Rory McIlroy the Person Struggles with Being Rory McIlroy the Golfer

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Published: June 4, 2012

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For the first time in young Rory McIlroy’s career, it is not all going according to plan.

The 23-year-old from Northern Ireland has missed the cut his last three times out, including this past week at The Memorial in Dublin, Ohio.  After Tiger Woods' come from behind win this weekend, one could get the sense that we have taken a time machine back to 2007 again and golf is Tiger and then everybody else.

Nothing could be farther from the truth.

When you end up having the meteoric rise that McIlroy is currently on, similar to Tiger's in the late 1990’s, it seems almost impossible to believe that these athletes are indeed human and there is a reason what they do is so amazing.  In golf, what Rory has achieved and what Tiger and Jack Nicklaus achieved at such a young age is truly just remarkable. 

Golf truly is a thinking man’s game and the experience of playing tough courses, along with executing certain shots and putts and understanding the pressures it takes to win at the top level just does not come easily based on pure raw talent.

Most golfers hit their prime around 30.  They still possess the power on the tee to go long, while they are also able to use their experiences to know how to avoid trouble and when to press the go button and try to score.  In terms of maturity, they have real life experiences and have a good sense of how to handle the aspects of the game.  Some grind for years, like Vijay Singh and find huge success after they turn 35.  It is a matter of perspective and what one’s body and mind can achieve together.

For the phenoms, it is a different story.  McIlroy possesses a level of raw talent that is very rare to harness at a championship level.  He, up until the last few weeks, has had such a rocket-fueled rise up the charts that at some point it had to catch up to him.  He won last year’s United State...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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