Why Every Golfer Should Be Thankful for a Bad Round

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00:00Why every golfer should be thankful for a bad round.

00:04For every golfer, there are good golf holes, great golf holes.

00:08And then there's Fernbank number one, a tee box so tangled in topographical lunacy,

00:13it verges on performance art.

00:15On paper, it's nothing, a 254-yard dogleg par 4 with a single bunker near the green.

00:21But the cartographic reality unfolds as an absurdist sketch.

00:25One tee shot slicing across five other fairways, a layout so recklessly interwoven,

00:31it feels less like a golf course and more like a choose-your-own misadventure.

00:36Most designers would call that a mistake.

00:38At Fernbank, it's a mission statement.

00:41A maze of mayhem and meaning.

00:43Because there's something illuminating about a hole this objectively bad.

00:48Not merely quirky or idiosyncratic,

00:51Fernbank's opener is a hazard to both the pace of play and cranial integrity.

00:55But in that dysfunction lies the point.

00:58Golf is supposed to humble you.

01:01But the deeper truth is this.

01:03We love it because it tests us.

01:05It's a game of scars and only occasionally of triumphs.

01:08So yes, celebrate the bad.

01:11Bad weather that scrapes your skin and fogs your lenses,

01:14offering nothing except the question,

01:16Will you keep going?

01:18Rock bottom has its perks.

01:19Even a bad round, truly bad, can become a gift.

01:25It relieves you of pressure, expectation, and self-importance.

01:29It liberates you from the tyranny of your own ambitions

01:32and returns you to the simple wonder of being outdoors,

01:36trying something difficult,

01:38knowing you'll fail more often than you succeed,

01:40and showing up anyway.

01:41We've all had the front nine meltdown,

01:44or the double bogey parade.

01:46But what lingers more often than the numbers

01:48is the quiet pride of clawing your way back.

01:52You stop chasing perfection,

01:54and start chasing perseverance.

01:57Golf becomes less about the result,

01:59and more about your response.

02:01A golfer redemption hidden in ruin.

02:03There's a reason the best golf stories

02:06don't start with I hit every fairway.

02:08Not in manicured precision,

02:10but in the awkward improvisation

02:12demanded by a bad bounce or a tree

02:14that shouldn't be in play,

02:16but absolutely is.

02:17The point is to keep swinging,

02:20to keep going,

02:21and to find meaning not in avoiding the bad,

02:23but in moving through it.

02:25And if you're lucky enough

02:26to spend your holiday

02:27walking a $15 course in Cincinnati,

02:31dodging incoming shots from six directions,

02:34maybe you'll discover that

02:35even in the worst of it,

02:36the game somehow remains the best.

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