PATRICK BULGER | Shooting the lights out: gloom upon darkness in executive kerfuffle
The kinks and flaws in the president’s golf swing are a mirror of his leadership style
09 March 2023 - 20:39
President Cyril Ramaphosa’s latest cabinet reshuffle reminded me of my former golf partner John, a retired hairdresser from the blue side of Manchester. Notoriously short on patience, he bullied players who took too many practice swings, and who dithered over the ball then duffed it into the deep rough. After watching them hovering in that cerebral no-man's land between soaring visualisation and withering execution and then advancing the ball but a short distance, John would invariably snort: “You could’ve f***ed that up in half the time!” ..
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