Survivor Celebration - Inspiring and Empowering Cancer Survivors

A Real Pro - This was forwarded to my email and I thought it was worth sharing.

Phil Mickelson


For the past few days, while I tried to enjoy one of the greatest golf tournaments in the world, all I was entertained with was the Tiger Woods show. As soon as one golfer
would hit a tee shot or make a putt, it seemed that the next view would be that
of Tiger Woods. Tiger Woods just missing a putt that would have put him in
contention with the other golfers. Tiger Woods hooking his drive which showed
how his time off had hurt his game. Tiger Woods trying to “respect” the game.
How it seemed that the Tiger was able to put his past transgressions behind him
and was able to concentrate on the job at hand. It just kept going on and on
about Tiger this and Tiger that.

On the other hand, a little miracle was occurring at the Masters; one golfer just kept smiling. He smiled if he made a good drive, or if he made a bad drive. He smiled if he made
a 50 foot putt or missed a 5 foot putt. As he walked between holes, he smiled
and shook hands with the crowd. He never cursed a bad stoke or blamed another
person for a miss. All he did was smile.

Why would Phil Mickelson be smiling? Here was a man whose wife has breast cancer. Here was a man whose mother has breast cancer. Here is a man who rather than allow his
wife and mother to fight this battle by themselves, took time off from the PGA
tour to be with them. Here was a man that returned to the game he loved when
his wife ordered him to. Here was a man, who was so glad for the miracle that
was happening as his wife moved closer to a cure, that he rewarded her
oncologist by allowing him to be his guest caddy at last week’s golf
tournament. This move, which could have cost Mickelson thousands of dollars in
purse money, was his gift to a man he knew he could never thank enough for what
he had given to him.

During the last round on the final day, Phil’s wife was staying in their hotel room since she was still weak from the chemo treatments she is receiving. Phil did not know as
he walked up to the 18th tee that his wife would be there. All Phil did was
smile. He smiled to the crowds, he smiled to the TV audience, he smiled to
God. After his last putt found the bottom of the hole, he hugged his caddy and
others and walked to the scorer’s shack. He then gave the biggest smile of the
whole four days. He saw his wife, and even in the midst of thousands of people,
it seemed that only two were there.

In the future I am going to smile. I am going to smile if it is nice weather or bad. I am going to smile at the driver who honks his horn at me, or the driver who cuts me off.
I am going to smile if I get the order or not. And when the day is done, I am
going to save my biggest smile for the person who makes me complete. Then I am
going to look to the heavens and give thanks for being able to
smile.


Thanks Phil! God bless you and your family. And keep on smiling!

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