If he smokes, he may chain-smoke to try to calm his nerves. When you sense this, it's time to pour it on and turn up the pressure. In most matches, accuracy is much more important than distance. Even when you are out-hit from the tee, you have an opportunity to be the first one on the green, thus putting the pressure back on your opponent. Every golfer must fight the urge to follow a bad shot with a spectacular recovery, or a bad hole with a spectacular hole.
Spectacular play succeeds only in making the player foul up and lose the hole.
In most instances, the smart move is to get safely and surely back in play, and then resume the attack. This idea of 'making up' by present extra exertions for past deficiencies is one of the most deadly delusions that is prone to affect the golfing mind. Its results are inevitably ruinous. One situation where patience is particularly vital is on the tee after you've hit a drive out of bounds. At this point, most golfers hastily tee up a second ball despite the fact that, strictly speaking, it is their opponent's turn to hit.