Yesterday at the PGA championship at Whistling Straits in Kohler, Wisconsin Bubba Watson had a chance to win the tournament. He was in a playoff with eventual winner Martin Kaymer. Bubba hit the ball in the water on the final playoff hole. The resulting penalty stroke was the difference. His next shot went in a trap and he actually hit the pin on his bunker shot. It could have hit the pin and dropped in giving him a tie on the hole and moving the playoff to another hole.

Dustin Johnson was in position to win too. He was leading on the final day of the US Open back in June and had a horrible day that day. He fired one of the worst rounds of the day. People wondered if he could come back from the collapse on that day. Yesterday he was in a position to win. I guess he got over it.

During a post match interview Bubba Watson was informed he had qualified for the Ryder Cup team. This is the team we create every other year to take on the best from Europe. For decades the US dominated but not the past few times. Yes, we won in 2008 but it is a very close competition.

Despite losing the PGA, which would have been his first victory in a Major tournament, Bubba was moving on. His reply when asked about losing the PGA. I made the Ryder Cup. So that’s all I care about. He got over it.

In golf you learn to focus on the next shot. The last one is history and the one after the next one isn’t a factor yet. You focus on the current one.

How good a job do you do of “getting over it?”

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