He's a good player who needs to keep going. He needs consistency and needs to find out how to get it done. I think he's doing fine. He'll figure it out. He's been working with sports psychologist Rick Jensen toward that end.
Tomorrow is another game.
In golf, what happened today still counts tomorrow. It never goes away until the end of the tournament, and it goes right up there on the board for everybody to see. The fear of failure in any athlete becomes the motivation to success, said Schmidt, who turned 50 Sept. 27. I don't want to say I'm losing confidence in my game, although my expectations were a lot better than my performance. I don't know what to say other than I'm not a good player when it starts going the other way.