I’ve played in a few golf tournaments in my time.  And I’ve noticed that in every tournament there is one hole that sets you up to fail.  There’s one hole that plays with your mind.  There’s one hole that grabs at your emotions and forces you to do something that you really want to do, but know you shouldn’t.  What is it you ask?  It’s the long-drive hole of course! 

What hole simultaneously forces you to decide between exactly what you do and don’t want to do, when deep inside you know you should just focus on your game.  This hole of course.

You stare down the fairway and you see it.  The sign posted right where the longest drive of the day landed.  You say to yourself “If I get hold of one I could beat that.”  But the little voice inside your head is telling you not to do it.  You’re playing a good game, don’t risk blowing it now.  You know damn well there’s just as good a chance, if not better, that you’re going to launch your ball into a neighboring fairway.  But you don’t listen to that little voice.  No.  Instead, you pull the cover off your driver, line up over the ball, rear back and with the force only Sir Isaac Newton could truly appreciate, you hammer that drive with all your might.  And you and your buddies watch as…

Well, you know what you did.