You might have heard the saying that the perfect is the enemy of the good. That is certainly true in golf.

The self-induced pressure to hit your best shot every time leads to poor decision-making and poor performance.

Sometimes you do hit a perfect shot. When I hit one I say to myself, “How did that happen?” And I move on.

All I strive for is to hit acceptable shots. Strike the ball fairly cleanly, with decent shot shape, to a place that’s pretty close to where I wanted it to go.

Long game, short game, putting, that’s what I’m aiming to do.

When my round is over, my satisfaction is having hit more shots than not which fell into that box, the more the better. The score will take care of itself.