AUGUSTA, Ga. -- Brandt Snedeker just couldn't stop crying. He didn't know why.

"I have no clue why I'm so emotional," he said. "I was laughing outside. I'm crying in here. I couldn't tell you."

Snedeker had reason for both sets of emotions during his final round 77 yesterday at the Masters. He came into the round in second place, two shots behind eventual champion Trevor Immelman. After a bogey at No. 1, he eagled No. 2 to tie Immelman. He made two birdies and eight bogeys the rest of the round.

"I think I'd put myself in the psychiatric ward; put it that way," Snedeker, 27, said. "I went from extreme highs to extreme lows and that's what you don't want to do around here. You try to level yourself out."

Snedeker was five shots back with eight holes to play, but felt he gave himself a chance with a birdie on No. 12. Then he put himself in what he thought was good position on the par-5 13th to go for the green in two. His shot then found the water for the second day in a row and made bogey.

"I had a 4-iron into that hole and, golly, man, if somebody could tell me how to play that second shot, I'd love to know, because two days in a row I've hit it right in the middle of that [darn] water," he said.

Like Immelman, Snedeker is a former U.S. Amateur Public Links champion; he turned pro after playing in the 2004 Masters. Snedeker followed Immelman as the PGA Tour's rookie of the year last year.

But he couldn't keep up with Immelman.

"Just a rough day out there," Snedeker said. "You know, it's hard to put that much effort into something and get so little out. But its just part of life, part of growing up."

Stephen Ames, Miguel Angel Jimenez and Nick Watney made eagles the hard way yesterday, holing out on par 4s.

Ames hit a 5-wood from 243 yards on No. 11, Jimenez made his on the par-4 No. 7 and Watney made his on No. 14.

Snedeker, Justin Leonard and Sweden's Robert Karlsson had the only eagles on a par 5 on Nos. 2, 13 and 15, respectively.

"It was good fun," Karlsson said.

ESPN's first year of Masters coverage was a big hit.

The broadcast of the second round Friday was the most-viewed golf telecast on cable, producing a 3.1 rating. It's the first time either of the first two rounds of the Masters has drawn a 3.0 rating. Coverage of the first round produced a 2.2 rating.

ESPN, which had televised the Masters internationally since 1993, signed a deal in October to broadcast the first two days of the year's first major. USA had been doing the opening rounds since 1982.