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 Colin
Montgomerie
01.06 Colin Montgomerie:
His
longest drive - 900 miles
Colin Montgomerie er 48 år gammel. Han er fortsatt opptatt av å spille god
golf. Utstyret må være på plass. Det kostet en 900 miles drive.
Han hadde gått på 81 slag på Wentworth søndag - den verste scoren på denne banen
noen sinne.
Han var misfornøyd med puttingen sin. Han bestemte seg for å hente en annen
putter hjemme i Skottland før kvalifiseringen til US Open på Walton Heath
mandag.
Han kjørte hjem til Dunning, Perthshire, hentet putteren, og etter en kort pause
reiste han tilbake til Surrey hvor kvalet til US Open i San Francisco over 36
hull skulle finne sted.
Turen så ut til å være meget vellykket. Hans første runde gikk unne på 68 slag.
Da var han høyt oppe på listen. Den andre runden ble ikke like god. Han fikk 72
slag og misset dermed muligheten til å få være med i US Open. Det ble to fattige
slag for mange.
Den tidligere Ryder Cup kaptainen innrømmet at det var en ekstrem reaksjon på det svake
spillet søndag.
- Who in their right mind would do that? But yes, I did,” sa Montgomerie. - I
left Wentworth at 2pm, was home at 8pm, had tea with the family, left at 11pm
and got here just after 6am. Last week was very disappointing. I putted like an
idiot and played like one too.
Darren Webster-Clarke forteller til Golfsiden at dette var det store
samtaleemnet blant caddier og spillere på ET i Wales denne uken.
I en artikkel i Scotsman heter det videre:
Sports psychologist Ken Way said the golfer’s 12-hour journey to retrieve his
club was unusual, but added that such items were key to a player’s confidence
and performance.
“If he didn’t have that putter and he believes so much in it, his focus just
would not have been there,” Mr Way said. “All he would need to do is make one
bad putt, and that was proof positive that he needed the putter he’d left behind.
“I have to say that I admire the tenacity of that belief to drive through the
night to retrieve the putter. And I guess, in spite of the fatigue, his
behaviour enhanced the belief he has in the putter.
“It’s very similar to the placebo effect – as long as you believe it’s going to
happen to you, then it will. Not many people realise that there is actually the
opposite, it’s called the ‘nocebo’ effect, the negative belief that gets in the
way.”
Mr Way said many people playing at professional level of sport had rituals and
superstitions.
He said: “From a sport psychologist’s point of view, I don’t think it matters
what the belief is, as long as the sportsperson does actually believe it’s going
to help.”
Mr Hay said, however, he once encountered a footballer who listened to a piece
of music to motivate him just before matches, but came to him before kick-off,
complaining the batteries on his tape recorder were flat.
He said he preferred to ask athletes to find a “mental abstraction” that would
help them to achieve “complete focus”.
“The one thing you need to have is total control over it,” he said. “If Colin
had forgotten his putter and he’d been over in the States, he wouldn’t have been
able to do the journey he’s just done.”
Golfing fans took to Twitter last night to express their amazement at
Montgomerie’s behaviour, which became characterised as “Monty’s Mammoth Putter
Dash”.
Stuart Fraser wrote: “Crazy stuff from Monty before US Open qualifying. 900-mile
round trip in 16hrs to get a putter from his Perthshire home.”
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