This past weekend saw the Ryder Cup taking place and America, having gotten into a commanding lead, managed somehow in the heat of battle to lose to Europe. The European players kept their cool, the Americans did not and strangely enough it was the more senior, more experienced American players that all crumbled in the heat of the moment.

By the time Tiger Woods had to sink a putt, to see whether or not the match could be halved, Europe had already retained the trophy, and that putt became meaningless. Experienced veterans like Jim Furyk as well as Steve Stricker made huge mistakes under pressure and the major PGA golf sites overseas said that they think, when it comes to these big pressurised moments, golf is much more of a young man’s game with the guys in their late twenties and early thirties having sunk their putts, and the guys in their forties having missed their putts. Golf certainly requires nerves of steel and perhaps sometimes, as in many fields, the naivety of youth and a lack of appreciation as to how great the pressure actually is, can help one in dealing with it – by simply not realising the full extent of it, something that you normally realise as you get older!