Golf is a mental game, my late buddy Ger used to tell me. He had been a golf pro at a country club. Also an expensive game, which he seldom could afford after he gave up banking for poetry.
For all her talent, Michelle Wie didn't have the mental toughness to be a great golfer. She kept making excuses for herself. She looked on the bright side, a good strategy for life but a poor one for competitive sports.
Then lately she seemed to turn things around. Until the British Open, entering as a favorite. Her first round on Thursday was a disaster: a 3 over par 73. Was she tough on herself afterwards? Nope. She made excuses. I had a great game plan, she said. It could have been worse.
Friday it was much worse, so bad she didn't even make the cut. Wie may never get the mental toughness of, say, a Sharapova.
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Ms nip As, thanks to a called 3rd strike that was a ball. An honest win feels better.
For all her talent, Michelle Wie didn't have the mental toughness to be a great golfer. She kept making excuses for herself. She looked on the bright side, a good strategy for life but a poor one for competitive sports.
Then lately she seemed to turn things around. Until the British Open, entering as a favorite. Her first round on Thursday was a disaster: a 3 over par 73. Was she tough on herself afterwards? Nope. She made excuses. I had a great game plan, she said. It could have been worse.
Friday it was much worse, so bad she didn't even make the cut. Wie may never get the mental toughness of, say, a Sharapova.
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Ms nip As, thanks to a called 3rd strike that was a ball. An honest win feels better.
