Most revealing, we thought, is that of those, only three are any good. A single-digit handicap. If par for an 18-hole course is 71 strokes, and you play it in 80 strokes or less, you're good, and your handicap, without getting technical, is nine or less. So, with a handicap of about five or six, Jack Welch, chief executive of No. 5 General Electric, is very good. Also because we found two golfers at the top.
Golf is the best game ever invented by man.
Guys with high handicaps say that. Discount broker Charles Schwab's firm ranks 641st in revenue, but he ranks as one of the best golfing chiefs. Henry Breck at Art Asset Management weighs in at six or seven, we hear. Real-estate tycoon Donald Trump absolutely will not discuss his golf game on the record. Most of the best businessmen golfers aren't chief executives.