Which ‘You' Is Playing Today?

There’s a little Jekyll & Hyde in us all

- Max Adler

WHAT GOLFER HASN’T at some point self-diagnosed as schizophrenic? “I played great on Saturday, but on Sunday it was like I’d never held a club before.” “I’ll stripe it on the range, but on the course it’s like I’m a different person.” Severe cases of multiple-personality disorder, popularized in works such as The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde or pretty much any movie starring Jim Carrey, are rare. But there’s growing research that suggests we all, to a degree, live with various selves. How we behave around our kids, our coworkers, our friends, strangers—after a triple bogey—indicates we are not always the same person.