Still no sign of a lookalike for George, so we have instead resorted to a list of actalikes i.e. people who have shown similar characteristics when put under pressure on the golf course!
Greg Norman
The Masters, Augusta, 1996
In the opening round of the 1996 Masters Greg Norman shot a course-record 63. Three days later he contrived to go round the same 18 holes at Augusta National in 15 strokes more. In the process he blew a six-shot lead - the biggest in Masters history - over Nick Faldo and converted it into a five-shot deficit. On the day Faldo was brilliant but brilliance alone would not have been enough to catch the Great White Shark had Norman not folded and run up a Great White flag.
Doug Sanders
Open Championship, St Andrews, 1970
Doug Sanders had two putts from 30 feet to win the 1970 Open at St Andrews, edging out the mighty Jack Nicklaus in the process. Sanders left his first effort - downhill and across the green - 30 inches short. Then things went really wrong. 'I was confident standing over it, and then I saw what I thought was a little piece of sand on my line,' recalls Sanders. 'Without moving my feet, I bent down to pick it up, but it was a piece of grass. I didn't take time to move away and get reorganised. I mishit the ball and pushed it to the right of the hole. It was the most expensive missed putt in the history of the game.' Too true. The following day he lost the 18-hole play-off to Nicklaus by a stroke.
Colin Montgomerie
US Open, Winged Foot, 2006
Colin Montgomerie could not hide his despair as he threw away the chance of winning his first major at the US Open. The 42-year-old was tied for the lead as he headed down the 18th but missed the green from the middle of the fairway and made a double-bogey." My other chances (to win majors) other people have done well, this is the first time I've messed up," he said.
The 172-yard shot to the last was not aided by a decision to change clubs at the last moment. "I hit the wrong club on my second shot," a disappointed but philosophical Montgomerie said later. "I switched from a six (iron) to a seven, because I thought adrenaline would kick in. I just hit it a little heavy and put myself in a poor position."
Montgomerie's approach landed short and right of the pin, in the heavy greenside rough. The eight-time European number one then pitched out and ran well past the hole, taking three putts to finish with a round of 71 and a six-over total." This is as difficult as it gets. To double-bogey the last and finish runner-up," he said. "It is a very tricky hole but not from the fairway."
Jean Van de Velde
The Open, Carnoustie, 1999
What Van de Velde did at Carnoustie's 18th hole may go down as the biggest blunder in golf history -- at least, right among the biggest. He came to the 18th tee with a three-shot lead. All he had to do to win was make double bogey. But he and his caddie made a strategic error: Van de Velde never should have hit driver off the tee. He should have played the 487-yard hole as a par-5, a three-shot hole. Just hit five-iron off the tee; lay up to the Barry Burn, the water hazard in front of the green, with a nine-iron; hit sand wedge on the green; and three-putt for the victory.
Instead, Van de Velde hit driver in the fairway, realized he could reach the green in two and went for the green when he didn't need to. He pushed the shot to the right. His ball hit the grandstands and bounced back across the water. His third shot barely got out of the rough and splashed down. After a drop, he eventually got up and down for a triple-bogey 7, the worst final-hole collapse in modern golf history.
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