Duval drops to the bottom

David Duval has been showing signs this year of emerging from his nightmare slump – but not in the Masters this week.

After an opening 84 at Augusta National the former world number one and Open champion, who fell outside the world’s top 500 and totally stopped playing for seven months, ran up a quintuple-bogey 10 on the 575-yard second hole today.

And that followed a double-bogey six at the first to leave him 19 over par and in last place of the 90-strong field.

That was because 67-year-old Charles Coody, winner way back in 1971, followed his first-round 89 by covering the first 14 holes in a superb level par to remain 17 over.