Every club has a member lobbying the greenkeeper for faster greens every spring. Faster greens don’t reward good putting — they raise three-putt rates across every skill level. Speed feels like quality. The scorecard disagrees.
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Down one hole in a $5 nassau, Frank pulls driver on a par 5 he always lays up on. Two down, he presses the back nine bet unprompted. Loss aversion is a more expensive opponent than Steve has ever been.
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Frank adjusts two clubs for a headwind and aims at his usual target, confident he’s solved the problem. Wind doesn’t just shorten shots — it widens dispersion patterns, especially for the shot shape a golfer already has.
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Three good holes convince Frank he’s “seeing it well.” He isn’t. The hot hand fallacy — first documented in 1985 basketball research — shows recent success barely predicts what happens next. Frank pulls driver on 10 anyway.
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Frank has a 14 handicap and a weekly complaint: he never plays to it. The World Handicap System doesn’t average your rounds — it takes your best 8 of your last 20. Frank’s handicap was never describing an average Saturday.
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Frank buys a new driver every spring. Ten more yards, the ad promises, and Frank believes it, because in his
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A few years ago, golf launch monitors were a luxury reserved for tour pros and well-funded fitting studios — five-figure
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Frank shoots 91. He tells you about the two birdies. He doesn’t mention the 9 on the par-4 6th —
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There’s a question almost nobody asks about golf instruction, and the silence around it is itself worth noticing: at what
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Frank had already picked his line. Draw around the tree, land it on the down-slope, let it feed toward the
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