Chubby

You may know of this man, Chubby Chandler, super agent to alot of European Tour Golf Professionals. If you don't, let me tell you what I know about him.

First of all, you gotta love someone who introduces himself as "Chubby" because he is. He's fat all around...like a bowling ball. He doesn't have a problem with it and it certainly hasn't held him back. In fact, his obvious chubbiness, baldness and ebullient comforting personality makes him irrespressible to all. Makes him nicely human...a mirror of his similarly flawed public. He just has a certain je ne sais quoi about him. You just wanna be around somebody like Chubby.

Chubby came from nothing. Breeding none. Advantages none. Education some. Worked hard every step of the way. Had athletic ability. Check out those snowshoe hands in the picture above. He played on the European Tour for 15 years. The Tour provided a modicum of success for him. Survivor he was. Prosperity not really.

After he left the Tour as a player several years ago, he opened an agency in his apartment representing professional golfers and other athletes. To fast forward, Chubby now represents some of the finest players in the world: Ernie Els, Rory McIlroy, Lee Westwood, to name a few.

This past July at The Open in St Andrews, Chubby rented the iconic Jigger Inn, a famous pub attached to the Old Course Hotel alongside #17 Road Hole. Chubby rented it for the entire week. Probably cost him upwards of 150,000pounds.

Throughout the week, Chubby wined and dined his guests and clients at the Jigger Inn. Business was brisk at the Jigger with Chubby working the room. Everybody wanted in to that venue. Chubby held the guest list. It was the hottest ticket in town.

As luck would have it for Chubby, one of his clients, Louis Oosthuizen from South Africa, won the prestigious Open at St. Andrews. Louis blew the field away by seven strokes. Louis's victory celebration was held at the Jigger Inn...all night long. Chubby presided.

Isn't it an interesting coincidence that the current rise of professional Euro golf dominance across the globe is coupled with the rise of Chubby's influence in that world? His fun approach to life seems to have filtered down to his clients. His clients play with a certain joie de vivre. They win trophies. While their American counterparts play with an IMG-like sterility. They cash checks.

So kudos to a fat man named Chubby who lives life the way it should be lived. As Red said to Andy in Shawshank Redemption, "get busy living or get busy dying." Chubby is very busy living these days.