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Originally Posted by makaveli

Van De Velde @ Open: Huge choke

Rory @ US Open: Big Choke

Dufner @ PGA: Choke

What do you think? :D

  1. Van de Velde was more bad luck than choking. Seriously, if his ball doesn't nail that railing dead on, he wins easily.
  2. Winning by eight qualifies as choking?
  3. Minor choke. There have been bigger ones.

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1. yeah I am pretty sure everybody remember him as the unluckiest guy in golf and not as the idiot who throw away an Open already won...

2. ahah I mean Augusta of course :)

3. dude, minor choke? whathever... is Dufner your friend? it's seems nobody here wanna say that he choked... it's not an insult, it happens sometimes in life...

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Van de Velde was more bad luck than choking. Seriously, if his ball doesn't nail that railing dead on, he wins easily.

Winning by eight qualifies as choking?

Minor choke. There have been bigger ones.




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Originally Posted by makaveli

1. yeah I am pretty sure everybody remember him as the unluckiest guy in golf and not as the idiot who throw away an Open already won...

Lots of people do, actually.


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2. ahah I mean Augusta of course :)

Duh. Minor choke there too.


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3. dude, minor choke? whathever... is Dufner your friend? it's seems nobody here wanna say that he choked... it's not an insult, it happens sometimes in life...

Nope, not a friend. Haven't even talked to him very much.

But in the scheme of things, not much of a choke. He was even par in the playoff, still got into a playoff, and had pressure applied to him. Those weren't "easy" holes, plus he made par when he had to on one of the toughest of the bunch. And you might define "choke" differently than I might.

Greg Norman, 1996? Bigger choke. The entire round. Six shot lead. Lost by several (no playoff).

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iacas let me understand, you say that Dufner didn't choke and then you compare it to Rory at the Masters?!?!

To conclude, since this may last to infinity and it's becoming boring for the others to read, let's say we have different way to define same thing! ;)

Ciao ciao

Originally Posted by iacas

Lots of people do, actually.

Duh. Minor choke there too.

Nope, not a friend. Haven't even talked to him very much.

But in the scheme of things, not much of a choke. He was even par in the playoff, still got into a playoff, and had pressure applied to him. Those weren't "easy" holes, plus he made par when he had to on one of the toughest of the bunch. And you might define "choke" differently than I might.

Greg Norman, 1996? Bigger choke. The entire round. Six shot lead. Lost by several (no playoff).




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Originally Posted by makaveli

iacas let me understand, you say that Dufner didn't choke and then you compare it to Rory at the Masters?!?!


Nope, I didn't say that.

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Nope, I didn't say that.


Can you explain me the bold part then?!?

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Lots of people do, actually.

Duh. Minor choke there too.

Nope, not a friend. Haven't even talked to him very much.

But in the scheme of things, not much of a choke. He was even par in the playoff, still got into a playoff, and had pressure applied to him. Those weren't "easy" holes, plus he made par when he had to on one of the toughest of the bunch. And you might define "choke" differently than I might.

Greg Norman, 1996? Bigger choke. The entire round. Six shot lead. Lost by several (no playoff).




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Originally Posted by makaveli

Can you explain me the bold part then?!?


No.

Not only is the thread really old now, but "not much of a choke" apparently means something different to me than you.

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