Most of the golfers on The Big Break have really poor attitudes. I don’t see any of them becoming pro golfers. Having said that, I’m sad to see Sean go because I felt he had one of the better attitudes. His challenger in the elimination did not.
Golf is a game of statistics. When you’re facing a 15 foot put, it doesn’t matter how much you want it, who you pray to, what your emotional state is, or to some extent, even how good you are. Tiger Woods misses 15 foot puts often. In fact, he misses them most of the time. So when you’re facing a 15 foot put, you aim for the hole, but you know it’s statistically unlikely that you’ll make it. Even if your aim is perfect, there are a million blades of grass between you and the whole that will affect where the ball travels, and you have absolutely no control over that.
But these guys consistently berate themselves over missing 15 foot puts. Why? They should expect to miss 15 foot puts. I’m not saying they should try to miss, or not hope to make it, just that they should just expect to miss because statistically, people miss 15 foot puts. With these guys, they will always find a reason to hate themselves. That attitude is going to eat them up inside and destroy them, and they will eventually be forced to stop golfing. Calm golfers become pros because they know what they’re likely to make and what they’re not. Tiger Woods knows that occasionally he will miss a two foot put. He just will. He doesn’t like it when it happens, but he knows that today is just the day when it did, and it’s going to happen sometimes, so he doesn’t get too excited about it.
I tried to research the players names for this post, but The Big Break website is a mess. The show itself is almost as bad. I’m sure they don’t get the best producers, but their graphics are kind of bad. They don’t show what is happening or what has happened. They will have a list of names and numbers and you have no idea what they mean. They go over the rules for each challenge so quickly that you rarely understand them correctly and then it just seems like random stuff happens after that.
Sports on television is all about communication. At a glance, the viewer needs to be able to tell what has happened, what is happening, and in some cases even what is going to happen. People can’t pay 100 percent attention to the TV, which is why we have onscreen displays for sports. Disney needs to take screen grabs at random points in the show and then ask themselves, “Can someone tell what’s going on just from looking at this single frame?” Right now, the answer will be no, but often it would be easy to show the names of the players who have already gone and who hasn’t gone. There’s a ton of other information they could place on the screen that wouldn’t take up much real estate. They need to get this because right now at times the show is almost unwatchable.