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At 15, you have plenty of time to mature. I admire you for asking for help. I think learning to cope with the game-day jitters are a part of any sport, especially golf where the mental aspect is such a large part of the game. You might learn some mental tricks to help you get through it, but the only real way is to just get out there and work through it.
And you might consider reading a little Bob Rotella
>I go to the range, hit good drives and pure irons.
Driving on the range is simple, it's wide open, no hazards to carry/avoid, no fairway to miss, all fairways are straight.
There are no consequences for shots on the range that are 5 yards to the left/right, long/short of target.
Hit a shot on the course 5 yards to the left/right of the fairway and you are in (usually) a less then ideal location to attack the green.
Hit a shot 5 yards short/long into a green and the consequences can be brutal, resulting in penalty strokes, hazards and other locations which increase the odds of recording a high score.
On the range, golfers can look and feel like low handicappers. On the range, every shot is a perfect lie.
Take these same golfers and give them a shot into the green from an uphill/downhill lie, ball above/below the feet and they have no idea how to adjust to these conditions.
Only way to learn this: lessons and playing as much as you possibly can on a course, and accepting the results.
(No boiling of the blood)
> how can I get my range play to translate to the course.
Need to have exact targets on the range. Picture a hole in your mind. Imagine a lake, waste area, bunker 10 yards to either side of your intended target. That perfect contact drive you just hit on the range now ends up in a hazard, instead of the golfer going "wow, I hit that perfect" they now realize that they missed their landing area by 5 yards.
Take that 9I on the range and instead of trying to hit it 140 yards, and being happy when that happens. Take that 9I on the range and only be happy when the ball stops within 20 feet of where you wanted it to stop.
>Bad shots make my blood boil.
This is probably the bigger issue and my only suggestion there is to purchase Bob Rotella