"sad choice" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a decision that someone has made that you consider to be unfortunate or undesirable. For example, "He made a sad choice and now he has to live with the consequences."
It's a rather sad choice for an autobiographical figure.
It's a sad, sad choice, but amounts to much the same thing either way.
"Between President Mitterrand and a Prime Minister of the right, the choice will be limited to a sad choice of argument or humiliation," Mr. Fabius said in his speech Thursday night.
She has just recently realized that "the world was far bigger than the town I lived in," and she's already looking forward to "my own great journey". Setting her sights on a vast frozen desert in the Soviet Union seems like a sad choice, but it's typical of the desolation that infuses every one of these pages.
That sad choice by the University resulted in so much pain and suffering, and the termination of a several administrators, including the President.
While some minimal progress has been made by State to improve their management of the SIV programs, the legislation we crafted has been sabotaged by bureaucratic inefficiency, a lack of resources, a lack of commitment, and the sad choice to not prioritize this critical issue.
It's a sad economic choice: accept the need for mounting debts just to achieve moderate growth or crack down on borrowing and get no growth at all.
I feel the approbation of my phantom child, thanking me for making such a sad, hard choice.
Therapy and/or medication takes a back seat to the divorcing parents working on getting their act together and if this can't happen because the acrimony is too intense, then just know that meds and therapy may work, but it is a sad second choice.
"It's sad the choices we have in the elections this year: one that's a complete nut and the other who is dishonest," said Lee, a 68-year-old retiree, referring to Republican front-runner Donald J. Trump and Clinton.
Abortion is "a sad, even tragic choice to many, many women," said Clinton.
