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Golf is a game that teaches life lessons.

It teaches you to have a vision and then learn to let it go. It teaches you to be in the moment. It teaches you to accept the past and not dwell on the future. It teaches you ethical behavior and respect. It teaches you how the mind and body work together. It teaches you that control and perfection are illusions. It teaches you that with worse skills, you can still win.

There are also several leadership lessons to be learned here, which is why you receive this Insight.

The Ryder Cup is a biennial golf team event where 12 of the best US players compete against 12 of the best European players. Twenty-eight matches are being played, both in teams and individually, and the team that reaches 14.5 points first wins the Ryder Cup.

It’s one of the best sports, not just golf, events there is. Because it’s a team play, it’s Europe against the US; it’s a year-old rivalry, not played that often, and it alternates between European soil and US soil.

This year’s Ryder Cup was played in New York. Europe won two years ago in Rome, and the US was after revenge. Supported by a loud, hostile, and patriotic crowd, the US team wanted this win badly. Europe had only won four times in the US…