One-Shot Disasters: A Major Championship Hall of Shame
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Unforgettable, that face: sullen, limp, lifeless, defeated. This was the visage of Mike Donald on the 18th green at Medinah in the playoff against Hale Irwin at the 1990 U.S. Open. It was the last hole of the playoff, and Donald had barely missed a 15-footer for par that would've clinched the Open. So close, yet so far. After he and Irwin bogied 18, Irwin birdied the first hole of sudden death to win. Donald, 52. never recovered. He was off the Tour a few years later, and to this day he is still trying, without much success, to recapture the golden touch that brought him so close to golfing glory.


