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Becoming a Leader: A Golf Analogy |
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Becoming a Leader: A Golf Analogy “Sam Snead had a nature-given gift to ‘belt a golf ball’ but it took years of practice and hard work to make him one of the all time greats of golf. Nature provides talent but requires help to make a great star.” Old ad for Texaco- Havoline Motor Oil, framed on the wall of Sam Snead’s restaurant, Greg Norman says that after he shot his first, official score of 108, the golf club assigned me the maximum allowed handicap of 27. Well, I was determined to reduce that number. Not only did I practice diligently, but I went out and bought two books by Jack Nicklaus….Golf My Way…55 Ways to Lower Your Score….I kept those books with me all the time, marking them up and dog-earing the pages…and to this day I still have those books. From there I started going to junior golf clinics but I knew that in order to get better, I would need on-on-one coaching. So I started taking lessons…he drilled me on the basics….I developed my own practice system….I would spend the rest of the day on the driving range….I didn’t go out there and hit until I got tired, I backed of before I got tired. Greg Norman with Donald T. Phillips in The Way of the Shark “If we wish to play golf, we do not study books of rules, at least not immoderately, but we go to a golf course and after some preliminary instruction we play golf every day if possible and in the course of time the average man can play a fair game. So it is with leadership.” Capt. Roy C. Smith USN, US Naval Institute Proceedings, Mar-April 1915 |
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