One of my favourite movies of all time is Tin Cup.
Sad for a golf pro, I know.
It’s a film about a washed up pro Roy (Tin Cup) McAvoy who tries to qualify for the U.S. Open and succeeds, as way of getting back at his arch nemesis and long-time rival David Simms.
As always there’s a love interest in there. McAvoy tries to steal Simms’s woman away from him after he gets the hots for her when she’s taking golf lessons from him.
Anyways, one of my favourite scenes from that film is when in qualifying for the U.S. Open McAvoy has a melt down on the course. His long time caddy wants him to lay up on a par 5, but McAvoy wants to go for it and asks for the driver.
The caddy pulls the driver out and snaps it over his knee. Then the fun starts.
McAvoy asks for the three wood which his caddy reluctantly gives him and he proceeds to break that over his knee, he then subsequently goes through every club in his bag and snaps everyone over his knee.
Including his putter.
He does however, leave his seven iron, as in his words “I never miss-hit the seven iron”.
He then proceeds to play the back nine of U.S. Open qualifying with just a seven iron and manages to qualify for the tournament.
Very amusing.
Kind of reminds me of a number of members at clubs I used to work at, the snapping the clubs bit and not the qualifying for the U.S. Open bit, no chance of that.
I’d see people get so mad and so frustrated with themselves that they’d end up putting the putter or whatever club over the knee and snapping it in two.
Of course when they handed it in to muggins here in the pro shop to repair it, they’d always of had to play a shot from behind a tree.
LOL – We always knew the truth!!
But that’s what this game can do to you, it sends you up the wall and can turn you into a basket case with frustration and anger, the secret is to control that anger and put it to good use, however you want to do that.
If you want to break a club because that makes you feel better, break a club. I wouldn’t recommend it as it gets expensive. Want to swear, then swear. Maybe not in polite company or if you’re playing with the captain of the new club you want to join but you get the picture.
Anyways, that frustration is better out than in and you gotta find a way of dealing with it, if you don’t this game will send you round the bend very quickly.
But if you want to reduce the stress and the frustration to a minimum, you’re better off learning a swing and a method that you can trust and control.
There are no shortcuts in this game, no “hacks” that will half the time it takes to reach your golfing goals.
Only work and effort, sorry.
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Bob James PGA