Cink blog: The importance of optimism shines through

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CROMWELL, Conn. -- Optimism is pervasive through your whole body. It translates into physical things like posture, how you carry yourself and can even then lead to things like what your golf swing is going to do and how you are going to putt.

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Stewart Cink.

If your optimism is strong, then there's no room for anything else, because your mind can only think one thing at a time. Just look at how my optimism paid off for me today.

I won the tournament. The challenge, I think is to not look ahead. If you look ahead and start thinking about the possibility of winning a tournament or, 'if I do this or if I do that,' you are only going to doom yourself. Walking into a situation, you have to know that you are going to only be able to do the best you can do.

Whether I'm in the fairway or off in the right rough like I was at 18 today, you just always have to know you can only do what you can do. What's done is done. You can't go back and change things, so look ahead and put your best foot forward. You'll be amazed at how well things work out.

I mean, look at how my optimism worked for me today.