I’d placed a proverbial monkey on my back over the past few years by giving myself the goal of shooting under-par, and I’ll admit it had become a bit of an obsession. I’d come close numerous times but never quite got over the line – despite knowing I was able to break 70, my course’s par – and seen people I’ve known through the years go sub-par despite having higher handicaps than me.
One of my closest golfing friends has shot under par five times, but not for a long while now, and despite having a lower handicap than him, he always had this over me. Having shot level-par multiple times and given away a good few underpar scores, I had began to wonder if it would ever happen. I remember bogeying the last, albeit
