Trevor Immelmann in the Now.

Trevor Immelman had a tumor removed from his rib cage late last year. In an interview on the Golf Channel, he was asked “Did you consider you might not make it through the surgery?” Trevor said it crossed his mind, but the perspective the surgery gave him was not to take life for granted. As I watched Trevor in yesterday’s Masters, he seemed so focused on every shot. When Immelman made a double bogie on 16, he still had a three shot lead over Tiger Woods. If his mind went to “can I do this?” perhaps what he learned about himself during his recent critical illness gave him the confidence to answer to himself: “Yes!” The same energy that watched the nurses wheel him into the operating room watched him tee it up on 17. Trevor stayed in the present and did not take the swings he had to make to finish and win the Masters for granted.