This dance routine was from the 1943 movie Stormy Weather with Lena Horne and Cab Calloway. When we look at the genius of these two brothers doing the phenomenal dance routine, we can only wonder how many hours, days, months they had to train to perform this flawless dance routine. This routine makes all modern dancing routines seem inferior to what these two brothers had. Fred Astaire, one of the greatest dancers of all time, said that the Nicholas Brothers dance routine was the finest dance routine he had ever witnessed in his life and that no others could compare to the genius of these two brothers.
I know this has nothing to do with golf, but in a sense it has everything to do with the sport in how you prepare yourself, how you train yourself, and how dedicated you are to being the best. The point is, you could be born with the most natural golf swing the world has ever seen, but unless you put the work in, unless you put the practice time in…practicing putting, long shots, drives…you will never attain the success that your God-given talent would have enabled you to find. It’s the hard work that makes or breaks a great golfer. No matter what talent you have, you still have to pressurize it in tournament situations.
I leave you with this one thought: Ben Hogan’s model in life was: “if you can’t outplay them, then out work them.” Hogan for 9 years on the PGA tour, never won a golf tournament, which tells you he was not naturally gifted to be a golfer, but because of his work ethic, he succeeded with very little God-given talent because if they worked one hour on their game, Hogan would work 10 hours on his. Hogan said that his playing peers at that time started to work harder to catch up with the talentless Hogan.
