At the Travelers Championship this past weekend watching one player in particular hit one shot taught me a valuable lesson that I can honestly say I never thought of before. This player hit his tee shot on a ~440 yard par 4 into the rough, I went over to see the lie and it was terrible. Hardly could see the ball, I had to point it out to him. It was Friday and he was in contention to make the cut. I was thinking that this would be a tough shot for anyone. As I prepare to watch him stand there and deliberate with his caddie about club selection and wind and the best way to hit this shot, he grabs a shorter iron and just hacks it out to the middle of the fairway (advancing the ball 40-50 yards). The whole process took about 10 seconds. Why stand there and take time to deliberate over this extremely tough lie? How am I going to get it to the pin which is 160 yards away? This ends up hurting your mental outlook on your round. He knew that it wasn't very likely that shot would make it all the way and that there was probably a greater chance of a mishit. He just moved on. Got up and down for par from 100 yards out. And ended up finishing up -9 for the tournament. Lesson learned, if the shot has a low likelihood of succeeding, don't hit it. Also, don't spend time worrying about it. Take your time on the next one.