Misfiring Thomas misses the Open weekend after first round to forget | Paul MacInnes

Last year's US PGA Championship winner shot 11 over par on Thursday having managed just three top-10 finishes this year

It just doesn't make sense," said Justin Thomas with a look of genuine mystification on his face. I'll hit shots like the No 1 player in the world and then I'll make a nine on the last hole of the tournament. I made two doubles and a quad. It's eight-year-old, nine-year-old stuff, not someone who's trying to win the British Open. I mean, you just can't do stuff like that!"

Thomas, the two-times major winner and indeed a former world No 1, was speaking on Friday afternoon shortly before his failure to make the cut at this year's Open was confirmed. Just 24 hours earlier he had entered its annals of infamy.