But now Dufner has rewritten his image entirely, Sunday's final round at Oak Hill serving as one big eraser.
The job of journalism is of course conducted, at one level at least, on an entirely day-by-day basis.
Yet despite the Irish government saying the trip was cancelled, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders resisted ruling it out entirely Tuesday afternoon, saying the president was still traveling to Paris in November and might make a quick stopover in Ireland.
For Jerry Bailey, who lost a mount in the Derby when Wimbledon scratched on Friday, it was not an entirely lost day.
National and local, private and public TV and radio channels, meanwhile, ignored the news entirely on Wednesday evening and Thursday morning.
And for some unknown reason I ended up spending an entirely unforeseen day writing about Susan Boyle.
But at least one group home, the Austin Children's Shelter, had emptied out entirely by day's end.
It was not an entirely happy day for Lupoli, though, as he missed a good chance to give Norwich victory.
Like most of the Western reporters there, I found myself overwhelmed by the sheer reality of Iraq, which seemed to transform itself entirely every day.
Split-dose bowel preparations for colonoscopy are more effective and better tolerated than preparations given entirely the day or evening before the procedure; however, some resistance to split-dose preparation stems from concerns about an increased risk of aspiration with same-day preparation.
It provided an entirely new day.
