01노트에 적은 간절한 목표, 필드 위에서 실현되다
폴란드의 골프 스타 아드리안 메롱크가 DP 월드 투어의 권위 있는 대회인 '알프레드 던힐 링크스 챔피언십'에서 정상에 올랐다. 메롱크는 이번 대회 내내 정교한 샷 감각을 유지하며 리더보드 최상단을 지켜냈고, 결국 우승 트로피를 들어 올리며 자신의 실력을 다시 한번 입증했다.
특히 이번 우승은 메롱크의 특별한 루틴이 알려지며 더욱 큰 관심을 받고 있다. 그는 대회 시작 전 자신의 개인 노트에 이번 대회에서 우승하겠다는 목표를 구체적으로 기록하며 승리를 향한 의지를 다졌다. 단순한 다짐을 넘어 우승의 순간을 미리 시각화한 그의 '확언'이 실제 결과로 이어진 셈이다.
메롱크는 평소에도 자신의 목표와 긍정적인 마음가짐을 노트에 기록하며 심리적 평온을 유지하는 것으로 알려져 있다. 까다로운 링크스 코스에서 치러진 이번 대회에서도 그는 흔들리지 않는 집중력을 발휘했으며, 노트에 적어둔 확신이 경기 중 겪은 고비마다 결정적인 동기부여가 되었다고 밝혔다.
02Original (English) — DP World Tour
Adrian Meronk revealed that he manifested his Alfred Dunhill Links Championship victory on the DP World Tour by writing in a notebook that he was grateful for a win during the 2026 season, before it had happened.
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The Pole, who ended a wait of two years and 347 days for his fifth DP World Tour title, was asked if he had envisaged a return to the winner's circle this year. In response, he revealed that he had written the same message in his notebook every day, expressing gratitude for a victory as a way of reinforcing his belief that success would come.
"I did envision it, yes," he said in his winner's press conference on Sunday evening.
"I'm writing my little notebook, little sentence, it's in Polish but I'll translate it. It says, "I'm grateful for the winnings of tournaments on DP in 2026 and Top-20 finish of the season." That's what I'm writing every single day in my notebook. Obviously that helps a lot, and it's one step towards that goal.
"But I did say that, I imagine myself sitting here or standing on 18 with the trophy, and definitely helps. Definitely helps."
As well as writing things in his notebook, Meronk spoke about going through a mental rehearsal of the final round with psychologist of several years Bevis Moynan.
"I've been working with Bevis Moynan, that's his name, my psychologist, for the last several years," he said. "He's been super helpful.
"I texted him yesterday. Obviously I'm playing great and I'm in great position. I knew the forecast would be tough and I knew I would be nervous. We went through like a mental rehearsal of the round, seeing the shots, feeling the wind, feeling the pressure, feeling the nerves, and that kind of set me up for the day.
"I felt quite good starting the day. Obviously get off to a good start, as well. I think that helped me a lot. We tend to do that before every tournament to kind of mentally get me ready and prepare me for what might happen on the golf course.
"We always kind of start -- we start from me standing after the tournament with the trophy -- not the trophy but we call it the winning performance, and then kind of trying to imagine what would I feel, what kind of emotions, and I'm trying to see myself like ten minutes after the winning performance on the 18th green, and that's what we did. And then we kind of work backwards with the round, and that's how we do it."
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It's a process that paid off on the Old Course, St Andrews on Sunday, as Meronk carded a final round 68 to earn a two stroke victory over Casey Jarvis and Niklas Nørgaard at the same venue where he made his first professional start on the DP World Tour ten years ago.
He began the round two shots adrift of South African Jarvis, but took the lead at the 12th and held on for an emotional first victory in nearly three years.
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