off-course

“I’ve gotten better throughout my career of leaving the off-course distractions at home and kind of keeping a pretty quiet personal life,” he said.

Walking off every tee box, he was hearing shouts of “Go Rory,” and “Let’s go, Ror!” and if there were any thoughts about the off-course news he made this week, none of it came flowing from the crowd at Valhalla.

SpaceX later said that a propellant leak caused multiple engines to fail and the explosion was caused by the rocket’s autonomous flight termination system, which is designed to make the rocket self-destruct if the software senses that it is going off-course or that its performance is unsafe.

It can be seen in the lock step of moons as they circle planets; in wandering comets pulled off-course by massive stars; and in the swirl of gigantic galaxies.

China claimed the aircraft was a weather balloon that had been blown off-course, but the U.S. said it was carrying sophisticated intelligence-gathering technology.