Obviously its a way bigger deal to the actual participants than fans, but it is tough for fans. The teams I root for usually lose, so I don't get my hopes up usually. 2014 Stanley Cup and 2015 World Series were basically like the same thing. We would get out to an early lead, but lose nearly every game late. Neither series went that many games, so it might've been easier. The football team I root for is terrible and the USA isn't any good at soccer, so not much to get over when your teams don't even get to the latter stages. None of the TW losses were that difficult. I was at Camp during the 2009 PGA, so it wasn't that hard to get over. 2012 Open was the most difficult. I thought he was going to win that tournament. He looked like he was going to take the lead late in the 3rd round, but then made a bad error, and had a completely flat final round. Tentative, looked in his own head. That was the toughest TW loss to get over.
I think the 2015 Open was way tougher to get over than last year's Masters. 2016 Masters was just annoying because everyone was talking about it because of the circumstances instead of just playing poorly, and that he didn't have the best year. He didn't even play well at the Masters last year. He was hitting so many poor shots, just scrambling like crazy. He was a little unlucky one of his really bad swings came on a hole with water, and then he just didn't manage the situation well from there. He really shouldn't have won that tournament to begin with. He would've robbed the field with his "C" game, if he had won.
2015 Open was so epic and dramatic. He was going for the third leg of the grand slam, and trying to do what the elite players in golf history had gotten a chance to do, but weren't able to do. I was so frustrated watching that whole last round. It was on a Monday after a million weather delays the whole tournament. I thought he threw away the tournament on #8, and then he makes a good comeback to get back into the mix. He had stalled though for a bunch of holes, and you figure he probably has to birdie 16, given 17 is probably the most difficult golf hole ever, especially with that wind to even have a chance to get into a playoff on 18. And then he makes the putt on 16. Outside of maybe the Tiger putt at Torrey Pines, that was the most clutch putt I've seen, given the circumstances. Impossible putt from like 30 feet, you have to get that putt 100% perfect, otherwise it won't go in. At that point, I figured he was going to win, but he missed his putt on 17, and then came up like 2 or 3 feet short on 18 of a perfect shot, but if you try for a perfect shot on 18 and miss it, it'll go down the valley of sin.
