In this episode, Scott Becker recounts a lighthearted golf loss and the sting of a late-game collapse.
Chapter 1: What does Scott Becker discuss in this episode?
This is Scott Becker with the Becker Private Equity and Business Podcast. Again, just past 7 million downloads. We passed 17 million downloads of the Becker Self-Care Podcast. We are so thankful for our listeners. Thank you so, so much. Today's discussion is the agony of defeat. So here's the story. And I hate to... bother your start of your weekend with my golf problems.
Chapter 2: Who is Scott Becker's golfing buddy?
But I snuck out, as I often do, to play nine holes against a buddy of mine who's very sarcastic, a guy named Scott Levy, terrific guy, love having a chance to play nine holes with him weekly. And usually I win a lot more than I lose. But that has not been the case this year so far. This year, the first time we were out, we tied today. When you talk about the agony of defeat,
Chapter 3: What does 'the agony of defeat' mean in sports?
Chapter 4: What are Scott Becker's thoughts on winning and losing in golf?
But I snuck out, as I often do, to play nine holes against a buddy of mine who's very sarcastic, a guy named Scott Levy, terrific guy, love having a chance to play nine holes with him weekly. And usually I win a lot more than I lose. But that has not been the case this year so far. This year, the first time we were out, we tied today. When you talk about the agony of defeat,
The thrill of victory, the agony of defeat. People my age recognize that that was the tagline for the wide world of sports, one of the great programming things of all time back in the day. The thrill of victory and the agony of defeat. Today we go and we're just playing nine quick holes, trying to get it in between work and stuff like that.
And I'm up, I think, two or three holes and just knocking the socks off of the ball and playing focused golf and just really playing brilliant golf like it's supposed to be played. Like they had it originally meant to be played when they invented it in Scotland or they invented it. This is the golf I'm playing. Then, of course, the caffeine that I've had this morning kicks in. My nerves kick in.
My general distractions kick in. I start looking at the phone, figuring out what we're going to podcast about today. I should have known we're going to podcast about my awful closing out of this golf match. And I fall apart. He plays fine for the remainder of the holes. I end up going, I'm up two or three. Then I'm down up two. Then I'm down one. Then, of course, we get to the last hole.
We're tied. We go to a playoff hole, a final hole. And I screw up the playoff all. And this is where I feel. I feel the agony of defeat. And that's, again, an old great phrase from the wild world of sports. But my God, I lived it today. Congratulations to Scott Levy. I've already zelled you. I don't want to hear about it. I'll be back.
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