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FORGETTING PAST MISTAKES
In his autobiography, The Tumult and the Shouting, the great sports columnist Grantland Rice gives this advice about past mistakes… “Because golf exposes the flaws of the human swing – a basically simple maneuver – it causes more self-torture than any game short of Russian roulette. The quicker the average golfer can forget the shot he had dubbed or knocked off-line – and concentrate on the next shot – the sooner he begins to improve and enjoy golf. Like life, golf can be humbling. However, little good comes from brooding about mistakes we’ve made. The next shot, in golf or life, is the big one.”