TROON, Scotland (AP) -- Former British Open champion Ben Curtis managed a chuckle when he came off the course with a 10 on his scoreboard.
He wasn't in such a good mood a few hours earlier, when he knocked his ball in three different bunkers on the way to a sextuple bogey.
''I wanted to go jump in the ocean,'' Curtis said with a weak smile.
His troubles began when he drove into a fairway bunker at the 377-yard third hole, the second-shortest of all the par 4s at Royal Troon.
Curtis had a decent lie in the sand and thought he could possibly get it to the front of the green, but that was far too optimistic for a player whose game has been in disarray.