This simple axiom has, through time, even been used as the title of a hit song, a movie, and several self-help books. The world is an unforgiving place, and nice guys just don’t come out on top.
Fleetwood is open, approachable, even-tempered, and popular with fans. He is, from all that we know, a “nice guy”. His reaction to his ball finding a watery grave was not to smash his club on the ground, to unleash a volley of oaths, or to blame his caddy. He maintained his equanimity and continued to engage in a friendly manner with spectators lining the course. At that point, we knew he wouldn’t win. He’s just too nice.
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Golf is a cruel sport in the way it exposes an individual’s mental resilience. Of course, it’s no big deal to hit a stationary ball towards a target. No one is trying to tackle you, and you’ve had years of coaching. Self-doubt becomes your opponent. And this is where Fleetwood provides an example to us all, and particularly to those who may be struggling with their own inner demons.
“I think it’s easy for anybody to say that they are resilient, that they bounce back, that they have fight,” he said, “but it’s different when you have to show it.
This treatise on perseverance and redemption is not unusual to hear in the aftermath of sporting triumph, but what made Fleetwood’s reaction so striking – and moving – was his humility and his perspective. “Whatever would have happened today,” he said, “we’d have gone home… and my life would still be great. That’s something I would never take for granted.” It’s also something you rarely hear from a sporting champion.
No matter that, until this weekend, many people saw his career as marked by failure. Fleetwood framed many of his comments by saying how lucky he was to be in his position. Contrast that with successful people in business and sport, who believe their achievements are solely as a result of their own brilliance rather than good fortune.
Fleetwood certainly comes across as a kindly soul, who could be a different style of role model, a personification of Kipling’s advice to treat triumph and disaster as twinned imposters. I understand that golf has something of an aura of elitism, but Tommy Fleetwood’s success, and his response to it, contains an important message to all of us. Nice guys do not always finish last.
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