Do You Have a Bad Yips Day?

The yips happen when golfers think so much about not making a certain type of mistake that they end up making exactly that mistake all the time. Recent research shows how common this phenomenon is. Just have golfers tell themselves what not to do, and you have a recipe for disaster. Golf is a lovely game, and it's a cruel game. When it's going poorly, it can be devastating. One bad follows another. A hole ruined becomes a round ruined. A bad week stretches out into a bad year.