Two months can be a long time in golf. Just ask the new holder of the Claret Jug, Francesco Molinari. It seems incredible now, as Molinari continues celebrating becoming the first Italian player to win a major championship, that he spent mid-May searching for answers. A missed cut at the Players Championship in Florida – Molinari scored back-to-back 73s – triggered a meeting with his long-time coach, Denis Pugh, at the Wisley club in Surrey.
“He wasn’t playing particularly well, nothing was going right,” Pugh explains. “We just decided to do the same things we were doing, but better. Keep working harder until the results come. Nothing was really going right but nothing was seriously wrong, it was just a question of staying patient then make sure you work really well. It clicked at Wentworth the very next week and once it clicks for him, he can keep printing out the same shots all day long. He plays his best, a bit like Nick Faldo, when he has a feel for his swing rather than too much else.”
Written by Ewan Murray at Carnoustie
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/jul/23/francesco-molinari-missed-cuts-claret-jug-eight-weeks under the title “How Francesco Molinari went from missed cuts to Claret Jug – in eight weeks”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
