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Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins
I was enraged by the 2006 US Open at the time. The most crushing defeat doesn't make me sad, but angry. Now, it hurts more than any other. Morbidly, I still watch highlights of that collapse somehow thinking it won't happen.
Geoff Ogilvie's chip-in on 17 was one of the better breaks in recent major history.
The ones that hurt nearly as much are the 1999 US Open, the 2001 PGA (Toms was such a fluke winner b/c he holed a 5 wood that was headed over the back, short-sided, in deep rough and a certain bogey), the 2009 US Open @ Bethpage, and the 2011 Open, when a garbage player like Darren Clarke careered it.
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If you think about it he's had some really shitty luck at the majors...
- Payne Stewart in 99 making a par on the 72nd hole that honestly he had no business making, esp. after the drive.
- Toms' miracle hole in one in 01 that to this day I still have no clue how it went in.
- Retief Goosen's putting display at Shinnecock in 04 during the final round that was nothing short of divine intervention.
- Ogilvy's chip in 06, crazy
- His tee shot at #4 last year at Augusta...granted it was a horrid push block but it hit the railing and bounced back under the bamboo. 9 times outta 10 that flies into the grandstand