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Today on Freakonomics Radio: when we choke, why we choke - and maybe, just maybe, how not to. It can be when you’re parallel parking and people around you are watching, right? Steve JARDING: The choke is an amazing thing because it really does destroy careers.īEILOCK: It doesn’t have to be the Olympic Games. Sian BEILOCK: There’s lots of different ways people can choke. It is such a horrific word that some people don’t even like to say it aloud. It would require a grotesque combination of decisions and actions. That’s how ludicrous it would be to lose a golf tournament standing on the last tee with a three-shot lead. Some things crack under pressure crack#She goes to crack an egg on the side of the bowl - but instead, she somehow misses the bowl entirely and smashes the egg all over her face. Some things crack under pressure professional#How ludicrous would that be? Imagine a professional chef she’s about to make an omelet. They don’t win the Open Championship.īut standing on the final tee with a three-stroke lead? If you are a professional golfer, you will not lose that tournament. Frenchmen paint beautiful paintings and they write epic books about democracy and revenge. And there was a sense that Frenchmen don’t win majors. History wasn’t necessarily in Van de Velde’s favor:ĬHAMBLEE: He would have been the first Frenchman in over 100 years to have won the Open Championship. Although, that week, for whatever reason, he found another gear that week, he did drive it long. He didn’t drive it long, and he drove it crooked. Some things crack under pressure driver#Van de Velde was ranked just 152nd in the world.ĬHAMBLEE: He was not a good driver of the ball. It read: Jean Van de Velde.ĬHAMBLEE: He was a very handsome, debonair Frenchman, and he had a gorgeous golf swing. So obvious was his impending victory that his name had already been engraved on the Open’s iconic trophy, the Claret Jug. This man, with one hole to play, held a three-stroke lead. Peter ALLISS : The golfing gods are with the young man at this moment, and it’ll be interesting to see what he does now. He played on the PGA Tour for 15 years now he’s an analyst for the Golf Channel.ĬHAMBLEE: There was going to be a train wreck at some point.Īnd yet, on the tournament’s final day, on the final hole, stood a man who had tamed the savage course. Carnoustie also hosted the Open back in 1999.īrandel CHAMBLEE: The golf course was so hard that it inevitably was going to give us some bizarre conclusion. This year it’s being held at the Scottish course Carnoustie, which is so difficult it’s often called Car-nasty. It’s the oldest and arguably most important major tournament in golf. If you’re a big golf fan - and, statistically speaking, you are almost certainly not - but if you are, you know this is the week of the Open Championship, or what Americans call the British Open. ![]()
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