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Golfer Overcomes Adversity – Plays in Masters
Posted By Robert Kolling on April 12, 2010
Phil Mickelson
He decided to participate in the Masters despite a year of adversity. No, not Tiger Woods.
Tiger Woods decided to strap it on and face the crowd despite enduring a rough period of serial cheating, being attacked by his wife with a golf club, spending months in rehab, and probably facing a divorce. It is difficult to feel sorry for a guy who brings it on himself and self-destructs. He claims to want his privacy so he can ‘heal’, yet he pops up at the most viewed sporting event next to the Super Bowl, putting himself front and center of the world.
I have trouble feeling sorry for a guy who has everything and throws it away like he did.
My newest heroes are Phil and Amy Mickelson. Yes, Phil is just a golfer who gets richer by the weekend playing a game and not overseas fighting the ‘enemy’. But the Mickelson’s have been fighting adversity for the past year themselves – and not through any fault of their own.
Last May, Phil’s wife, Amy was diagnosed with breast cancer. In July, his mother was diagnosed with the same disease. Phil took time off the PGA tour last year to be with his wife. He came back and played in what I feel is the best golf I have seen him play. He shot a five-birdie 67 to win the Masters by 3 shots.
His wife was in a nearby hotel room all weekend dealing with the side effects of her treatment – battling nausea and fatigue. She had endured surgeries, sickness, and doubt. This was her first trip since being diagnosed. But on the 18th hole, as Phil drained a ten-foot birdie putt to finish the tournament and headed toward the scorer’s table, he turned and saw his wife and 3 kids waiting for him.
It makes the Tiger Woods debacle seem even more ludicrous than it has been all along. As far as I’m concerned, Tiger can just crawl under a rock and stay there.
