[excivaamome]

Why not just call it a human reaction and leave it at that?

Everyone reacts to things differently, Some people laugh at funerals, for example, so does that make them bad people?

I think such reactions are borne of frustration especially if a person has been trying real hard to perhaps correct a specific problem or work on a different technique only to have the thing they were trying to fix rear its ugly head yet again.

No one enjoys failure and when it comes to something as personal as playing golf, I think that people's reactions to failure are magnified because there's no teammate or "outside agency" to blame for that failure.

Now if such displays are affecting others such as when someone's tantrum damages a green or a thrown club nearly takes someone's head off, then a line needs to be drawn and that behavior has to be addressed because it generally makes for a tense and negative (even dangerous) atmosphere overall.

What would bother me is if that person kept such behavior going all the time and over every little thing that's happened. But a momentary outburst - even a slammed club or a string of colorful epithets isn't something that bothers me. I do that myself and I think it's a great way to blow off some steam just as long as it's momentary and doesn't become some kind of permanent funk that casts a pall over everyone else's day.


-JP