For golfer Jim Furyk, the PGA season 2012 season was not that good – with several meltdowns and back to back losses. Still Jim did not stop from speaking about all the painful loses with a leading golf magazine.

He admitted that this was the most depressing interview he has ever given to anyone. Davis Love III had famously told the magazine that Jim was probably only 3 swings from being a Player of the Year nominee, but Jim answered that, whilst he is trying to take that as a compliment – that he is so close to the top of the game – he struggles to see past the fact that he game consistently let him down time and again last season.

He compared it to amateur golfers. Amateur golfers come in at the end of the day, have a beer and start to talk about the 2 great shots they hit during the day and their conversation goes on for 2 hours. On the other hand professional golf players come, moan and talk about the 6 bad shots which cost them a sixty six, and were the reason they shot 68 – 69. Those 2 shots will keep them up during night, they think how they would get rid of them, therefore they could trust their swing the next day.

Its a tough line for to follow, and goes to show that the professionals take the game so much more seriously that the usual Sunday rounders. It almost tempted me into betting online that Furyk would recover from these setbacks – if his training is an intense as his words then he will have a great chance of winning, even if Unibet aren’t offering the most attractive odds!

When the magazine asked whether putting under pressure was a mental thing or not, he said that for him it is mechanical. He had some mechanical flaws he had to work on and he worked really hard on those things and got his confidence back.