At face value, there shouldn’t be much wrong with Cameron Davis’ life. Happily married, a multi-millionaire travelling the world playing his chosen sport, a top 12 finish in The Masters, the world’s biggest golf tournament (maybe The Open excluding), well under par in the bigger picture of things.

But two weeks ago, he was so down on his sport and how hard it was to get a little white ball in the hole, he started speaking to a hypnotherapist. His wife, Jonika, had been sprouting the benefits.

Finally, Davis caved.

“She felt like it helped her a lot,” Davis said. “I resisted for quite a long time. But I decided my game was going in the wrong direction, and I was feeling more and more stressed day-to-day with my golf. I was kind of falling out of love with the game a little bit. My career trajectory was not where I wanted it.”

It’s not hypnosis as most people would assume.

Davis wasn’t being paraded on a stage in front of hundreds of people, spontaneously break dancing to Jean-Martin Charcot’s command, mocked to a gallery in fits of laughter.

As he explains it, he walks through a deep meditation where you think about situations you want to deal with better, like when he launched his fairway wood to the green with his second shot of the par-five 14th hole in the final round of the Rocket Mortgage Classic, only to see it clamber back into the water. Australian Ian Baker-Finch was incensed in commentary, claiming no ball should land on a green like that and roll back into a watery grave without thick grass to stop it.

Davis dealt with it, maybe because he’d already seen it.