April 20, 2010, - 1:41 pm
Think Tiger Woods Would Do This?: Meet the World’s Most Honest Athlete
Three cheers to pro golfer Brian Davis. His extreme honesty and self-imposed penalty cost him victory and several hundred thousand dollars in the Verizon Heritage golf tournament on Sunday.
Golfer Brian Davis: The Anti-Tiger Woods
The Brit penalized himself two strokes on a playoff hole, and as I read this, I thought, Tiger Woods would never do this. The man simply doesn’t have the integrity of Davis. Never had it, never will.
Brian Davis of Great Britain might have cost himself a chance for a PGA Tour victory when he called a penalty on himself during a playoff hole in the Verizon Heritage on Sunday. The two-stroke penalty, for nicking a loose reed during his backswing, locked up the win for Jim Furyk.
Golf is a game of honor and honesty, even if it might cost you around $400,000, the difference between first place ($1,026,000) and second place ($615,000). . . .
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