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Rory McIlroy is set to miss the cut at the Masters after a disappointing second round of five-over-par 77 left him on seven over at Augusta.
"I'm just not myself at the moment and this is the sort of golf course that makes your errors look even worse when you're slightly off," said McIlroy.
"I don't know what is going on - I just need to take a bit of a break and come back with a refreshed attitude.
"I think that I need to go home and get my head sorted," he added.
The young Northern Ireland player carded a double-bogey at the seventh hole and bogeys at the eighth, 14th and 16th during his second round.
"I just didn't play well - I'm disappointed but I have a couple of weeks now to work on it and try and get it back.
"I played the par fives poorly this week and it's just not all there so I need a bit of time to get it back on track.
"I'm getting frustrated very easily and getting down on myself.
"I'm supposed to play Quail Hollow in a couple of weeks but I might need a bit more time to let this injury clear up and clear my head and maybe come back at Wentworth or something.
"I just think the whole game is getting to me at the moment - I just need to go home for a while and see what I need to do for the rest of the season to get better.
"I think it started deteriorating over the weekend of the Dubai Desert Classic. I felt the back then and since then I haven't played well. It is partly down to that and also down to the fact that I am just nit enjoying it at the moment.
"I am not really worried about the back because it is not long term. It just needs to clear up and once it does it will be fine.
"I have worked hard the last few weeks but the weeks before that I wasn't able to do what I would have liked and it has been frustrating. I just need to get back out on the course and enjoy it.
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