When Mark Roe was disqualified for signing the wrong scorecard at last week’s British Open, he said, “I should probably go out and shed a tear in private, to be honest with you. But at the end of that, when I see my kids, this won’t seem so bad.”
And now this week: Wrong-card Roe relaunches his career with a smile. “If when my children are older and someone tells them about what happened at the Open, and that their father handled it well, then that is all that matters. That would mean as much to me as the claret jug in my cupboard, someone saying that he did a good thing, he respected the game of golf and he handled himself in the way a professional sportsman should. In a life before children, I don’t think people can understand that. “
Of course, we don’t know Mark either, but his attitude is worth pointing out.