It will take a few tries before you

get your calling right. Failure

isn’t what prevents us from

success, then. It’s what leads us

there.

Matt McWilliams always assumed he would grow up to

become a golf pro. Born just five hundred yards from the
second green of Pinehurst No. 2, a North Carolina resort
known as “The Cradle of American Golf,” he thought it was
his destiny to follow in his father’s footsteps. What he never
could have imagined, though, was that his own dad would
have to fire him, and he would continue to face rejection for
the next several years—all of which would somehow lead to

his calling.^1
In high school, Matt won four out of five major junior
golf tournaments in Tennessee, including the Tennessee
State High School championship. In college, he won the
Adams Cup of Newport, the Berry College Spring
Invitational, the Carolinas Amateur, and others. He was the