I often have golfing anxiety dreams, and they often involve awkward situations on first tees. A typical one is that I find the first tee is positioned in such a way that I just can’t get a stance or proper backswing because of a wall, a bush or some other irritatingly placed object. Everybody else in my dream seems to cope just fine, but I can’t make it work and become increasingly flustered.
Normally, there’s a decent crowd looking on. In fact, normally I’ve somehow found myself playing in a significant tournament. I once had a dream, I was playing in the US Open at Bethpage Black and hit my first tee shot left, through the door of a Portakabin that contained various strange people from my past, working in an office environment. I was given a free drop away from a water cooler onto an unmade bed… Strange stuff.
