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What is the most someone has choked in a tournament or to shoot a personal best or whatever??? I have two stories

Story one - Senior year of High School final hole of the first round of the state finals I tripled the last hole for a 77 and the second day I went bogey bogey finish for a 74...Our team lost state by 4 shots

Story two - This fall college tournament 5 under going into 16...Miss a 5 foot birdie putt then finish bogey bogey to miss the school record by 2 and our team lose the tourney by 2

Pressure *****.....Anyone else choke real bad trying to break 100, 90, 80, 70, or any other time?

I choked on 80 this year. I knew all I had to do was bogey or better to break into the 70's for the first time. I doubled it because I didn't stay down on the ball & bladed **** out of it on my chip to the green. Oh well, there's always tomorrow...

Let me think. I did really bad in a high school qualifier last year. You could call it a full round choke.

Besides that, nothing really.

edit: well, i did one round this year on the back 9. (well, front 9 actually)

we tee'd off on the back 9 to start, the much harder of two. shot 38, +1, and then proceeded to shot a +9 44 on the back.

An 82 is ok, but still very disspointing.

I shot -3 the first 10 holes and was +5 the last 8. Also, I was +3 thru 16, and hit to 8 feet on 17 for bird in a nationwide U15 tourney. I missed, bogeyed the last with wedge in my hand and lost by 3. I wouldn't have won but it still grates me

i had a reverse choke. i was -7 after the first day of a tourny this year. second day i shot a 49 on the front nine and reverse choke a 30 on the back. lost the tourny by a stroke. if i just could had stunk less by 2 strokes i would have won. drum roll please. the first stroke i should have not miss was missing a two inch tap in. i set up the putter and as i was hitting it i looked up to tell the guy what i got on that hole. only i didnt hear the ball fall in the hole. I LIPPED OUT A TWO INCHER. Another stroke to get back was barely lipping out an 45 foot eagle putt that some how gained a million miles of speed and rolled off the green which i had to two putt for par.

I was playing in a HS ladder match against one of my friends. I'm two up with one to play. I hit a drive right on a long par 4 but have a shot at the green and and excellent lie out of the rough. I decide to hit 4 wood, thinking that the worst that could happen would be front bunker and I could get up and two putt for a bogey. I hooked about 100 yards over some pine trees and was toast from there. Made an 8 and he made par. Should have layed up... I learned my lesson.

I walked off the 12th green one under with a three stroke lead in the last round of the Kentucky Junior. Finished second after playing the last six holes five over. My brain regained control and I did not jump off the balcony of the clubhouse at lunch.

Best 9 I played this year (+1) was followed by a slow collapse which I completed with a bogey on 17, then looking at bogey to give me 79 sliced one into the woods, hit an amazing 7 iron through a small gap out of the forest right over the flag to the top of the backstop behind the green, 20 ft elevated, chipped to 6 feet then three putted for 80...ooooouuuccchhh!

Don't think it's exactly a choke, but merely the one that got away... my home course finishes 5,3,5,5. I was 13 over after 14 holes (previous best on this course was an 81, 10 over, with a triple on the 9th - but that's another story) Well i proceeded to lip out a birdie putt on 15, hang my birdie putt on 16 on the edge of the cup, lip out my eagle putt on 17, and lip out out of the greenside bunker on 18 for eagle. A par, par, birdie, birdie finish that STILL left a bad taste in my mouth.

I met some buddies after work late this summer to play 18 at my home course. They had arrived before me and I met them on the 6th tee box. From there around to 18, I was 1 over par. They decided to play the first 5 holes with me so I could finish out my round. Since I was having my best round ever, they wanted to see what I might end up shooting.

I bogied one and then doubled two. Still not too bad. I had 3 birdies on the previous 13 holes, so I might pick up a stroke or two if I got lucky in the last 3 holes. I proceeded to bogie 3. #4 is a short par 5 that requires laser accurate shots from tee to green. I was laying just off the front of the green in 4, but I was looking at a reasonable chip and expected to get up and down for bogie. I bladed the stupid thing about 20 yards over the green into ****. Severe downhill lie in 4" rough to a green below the ball running away from me towards a pond. I was so stunned that I just walked to the cart, put up my club, drove to the clubhouse, put my clubs in the trunk and drove home.

I am getting mad just typing this story into the forum...

Biggest choke this year is being -2 going into hole 17 and going double bogey, bogey finish to shoot a +1 73. Gotta love that.

haha..Sounds familiar!!!

^^ Yeah it's amazing. I go through 16 holes -2 and two holes +3. I'm tough.

Last year (early spring 2005), I played in a scramble put on by the Gideons up in Lakeland. The Gideons are the people who place all the Bibles in the hotel rooms, and my friend's father is a member. Anyway, they had a "Million Dollar Shot" contest that everyone was given 5 chances to be chosen for the shot, and you could buy more for a dollar each. Whoever was chosen was given one shot, from 170 yards out, to hole the shot for $1 million dollars!

Well, I got chosen! We were the last group in, and they held this contest on the 18th hole with everyone gathered around. Just 40 minutes before I had used my 7 iron on a 175 yard par 3 and put it 5 feet from the pin, so when we got out to the marked off 170 yard spot, I pulled out my 7 iron. I took several practice swings, all the time listening to the guy running the contest saying things behind me like "A 7-iron? Man, I'd be hitting a 5 iron!" Finally, I placed it on a great lie, lined up allowing for the wind and slope of green toward the hole, took a smooth backswing and topped the ball about 30 yards! Felt like the ball had gone down my throat! Afterwards at the luncheon, several guys come over and said how happy they were that they DIDN'T get chosen to take the shot!

Don't feel too bad... Jeff Sluman tells the story on himself that after winning the PGA, at his next tournament on the first tee they announced him as the reigning PGA Champion to a round of applause. He set up and cold topped the ball 30 yards down the fairway. He said he never set up and hit his second shot any faster in his life just trying to get away from the embarrassment.