I’m one of those. If you hit a bad shot playing alongside a partner, you feel compelled to say you regret it. A few years back, we itemized the times you should and shouldn’t apologize in golf (no for a bad shot, yes for a bad shot that ignored your partner’s advice), which is worth revisiting given Sergio Garcia’s mea culpa for his outburst Sunday at the Masters. Amazingly, we only hinted at this in our original guidelines, but just to be clear: if you hit a bad shot and then take a divot out of the tee box—on TV, with millions watching—an apology is a good idea.