Sian beilock biography of rory
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Admit to having choked and then move on, Rory
Jacobson nailed the shot to win the tournament but was so livid that Miller had used the C word, the pair of them didn’t talk for almost a year.
“The way some players react to the suggestion they choked,” Miller would observe years later, “you’d think they’d run out of a burning building and left their family behind. My feeling is there is a lot to be learned by studying choking.”
Rory McIlroy certain could. It’s one of the cruellest and most pejorative expressions in all of sport — ‘choke’, along with ‘choker’, often because they’re seen to go hand and hand. There’s a big distinction between the two, however, and the best way McIlroy will become a major champion rather than a major choker is to unashamedly accept he choked.
He’s in good company, for starters. It was mentioned last Sunday that Charl Schwartzel’s victory coincided with the 50th anniversary of countryman Gary Player’s win at Augusta. But Player didn’t so much win; Ar
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The myth of being 'bad' at maths
Features correspondent
You’re not destined to be bad at maths. You just may need to tackle your ‘mathephobia’.
Are you a parent who dreads having to help with maths homework? In a restaurant, do you hate having to calculate the tip on a bill? Does understanding your mortgage interest payments seem like an unsurmountable task?
If so, you’re definitely not alone. Research has shown that in the US, 93% of adults say they have some level of maths anxiety. And it’s not just adults: some 31% of 15- and 16-year-olds across 34 countries say they get very nervous doing maths problems, 33% say they get tense doing maths homework and nearly 60% say they worry maths classes will be difficult, the Programme for International Student Assessment reports.
Sian Beilock, a cognitive scientist and president of Barnard College in New York, says the idea that you are either innately good or bad at maths persists in
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If you’re a big golf fan — and, statistically speaking, you are almost certainly not — but if you are, you know this is the week of the Open Championship, or what Americans call the British Open. It’s the oldest and arguably most important major tournament in golf. This year it’s being held at the Scottish course Carnoustie, which is so difficult it’s often called Car-nasty. Carnoustie also hosted the Open back in 1999.
Brandel CHAMBLEE: The golf course was so hard that it inevitably was going to give us some bizarre conclusion.
That’s Brandel Chamblee. He played on the PGA Tour for 15 years; now he’s an analyst for the Golf Channel.
CHAMBLEE: There was going to be a train wreck at some point.
And yet, on the tournament’s final day, on the final hole, stood a man who had tamed the savage course.
Peter ALLISS: [From BBC coverage of the 1999 British Open] The golfing gods are with the young man at this moment, and it’ll be interesting to see what he does now.
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