Like life, winning at golf is a mental challenge; you should never be down on yourself  for a loss, anymore than you can get arrogant at a few successes.  Golf can help you learn to deal with disappointment in other areas of your life.

Dont allow yourself to stop enjoying the game, if you begin to find yourself in this situation, figure out what is wrong and correct it immediately.  Once the enjoyment of the game is lost, it is difficult to continue play.

It is important in golf as well as in life, to step back and re-evaluate your game.  Some will record their game and watch it to evaluate the changes they need to
make.

By evaluating your game, I mean to see how well what you are doing is getting you to the goals that you have set for yourself. You must set up well thought out
attainable goals along with a specific means of reaching those goals.

To evaluate your game you will need to review how you play, this involves taking a good look at your previous games and deciding if you have succeeded in meeting
the goal you set.

If you have met that goal compensate yourself for a job well done, and review the next goal.

If you havent yet met that goal you will need to evaluate it and determine if it is reachable, and if not, re-set it to a more realistic place.

Finding out the reason it was not successful can and will go a long way in evaluating your game.

Once you have found the reason for the inability to meet the goal you have set, and re-established it, you can once again begin to play and hopefully compensate yourself again as you reach one goal after another.

If you are willing to combine hard work with reachable goals with a strong metal game, your will be a winner at life as well as golf.