All-time collapses? ESPN beat me to it here. Dustin Johnson's Peeble Beach collapse would be another addition. Interestingly enough, I don't see either collapse ruining these guys. They are just too good.
I woke up today thinking Rory had taken the fun out of Sunday at The Masters by pulling away on Saturday. What did I know? I didn't see a single chink in Rory's armor through 54 holes, but they showed up on Sunday. His body language was horrible once things started going astray, even as he was managing to hold on to the lead of the tournament. The pulled putts, the pull hooks, and then the disaster triple-bogey on #10 (and the four putt on #12 when it was already gone) - that was an epic collapse.
The only disappointment for me was the winner...Charl somebody? He certainly earned it - birdies on the last four holes plus flying it in on #3 - but I was pulling for everyone but him down the stretch. I hate it when nobodies when majors. Perhaps he'll be the next Ernie Els, but it for all I know right now he will be the next Orville Moody (I got that reference from this fun read about the worst major champions ever). Majors should belong to the game's best, but there are certainly some less-than-stellar golfers who have "major champion" by their names (and Adam Scott still resides near the top of the best-player-to-never-win-a-major list, along with Sergio Garcia, Lee Westwood and Ian Poulter).
Tiger made today 10x more exciting, but he'll really kick himself about a couple of putts that could amped up the pressure on the guys in his rear view. I guess every guy has a few moments like that - Donald's mis-club into the water on #12, Scott giving himself no shot for birdie on #17, K.J. Choi's putting, and McIlvoy's entire back nine.
Up next - U.S. Open from Congressional in mid-June.
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