"But I don't feel I lost the tournament; he won it," he said.
Only once, the first time he held the lead going into the final round, has he lost the tournament.
Also, as Watson himself appreciates, the way he lost the tournament underscored why golf is the sport most like life.
"I lost the tournament on the 18th in regulation," said Mickelson, who was looking for his third victory this year.
For a long time, Lawrie said, the popular narrative of that British Open — van de Velde lost the tournament, not that he won it — deeply troubled him.
It looked as though Colombia had lost the tournament, but then Mr. Mejía was released and a fierce lobbying effort by Copa sponsors and Colombian officials began.
They captured the West Coast Conference regular-season title but lost the tournament championship to San Diego, which was playing on its home court.
The team had come agonizingly close to qualifying a year ago, beating Saudi Arabia in a qualifying tournament in Kutno, Poland, but Shapiro said they lost the next day to Kuwait and lost the tournament because of a tiebreaker rule.
Meanwhile, Whittingdale told MPs that England could theoretically step in to host the 2022 World Cup if required but said it was "very unlikely" that another European nation would be chosen to follow Russia even if Qatar lost the tournament.
Last season, in leading Pittsburgh to the Big East tournament championship game, Knight averaged 15.6 points and 7.2 assists a game as the Panthers won the West Division but lost the tournament title in double overtime to Connecticut.
Asked how he would have fared without Norman's chipping lesson, Scott said, "I probably would have lost the tournament, to be honest with you, if I was chipping the same way as I did earlier in the week".
