"There are debates to be had about the most profound breakdowns in major championship golf and where this one ranks. Right up there with the worst of them is the general view."

Tom English on Adam Scott's collapse that he says ranks up there with the all time worst.

Maybe it's too soon, but I am having trouble with that assessment considering how much disaster loomed at Lytham and how close Scott was to winning. There was the bogey on 16 though.

His body language was still of a man in control, as his tee-shot on 16 illustrated. He ripped it down the middle and then played up on to the green. His birdie putt finished four feet away from the hole, then he missed the next one for par. Only then could you feel the tension in the air around him.

“The putt on 16,” said McDowell. “It was huge for him to miss that. I said to him when he hit his first putt, ‘good putt’. And he didn’t respond. He’d left himself a bit of a knee-knocker. That putt horseshoed on him and it was the start of a series of events that he’ll think a lot about tonight.”

“If I make the putt on 15 or 16,” said Scott, “it’s a very different position and a lot more comfortable. It’s a hard hole, 15, but a poor putt there. And then I let one slip at 16. We got to the 16th tee and we’d said (himself and Williams) that it’s six good swings from there to finish out a round. And that’s what I was 
trying to do.”

Again, a little strong in my view...James Lawton in the Independent:

It consumed Scott, it left him so hollowed out that on the final hole he simply kneeled and shook his head.

His denouement was one of the most shocking in the history of major tournament golf.

And pure class after, courtesy of ESPN: