There are clearly many really frustrating sports, in the sense that you can come so close to winning but you just fail by several millimetres. However for me, the three which are most frustrating have to be darts, snooker and golf. Even though two of these sports do involve anything physical at all, they require great accuracy, which is why they can get on your nerves so much.
Darts is one of those sports when you can keep missing. You can have a really easy checkout, needing only a double tops to win (for those unaware of the terminology, it's a double twenty and it is widely considered the easiest finish on the dartboard) and yet still fail. You miss three in a row and then your opponent has three chances to make you pay. If he does, you're then left frustrated and distraught over the fact that you lost by what is not even a centimetre.
Snooker, is like darts, but could to an extent be even worse, because so many things could frustrate you. It could be the fact that you miss the pot by a centimetre, or even worse, that you find yourself only just snookered by a whisker. You could also end up blasting the ball toward the pocket, only for it to ricochet out and block it.
However if you want a sport that is played outdoors and does involve some physical effort, it's without a doubt golf. In golf, you see endless putts where the ball does go towards the hole, but ends up somehow jumping over it, usually because the person has hit it a fraction too hard. You also have the typical Rory McIlroy scenario, where you hit it into some trees, get a triple or quadruple bogey and end up losing your chance at a first Major championship.
Other really frustrating sports that deserve mentions are football of course, basketball, when the ball spins round in circles on the inside of the rim, and somehow finds its way out and to an extent track cycling, where you can lose by half a tyre's width.
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