A double bogey on the final hole best summed up Eric West's Tour de las Americas debut at the $180,000 Colombia Masters in Bogota, Colombia yesterday.

The 24 year-old Bermuda pro carded a three-over-par 74 at the Bogota Country Club where he recorded four bogeys and a double bogey at the par-four ninth hole.

With his chances of playing this weekend now hanging in the balance, West will have to make serious inroads when play resumes in today's second round.

"I feel like all the holes I should have played well today I didn't and all the holes I shouldn't have played well I did. Sometimes golf doesn't make any sense," West told The Royal Gazette.

West, who qualified for the Tour de las Americas nearly two months ago, rolled in three birdies, but wasn't consistent enough to make a serious charge on the leaderboard.

The pacy greens in Bogota didn't help West's cause.

"The greens were very fast and very bumpy. I putted well today, though," he added.

Starting the day on the back nine at the par-three 10th hole, West overcame a wobbly start after bogeying the third hole with back-to-back birdies at holes 13 and 14 to go to one-under for the day.

The momentum, though, didn't last long as he bogeyed the par-five 18th hole to make the turn at even par before additional bogeys on holes one and three and a double bogey on the last hole put a damper on the Bermudian's round and left him with an uphill climb heading into today's second round at the 7,099 yard, par-71 lay-out.

"I would have been happy today with a 72," West added. "But obviously my mistakes on the last hole kind of ruined my parade.

"Six was just ridiculous. It started raining and I blocked my rescue wood way right into the forest. I punched out to about 150 (yards) and missed the green which was death. I didnt get up and down and low and behold I shot 74."