[Theodan]

IMHO. If you rushed to the course, you were already cooked. Preparation for a round is all about slowing down and relaxing. If you race from home to the first tee, you create a perceptual state distortion.

Ever drive for 70 mph for an hour, then get off the highway onto a 25 mph road. Hard to keep it under the speed limit?

Betcha your swing is fast. Even if you aware of it, you have to expend mental energy gearing down, while trying to play.

Any ol' caddie can tell you to loop for the dentist, if it's Wednesday. It's money in the bank. The dentist is off all day. The salesman or businessman rushes his butt off to make calls etc and then head out to the course.

"Never do anything as if it is your "last". Because it isn't. Do it as if it is the first of all the rest."
Dr. Aaron T. Beck to a grad student in 1977.

Dr. Beck gets the same treatment from the hotshot sports psychologists, that Homer Kelly gets from golf instructors. They use key parts of his Cognitive Behavior work and he gets zero, zilch, nada credit.