G olf is brilliant for allowing you to hide behind a load of cliches to explain away your form. We hear about processes, a need to simply hole a few more putts or getting more dialled in with the wedges when, most of the time, none of this is true. Plenty of golf is played between the ears, and if it’s not happening up there, then it’s certainly not going to be happening on the course.
But nobody outside your close friends and team needs to know this. For all the closeness of playing on tour and being ‘one big family’, you’re taking money off one another on a weekly basis. You don’t want to give your peers a hint of what’s going on in your head, and you certainly don’t want to mention it in interviews as that’s all that you’ll likely be asked about for years to come.
Hence why we see so many golfers get very emotional when they win. That’s the time to let it all out and
