The golfer explains how Steph Curry and a sports psychologist have inspired him to find inner comfort as the Open nears
It used to be that the admission of vulnerability by high-profile sportspeople was met with general disdain. Flash cars, flashier houses and sponsorship deals worth telephone numbers were supposed to offset any nagging professional doubts. Rory McIlroy has encountered a lifetime of this; onlookers erroneously believe he has become a little too comfortable with life outside the ropes.
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