Jason Day entered the final round of the Masters Tournaments with the weight of a nation on his shoulders, but the World Number 1 couldn’t produce the performance needed to take charge in the final round.

Starting Sunday chasing Jordan Speith, who held the overnight lead on 3-under the card, Day tussled with the front-9 at August National making bogey on the par-4 5th before finally carding his first birdie on the par-5 8th.

There was little difference in his game on the back-9. Two bogeys on the par-4 10th and 18th and a lone birdie on the par-5 15th were not enough for Masters glory or the chance to see an Australian slip on the Green Jacket. Day finished his campaign with a final round of 1-over 73 leaving him 1-over the card for the tournament and in a tie for 10th place.

"The first few days were a good grind for me. But today from tee to green wasn’t that good. It wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t great. When you’re out of position and you don’t quite give yourself the opportunities, it’s tough to get any sort of score going. It is what it is. I’ve just got to try to focus on what I need to do for next year," said Day.

"I came out and I just didn’t feel quite comfortable with my swing. When you’re not quite comfortable with your swing you start thinking about it rather than trying to just get up there and look at the target and hit at it. It’s hard to kind of get anything going from there once you do that."

Also challenged by Augusta was Adam Scott, who fired 4-over 76 in a final round that produced a staggering seven bogeys and three birdies ending his week on 11-over the card and in a tie for 42nd.

"Today was just a continuation of the week, really. I’m a little disappointed with today’s round. It started well, but I had about three three-putts, I think, kind of from nowhere," said Scott.

"I got to the point somewhere in the round where the reality set in that I’m not going to do anything special and just that intensity dropped and this course bites you, which was a little bit disappointing."

It was much the same story for Queensland rookie Cameron Smith, who shot 2-over 74 in the final round to put him at 15-over the card for the week and tied for 55th.

Marc Leishman and Steven Bowditch both missed the weekend’s play.

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