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Originally Posted by moon
Its a choke when you have played amongst the best all tournament long. I don't think that the top ten players in the tournament should expect or be expected to play the same as the other guys out there. If you are at the top of the leaderboard on Sunday you should play better than 90% of the other guys in the tournament, whether the course is tough or not.
It is choking to shoot 72 because shooting 69 which shouldn't have been tough for the guys who were playing there best all weekend long, would have put you in contention to win the tournament.
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You say they choke. I say Tiger just plays that much better. I don't think we'll be able to come to an agreement since we seem to have fundamentally different views on what constitutes a "choke" for PGA players. I think a score approaching 75 - 80 is a choke, doesn't matter if you shot 65 the day before or even par.
To expect even the best golfers to shoot somewhere between 67 - 69 every single day of a tournament is a pretty impossible standard of consistency, IMO. There are so many variables over an 18-hole round, to think an acceptable "non-choke" margin of error is 2-3 shots for every round (and that all rounds should be below par) just doesn't make a lot of sense to me.