Bad holes….Bad breaks….Bad swings….Bad decisions and bad days happen to everyone. It even happens to the best players in the world, but, there is a difference. Millions of people get to watch how they “react” to the situation. Do they throw a club? Drop an expletive here and there? Stare down their caddy because they felt they got a bad yardage? Point to an invisible spike mark? Throw their hands up in disbelief….questioning one of Newton’s Laws? You can sometimes even be left with the impression that the player is ‘mailing’ it in – if all the BADS happen together. A bad decision, compounded by a bad swing, compounded by a bad break………bad hole.

I make a point in sharing with my students that if I had the opportunity to see every tournament round of golf they played that my single biggest hope would be…….that I would be unable to tell how they were playing by just watching them. I want them to have their ‘poker face’ when it comes to how they conduct themselves on the course vs what the score happens to be.

Champions in every walk of life face adversity. It’s sometimes self inflicted (don’t need to mention any names TW) and other times it can just be a horrible case of bad luck. Regardless, a Champion to me, is the individual who accepts their circumstance with humility and grace, makes no excuses, and who gives their ALL on every single shot.

This video is not recent…it’s old news. It is a wonderful message for all of you to embrace…..When you encounter a bad break only YOU get to decide what to do next and how to react.

Do you let it keep you down for the rest of the day and round?

Or, do you get back up…..dust yourself off….try your hardest….and see if a Champion exists within you?