With the tournament season now officially underway, I thought we could spend a little time on "performance skills," aka the mental game. It's one thing to stand in the box accompanied by our friends and the usual trash talk. It becomes something else when the score-keeper shows up and announces the shooting order. Why is that?  The pressure we feel in a tournament is no different than the pressure that occurs from having to perform in front of an audience, a class, our peers, an Instructor, mentor or actually anyone whose opinion of us matters. For some, the stress can be overwhelming, typically paralyzing the performance.  Jack Nicklaus spoke of his earliest experience ...