I read the following article on the Golf365.com website a couple of days ago…
The gist of it is that Colin Montgomerie dragged out an old Scottish expression to explain why he needed to change the doors at Celtic Manor before next year. He was worried that a player might injure themselves on the current doors because they open both ways. The expression was ‘every mickle maks a muckle‘. What it really means is that “everything matters” – that no stone can remain unturned in your quest for perfection and success. It seems like a ludicrously pedantic notion but he is quite possibly correct that the current doors might actually hurt a player next year.
What astounds, staggers and amazes me in almost equal measure is the preposterous notion that underlies this. That notion being that this is how he has been so successful and that it is this attention to detail which has seen him reach the great peaks of his career.
Hmmmmm.
Colin – might I show you a picture of the best golfer in the world? You know the guy? The one who has so far won 14 majors against your zero count…
Now let’s have a look at a piece of cake…
and a piece of gym equipment…
and finally a picture of Colin himself…
So, during your playing career Colin, when you were theoretically obsessing over all the details that mattered, did you consider which of the two options above the greatest player in the world would go for?
Would Tiger go for the gym or the cake?
Which did you opt for?
Half way through my break par challenge I realised that there my game was being seriously affected on the back nine because of my fitness. This was a “not so insignificant” detail (or mickle) that I knew really mattered so I worked hard at it. I lost a stone and a half and got myself back into fitness levels I haven’t seen since I was a teenager. And it really DID matter. It made a huge difference not to be puffing and wheezing up the fifteenth wishing the round was over.
Colin Montgomerie is (or perhaps now was) an immense talent but it continues to infuriate me that he comes out with pompous nonsense like this when clearly the best years of his golfing life were affected by a totally inability to grasp the importance of fitness!
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