Victor Dubuisson is one of the young rising golf stars, a Frenchman who is now ranked 23rd in the world. His father was a professional basketball player, but he says that it was watching Tiger Woods win the 1997 Masters Championship that inspired him – before his seventh birthday – to take up golf.
Ask your team or your teammates: when you think back in your life, who were the people who inspired you to take up a sport, or to want to become the best you could be in that sport? Was it a family member, a teammate or friend, or someone you watched on TV like young Victor Dubuisson?
We are all role models for others, almost always in ways in which we are as unaware of as Tiger was when he played in Augusta and was watched by a young man in Cannes. As the Code says, we do “have the opportunity and responsibility to make a difference in the lives of others.” Are you taking advantage of that opportunity? Remember: you are a role model and you will probably never know the ways you influence others.
