Patience is golf’s most underrated virtue and perhaps the hardest virtue to teach. I see a lot of players, amateurs and professionals alike, who can be patient as long as they’re making huge steps forward. But as soon as the huge steps stop, so does their patience. To be successful, a golfer must learn to enjoy the challenge of improvement, to enjoy the journey. He must find pride in accepting the challenge. Rather than be frustrated by the journey’s length, he must dwell on how good it will feel to finally arrive. Then, when he does arrive, he must accept a second challenge, the challenge of
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