And that could sink the anti-EU cause.
A few thousand fans were gathered around to watch him sink a two-foot putt for a final par.
On a clear, moonlight night 150 years ago, the hand-cranked Confederate submarine HL Hunley glided out over glassy seas off South Carolina, sailing into history as the first submarine ever to sink an enemy warship.
Instead of jumping from issue to issue or rising up only to sink back down, they are building solidarity.
"They hit him hard, they came up on us in their boat and tried to sink it".
Another reason is the hundreds of billions the state has pumped into the financial system, keeping afloat households and businesses that would otherwise sink.
I have also walked in the mud at low tide, losing more than one sandal to the thick ooze of the mangrove substrate that can sink you thigh-deep in places.
And obsessive fiscal conservatism was left unchallenged, hardening into the self-defeating dogma that now threatens to sink the currency union.
Ipswich Town stay a point behind Brentford after Jay Tabb's scuffed shot bounced through a crowd of players and into the net to sink Bolton Wanderers 1-0.
But stepping stones can be slippery buggers - a careless stride, a bad choice of footwear or a shove from a mischievous co-traveller and you're in the rushing rapids either to sink without trace or to desperately grab for the nearest immoveable object.
But as soon as I sink into the soft flock cushions favoured by British Indian restaurants of the old school, all such worries melt away – I know exactly what I'm going to have.
