At the 2005 Open de France, Van de Velde had a chance for a dramatic home victory. But he, again, found water on the 18th hole and lost to countryman Jean-Francois Remesy in a playoff.

It remains one of the most mind-boggling blunders in the history of men's major championship golf: Jean Van de Velde, Carnoustie, 18th hole. You don't have to dig far into your memory banks to ...

This choke did not happen on the golf course ... for first place and been in an 18-hole playoff the next day. Jean Van de Velde was a journeyman player who had a chance at history at the 1999 ...

What followed became one of the most famous collapses in sport. The sight of the haunted face of Van de Velde peering out of the Barry Burn with his trousers rolled up above his knees ...

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CARNOUSTIE, Scotland -- With his name all but engraved on the Claret Jug, Jean Van de Velde made a decision that will be debated for as long as the Scottish days are long. Jean Van de Velde ...

Jean Van de Velde, the previously-unknown Frenchman with ... “If I was going to choke, I had plenty of time to do it before the last hole,” Van de Velde reasoned. “If I was a choker, I ...

So it was startling last week when a dashing Frenchman named Jean Van de Velde threw away the British ... if he understood that he was destined to choke like a dog on Sunday and disgrace himself ...

Slightly more than 17 years have passed since Jean Van de Velde gift-wrapped the Claret Jug for Paul Lawrie at Carnoustie and became a sports punchline. After some 6,227 days, Van de Velde has ...

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