![]() He’s not thinking about how many British Opens this will make he’s thinking about keeping the ball low. But it’s a template for beautiful mental hygiene. Tiger looked the guy dead in the eye and said, “In golf, they don’t hand the trophy out on Friday.” That’s a simple line. Then they asked how it felt, that they’d almost handed the kid the trophy already. At the press tent, they asked Tiger when the last time he was paired with a player he’d never heard of, on the weekend. He was paired against a kid, a rookie, who had shot low on Thursday and Friday. JW: You write about athletes you’ve treated, but also about athletes you’ve simply observed up close. They’re still physically the same person. As for the weekend-warrior guys, I have friends I grew up with who shoot like 110 and then one day they can shoot 79. But why can some guys do it on Sunday? That’s not about their physical being that’s mental. At the elite level, many PGA Tour golfers can shoot 60. They rate very high on the “ability to go into a trance.” Heiden, for instance, was easily hypnotized. How do you disassociate: You’re looking at the baseball and blocking out the “no batter, no batter?” Most people have some ability to do it. Michael Lardon: There’s certainly a hard-wired component. But how much of the it is simply hard-wired? Jon Wertheim: You offer lessons for achieving this state of peak performance. I recently caught up with him to talk about finding the zone… In his new book, Finding Your Zone, (Penguin 2008) he draws on his work and research and offers a road map for finding the zone. He’s also an associate clinical professor of psychiatry and UCSD. Michael Lardon is among the country’s most prominent sports psychiatrists, working mostly with Olympic athletes and PGA players. “Who gets in ‘The Zone?’ How do they get in ‘The Zone?’ And most important, How do they stay there?” He enrolled at Stanford, took a pre-med science course and was paired with Olympic speedskater Eric Heiden as a lab partner.įlash forward 25 years: Dr. A top table tennis player growing up in New York, he had always been fascinated with the mental component of competition. Their partner must not hold a PGA TOUR card.Michael Lardon figures it was serendipity. To qualify for the PNC Championship, players must have won a major championship or The Players Championship. The event formerly known as the PNC Father/Son Challenge, was renamed the PNC Championship in 2020 to reflect the high level of competition and field composition, while still celebrating an inclusive family event that showcases the special bonds that the love of golf creates. has been the title sponsor of the tournament since 2012. The 2020 edition was won by Justin Thomas and his father, Mike. It now features 20 major champions and their relatives competing for the total purse of $1,085,000 in a two-day, 36-hole scramble for the Willie Park Trophy. Since the inaugural tournament in 1995, when 10 major winners gathered with their sons, the PNC Championship has continued to evolve and develop. With only 20 teams in the field, players past and present have shown unprecedented interest in campaigning for a spot in the star-studded line-up. ![]() The tournament, which will be broadcast live on NBC, attracts major champions whose victories this year span from 1959 to 2021, and last year, saw a field gather that had won a remarkable 67 Major titles. The 20-player final field for the 2021 PNC Championship is: Pro #PNCchampionship /zJktOxAS4t- PNC Championship DecemPNC Championship 2021 - Tiger
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