In ways large and small, golf is like life. A round is long, endlessly challenging and filled with the unexpected. More than anything, the game reveals character. There is a strict etiquette to golf, and those who can’t abide by it are likely to carry over that attitude to other pursuits.
The late super agent Mark McCormack, who represented Arnold Palmer and a host of other golf greats, wrote in his book, “What They Don’t Teach You at the Harvard Business School”: “I have often said that I can tell more about how someone is likely to react in a business situation from one round of golf than I can from a hundred hours of meetings. Maybe golf cuts more directly to the psyche than other games and situations. Or maybe it’s the venue itself — green grass and rolling hills. It’s astonishing how so simple a game can reveal so much.”
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