They’re still playing golf out on Long Island as I’m writing this. The U.S. Open is always great fun to watch and this one has been no exception. It’s amazing how the course and the pressure always manages to bring the leaders back to the pack while the guys like Tiger and Phil who have been there before play their way into contention. I was reminded in the course of watching it how Coach Wooden’s words really are true, both about golf and business: “Little things make big things happen.” Continue reading
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The Open
They’ve begun play in the Championship round of The U.S. Open. Like The World Cup, the U.S. Open we see on TV is really the final round (or four rounds) of a tournament that began over a month ago (in soccer’s case we’re in the tournament now that concludes next summer). The part I like best about this is neither that the courses make the best golfers in the world look like..uh..me nor the history. What I like the best is that I can play. Continue reading
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Holding Steady
- Image by minds-eye via Flickr
One of my sporting addictions is golf, as those of you who’ve visited here before well know. This past weekend, I was watching The Players Championship. Tiger was having a not very good round on Saturday and yet moved from the top 20 into the top 5 and wound up playing in the last group on Sunday (for you non-golfers, the leaders go out last). He was holding steady while all the golfers around him crumbled and, by doing so, advanced his cause. This, of course, got me thinking. Continue reading
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