{"id":2124,"date":"2021-06-25T12:32:17","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T12:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-583903-1890774.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=2124"},"modified":"2021-06-25T12:32:17","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T12:32:17","slug":"matthew-wolff-returns-from-hiatus-opens-up-about-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/2021\/06\/25\/matthew-wolff-returns-from-hiatus-opens-up-about-mental-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Wolff Returns from Hiatus, Opens Up About Mental Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Wolff had a rather inconspicuous weekend at the US Open. True, he started Saturday in third place and was just one shot off the lead. But he was pretty average on Saturday and Sunday, and finished the tournament at +1 &#8212; still good for a tie of 15th place, but far from threatening to win it all.<\/p>\n<p>And for Wolff, that\u2019s just fine. The 22-year-old, who finished as runner-up at last year\u2019s US Open, was playing his first golf in almost two months.<\/p>\n<p>That two-month break was self-imposed. Wolff had a string of tough finishes early in the year, including an opening round 83 that prompted him to withdraw from the WGC-Workday Championship. Then in April, he was disqualified from the Masters for signing an incorrect scorecard.<\/p>\n<p>Far from just bad luck, or a bad run, Wolff\u2019s mental health was falling apart.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8220;When I make people happy, that makes me happy.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/matthew_wolff5?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@matthew_wolff5<\/a> on the importance of athletes discussing their mental health.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/USOpen?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#USOpen<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sGBeVpi8U6\">pic.twitter.com\/sGBeVpi8U6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Golf Channel (@GolfChannel) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GolfChannel\/status\/1406067091875246081?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 19, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just didn\u2019t quite know how to deal with it. As good as my life is, 22 years old and on the PGA Tour, there\u2019s also a lot of stress and pressure that comes along with it, and it got to me,\u201d Wolff <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/golf.com\/news\/matt-wolff-remarks-friday-revealing-us-open\/\">told reporters<\/a><\/strong> on the weekend. \u201cI was hopeless for five months. And I was really struggling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He decided to step away, a decision that couldn\u2019t have been easy. Getting help for yourself &#8212; especially when you exist in the public eye &#8212; tends to leave little room for privacy. But Wolff faced reporters\u2019 questions head-on in his first tournament back, and was frank about his struggle. It\u2019s a struggle that he knows isn\u2019t over.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, Thursday and even today, even after playing well yesterday, I was still like I wanted to stay in bed,\u201d Wolff admitted. \u201cI wanted to be like where I was comfortable, not in the spotlight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said that his focus for the weekend was just to enjoy playing again &#8212; to keep a level head, even through bad putts and missed fairways. And he says he accomplished that. But he also recognizes that mental health is more than a single battle; more than just one weekend with a positive attitude. \u201cI\u2019ll probably be working on the same thing that I\u2019m working on now for the rest of my career.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Matthew Wolff had a rather inconspicuous weekend at the US Open. True, he started Saturday in third place and was just one shot off the lead. But he was pretty average on Saturday and Sunday, and finished the tournament at +1 &#8212; still good for a tie of 15th place, but far from threatening [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2124"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2132,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124\/revisions\/2132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}