In this lighthearted episode, Scott Becker shares frustrations from a weekend golf tournament.
Chapter 1: What frustrations does Scott Becker have about slow golfers?
This is Scott Becker with the Becker Business Podcast and the Becker Private Equity Podcast. Today's discussion is slow golfers and American heroes. So here's the gist. I'm going to juxtapose two different thoughts from golf and from thinking and so forth. First, as always, my golf game is subpar, so we're not going to talk about my golf game.
I did get a text from a colleague of mine recently saying that his handicap's down to 4.7, and isn't he the greatest golfer of all time? He'll remain nameless, but my goodness, I sure hope I take money from him in the near future. That's not the discussion today. The discussion today is, and I know this is so first world and so...
embarrassing and so privileged, but at our golf club, there was a tournament this weekend, and you had to play 45 holes, five nines. Let me tell you, there are two things that are horrendous if it's going poorly. One is if you end up in a four-sum appearing periodically with someone who is a slow golfer, They might not even be that slow. It might just be that I am so caffeinated and wound up.
But literally, when I am in these foursomes with slow golfers, I literally ā and I don't mean any offense to the mental health crowd because all of mental health issues, me, top of the list. I want to shoot myself. And I say that jokingly. I don't really want to shoot myself. But I hate being paired with slow golfers. And sometimes these slow golfers have catchphrases that he used constantly.
I'm like, oh, my God, I might have to shoot myself. But it is what it is. That's what first comes to the slow golfers. The second thing that I give people tremendous credit for, there are people that I love, but they're also difficult people. And I honestly love this guy. So I use this as a joke, not in reality. But there are people that peer with people like that.
So there are people you see in peerings where all you do is have empathy for the person, peer with that person. You have sympathy for them. You think, oh, my God, this person, this person is golfing with that guy. must be a saint, an American hero.
And this week's shout-out goes to, you know, this is someone who's so generous in his comments that he doesn't even think he's an American hero for being paired with this other guy. And the other guy, I say this in jest because I actually love the other guy, but this week's American hero award, this week's most talented person award, greatest human being award,
sainthood award goes to michael lieber that's the gist for today um slow golf and american heroes i saw a lot of slow golf i'm a huge fan of american hero mike lieber he is sort of like me i always brag about the fact and this is embarrassing that I don't have any concerns about my social status and who I play with, who I've been with, who I hang with.
As often repeated, one of my friends says to me, oh, you dress so poorly, you're like one of my best friends, you don't care how you look. Well, that's not exactly true. But similarly, and we say this often, I spent so much time golfing with one of my buddies that by no means would ever win an award for a social status golfer.
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Chapter 2: How does Scott compare slow golfers to American heroes?
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