Better Golf Daily: Play the Percentages Series - Digging the Hole Deeper

Every golfer knows the moment — ball in the trees, easy bogey right there if you just chip out sideways. But almost nobody takes it. Instead we go looking for the hero shot, and when that fails, we go looking for another one. There's a decades-old study on why we do this, and it's got nothing to do with the club in your hand — it's about ego, and what happens the second something becomes "your" mistake. I get into the research and the one rule that can save you from turning a bogey into a blowup.