It’s not golf season, but this story is too good to pass up.
This John Coomber/Northern Territory article addresses the difficulties that professional athletes have in acknowledging depression and the beneficial role that antidepressants have played in the lives of professional golfers Brett Ogle, Stuart Appleby and Steven Bowditch. It’s a serious issue and one that has often been swept under the rug by the folks who promote professional sports and the athletes themselves.
However, the article ends with a funny anecdote. Five-time British Open champion Peter Thomson is quoted as saying that he never noticed depression to be a much of a factor during his playing days, though he suspected that some of his colleagues self-medicated through use of alcohol. Thomson goes on to recall that the famously volatile American golfer Tommy Bolt once tried taking sedatives to control his anger on the course:

“In 1956 (the year Thomson won his third successive British Open) Tommy started taking a drug like a kind of valium to calm him down,” he said.
“When I came back to America for the 1957 season I asked him if he was still taking the tablets and whether they were doing him any good.
“‘Yeah,’ he said. ‘I’m still three-putting but now I don’t give a shit.'”

Hat tip to Geoff Shackelford for the link.