Read this article from Jay Busbee….this would induce for most normal humans.

Three feet. It’s not quite inside the leather, not quite gimme, but close. Veeery close. So close that you’ve probably knocked down a hundred of them in your life without thinking twice about it.

Brandt Snedeker would love to have one of those hundred, please, delivered to Sunday afternoon. By four-putting from 12 feet, and three-putting from inside three feet, he not only bounced himself out of the Tour Championship, he cost himself a nice little chunk of change. ESPN’s Bob Harig figures it this way:

• $100,000 by falling from a T-8 to a T-10 in the BMW standings.

• At least $120,000, the take for the last-place finisher in the Tour Championship.

• $175,000, the bonus for anybody competing in the FedEx Cup.

• Guaranteed invitations to the Masters, British Open and U.S. Open next year.

Ouch.

The last thing Snedeker needs is for anybody to pile on; facing a three-footer with that much on the line must have felt like facing a 300-footer. And according to Snedeker, everything came unraveled when he made the mistake of asking NBC’s Roger Maltbie in the 18th fairway what he needed to get in:

“I thought I had to make par and he told me bogey would get in,” Snedeker said. “Shouldn’t have affected me. Shows you how weak mentally I am. Shows you what I need to work on. We’ll work on it and we’ll be back next year.”

Ouch, again. Instead of making par, Snedeker finished with a quadruple bogey. And hopefully not a completely wrecked psyche.

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