How Brandt Snedeker’s 2013 will be?
The 2012 season has been a wonderful year for the thirty-something Brandt Snedeker. The American star won $11.4 million at events in September.
With that much money coming in with still a little year left, Snedeker may as well have walked away from the remaining season’s competitions.
Most amateurs struggle with the idea (or the prospects thereof) of making pastime golf a serious career. I say let them have one good look at Brandt Snedeker.
Given another time, with the small number of tournaments Snedeker has made, he would have been your average Joe golfer, struggling with his game, getting beat, coming back up to fall back down again.
Today’s golf is much more forgiving and far less demanding of its players than its so-called golden age used to be.
In the early thirties and late forties and, to some, the fifties well into the seventies, players would play anywhere from thirty to forty tournaments a year (and by year’s end be too worked to even hold a club straight).
Compared to the haloed yesteryears, today’s standards have made a golden boy out of Snedeker, lavishing him with more money than ever before.
There has not been a major win for the 32-year-old and judging by the peak he had this season, the 2013 season will only go downhill.
Downhill should not be misconstrued for a nosedive in Snedeker’s performance, of course. If anything, his next year will be an optimistic one. It is just that no FedEx Cup champion (Brandt Snedeker won his FedEx Cup in 2012, the year he also bagged the Tour
Championship: thus the $11.4 million jackpot) has ever successfully defended his title.
To put it in simpler words for the slower ones amongst you reading this, Brandt Snedeker will not be having as good a 2013 as his 2012 was because the defending champion of the FedEx Cup has almost always lost.
Snedeker is not wholly to blame. It is just the evolving nature of the sport. There are so many would-be champions out there making the front pages of hundreds of magazines, it is astonishing there is a winner of the tournament to begin with!
Snedeker’s next year will have a few more wins sprinkled in there. What he needs to focus on now is a major title. Because he is young and wining a major early on poses the risk of tanking like so many players have before him (perhaps, like Ernie Els?).
However, if he does not fall into the same post-major win depression, winning a major championship should be high up there on his priority list for 2013. And preparation for the win in question should be the sole focus of his attention day in, day out.
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