You hit a few good ones, and everything feels easy. Then you chunk one, or slice a bender into the water — and just like that, your head’s somewhere else. Am I lined up right? Am I going to do that again? Should I compensate?

That spiral costs more strokes than the bad shot itself. One Putt Birdie is about the part of golf nobody puts in an instructional video: how to get your head back in the game after it goes sideways — fast.