If you play golf long enough, something bad is inevitably going to happen. It’s just a fact of life. And we’ve all been there.
Ask Mito Pereira, who arrived on the 18th tee at Southern Hills needing a par-4 to win the U.S PGA Championship, only to make a double-bogey six and miss out on a play-off for the title by one agonising shot. It wasn’t easy to watch the Chilean come up short in such a fashion, but it got my mind working. While I have never felt the level of disappointment Mito must have experienced in the wake of that loss – I’ve pretty much ‘dodged the bullet’ when it comes to devastating last-hole mishaps – my career does contain a few painful memories.
Not far into my rookie season on the PGA Tour in 2001,
