Professional golf can be a lonely sport.
It is a game that creates and outright forces solitude. Golf is about you, your decisions and your performance on the course. You are measured against others competing under these same circumstances, but it is not exactly football where a different wide receiver can score a touchdown or basketball where someone else can rain it in from beyond the arc.
This isn’t to say that golf is something that professionals who play it experience alone. The expression of something taking a village is applicable to a lot of walks and experiences in life, but playing golf certainly falls within that range.
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