Golf is a sport of honesty

The First Tee, a golf program for young players espouses 9 core values: 1- Honesty 2- Integrity 3- Sportsmanship 4- Respect 5- Confidence 6- Responsibility 7- Perseverance 8- Courtesy 9- Judgment Honesty is number one. Good golfers exhibit it when they sign their score cards, when they count the right number of strokes, when they comply with the game’s rules and regulations. The golf course is a sports temple where golfers behave their best. That is the expectation. Here is an example: In the picture you can see that in hole #6 at a course I played on Sunday, someone had place a bucked full of good balls and expected people to take the balls they need and deposit $25 per ball in a plastic container. People could just take balls and leave, nobody is watching, but they do what is honest: they pay for them. If we replicated this code of conduct in other walks of life, the world will be a better place.