Brian Davis did one of the most amazing things I have ever seen in sports. It is the type of thing that should serve as an example for everyone!
“I’m sorry, Dave, who?”
Brian Davis is a golfer on the PGA Tour. He has over $13 million in career winnings, but has never won a PGA Tour Event. On Sunday, April 18, 2010, he was playing at the Verizon Heritage event in South Carolina and gave up a possible win—his first on the tour— when he called a penalty on himself, in a playoff, for disturbing a stray weed on his back swing. [Hitting any material during your back swing constitutes a two-swing penalty.]
Davis called the penalty on himself, conceding the victory to Jim Furyk who walked away with $1.03 million for the win. Davis did take second and got a $615,000 check, but more important than that, he can hold his head up high knowing he did the honorable thing, the expected thing and the right thing.
Because Brian Davis knew what serving leaders know, that integrity is not negotiable!
Would you have done the same in that situation?
When I was a mortgage broker, there were many temptations to cut corners in order to close loans. I wouldn’t do it. I had people offer me money to do whatever it took to get their loan complete. I had customers submit false tax returns, W-2s and pay stubs. I even saw appraisals covered with correction fluid!
There are always going to be people who will try to cut corners in order to get a leg up. Don’t be one of them! If you work from a position of integrity, you will always make the right decision.
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