The replays appeared to show that the ball flicked in off his thigh yet he came awfully close to touching it with his arm, afterwards, before he turned away in triumph.
In the clubhouse, he found himself tied for the lead with Jason Dufner, who came awfully close to his first major victory last year, but lost a five-stroke lead with four holes to play in last year's P.G.A. Championship.
The NYPD — which knows a thing or two about the killings of unarmed black citizens — started the year with the hilariously misguided #myNYPD social media campaign and ended it with the non-indictment of a police officer whom hundreds of thousands of people watched suffocate Eric Garner to death with what looked awfully close to a chokehold.
On a weekend evening, you'll need to lean in awfully close over the chicken-liver pâté appetizer, topped with walnuts and capers and radishes, or the pounded veal chop, which is golden and glistening with a crunch like K.F.C.
"Let's start with Kentucky – which happens to be awfully close to South Carolina, Tennessee, and Mississippi – from sea to shining sea we will not give up.
At around 3PM on Friday afternoon, I spot a guy with a curly head of hair awfully close to the speaker of the UFO-tent, leaning directly against the fence.
The problem with this definition of triangulation, though, is that it comes awfully close to an indictment of governing, generally.
In this spiritual memoir about his friendship with Fred Rogers, the luminous sage of children's television, Tim Madigan comes awfully close to calling Mister Rogers a second Christ.
"Who could possibly invent the rants and ravings of a madman like Col. Gadhafi?" Amanpour asks, straying awfully close to the inevitable Charlie "I AM ADDICTED TO WINNING AND WILL BEAT YOU WITH MY VATICAN WARLOCK NINJAS" Sheen comparison.
