Australia's Bryden Macpherson said he hopes world number one Adam Scott will treat him to a couple of drinks after he finished his Open debut on Friday on 26-over after two rounds.
He admitted on Thursday after shooting an opening round of 90 on the punishing Hoylake layout that he was embarrassed about shooting the highest score at the Open since 1999.
"Tell him to have a couple of drinks, that's all he can do. That's really tough. I feel for him, but he'll bounce back," Scott said following his countryman's opening round nightmare.
"We've all had a shocker at a major before. I have," added Scott.
A second round of 80 restored some degree of pride, but the 23-year-old from Melbourne, who qualifed by finishing fourth at the Australian Open last year, may now be tempted to take Scott's advice and drown his sorrows.
"There might be a couple, maybe Scotty (Scott) will buy me a few," Macpherson joked about his spectacular exit. "I think a fellow Australian, Ian Baker-Finch did a similar thing, first round in '97 and that triggered his retirement, but he'd already won a British Open, so he had a little more grandstanding than me.
"It would be a little weird for me to retire. I think it's just character building, that's all it is. If you see it as anything more or anything less, then you're looking at it the wrong way.
"My emotions are a little bit all over the place but it's a game of golf," Macpherson added. "It's disappointing and a little embarrassing but I'm a big boy and I can handle it.
"This is my first major as a pro, first Open as a pro, it's major golf.
"But I think if you don't enjoy it then you shouldn't be playing it as a living."
Macpherson ended the day dead last of the 155 remaining golfers, four shy of second worst – Sandy Lyle, the Open winner in 1985.
