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Love,
I think your golf instructor was right about at least one golfer – what an absolute class act. The video interview is the most telling I think especially that he gives away all his red shirts (his customary color he wears on Sundays when golf tourneys are decided) to charity.
I guess my overriding point to your golf instructor and his point would be that generally the game of golf does foster more civility than other sports due to the long tradition, etc., but to paint anything with one brush can create problems because there are exceptions to the rules all over the place and the devil is in the details. For instance, a hero of mine in baseball is Carlos Delgado. I can’t tell you what position he plays or even what team he currently plays for, but he took the very tough stand of going into the dugout or turning around or something during the national anthem a season or two ago to protest the Iraq war. It was a silent protest that I personally probably wouldn’t do in his position, but for the very fact that he stood up for something he believed in and obviously sacrificed endorsement dollars and personal exposure I salute him. Now, on the other hand, I would not currently place people like Tiger or Michael Jordan in my ‘hero’ category because frankly I don’t think they do as much as they could to perhaps promote and bring light to their own personal causes (we all have them I am sure) but I respect them very much for being good sportsmen and conducting themselves well on the sporting field.
Mealy mouth stance? Yea, probably, but suffice it to say that to me painting any one sport as better than another for this or that reason ignores perhaps the true reality of what sports are and what they can represent.
