The long shot disappeared in the high grass of the rough – and the newly augmented list of those moments which, when the pressure has been at its most intense, have turned irrevocably against Lee Westwood.
"In the generation of Manolo Santana, Roy Emerson and Rod Laver, they were using the slice forehand a lot, but then this shot disappeared," said Ricardo Sánchez, a Spaniard who has coached some of the top women's players in this era.
The still shot disappears, and the movies show travel with friends, the camera sweeping over beaches, mountains, canals, volcanoes, markets, ragged children in hot dusty streets, castles in Spain, Scylla and Charybdis.
You cannot shoot another dart until the one you shot disappears.
At times wincing as pain shot through his surgically repaired left knee, at times smiling in disbelief as another of his shots disappeared in the hole, Woods played himself into position to win his 14th major championship.
The sniper fired one shot before disappearing.
Low-grade cells have about an equal shot of disappearing on their own as they do of developing into high-grade or cancerous cells.
He has struggled along with his team for almost the entire season, missing open shots and disappearing for quarters at a time.
Sabido's report was never broadcast and, he claims, much of the footage shot that day, "particularly some of the nastier shots", subsequently disappeared.
Whoever fired the shots then disappeared, as the driver, identified by the police as Jorge Martinez, slumped over at the wheel of his van, which continued to career west along Avenue X until it crashed into a light pole at West 11th Street and came to rest.
