Lots of people, famous golfers as well, say they never learn anything from the rounds in which they play well, but only from the rounds in which they play poorly. Bobby Jones said this. I don’t get it. Maybe if I shot ten strokes above my handicap every time out I’d be the smartest golfer in the world.

The only thing I learn from doing something wrong is, don’t do that again. But in that lesson is no advice on how to do it right. There are generally thousands of ways to do something wrong, but only a few ways to do it right. I can only learn to do it right by doing it right.

So if you’re playing poorly, it’s because you’re doing something wrong. And probably the slowest and least effective way to get back on track is to try to locate your mistakes and fix them. Nuts to that.

Go back to the beginning, start over, and learn the right way all over again, from the ground up. Just do one thing right then add on something else that’s right and so on until all you know how to do is the right thing.

That’s how to learn this game.

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