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ONE thing in common • Walt Disney • H. Ross Perot • Bob Hope • Ed Sullivan • Danny Thomas • John Wayne • Bing Crosby • Jimmy Durante • Dwight D. Eisenhower • Herbert Hoover • Martin Luther King Jr. • Harry S. Truman • Isaac Asimov • Carl Sandburg • Tom Brokaw • Wayne Gretzky • Dr. Norman Vincent Peale • Warren Buffett • Jackie Robinson 519-895-5690 These famous personalities all started their careers DELIVERING NEWSPAPERS ROUTES NOW AVAILABLE! Join the list! 6144 -0 01 DELIVERINGDELIVERING ROUTESROUTES Thursday, april 27, 2017 • WATERLOO CHRONICLE • 29 Golf is full of life lessons and the Masters is no exception When the sun set amid the Georgia pines of Augusta National a few Sundays back, I reflected on the life lessons not new to me that the 2017 Masters reaffirmed in my mind. 1. Friendship matters The sports pic of the year so far for me is the one of living legends Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player brushing away tears as they listened to Augusta Chair- man Billy Payne speak with incredible eloquence about their longtime rival but very dear friend Arnold Palmer who passed away last year. S o m e t i m e s c o m p e t i t i o n brings out the worst in people. Then again, sometimes it brings out the best. 2. Life is a marathon not a sprint When Charley Hoffman (who's on my golf fantasy team) opened the tournament by carding a brilliant 65 on a blustery day that had his fellow competitors scrambling for par and the media scrambling for superlatives, Chuck and I were pretty happy. Unfortunately, like life, golf has more than one round in it and by the time Sunday rolled around, Hoffman had finished in a tie for 22nd. Charley, to his credit, kept his sunny dis- position intact during post-tournament inter- views, packed his bags for the next tour stop and vowed to keep on plugging. 3. Family matters Three weeks ago, Jason Day pulled out of a tournament after six holes, overcome with emotion related to his mother's ongoing battle with lung cancer. Many people think of profes- sional golfers as overly staid and stoic, almost robotic. Turns out they have the same human emo- tions we all do. Day lost his father to cancer at age twelve, sending him into a teenage tailspin of fist fights and alcohol misuse. His mother sold their house, borrowed money from relatives and sent her son to a boarding school known for sports hoping it would make a difference in his life. It did. When Day was 18, he was playing in pro- fessional tournaments and last year was ranked the world's top golfer. After a successful operation and a much better prognosis for his mother's future, Day showed up at Augusta, shot a wobbly 74-76 to make the cut by a single stroke but bounced back with a three-under weekend signalling brighter days ahead. Like mother, like son. Continued on page 31 BrIAN TOTzkE THe fIfTH quARTER