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your sadness, but you have to take a really During this off season, Marsico spent “I was misdiagnosed for a long time,”
long-term view of it,” Marsico says. “I am not time assessing each aspect of his game and Marsico says. “I kept going through rehab,
in this game to just play well this week. You originally thought about setting a goal to be but when I had some improvement, the pain
have to have a much longer vision. I have to as good statistically as the 10th best player would return. I finally went to Tom Boers,
set my goals to be something significantly on the Tour in the major categories. “I was a physical therapist in Georgia in 2014. He
more than, ‘I just want to shoot a good score talking to my dad who I have been working immediately told me I had a locked facet
today.’ If you just set your goal for today and with for 20 years and I told him, ‘if I’m the joint. At the end of three days, he took me to
hit a bad shot, then you can start thinking the 10th best guy on tour in a category, that’s the range and I was able to hit balls. During
world is ending, which it can feel like. pretty good,’ but he looked at me and said, the previous 18 months, I could barely even
‘Why don’t you just take the number one guy practice putting. The first morning I woke up
“Obviously in the moment it sucks, there is on tour?’ I thought about it and I said, ‘Well, and noticed it, I pretty much couldn’t get out
no other way to put it. It’s not fun. After I fin- why wouldn’t I want to set my goals as num- of bed. It had locked up my entire left side.
ished up, I spent a couple hours in silence, not ber one for everything?’” I couldn’t turn and my body was completely
really wanting to talk to anybody and that’s shut down. He fixed my posture and how I
how I processed it. But then I said, ‘What am Marsico worked on his wedge game, lag stood over the ball. Since then, I haven’t had
I going to do to make sure I don’t do this next putting, minimizing his dispersion off the tee an issue.”
week?’ I don’t want to be fighting to just make and other areas, and believes he made strong Through February 11, Marsico had made
the cut, so I wasn’t really focused on missing improvements across the board. But just the cut in two of his four tournaments to start
the cut by one, I was looking at it like, ‘OK, being healthy for an extended time period 2018. His best finish remains the tied for 10th
the leader is at 9-under par and I was 1-over over the last few years has been a huge im- at last year’s Web.com Tour Qualifying Tour-
par, so I need to make up 10 shots, not just provement for Marsico, who estimates he has nament, but his dream is alive and well.
one shot.’ Everybody has their own way of missed four years of golf over the last decade
processing a missed cut, but the next day I due to debilitating back pain. He suffered a “Ever since I can remember, I wanted to
was on the bus at 7:30 a.m. heading out to the fracture in his vertebrae when he was 15, and play golf at the highest level,” Marsico says.
range to practice. I talked to some guys who his most recent injury nearly sidelined him
chartered a boat and went fishing, but for me, for good. He is almost there.
I like to get back to work immediately.”

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