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Rory McIlory on Reframing Negative Thoughts

8 Sept 2025 · 1 min

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A short YouTube monologue by Rory McIlory about managing and reframing negative thoughts. The speaker explains deliberately replacing negative images (e.g., visualizing hitting the ball into the water) with stronger, positive visualizations and practicing this skill to improve in-the-moment performance, with golf-specific examples (moving from the 16th to the 17th tee).

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I mentioned something earlier in the week where how do you drown out the bad thoughts and replace them with the positive ones? And I just think you have to try really hard to make those positive thoughts just a little stronger and a little more powerful than the negative ones. We all get negative thoughts, but it's how do you deal with those? And how do you reframe and replace those with what you want to see and what you want to do? Because even walking from the 16th ring to the 17th T today, I could see myself hitting it in the water. Right? That's something that crosses your mind. And it's like, okay, well, how do I replace that thought with a better one and visualize and get myself into the moment? And I've practiced hard at that and definitely getting better at it.