Phil Mickelson Credits Meditation for Winning the PGA Championship
Let this be a wake up call for execs and jocks.
At the ripe old age of fifty, Phil Mickelson won the PGA Championship last week, becoming the oldest player to win one of golf’s four major tournaments (U.S. Open, British Open, Masters and PGA). He said that meditation was the key factor in his victory.
Why? What did meditation do to help him turn around a disappointing past few years on the tour? It boils down to one word:
Focus.
For those of you who don’t know much about golf, consider this. In a four hour round a player spends roughly three minutes performing golf shots. That leaves 237 minutes to think about how well/poorly you’re playing. The meeting with your boss tomorrow to go over last month’s awful numbers. Whether you should break up with your boyfriend. Or how great it would be if you became the oldest golfer to ever win a major and how devastating it would be if you choked it all away. Now do you get why focus is so important in golf?
Phil said the biggest driver of his poor performances the past few years was his inability to focus over long periods of time. He’d hit fantastic shots every round but then lose his focus for a short while. And in golf, that means disaster.
