text: It was not the role Bradley Neil would have wanted — the job of being the boy reminding Augusta just how brilliant Jordan Spieth’s opening had been. For while the 21-year-old American was chewing up golf’s most spectacular course, the teenager from Scotland was suffering the role in reverse. Neil earned his invitation to the Masters after winning the Scottish Boys Championship in 2013 and then the British Amateur Championship last year. Bradley Neil finished 13 over par after competing in his first Masters . Still an amateur, the 19-year-old is being tipped for huge things when he does turn pro by no less a star than world No 1 Rory McIlroy. And he had the calming influence of veteran fellow Scot Sandy Lyle playing alongside him as he stepped on to the first tee hoping to recover from a six-over-par round on day one. There was promise as he atoned for hoisting his drive into the trees alongside the fairway with a recovery shot that put him 30 feet from the hole. But three putts later on the first of Augusta’s lightning fast greens, memorably described by Peter Alliss as ‘like trying to roll a ball down the bonnet of a car and stopping it before it falls off’, reality was beginning to bite. The young Scot has been tipped for big things by the likes of Rory McIlroy . He did birdie the par-five second, but then came five more dropped shots to reach the turn in 41, and the youngster finished the day on 79, 13 over par in all and facing the truth that his big weekend was already over. ‘I’d prepared well for this, but it shows my game is not good enough yet,’ he admitted. ‘I need to work hard on it if I want to get back here. ‘I’m jealous that Sandy gets to come back here every year, and I also want to do that in the future.’ Lyle, who won the green jacket in 1988 as one of the two major wins of his career, is 57 and a student of traditional hickory clubs — he won the World Hickory Open at Carnoustie last year. He even used a putter from the bygone era as he made his 34th Masters appearance. But although he three-putted only once, he carded a 76 to end day two at six over par.
target: The 19-year-old is being tipped for huge things when he does turn pro .
  He finished 13-over par for the weekend but is determined to return .
  'I'd prepared well for this, but it shows my game is not good enough yet,' he admitted .
  Neil qualified for the Masters by virtue of a win in the Scottish Boys Championship in 2013 and then the British Amateur Championship .