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What is the worst case of pressure you have seen in sport?
Not sure if it's the worst but it's up their with the best of them, i was at the 2004 Curtis Cup (womens amateur golf team championships) at Formby, Merseyside. Being a huge golf enthsiast thought it was the right thing to do so trooped up there on the train(s) for the saturday.
Followed a few matches around the course and by the end of one i went back to a particular match (the UK and Ireland's Danielle Masters vs the USA's Erica Blasberg) with Blasberg up by 3 after the twelth, the next couple of holes where halved so by the 14th she was 3up with 5 to play, she lost that hole fair and square, she lost the 15th also. The 16th is compared to most courses a relatively short par 3 with a large green and Masters hit her tee shot into the bunker to the left of the green. Allowing for only needing to halve the hole, Blasberg had to find a relatively large green at Formby Ladies 16th hole but proceeded to aim at the flag (from what i saw - directly over the bunker) and over hit the green to the left to such an extent that she had to take a drop from a scoreboard, she duffed her next shot from the rough and was chipping over a bunker for 3 (Masters had yet to take her 2nd), she went on to miss a 5ft put and took 6 from what i remember.
Her 17th tee shot went into the trees on the right and she lost that hole (the fairway was relatively wide and there was little wind).
Given how drained she looked on the 18th having been leading just a few holes earlier and the rather partizan majority of the crowd it was the first time in my short life that i've found myself wanting someone not British to win an international sporting event.
Started this topic as i've read recently that she's to turn professional, good luck Erica.
Martin
Not sure if it's the worst but it's up their with the best of them, i was at the 2004 Curtis Cup (womens amateur golf team championships) at Formby, Merseyside. Being a huge golf enthsiast thought it was the right thing to do so trooped up there on the train(s) for the saturday.
Followed a few matches around the course and by the end of one i went back to a particular match (the UK and Ireland's Danielle Masters vs the USA's Erica Blasberg) with Blasberg up by 3 after the twelth, the next couple of holes where halved so by the 14th she was 3up with 5 to play, she lost that hole fair and square, she lost the 15th also. The 16th is compared to most courses a relatively short par 3 with a large green and Masters hit her tee shot into the bunker to the left of the green. Allowing for only needing to halve the hole, Blasberg had to find a relatively large green at Formby Ladies 16th hole but proceeded to aim at the flag (from what i saw - directly over the bunker) and over hit the green to the left to such an extent that she had to take a drop from a scoreboard, she duffed her next shot from the rough and was chipping over a bunker for 3 (Masters had yet to take her 2nd), she went on to miss a 5ft put and took 6 from what i remember.
Her 17th tee shot went into the trees on the right and she lost that hole (the fairway was relatively wide and there was little wind).
Given how drained she looked on the 18th having been leading just a few holes earlier and the rather partizan majority of the crowd it was the first time in my short life that i've found myself wanting someone not British to win an international sporting event.
Started this topic as i've read recently that she's to turn professional, good luck Erica.
Martin
