Jack Nicklaus reports his father taught him at an early age how one should conduct oneself on and off the course. “The most important thing in sports is to be gracious in victory and sincere in defeat.”

“My father was a man who had a certain standard for living”, says Arnold Palmer. “His integrity and thoughtfulness were the things he taught me from the day I started playing golf. Gary Player’s father taught him that manners make the man. “That’s how it was with the Big Three. If you lost, you held your hand out and said, ‘Well done. But I’ll get you tomorrow’”.