Better Golf Daily: Playing Not to Lose Is How You Lose

Wyndham Clark woke up Sunday at the U.S. Open with a six-shot lead and nearly handed the whole thing back. In this one I get into why — and it has almost nothing to do with talent. There's a shift that happens in every golfer's brain the second they get ahead, and it quietly turns you tentative before you even notice it. I dig into a Columbia psychologist's research that explains exactly why protecting a lead is so much harder than chasing one, and what to do the moment you feel it happening to you. If you've ever been winning and suddenly couldn't make a swing, this episode is going to land. Give it a listen.