Many years ago, Johnny Revolta, a PGA Tour pro (and major winner) active in the 1930's, 1940's and 1950's quipped "golf doesn't build character, it reveals it."
That's a statement so true, it seems obvious. Golf is a game of honor where the player is his or her own referee, and how a given player conducts themself on the course can truly identify what sort of person that player is.
Knowing that, when I came across a 2002 article in USA Today about CEO's and golf, I was once again struck by how accurate Revolta was:
That's a statement so true, it seems obvious. Golf is a game of honor where the player is his or her own referee, and how a given player conducts themself on the course can truly identify what sort of person that player is.
Knowing that, when I came across a 2002 article in USA Today about CEO's and golf, I was once again struck by how accurate Revolta was:
Chad Struer has played golf with almost 20 Fortune 500 CEOs. One in three cheats, he says. Struer finds that rather peculiar, because those same CEOs hire him and his Salinas, Calif., company, USA Diligence, to investigate the honesty of start-up companies so the CEOs can decide whether to invest. One CEO, whom Struer calls "good-hearted," so habitually shaves strokes that he consistently scores in the mid-80s when it is obvious he would never break 100.Interesting. And perhaps the game of golf could have identified some of the scoundrels responsible for our current economic crisis? Maybe more than we think. It's food for thought, anyway.
