Better Golf Daily: Secret to Making Birdies

In this episode, we get into why your brain treats a birdie like a bonus and a bogey like a wound — and the simple three-word trick that quietly costs the pros over a million dollars a year. Once you hear it, you'll never stand over a birdie putt the same way again. There's a famous study with the greatest title in sports science — "Is Tiger Woods Loss Averse?" — and what it found inside two and a half million PGA Tour putts might explain why you keep babying birdie putts and ramming in the ones for par. Same distance, same break, but the best players alive make one of them noticeably more often than the other.