A shocked Joel Dahmen delivered a gut-wrenching interview after throwing away the chance to win his second PGA Tour title.
The American, who has risen to fame as a popular character on the Netflix documentary ‘Full Swing’, was three shots clear heading into the final round of the Corales Puntacana Championship.
However, Dahmen carded a disappointing 76 on Sunday, which included three bogeys in the closing three holes.
The lowlight was a desperately short miss on the 17th green, before Dahmen ended up one shot behind eventual winner Garrick Higgo.
“I think I’m in a little bit of shock, honestly,” Dahmen said after finishing in a tie for second.
“It’s not how you win a golf tournament, I’ll tell you that. I don’t deserve to win it.
“You know, bogeying the last three is inexcusable. Middle of the fairway with an 8-iron on 16 to hit it where I hit it, you can’t get up and down over there.
“I don’t know what happened on the short one on 17. I mean, I’m obviously nervous, but unfortunately, I’m prone to that at times.
“You can call it a lapse in concentration. It’s not like a yippee thing, it’s not like one of those things. But bad time to do it.
“And then 18’s just a really hard hole. We had 220 [to the] pin and wind surfed on it and hit a very average chip. I hit a good putt. I actually thought it was a straight putt and broke a little left on me.
“All of a sudden, I wake up and I lost the golf tournament.”
Dahmen added: “This one could take a while to get over.
“It’s one of those things, you learn more in defeat unfortunately. I don’t know what I’m going to do yet. Like I said, I still think I’m in a little bit of shock. Felt like I was in a good head space. I was in a good head space but sometimes your body doesn’t cooperate.
“This one’s going to sting for a while.”
In the PGA Tour‘s main event of the weekend, Justin Thomas ended a three-year drought by winning the RBC Heritage.
The Ryder Cup star beat Andrew Novak in a play-off after they both finished 17-under-par at Harbour Town.
Thomas, who sank a 21-foot putt to win, had not tasted victory since the 2022 PGA Championship.
“When the ball went in, it was pure joy… I just was so happy. I couldn’t stop smiling,” Thomas said.
“I feel like I’ve been playing well enough to win for a couple years.
“But just because you feel that way and you are, obviously that doesn’t mean that you’re going to.”
He added: “I didn’t realise how much I missed winning.”
