Jean van de Velde's collapse at Carnoustie in 1999 will go down as one of the biggest meltdowns in sports history. With The Open back at Carnoustie, we relive the mess.

Not so for Jean Van de Velde. He needed only double bogey on the last hole to win the Open Championship, but after a series of unthinkable mental and physical errors, he had to sink an eight-foot ...

This choke did not happen on the golf course but in the scorer’s area. ... Jean Van de Velde was a journeyman player who had a chance at history at the 1999 British Open.

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French golfer Jean Van de Velde takes his 6th shot on the 18th green in the final round of the British Open Championship at Carnoustie, Scotland, 18th July 1999.

The Open Championship will return to Carnouste in July 2018, 19 years after the Jean van de Velde collapse. The now-52-year-old Frenchman will be there working as an analyst for French television.

Jean van de Velde is the king of the choke. I can see him now at Carnoustie in 1999, shoes and socks off in the Barry Burn, ...

Jean Van De Velde of France during the first round of the WGC-Barbados World Cup held on the Country Club Course at the Sandy Lane Resort in St. James, Barbados, on December 7, 2006. PGA TOUR - WGC - ...

Frenchman Jean van de Velde will forever be known for the three-shot lead he squandered on the 18th hole of the Open Championship at Carnoustie in 1999, but now he’s content in his full-time job ...

Jean van de Velde's collapse at Carnoustie in 1999 will go down as one of the biggest meltdowns in sports history. With The Open back at Carnoustie, we relive the mess.

For better or worse (mostly worse), Jean van de Velde is best known for what he didn’t win.Leading the 1999 British Open at Carnoustie by three strokes standing on the 18th tee, van de Velde ...