"Almost every tour player can't afford to drop off by 10 percent, and he lost more than 10 percent," Mattiace's swing coach, Jim McLean, says. "But he's not haunted by what happened. He's not that type of guy. He's the biggest non-complainer I've ever known. No excuses. He just keeps working to get back to what he was."
To get back to what he was when he walked off the 18th green at Augusta National five years ago after his final-round 65 and went to the Butler Cabin to see if his one-stroke lead on Mike Weir would hold up. It didn't. But that was OK. He was expecting a playoff. And when he lost the playoff, that was OK too. But eight months later, he went skiing. And that wasn't OK. Five years later, Len Mattiace is still hoping to be OK again, to get back to what he was. To get back to the Butler Cabin.
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