Don't take your bad shots home with you.
Golf is like solitaire. When you cheat, you cheat only yourself.
It isn't the hours that you put in at practice that count. It's the way you spend those minutes.
The man who runs from his office to the golf club, gulps a sandwich, belches and races to the first tee has no business howling in anguish when he puts his first two shots in the woods, then tops a 3-iron shot into the pond.
The best advice I can give for playing a ball out of water is - don't.
From its earliest beginnings, golf has been a gentleman's game - to be played as much for the sake of the game as for the contest.