FILE - Camilo Villegas lines up a putt on the third green during the final round of the Tour Championship golf tournament at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, Sunday, Sept. 28, 2008. Villegas is back in the Masters for the first time in nine years. FILE - Camilo Villegas, of Colombia, hits off the 11th fairway during the second round of the 3M Open golf tournament at the Tournament Players Club in Blaine, Minn., Friday, July 22, 2022.
“This game has given me so many great things, and in the process, it kicks your butt,” Villegas said that Sunday at the Bermuda Championship. “Life has given me so many great things, and in the process it kicks your butt, too.” “I think everything becomes easier when you understand that’s normal,” Villegas said of the hand he and his wife were dealt. “I can sit here and ask myself, ‘Why is Mia not here?’ And you can make it so abnormal and unique. But when you’re part of a club of losing a child, you realize the club is huge. And all of a sudden, it’s a lot more normal than you think. The ups and downs are normal.
Energy is a word Villegas uses all the time, and he has it tattooed on his right wrist with a “+” in front of it — positive energy. What he used to bring is what he now receives. It just didn’t translate into the kind of scores that would allow him to keep his card. They went to the caddie lounge and he told Villegas what to expect. Campra didn’t care if Villegas had a card at the end of the year. He told Villegas he would get worse before he got better. And he didn’t want him to play too much to keep old habits from creeping in.