Day and Aaron Baddeley.
Cameron Smith was the next best Australian at -1. Rod Pampling (even par), Greg Chalmers (+1) and Marc Leishman (+1) complete the list of Australian entrants.
