The best advice I can give for playing a ball out of water is - don't.
You build a golf game like you build a wall, one brick at a time.
Golf is like solitaire. When you cheat, you cheat only yourself.
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.
Let's see, I think I right now I'm third in the money-winning and first in money-spending.
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.