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What drives Vijay
Singh?
Vijay Singh is an
accomplished professional golfer. At 43 years old
and with 47 million dollars as his official
cumulative earnings, that would be enough to satisfy
most people but Vijay is not someone who is ever
going to be “satisfied” in my opinion. He constantly
is hitting his golf clubs, is constantly working out
and practicing to find his best golf game and the
next championship.
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Perhaps it is his
childhood lessons of perseverance that fuel him to
carry on. Vijay’s watchword is “focus.” He is very
focused on the game of golf and his goals. He has
also learned how to still his mind and settle down.
And in professional golf, it’s not just about
hitting the golf ball well. The pressures can be
tremendous. Many of the young players surrounding
him could learn a lesson or two from Vijay.
There is a lot of talk surrounding Tiger
Woods at the moment. |
Will he will be able to
put the circumstances of his life to the side and
carry on or will he fade into an early (although
accomplished) retirement? Tiger’s had a lot of life
situations that have seemed to upset his apple cart
lately including his marriage and his father’s
recent death. Vijay says things like that don’t
matter. He says he has learned to slow down his
breathing, hear the water and the wind, and focus.
There is that word again. His focus just might
propel him to the top of the golfing pack to replace
Tiger.
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Even with his success,
there have been some bad times for Vijay,
specifically during the firestorm of criticism he
brought on himself by his scathing comments
regarding Annika Sorenstam in 2003. But Vijay seems
to have put all of that behind him and is insistent
upon going all the way. His image also appears to
have recovered somewhat and it appears that he will
keep on driving himself as hard as he has in the
past.
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