The Masters occurs at a time when we are emerging from a long winter’s hibernation, when our minds are starting to think about the coming golf season and all the potential that lies within it.

At a time when we are thinking about, quite literally, how we should best think about our game and our swing and our strategy to maximize our results in the season ahead because we know how important the mental game is to our success on the course. Don’t we? Rory?

Rory McIlroy dominated the headlines and the sound bites last week, and one thing really stuck out to me about his Masters performance; how imperfect he really was. Rory has been labelled the best driver of the golf ball ever, the guy with the most finely-tuned, athletic, close-to-perfect golf swing we have seen in a very long time. Perhaps since Ben Hogan or Byron Nelson. But all of this made it very difficult for Rory fans........

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