Yesterday Rory McIroy completed an emphatic win at the US Open, having led from Day One and breaking records all over the place. All this at the grand old age of 22 and one month. Most remarkable to me was the difference a couple of months has made.
Not long ago at The Masters in Augusta, he led by 4 strokes going into the final day and he lost it - his game went to pieces. Hearing him talk he admits that he changed his game plan for that day. He played more defensively, he took longer to prepare his shots, and when it all started unravelling he did not know (or maybe recognise) how to change things.
Now undoubtedly he has had a lot of help in the interim, but in the end it was up to him to deliver and deliver he did. It wasn't perfection, but it almost was and possibly as close as many of us will witness. He undoubtedly has a huge future ahead of him and I wish him well.
Back to the question of change. The lessons I would take are that one can learn from failure and come back stronger. That knowing when to keep to a winning approach is as important as having the courage to change, albeit one needs the judgement to decide between the two. He also stuck with his caddy and friend, JP, and the two looked good yesterday, so maybe another lesson is not to throw away good people when the fault was within yourself?
I know that not everyone is a golf fan, but any more thoughts on what we can learn? Rory has grown up much more than the two months or so that has elapsed, why can't we do that along with our teams?
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