Golf is a game played as much on the inches between your ears as it is on the course. Anyone who’s ever picked up a Pinnacle or a Pro V1 understands the ridiculousness that can occur on a tee box when they put every ounce of their effort into hitting a great drive. They may cautiously decide where they want to drive the ball for the best angle to the pin on their next shot, assess how far they want to carry it in the air for it to roll to that spot, judge the firmness of the ground, gauge the wind direction and force, tweak the grip on their club more times than Nomar Garciaparra at the dish, take a deep breath and then … promptly rope the ball dead left out of bounds and into a ravine.



Then they’ll drop a second ball, maybe it’s an X’d out range ball, start their next swing before so much as glancing up and mindlessly flush it dead center down the fairway as far as they’ve ever hit a ball before.



Sometimes your own thinking gets...