Two words to win the British Open

krupa

krupa

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A friend pointed this article out to me last night at league. I think having a single thought/idea/thing-to-focus-on can be really good if you're like me and have trouble filtering out all the noise and distractions in the bars/poolrooms while playing.

Rory McIlroy looked out at a room packed with reporters and knew he was going to disappoint them.

All week, he had talked about two secret words he used as his trigger for the shots he played. Even as he stretched his lead to six shots going into Sunday, he said he would only reveal them if he were to win the Open Championship.

In the hours before he teed off, the media put one pound ($1.70) in a pot and tried to guess the two words.

"Very simple," McIlroy said, the claret jug at his side. "It's going to be a big letdown for everyone. It was `process' and `spot.' That was it."

And the meaning?

"With my long shots, I just wanted to stick to my process and stick to making good decisions, making good swings," he said. "The process of making a good swing, if I had any sort of little swing thoughts, just keeping that so I wasn't thinking about the end result, basically."

The "spot" was about his putting.

"I was just picking a spot on the green and trying to roll it over my spot," he said. "I wasn't thinking about holing it. I wasn't thinking about what it would mean or how many further clear it would get me. I just wanted to roll that ball over that spot. If that went in, then great. If it didn't, then I'd try it the next hole."
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http://www.pga.com/openchampionship...veals-his-two-secret-words-after-winning-open
 
And that is as good as it gets.
It sounds to me he just hits it as best he can, the only way he knows how, and accepts the results, for better or worse.
Wonderful.
steven
 
On a minor point, it's just "The Open", which is also two words, not "The British Open" which is three. I think I made this point during the US Masters. You US American yankees do like your redundant terms.

PS - on a related note, we also know Paris is in France.

Boro Nut
 
Boro Nut said:
On a minor point, it's just "The Open", which is also two words, not "The British Open" which is three. I think I made this point during the US Masters. You US American yankees do like your redundant terms.

PS - on a related note, we also know Paris is in France.

Boro Nut
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I was waiting for someone to point that out. I chose to call it "the British Open" for clarity and don't consider it redundant at all. Given the number of sports that have an "Open" tournament, it probably wouldn't have been redundant to call it the "British Open golf tournament".

PS - on a related note...

Canada
Paris, Ontario
Paris, Yukon

Europe
Paris, France

Kiribati
Paris, Kiribati

Russia
Parizh village
Parizh settlement in the Kiginsky Raion of Bashkortostan.

United States
New Paris, Indiana
New Paris, Ohio
New Paris, Pennsylvania
Paris, Arkansas
Paris, Idaho
Paris, Illinois
Paris, Kentucky
Paris, Maine
Paris, Michigan
Paris, Missouri
Paris, New York
Paris, Ohio
Paris, Pennsylvania
Paris, Tennessee
Paris, Texas
Paris, Virginia
Paris, Grant County, Wisconsin
Paris, Kenosha County, Wisconsin
Paris Township, Michigan
South Paris, Maine
St. Paris, Ohio
West Paris, Maine
Beresford, South Dakota, formerly Paris, Dakota Territory
 
Boro Nut said:
On a minor point, it's just "The Open", which is also two words, not "The British Open" which is three. I think I made this point during the US Masters. You US American yankees do like your redundant terms.

PS - on a related note, we also know Paris is in France.

Boro Nut
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Our open was in June in North Carolina. Yours is the British Open.

-Andrew
 
krupa said:
I was waiting for someone to point that out. I chose to call it "the British Open" for clarity and don't consider it redundant at all. Given the number of sports that have an "Open" tournament, it probably wouldn't have been redundant to call it the "British Open golf tournament".

PS - on a related note...

Canada
Paris, Ontario
Paris, Yukon

Europe
Paris, France

Kiribati
Paris, Kiribati

Russia
Parizh village
Parizh settlement in the Kiginsky Raion of Bashkortostan.

United States
New Paris, Indiana
New Paris, Ohio
New Paris, Pennsylvania
Paris, Arkansas
Paris, Idaho
Paris, Illinois
Paris, Kentucky
Paris, Maine
Paris, Michigan
Paris, Missouri
Paris, New York
Paris, Ohio
Paris, Pennsylvania
Paris, Tennessee
Paris, Texas
Paris, Virginia
Paris, Grant County, Wisconsin
Paris, Kenosha County, Wisconsin
Paris Township, Michigan
South Paris, Maine
St. Paris, Ohio
West Paris, Maine
Beresford, South Dakota, formerly Paris, Dakota Territory
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and there you have it.
way to make a point.
steven
 
krupa said:
I was waiting for someone to point that out. I chose to call it "the British Open" for clarity and don't consider it redundant at all. Given the number of sports that have an "Open" tournament, it probably wouldn't have been redundant to call it the "British Open golf tournament".

PS - on a related note...

Canada
Paris, Ontario
Paris, Yukon

Europe
Paris, France

Kiribati
Paris, Kiribati

Russia
Parizh village
Parizh settlement in the Kiginsky Raion of Bashkortostan.

United States
New Paris, Indiana
New Paris, Ohio
New Paris, Pennsylvania
Paris, Arkansas
Paris, Idaho
Paris, Illinois
Paris, Kentucky
Paris, Maine
Paris, Michigan
Paris, Missouri
Paris, New York
Paris, Ohio
Paris, Pennsylvania
Paris, Tennessee
Paris, Texas
Paris, Virginia
Paris, Grant County, Wisconsin
Paris, Kenosha County, Wisconsin
Paris Township, Michigan
South Paris, Maine
St. Paris, Ohio
West Paris, Maine
Beresford, South Dakota, formerly Paris, Dakota Territory
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Paris,Hilton
 
Boro Nut said:
On a minor point, it's just "The Open", which is also two words, not "The British Open" which is three. I think I made this point during the US Masters. You US American yankees do like your redundant terms.

PS - on a related note, we also know Paris is in France.

Boro Nut
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Oh brother..who gives a shit. lol what does that have to do with the point of this thread. In america we call it the british open...Thats where I am so that's what I'll call it.

He's right on.. When ever I win tournaments I'm never thinking about winning. I'm not thinking about running tables. I'm only thinking about the shot that's in front of me and shooting it the best I can. I always remember what the monk writes in point the way. If you have one foot in the past and one foot in the future you'll piss all over the present. For some this is a natural thought process ..for me it had to be learned.
 
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