Word: medinah
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...never thought how far he had given himself to fall. He was absolutely sure." Watson laughs at that now. "My father got mad at me that night. Even if you think it,' he said, do you have to say it?'" At the next U.S. Open, in Medinah, Ill., Watson followed record rounds of 67 and 68 with calamitous scores of 78 and 77, convincing everyone but himself that he was a choker...
...weeks later Watson came back to win his first professional golf tournament, the Western Open. "My goal," he baldly announced after that one victory, "is to be the best golfer in the world." The following spring at Medinah, Ill., Watson's next Open experience was even crueler-after he established a 36-hole record for an Open, his game collapsed again-and something close to a phobia took hold...