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**LeslieMoran** · 10-13-2009, 11:06 AM

A few posts recently have made me think about people's behavior both on and off the course. Do you think people play golf the same way they live life? Do you think their course management reflects the way they navigate relationships? Do you think that negotiating a business deal taught them patience on the course?

Golf is no different than work or family or anything else, some people are fun to be around and others are, well, not so much fun. Sometimes people are completely different in each arena but more often than not if a guy is a jerk on the golf course he will be a jerk off it. Sometimes people can fool you though, it is like driving, people tend to behave differently when driving, it has more to do with their character development at the time they learned a particular skill than it does how they normally behave elsewhere, same is true with golf. How a person behaves is sometimes the least important aspect of who they really are, and usually younger people make this mistake right up until they get conned or taken to the cleaners by the seemingly super nice guy who is really a scumbag. Pay attention to what a person actually does and the decisions they make and not how they behave, there is a difference.

10-13-2009, 11:06 AM	#1
LeslieMoran Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 604 Senior Member	A few posts recently have made me think about people's behavior both on and off the course. Do you think people play golf the same way they live life? Do you think their course management reflects the way they navigate relationships? Do you think that negotiating a business deal taught them patience on the course? Golf is no different than work or family or anything else, some people are fun to be around and others are, well, not so much fun. Sometimes people are completely different in each arena but more often than not if a guy is a jerk on the golf course he will be a jerk off it. Sometimes people can fool you though, it is like driving, people tend to behave differently when driving, it has more to do with their character development at the time they learned a particular skill than it does how they normally behave elsewhere, same is true with golf. How a person behaves is sometimes the least important aspect of who they really are, and usually younger people make this mistake right up until they get conned or taken to the cleaners by the seemingly super nice guy who is really a scumbag. Pay attention to what a person actually does and the decisions they make and not how they behave, there is a difference.
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