Give Australian Steven Bowditch full marks for his sense of humour and proportion in the face of golfing disaster.
Bowditch finished a massive 49 shots behind winner and countryman Adam Scott after collecting the sort of records no one wants at the World Golf Championships in Miami.
Bowditch finished the lucrative no-cut event with a final round 12-over-par 84, the fourth day in a row he failed to break 80.
At 37-over 325 for the tournament the two-time US PGA Tour winner posted the highest total since WGC events began in 1999.
Battling a wild driver amidst some swing tweaks and still battling with the lingering fatigue effects of playing 40 weeks during 2015, Bowditch could still rationalise his nightmare at Trump National Doral with wry humour.
"I think there were four dozen balls in my locker at the start of the week and now I'm down to the last one," Bowditch said.
"It's just that type of course. It's the Blue Monster for a reason.
"I wasn't driving it the greatest and it's all over if you can't do that well here. In the first two rounds it was really just a few bad holes. I was 18-over for five holes.
"No one wants to play like that but it happens sometimes. It's just golf."
While Bowditch could have easily withdrawn from the event he refused to quit, trying to use the tough conditions to work on his game in the lead up to next week's US PGA Tour event in Tampa.
"I never gave up trying to hit good shots. But it was good practise for next week. There isn't a better place to work on your game than out there on a tough course in a tournament," he said.
"There aren't many positives but at least I was out there trying.
"I shot 37-over par and still made a pay cheque so life isn't that bad," he said, knowing last place collects $US48,000 ($A64,800) this week.
"I just played badly. But it's just a game of golf. I'll go out next week, go at it again and hopefully sort the driver out."
The last player on the US PGA Tour to shoot four rounds in the 80s was Mike Dunaway in the 1983 Las Vegas Pro-Celebrity Classic, a five-round event.
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