Marcel Siem was at the top of his game in the early 2010s. Having won three tournaments in three consecutive years, the at-the-time 30-year German narrowly missed out on playing the US Masters at Augusta. But hey, if he continues playing like he has, he’ll find himself in the tournament next year, right?
Well, unfortunately not. What would follow would be turbulent years for him. Does he quit playing professionally? Will he ever win again? Will he have to play at a level a player his stature shouldn’t have to? This video will show how Marcel Siem fought himself through personal and athletic challenges to find himself in contention for winning tournaments.
Everything was going great for Marcel SE in the early 2010s from 2010 to 2014 he’d won three European Tour tournaments and earned over $5 million in prize money this culminated at the 2014 BMW Masters in China where he hold this chip on the first playoff hole to take home
His fourth European tour title and over a million dollar in prize money with Martin kimer dominating that Year’s US Open German golf fans fora a bright future for their players but no one could have predicted the implosion that would follow struggling to deal with his own high expectations Marcel would go on to
Lose his ability to play professional golf at the highest level in fact years of taking bad advice and dealing with injuries would nearly cause him to retire from the game altogether this is a story of the rise and fall and Rise of mos seim one of the best comeback stories in golf
To truly understand the man behind the ponytail we need to go back to his youth born in 1980 and met man Germany to two restaurant Marcelo Over Bar Castle his own course as a big playground when he was six he was the youngest German to have an official
Handicap at age of 14 he won his first Club Championship and after celebrating his 20th birthday he turned professional with a handicap of plus six the lowest in Europe at the time he first tried playing in Europe’s second tier pro circuit the challenge tour but was not
Able to break through he had to rely on qore a three-stage 12 round tournament to earn his European tour card he did so on his third attempt where he went on to make the most of the opportunity by recording his first six figure season that year and getting his first win two years
Later from this point on his results would fluctuate immensely his aggressive play style started becoming a double Ed sword he Mr cut one week have a chance to win in the next and follow it up with a bang average performance Brash outgoing and wearing his heart on his
Sleeve Marcel was known as a reactive and emotional player this made him a character and an exciting watch for the fans but also had its downsides in the second round of the 2004 German Masters he snapped his driver on the 18th T after a bad t- shot which made some of
The younger fans following him cry that moment haunted him and he said so in an VI a few years later that was the worst incident and I was close to tearing up after seeing the low on crying after that moment I saw to be an idol and that was the turning
Point for me big time and despite that Turning Point only bearing fruit 8 years later after winning the 2012 French Open Marcel went on a three-year winning streak by capturing the 2013 Moroccan open and the 2014 BMW Masters taking home over $4.5 million in the process nevertheless even
With his new relaxed approach he stood out like a sore thumb amongst the very serious personalities of both Bernard Langer and Martin kimer interestingly SE worked with the same coach as kimer did which makes the correlation of the upward and downward trends of their careers which happened adversely at the same time freakishly
Similar while kima’s ability to compete slowly declined as his world ranking slipped Marcel’s fall was much more violent from 2015 to 2017 he only made half of his cuts on the European tour at the time that wasn’t really a problem as he still had a winnner category and
Could enter most events the problem came with his performances in the following years he made 12 cuts and 42 appearances losing his card and playing privileges on the European tour while his winless run between 2004 and 2012 could be explained by him being a guy that loved to party his fall and
Form between 2014 and 2019 was due to the exact opposite reason in an interview with the chall tour he talked about how making drastic changes to play more like other players started his downfall and in all of a sudden I went the other way you know try to go over the to the
Stage I tried so many new things out and new mental coaches new technique new coaches uh swing coaches which was complete nonsense stupid I mean it was the biggest mistake in my life I think from that point on um I lost the confidence and I was already in a swing
Change there I started to to work with two different coaches confidence loss loss loss and that confidence loss loss loss turned him from a very confident player that would fist bump birdies by the Dozen to one that couldn’t make one to play the weekend he was only left with one option
To go back to playing on the challenge tour having last played a full challenge tour season back in 2001 many would have perceived it embarrassing for a four-time champion to play the lower TI League look at that cat look at the C but now a season professional he knew
That he needed to change his mentality in order to climb out of European golf’s second tour if you don’t accept that you lost your card and you still think you’re a European tool player and there should be a caddy around you and you should play for2 million EUR you cannot
Compete on the challenge tour there’s no chance you’re grumpy and you’re upset all the time once you make friends on the challenge tour and accept that’s where you are at that’s the only way forward I’m very happy that I understood that this change in perspective was born
From his work with hogga Fisher his new life coach one of the big things that they worked on was building awareness to who he was as a person this included going away from the traditional Mantra of suppressing emotions while playing and letting his extroverted and confident personality shine
Out while this methodology helped him play more consistently it did not lead to any standout performance that all changed when he teed up at the 2021 Von golf challenge being away from home for the 11th week in a row he got used to being tired and alone during
Tournaments but this week somebody else ended up joining him the tour allowed his daughter to accompany him during the rounds which seemed to be the emotional kick that he needed as Marcel ended up winning the tournament by a shot this qualified him for the 149th Open Championship 2 weeks later at Royal
St George’s where he finished tight 15th his first major appearance since 2015 energized by the crowds he capped off a great 2021 campaign by securing promotion back to the European tour for 2022 alas the year wasn’t all good for Marcel as early in the year his wife was given a cancer
Diagnosis I didn’t talk about it last year because I didn’t want to I was sad you know some players knew it and they ask you every day you how’s your wife um and then uh it’s tough to concentrate know I cried a lot at the beginning of the season in South Africa
When it happened and she started the Cho so um looking back that added pressure is sure to have contributed to many of his reactions on the golf course nevertheless 2022 was a year of self-reflection where he proved that he did belong on the European tour he still
Had to go through Q school again as he needed a good category to continue playing the best events but he easily retained his card by placing 13 furthermore he made full use of his playing privileges by starting off his 2023 season with a bang he had five top
20 finishes including a T5 getting his season underway nicely his next tournament the hero Indian open would once again turn his life upside down playing the dlf golf and country club one of the harder courses on the calendar it was a great opportunity to have a break through
Performance always within the top five but never leading Marcel would make his charge during the last round of the tournament trailing by one shot he would outplay his compatriot Yanik Paul by making five birdies and one bogy to take the lead by one heading into the last
Hole however he would have to face one more obstacle before he could complete his comeback standing on the te of the last hole a long par five he knew that one mistake could mean the end of the tournament therefore he chose to play the whole conservatively after hitting a good
Drive he was left with a n iron to lay up in front of the water an easy shot one he’s hit thousands of times he’s nearly there oh no that’s a poor layup and he’s got a horrible lie too well he needs to hit the ball on the
Green and two put for the win his last chance wow that was close after that he twoed and easily hold out for his first European tour win in over 8 years Marcel didn’t have lofted expectations for the week my goal was a top 10 I didn’t have the feeling that I
Was going to win but he did and that helped him earn over $ 1.25 million Us in 2023 making it the third best year of his career he started off the 2024 season with a 16th Place finish in macius that earned him over 15,000 in prize money
Good Start we can only wait and see if he continues on his form over the next years seam is definitely a player I will start following from now on if you want to see a video about Wilson golf the that Marcel played as a junior and the
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