Ordinary golfers would give anything to have the ability of their professional counterparts. "If only I could hit a high draw like that, I could die happy," we've all thought while glued to the TV on a sunny Sunday afternoon.

The thing that makes golf so compelling, however, is that no matter skilled/rich/famous you get, perfection always lies just out of reach. Don't believe us? Just ask four-time DP World Tour winner Robert MacIntyre, who had some choice words for himself after missing the fairway on the par-4 1st at Wentworth on Friday. Sound up.

Of course, MacIntyre is better than 99 percent of golfers on earth, and a short while later he proved it, holing out from the fairway for eagle on No. 15 and backing that up with another superbird on No. 17. Still, it goes to show that there is no such as perfection or satisfaction in this game. All any of us can do—including our self-deprecating friend Mr. MacIntyre—is to keep on keeping on.