Love, Evil, and Robots

Love, Evil, and Robots

Greetings Golfers,

Can’t believe it’s almost Labor Day. And the kids are going back to school.

Our staff is filled with a lot of “kids”. High school and college students. They are leaving every day to go back to school.

Obviously, this is tough for us work-wise … but it’s even tougher emotionally. Seriously. This place is a family. And it kills us when they leave.

I think a lot of the dissension in America is about how business is run. Obviously, businesses have to be successful and pay the bills. And the point of a business should be to provide a needed service or product.

But when businesses get taken over by vampires who couldn’t build a business … all they can do is bleed it and sell it (and fool the unlucky buyer) … working becomes misery.

If a country’s businesses get taken over by these lunatics … the country will die. The businesses will die and all that’s left are the ashes. While these “geniuses” scamper off with the equity that was built-up by the previous owner’s vision, management, and hard work.

Do you think these people care when the kids go back to school? They don’t even want them in the first place. The kids have too much heart and soul. These criminals want to hire lifeless, defeated people who they can mistreat and abuse.

What they really want is a society of robots.

And this mindset is creeping into everything. And they like to call it “modern”. Like a robotic golf swing that can’t hit shots. I mean shaping the shot with your hands. Robots don’t have hands. So … you need to learn to take your hands out of the golf swing … they’re too “unreliable”. Hmmmmm.

So … my hands won’t function under pressure? That’s their speech. Hmmmmmm. I remember as a kid right out of college going out to dinner with my sales manager. My hands couldn’t handle the pressure - I stabbed my eye with my fork trying to eat. I’m kidding. I had no problem using my hands to eat my meal.

This mindset is misguided at best.

Get your hands back into your golf swing. They control the club just like they control a knife and fork.

Another analogy. I pitched in high school. Why? Because I had a really good wind-up? No … I’m kidding again. I could pitch because I could throw … and I could spin the ball with my hands. Gee … that’s rocket-science.

Here’s another one … do I run a successful golf course because I run everything off of spreadsheets? No. I know who our market is … and am constantly trying to improve and provide a better product and service for that market.

Am I wasteful? No. That’s not my nature. I don’t need to waste my time and energy on petty control nonsense. The results are obvious and are the point. Hitting the type of golf shot you want is the point. Can you do it or not? It is definitely not the result of making a robotic swing. I can hit good golf shots off my knees … or standing sideways. Gee … I can control the club with my hands. Gee … I can control a tennis racket with my hands.

If you can’t control a tennis racket or golf club or baseball bat or a hockey stick with your hands … you can’t play.

If you can’t run a business with your brains and your gut … you can’t build it and keep it going.

My goal is that when our kids leave us for the business world … they can be successful because they have a good work ethic based on responsibility and common sense and the ability to solve problems and take calculated risks. Not be robots.

And they can play golf because they have well-trained hands and can hit golf shots.

Cheers!

Tom Abts
GM/Head PGA Professional
tabts@deerrungolf.com