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...play. His slump sent him searching. He started out by hiring one of the great experts on golf technique, David Leadbetter, who showed him how the mechanism of his swing could be broken down into components that could be rebuilt for greater reliability. Then, in 2006, Rose hired Nick Bradley, a Buddhist who told him that successful golf incorporates elements of reincarnation, as the completion of each shot sets up a new beginning for the next one. Now 27, Rose has finally emerged as one of Europe's top golfers, and is among the favorites to win when the Open...
...first approach emphasizes order and precision, and appeals to tinkerers and mechanically minded players such as former Open champions Nick Faldo and Ben Hogan, who dedicated their lives to studying the angles and positions of an accurate swing. The latter approach embraces more poetical notions like rhythm, focus and visualization, and is exemplified by "feel" players such as the Texan Ben Crenshaw, who credited his 1995 U.S. Masters victory to the mental strength instilled in him by his golf mentor Harvey Penick, and who mused mysteriously that the U.S. Ryder Cup team won in 1999 because "there was something...
...more mental mumbo jumbo. Leadbetter says Argentina's Eduardo Romero credits his late-career success to yogic breathing during his swing. Spain's Ignacio Garrido said his win in the 2003 European PGA Championship stemmed from "practicing less, reading more" - particularly the works of spiritual guru Deepak Chopra. And Nick Bradley, Rose's Buddhist coach, told TIME that he advises his pupil to remember in the heat of battle that "even at a rock concert there's silence, if you take the noise away...
...scenario is being ruled out, and Andyar did not have any special security detail. One possible explanation is that the 19-year-old may be seeking asylum somewhere in Europe, following repeated threats and humiliation from Muslim extremists, including false rumors that she was a prostitute. Nick Davies, spokesman for the IAAF, the world track-and-field governing body, said there had been no signs that Andyar was having second thoughts about competing in Beijing. "It was quite a surprise to us," Davies told TIME. "We don't know where she is. All we know is that...
...money such campaigns generate comes with a huge responsibility to invest those funds cannily, and both universities are making suitable arrangements. Nick Cavalla, formerly an exec at Man Global Strategies - part of the Man Group, the world's largest publicly listed hedge fund - started work as Cambridge's first chief investment officer in April last year; Sandra Robertson, previously the boss of Portfolio Management at the Wellcome Trust, an influential U.K. medical charity, took up the equivalent role at Oxford five months later...