Visualizing things that don't go well - Rory McIlroy

If you're trying to overcome anxiety or nerves around performance, I do try to think about, well, what's the worst that could happen? I would struggle on the first tee, and so I would say to myself, well, what's the worst that could happen? So you hit it in the trees? Okay, then what do you do? You go up there and you figure it out. You know, you're skillful enough to hit a punch shot out of the trees and, you know, get it up to the green and get it up and down and make a par and move on. For whatever reason, imagining like the worst-case scenario gives me a level of comfort, 'cause I felt like any worst-case scenario that I could bring up in my head, I'll be able to deal with. Especially on the first tee for me, Because when you, as you know, if you get nervous on the golf course, you get tight and you get like guidey. And so it gives me a sense of freedom.