I looked like a monkey trying to wrestle a football.
To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to you on the golf course. This is not indifference, it's detachment.
Of all the hazards, fear is the worst.
Until you play it, St. Andrews looks like the sort of real estate you couldn't give away.
Of the mental hazards, being scared is the worst. When you get scared, you get tense.
There is an old saying: if a man comes home with sand in his cuffs and cockleburs in his pants, don't ask him what he shot.