AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) a' The last time Brandt Snedeker got this close to winning the Masters, he wept uncontrollably, troubled that the tournament he's dreamed of winning since he was a kid slipped through his hands. On Sunday, the only real tears after the final round were from his 2-year-old child. "I am never as crushed as I was in 2008 because I know I am planning to be there again," Snedeker said. This golf course is known by "i so well and I putted about as badly as I could today, and I still had an opportunity on the rear nine. I am very disappointed that I did not get, but I realize that I'm not that remote from winning this thing. "I am planning to take action soon." The co-leader following the third round, Snedeker could not make a Sunday on his method to a 3-over 75. After scratching his way through the entrance, he opened the back nine with two straight bogeys, including a neglect from 3 feet on 10, to drop three strokes off the lead. With the 2 par-5s still to perform, however, he wasn't out of it. Then he put his approach shot on 13 in Rae's Creek. While the ball splashed in to the water, Snedeker grimaced and bent both ends of his hybrid club, looking as if he desired to take it. "I didn't, I needed that team on 15," he said. "I was in-between clubs and I took the longer club and tried to minimize a off that fairway, which will be all challenging to accomplish. But it was the only way I had a chance of getting it close. My 4-iron wouldn't have made it and the cross, basically struck it normal is an excessive amount of. Therefore I tried to reduce it and arrived on the scene of it and where you are able to maybe not hit it." hit it Snedeker was able to save par, and then make bogey on the 14th. The best he'd come to the green coat in 2013 was watching playing companion Angel Cabrera force a playoff with inevitable winner Adam Scott. "Any time you've to be able to win the Masters and you do not come through a' my lifelong dream a' you're going to be upset, you are going to cry, you know, but I'll get through it," Snedeker said. "I am playing great, I look forward to what the following weeks are likely to maintain. Next year and I am going to come back here and I'm going to do my best to enter that last class again." Five years ago, Snedeker was excited to get herself in the ultimate group on Sunday in his first Masters as an expert. He was 27, just two years removed from the Nationwide Tour. As soon as became an excessive amount of, and pars were managed only six by him in the whole round as he blew up with a 77. Afterward, his voice shook as he tried to regulate his thoughts. He eventually gave up, burying his face in his towel as he sobbed. But Snedeker, despite his youthful looks, is no longer that wide-eyed baby. The Tour Championship was won by him last year, beating Rory McIlroy. There was a three-week stretch earlier this season when he was the hottest player in tennis, finishing second to Padraig Harrington at the Farmers, second to Phil Mickelson in Phoenix and capping the work with a gain at Pebble Beach. Snedeker was unflappable as he rose right into a share of the lead Saturday, beginning with 12 pars and building three birdies over his final six holes to have a one-stroke lead with Cabrera. Saturday night being in the ultimate group was no further enough, he said, he was ready to do so and desired to gain it. "I am not here to obtain a good finish," he explained. "I am perhaps not here to complete top five. I am here to win, and that's all I'm going to be focused on tomorrow. I know what I've to complete to do that, and I am going to accomplish anything I can to ensure that happens." Nerves weren't a problem, Snedeker said. His club was. "I didn't putt the manner in which you are supposed to putt around Augusta, I simply never had the speed," Snedeker said. "If I putt the way I generally putt and do not make these two loose swings, I am there with a chance to win the tennis match. "But I am very excited with the way in which I played," he explained. "I know that if I do that again, perform the exact same way again and I putt the way I usually do, I got a chance." That is why there have been no holes. Make no mistake, though, this end was just as gutting as this one in 2008, even when it didn't look it. "It will probably be more difficult tonight because I'd really a good chance by the end of the afternoon if I do what I normally do," he explained. "It will soon be tough to observe the playoff and stay there and really hear what goes on. tough night It's likely to be. A tough couple days."
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