Imagine this: You’re feeling great about your game one day. Everything’s in sync — your form, your rhythm, your swing tempo. All that work on the range? Finally paying off. You step onto the tee, line it up, and unleash a shot so pure it feels like it floated off your clubface. Straight. Long. Centre of the fairway. The kind of shot that makes you think, ‘I’ve finally figured this game out.’

Then, walking down the fairway, you’re already visualising your next shot with the flag in sight, and a possible birdie on the horizon. But when you reach your ball, you wish you’d rather lost it. Your ball is sitting deep in a divot hole left by a golfer before you. A scruffy, chewed-up divot hole, right in the middle of the fairway. You blink, stare, and think — “surely I get relief?”

Wrong. Accord

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