ORLANDO -- Wraparound schedule be damned, I've spent the better part of a few different Januarys asking PGA Tour players about their goals for the upcoming year.
It shouldn't come as a surprise that nearly everyone I spoke to refused to name anything tangible. I rarely found a player who insisted that he wanted to win twice or move into the top 20 in the world or earn $2 million.
What I found was that no one mentioned benchmarks that were dependent on the performances of others. A player could play his best golf and still get beaten, so very few wanted to aim for results that weren't entirely in their control.
Instead, the word I most often heard was "consistency."
That makes sense. I mean, it doesn't matter if your career is professional golfer or surgeon or teacher or plumber. Striving for consistency is never a poor choice.
Well, almost never.
