Playing your first golf tournament

Golf and Tournament Golf are two different sports — Bobby Jones once famously remarked.

If you have ever played golf competitively — not the weekend scramble variety — but the individual, all shots count variety, you will be able to relate to the aphorism by the great Bobby Jones.

In no other sport is the sheer effect of nerves so utterly disabling — as it is in golf.

The recent spectacle of Jordan Spieth — sending two consecutive shots into the water — on a fairly routine approach shot — should convey the gravity of…