Ernie Els is one of those rare athletes who became a champion while somehow remaining a favorite of the people, a guy who never seems to draw criticism or disdain. You want Ernie to do well, and when he doesn't, you ache for him. Case in point: Sunday afternoon at the Transitions, when Els, who had held a share of the lead for much of the afternoon, went bogey-bogey to finish his round one stroke out of a playoff. His round ended in the cruelest possible fashion: a missed four-foot putt that he simply pushed wide. Els consented to a postround interview with NBC/Golf Channel's Steve Sands, and it was surely one of the most awkward and painful interviews in recent memory because of the look of utter shock on Els' face. Twenty minutes before -- hell, two minutes before -- he was preparing for a playoff and a possible win that would have punched his ticket to the Masters, and now ... nothing. Here's the sum total of the interview:
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