Rory won the Masters on Friday morning. Plus, other takeaways from Dr. Bob Rotella
Rory and I never talked about winning the Masters. No, we talked about all the things you need to do to win the Masters. Really, we spent our time talking about what you must do to find out how good you can get. That type of self-belief is what makes a great and unique player like Rory unflappable in the most trying moments.
Because he is as exceptional a competitor as he is a person, Rory embraced what the game was asking of him, what others were expecting of him, but mostly, what he was expecting from himself. One of the early things we talked about was how golf is not about playing perfectly. You must love that golf is a game of mistakes, but those mistakes can’t be the focus or define your day. Instead, you must embrace how you respond to those mistakes. You must own how you respond to all of it—the expectations, the disappointments, the moment. To have free will means you get to choose how you think about yourself and your golf game.
