A New Year's Revolution

Or, "A Provisional Mindset"

You can see it in our eyes, this glimmer of hope. We shuffle our feet, squinting at the ball as if silently willing it to fly straight. In a dozen or more little twitches we re-align ourselves, remember and adjust for golf’s cardinal rules, of which there are many. Try to get comfortable, though in my experience golf never feels comfortable.

There might …