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Mental Toughness

So Tiger Woods, coming off an amazing 91 hole victory in the US Open this weekend, including a 19 hole playoff against Rocco Mediate, has announced he's out for the rest of the season.

Anyone who watched the US Open could see him grimacing with pain on dozens of strokes, often limping off the tee box. It turns out that in addition to the arthroscopic surgery he has been recovering from, the doctors found stress fractures around his knee two weeks ago, before the Memorial Tournament.

So with a bum anterior cruciate ligament and knowing he had multiple stress fractures, he kept that information to himself and still went out and proved yet again he's the best golfer in the world. I've never seen anything like it. There was a commercial that aired repeatedly with Tiger's now deceased father talking about Tiger's mental toughness. That wasn't half of it.

Do you have any "mental toughness" stories?

Posted by Tyler Suchman on June 18, 2008 09:04 AM | | | Mental Toughness

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From a yogic/Buddhist point of view Tiger's focused attention and powers of concentration are amazing.

But, he ignores the principle of ahimsa, non-violence. The price he'll pay for not listening to the pleas of his knees remains to be seen.

Comment #1 Posted by: Suza | June 18, 2008 11:28 AM

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