That shouldn't come as a surprise. In college, the classroom was of equal importance as the golf course. If you set your expectations just to make it through, then you're putting unnecessary pressure on yourself to shoot a certain score. It's hard to say how I made it through and made it through with the ease I did. People have a mental block when it comes to q-school because they've heard of every horror story there is.
People make it out as a life situation.
It's not like I'll never play golf again. If you make q-school to be a life or death situation then you're putting too much pressure on yourself. Ninety-eight times out of 100 you're not going to make it. Perhaps that's the mind game he used on himself last week. They're probably in a pawnshop in Houston.