I didn't execute to a tee. But my coach always told me if I went out there and did my own thing, it's OK as long as I win.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If you don't do it the way coaches ask you to do something, and someone else does it the way it's supposed to be done, that's just natural life.
You don't have to be long off the tee, and we know the amazing effect an Open crowd can have if you're on your game and how they can lift you.
You just don't have the time to worry about what others are doing. You just want to take care of your own business. You are focused on that tee shot on the 10th tee and making it to the finish line. It's one of the most stressful moments in professional golf, but you have worked so hard to get to that point, that it really is fun.
I'm sure you have a hole at your course where you love to hit the tee shot. You can't wait to get up there and bomb away because the fairway is wide, or the hole always plays downwind.
I compete in a sport on an individual basis, but I have never done it for me.
Brushing up on your short game at the practice area is fine and good, but taking it with you to the golf course - when your score is really on the line - is another story.
In high school I was on the basketball team, but the coach did something I didn't dig and the next day he looked up and saw me practising with the football team.
I'm much better off the tee. I'm not a great putter. I do not have a good short game.
You can live by biblical principles, and you can teach by those principles and still be a winner. So many coaches think you've got to kick your players in the rear end. You've got to cuss them out. You've got to hit them across the head. No. You don't have to do that.
I always do the contrary of what my coaches tell me.
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