In sports you are taught to win, and that's it. You're taught to do your best to move yourself ahead and do well, not to think about who deserves to win. Grant Whybark (left) , a college golfer, was already headed to nationals with his team but was facing off against Seth Doran (right) to go individually. Knowing that if he won he would take up that spot even if he was already going, he made a move unheard of in the world of sports. He approached the first hole and hit the golf ball 40 yards right of the fairway making a double bogey. Doran made par and won, moving on to nationals. Whybark said, "It was one of those things where I couldn't feel good taking something from him like this. My goal from the start was to get to nationals with my team. I had already done that."
A great act coming from a good place, but maybe Doran would have actually won and his fluke wouldn't have been needed. Whybark made an assumption that he would win and that this would be the only way that the deserving player could go to nationals, but it's sports, why not make it fair?
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