You know, I don’t play golf, never have, but somehow I got hooked on watching it on TV. The human drama is amazing.
You’ll appreciate it even more if you try to play it sometime and see what a maddeningly difficult game it is.
Unfortunately....I relearn this lesson regularly when I have a good round going....
(my best rounds have been when I'm just trying not to embarrass myself and get thru them.....Grrrrr....)
Did you happen to see the replay of Jack Nicklaus' Masters' win in 1986? ESPN played it several times over the weekend.
Seve Ballesteros had a huge lead, and even though Niicklaus was making a great run on the back nine, Seve was looking at a "routine" shot to make birdie, or possibly eagle on #15. Ballesteros inexplicably pull-hooked a 191-yard second shot, landing in the water in front of the green. He ended up bogeying the hole, and never recovered. Nicklaus went on to win his sixth green jacket.