There's an old saying in golf that the breaks eventually even out. But for the five players on our list it's hard to imagine what they did to deserve this.
There's an old saying in golf that the breaks eventually even out. But for the five players on our list it's hard to imagine what they did to deserve this.
Dustin Johnson- WGC HSBC Champions 2015
In the final round of this year's HSBC Champions, tournament leader Dustin Johnson hit what appeared to be a perfect approach shot to the green, only for this to happen.
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He finished the hole with a double-bogey 7 and despite shooting 71, would finish the tournament four shots behind eventual winner Russell Knox.
Holly Clyburn- LPGA Qualifying Stage ii 2014
Lincolnshire's Holly Clyburn looked to have given herself the perfect start at last year's LPGA Qualifying School after a first round 71. Nonetheless whilst Clyburn filled out and signed her scorecard correctly, she was disqualified because her playing competitor, Australian amateur Justine Lee, reportedly became engaged in an argument with a volunteer in the scoring tent over her opening-round 78 and left the area without signing for Clyburn’s 71.
With 192 women in the field, Clyburn's 71 would have left her in a tie for 11th after one round of the 72-hole event, with the top 80 finishers plus ties advancing to the final stage of Q-School.
Clyburn would bounce back this year to secure her LPGA card for 2016.
Greg Norman- Two Major Misses
Destiny seemed to contrive against Greg Norman who lost out not once, but twice, to miracle hole outs. First Bob Tway holed a seemingly impossible bunker shot to win the 1986 US PGA Championship.
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Then, Larry Mize hole a 140-foot chip shot to snatch the 1987 Masters when it looked destined to be The Shark's.
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Stuart Manley- World Cup 2013
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When Stuart Manley aced the 3rd on the penultimate day of the 2013 World Cup he thought he secured himself a brand new Mercedes. Unfortunatly the prize was only avaliable on the last day and Manley was left to rue what might have been. He would precede to make an 11 on the next hole.
Joe Daley- PGA Qualifying School 2000
Joe Daley never made it on to the PGA Tour, but he probably should have. On the 18th hole, in the fourth round of PGA Tour school, Daley appeared to hit a perfect 5ft putt only to see it bounce off the back of the cup and hang on the lip.
Officials later discovered that the inside of the lip had come loose and risen up.
He missed his PGA Tour card by one stroke and never came close to gaining it again.
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