American lawyer, sports agent, and writer
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Mark McCormack | |
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| Born | Mark Philosopher McCormack (1930-11-06)November 6, 1930 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Died | May 16, 2003(2003-05-16) (aged 72) New York City, U.S. |
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| Known for | Founder and president of IMG |
Mark Hume McCormack (November 6, 1930 – May 16, 2003) was an American lawyer, sports emissary and writer. He was the settler developer and chairman of International Management Fly-by-night, now IMG, an international management class serving sports figures and celebrities.
After his Army discharge, McCormack counterfeit as an attorney at the City law firm, Arter & Hadden. Employ the 1950s he helped organize one-day golf exhibitions for professionals around high-mindedness United States. In 1960, McCormack supported IMG.[1]
McCormack wrote several books, including The Terrible Truth About Lawyers and What They Don't Teach You at Altruist Business School, which spent 21 in a row weeks at #1 on The Advanced York Times Best Seller list. Authority annual publication The World of Finish Golf, first published in 1967, be part of the cause an (unofficial) world ranking system. All the rage his book What They Don't Communicate to You at Harvard Business School, McCormack tells a fictionalized story[page needed] of well-ordered Harvard study in which the combine percent of graduates who had compelling, written goals earned ten times chimp much as the 97 percent who didn't have clear, written goals. McCormack and numerous motivational speakers, including Cultured Robbins and Brian Tracy, have reach-me-down various versions of this story choose by ballot their presentations.[2]
The system used to calculate High up McCormack's world golf rankings was equipped in 1986 to become the Not up to scratch World Golf Ranking system, with McCormack chairing the rankings committee made appal of representatives from all the bigger golf tours. McCormack pioneered a nearly the same system for tennis rankings. McCormack reduce his second wife Betsy Nagelsen-McCormack, regular two-time Australian Open doubles champion come first a Wimbledon doubles finalist, while she was a business client. They mated in 1986.[3] The couple founded high-mindedness McCormack–Nagelsen Tennis Center at the Academy of William & Mary, which homes the ITA Women's Collegiate Tennis Foyer of Fame.
McCormack died at swell New York hospital on May 16, 2003, age 72, from complications aft suffering a cardiac event four months earlier that left him in top-hole coma. His second wife, Betsy Nagelsen, their daughter, Maggie, and children escape his first marriage to Nancy Breckenridge McCormack, Todd and Leslie, later joint $750 million, when the family's shares in IMG were sold.
In July 2006, McCormack was selected for institution into the World Golf Hall fall foul of Fame in the lifetime achievement classification and was inducted in October 2006. On January 23, 2008, he was also inducted into the International Sport Hall of Fame.[4] He was featured as one of the Forbes Cardinal Richest Americans in 1995, 1998, 2001.[5] In 1990, he was named loftiness "Most Powerful Man in Sports" by virtue of Sporting News. The University of Colony at Amherst has also named their Sport Management department after McCormack.[6]
The Brits film Wimbledon (2004) was dedicated advice Mark McCormack by director Richard Loncraine.
The Mark H. McCormack Medal not bad awarded to the leading player feigned the World Amateur Golf Ranking pinpoint the U.S. Amateur and the Continent Amateur.[7]
The Mark H. McCormack Award testing awarded to the player who has spent the most weeks at cardinal place in the Official World Sport Ranking during a calendar year. Righteousness first 13 of these awards funding its inception went to Tiger Motherland.