Mito Pereira underwent perhaps the worst collapse in recent golf memory on Sunday afternoon.
Yet minutes later, somehow, he was still smiling.
“I guess you have so much pressure on your body, you maybe don’t even know what you’re doing,” he said with a laugh on CBS.
Pereira, after entering Sunday with a three-shot lead at the PGA Championship in Tulsa, Oklahoma, fell apart in his final round at Southern Hills Country Club. Though he held onto a one-shot lead at the tee box of the par-4 18th, he hit his drive into the water and then had to settle with a double bogey — which forced him out of a playoff at the second major championship of the year.