Get Up And Do Something: 3 Lessons the World's No. 1 Golfer Can Teach Us About Managing Stress

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3 Lessons the World's No. 1 Golfer Can Teach Us About Managing Stress
Feb 12th 2013, 11:19

The story of Rory McIlroy's rise over the last few years can teach us some essential lessons about managing stress. Today, he's the No. 1 golfer in the world and just signed a mega-deal for hundreds of millions with Nike. But in 2011, he had one of the most famous meltdowns in golf history.

At third round's end during the Masters, the golf tournament every professional player wants to win, he held a commanding four-shot lead. In golf, that's like going into the fourth quarter of the Super Bowl up 17 points. If he played solidly, he was going to wear the victor's green jacket.

He held it together for the first nine holes the final day, but as he made the turn to the back nine, he hit his tee shot so far left no one had ever seen a ball there. The rest of the afternoon he missed more putts and played more awful shots than in any similar stretch in his professional career.

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