IRVING, Texas, CMC – A wretched second round yesterday saw Stephen Ames spectacularly dumped from the US$6.2 million Byron Nelson Championship, the fourth time in as many tournaments he has failed to make the cut. The Trinidad and Tobago-born golfer shot a nightmare 12-over 82, astoundingly counting six bogeys and three double-bogeys to finish the day 13-over 153 and miss the cut generously set at three-over.
Starting the day one-over after an opening round 71 the previous day, Ames’ round lurched from one crisis to another at TPC Four Seasons Resort Las Colinas. He bogeyed the first, third and fifth – all par-4s – to make the turn at three-over but things got even worse on the back nine.
Ames found the left-sided fairway bunker off the tee to bogey the 12th and also dropped a shot on the 14th after a wayward tee shot found the rough.
More drama ensued with a double-bogey on the 504-yard, par-4 15th when his second shot from the middle of the fairway found the rough on the backside of the green and he struggled to reach the green.
He quickly followed up with a bogey on the 16th before closing out with successive double-bogeys on the 17th and 18th to end a terrible outing.
Ames has missed the cut at every tournament he has played this month starting with the Zurich Classic of New Orleans and continuing at the PLAYERS Championship and last week’s Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial.