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Final-round pressure is the ultimate choking hazard

By Jaime Diaz
Golf Digest

Sunday, June 10, 2007

"Put that coffee down! Coffee's for closers only!" So begins Alec Baldwin -- as the slickly superior corporate boss Blake -- in a brutally calculating humiliation of a group of beaten-down real-estate salesmen in the film of David Mamet's "Glengarry Glen Ross." When two Willy Loman types scoff, Blake explodes with a torrent of abuse that concludes in a coarse crescendo: "You can't close s -- -, you are s -- -. Hit the bricks, pal, and beat it, 'cause you are going out!" Ouch. Then again, it ...

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