A worthy example can be found in how Ryan Fox handled a brutal lie on the 15th hole of last month’s Open Championship. As Fox’s mental coach Karl Morris explained on the How Low Can You Go Podcast, it would have been easy for Fox to lament the unfairness of a shot that missed its intended target by inches, and was now buried in the lip of a bunker.

“We probably had 500 conversations somewhere around the concept of acceptance,” Morris said. “This idea that you know you’re either dealing with the reality of the game in all its chaos and its unfairness or you’re in a story. At that point, Ryan could’ve gone to a story like ‘I’m unlucky. Why has this happened to me? I’ve just blown the Open.’"

Instead, Morris said, Fox determined he simply needed to play out backwards. He went on to make bogey, but wasn’t deterred, and claimed the claret jug with a walk-off birdie on 18.

“I actually think you could build a whole mental game seminar on those last four holes really,” Morris said.