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Second round play at the Masters was suspended Friday at 5:30 p.m. ET after the tournament ran out of squares and circles for Bryson Dechambeau's scorecard.

Okay, maybe not.

But it sure was quite a day at Augusta National for golf's biggest bomber before play was called due to darkness with half the field still on the course.

After weeks of hype about how U.S. Open champ Dechambeau could bring Bobby Jones' famed golf course to its knees, the game's great disruptor came up flat on Thursday, shooting a pedestrian 2-under 70 in perfect scoring conditions.

There were plenty of fireworks from the pre-tournament favourite on Friday, but most of them aimed at himself.

The most unbelievable moment took place at the 350-yard par-4 third hole.

Dechambeau arrived at 1-under for the day, 3-under for the tournament, and with a furious lash sent his tee shot sailing left of the green into wet rough, apparently setting up a short pitch shot to the green.

Only problem was he couldn't find his golf ball.

It might be the Masters, and it might be Augusta National, but with no spectators in attendance there's a chance to lose your ball. Especially when you hit drives to places the marshals aren't expecting balls to land.

After a brief exchange with a rules official, who Dechambeau hoped to convince that the entire left side of the hole was casual water, or ground under repair or, well, anything other than a lost ball and a penalty, he hopped into a golf cart and drove back to the tee.

Dechambeau would triple bogey the hole.

No matter how you feel about Dechambeau, it was a brutal break and one he understandably had trouble getting over.

He would bogey his next two holes. From there it was birdie, bogey, birdie, par, bogey, par, birdie.

Or enough circles and squares to make the mad scientist's scorecard look like a kindergarten workbook.

Dechambeau was through 12 holes of his second round when play was stopped, and is 1-over par for the tournament.

The only silver lining is he will begin Saturday with an eagle putt on the 13th.

What happens next is anybody's guess.