golf. personal growth. well-being.
Ontario, Canada
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A Golfer’s Desiderata
Go gracefully amongst the birdies, pars, bogeys, doubles, triples, and quads; for being on a golf course is a blessing. Ground your game in gratitude.
Be mindful that you’re not a pro, and you’re not getting paid for results. Whether your handicap is 22 or plus 2, you’re paying for recreation. Relax. Smile often. Breath deeply. Notice nature. Enjoy how it feels to swing a golf club.
Avoid suffering by grasping this fact — you’re in a relationship with the world’s hardest game.
Relish your best swings and your best putts.
Be a great playing partner — whether you’re playing great or playing poorly.
And in your desire to get better, understand what you truly seek is a deeper connection with a feeling — the joy at the heart of play. Like Woods and Sorenstam and all the greats, you’re in love with that feeling because you’re born to be a golfer. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt your potential is unfolding as it should.
Above all, be at peace with your game, no matter your handicap. For despite it’s countless slices and shanks, a pure strike is nourishment for your soul.
(Inspired by Max Ehrmann’s 1927 poem)
All season long, I wrote the same sentence in my notebook every day: "I'm grateful for winning tournaments on the DP World Tour in 2026."
europeantour.com/dpworld-tou…
Enjoyed reading this 👇 golf.com/news/features/cours…
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I built a free iPhone app called "Window Golf".
I made it for myself to use on the range. Then I figured it would be fun to actually put something in the App Store.
Good ballstriking hinges on two things. Solid contact and finishing the ball as close to your target line as possible.
One way I like to practice is by picking a club and seeing how many shots I can keep inside a "window." With driver, that window might be 40 yards wide. Everything inside counts. Everything outside doesn't.
The problem is I like to switch targets while I practice, and eyeballing a 40-yard window at a new target is hard so I built the app to help with that.
There are also three combines built in. Driver, 6 iron, and pitching wedge. Ten shots each. The app sets your starting window width based on your handicap index, then adjusts as you go. If you perform well the window will automatically get narrower. Struggle and the window will automatically get wider.
It works on the course too. Say your target off the tee is 38 yards right of the OB stakes. Set your window to 76 yards wide, hold up your phone, line up the left edge with the OB line, and now you can see exactly where 38 yards right actually is. Same idea works for approach shots.
Here's the link:
apps.apple.com/app/window-go…
iPhone only for now. Not sure if I'll ever build an Android version.
Give it a try and let me know what you think. The app is free. Requires no credit card. Requires no email address. Just download, enter your handicap, and start using it.
🤖 Made with AI
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My feature length documentary Mr. Hogan debuts tomorrow on YouTube. Lots of never before seen footage and stories!🙏🏻
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I like golf because it’s my escape.
I’m 30 years old. I have the life I dreamed about when I was a kid. Yet somehow, I still feel like I haven’t done enough.
Lately I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about what actually makes me happy. From the outside looking in, I have no reason to feel the way I do. That’s what makes it so frustrating. I constantly feel like I’m not where I’m supposed to be, even when I can’t explain why.
But when I’m on the golf course, none of that exists.
The constant battle with my own thoughts fades into the background. For four hours, my focus is on the next shot, the next decision, the next challenge.
Golf doesn’t solve my problems.
It just gives me a few hours of peace from thinking about them.
Love this!
At 100 years old, WWII veteran Bernie Smoot still drives his convertible Ford Mustang to play golf five days a week, shoots in the low 80s and shares wisdom from 74 years in the game: “You live to play golf. But to reach my age, you play golf to live.”
To celebrate Bernie — who landed at Omaha Beach just months after graduating high school — his PGA Coach and friend Jeff Maynor organized a tournament in his honor at the University of Maryland Golf Course, where Bernie plays five days a week.
Maynor, the course’s PGA Director of Golf, has run a @PGAHOPE program there for Veterans since 2019, which Bernie loves to support. The tournament for Bernie was a chance for those Veterans to thank him and celebrate his love for the game.
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"Why do people play golf?"
Sean Connery sums up golf in one perfect, 90-second answer...
Not golf … but love the idea.
#gratitude
Found this on the weekly newsletter sent out by @LouStagner
we’re in love with a very hard game!
•Scratch players average 4.45 on the hardest par 4 and 4.12 on the easiest.
•20-index players average 5.66 on the hardest and 5.15 on the easiest.
•Scratch players average OVER PAR on every par 4, even the “easy” par 4s.
•20-index players average OVER 5.15 on EVERY par 4 on the course - even the easiest par 4.
Let that sink in.
I read it on a flight from Vancouver to Toronto. Very well written … couldn’t put it down. IMO would make a great movie.
I have a very special (non-golf) announcement.
My daughter, who is in 10th grade, wrote a novel called “Trapped”.
She is a voracious reader and always wanted to write her own novel. So, she did.
It was published a couple months ago.
She started "Trapped" in 8th grade and finished it in 9th grade, writing for hours at a time. She'd go on walks with my wife and me to brainstorm out loud about plot and characters and then head straight back to her laptop.
The dedication was something else. It came out a couple months ago, and if you'd click the Amazon link in the post below to check it out, I'd really appreciate it.
Not your type of book? Maybe you know a young adult reader who'd love it!
Signed,
Very Proud Dad
Masking it now will taste so sweet.
#quest
I wanted to play on the PGA Tour.
Not as a dream.
As a plan.
I turned professional.
Started having some success.
Could feel it building.
And then I quit.
Injury was part of it.
But if I am honest
the bigger part was impatience.
I wasn't making it as fast as I wanted to.
So I left.
Before it showed up.
I have spent a long time sitting with that decision.
Not with regret exactly.
More like understanding.
Because that same pattern
showed up everywhere after golf.
In business.
In relationships.
In every hard thing I have ever started.
Get close.
Feel the resistance.
Leave before the breakthrough.
The injury gave me a reason.
The impatience was the real story.
I am aiming to play in Senior Tour events now.
In my mid 40's
Stronger than I was when I quit.
More patient than I have ever been.
I don't know if I will make it.
But I know I am not leaving before it shows up this time.
The dream didn't die.
I just made it wait.
For someone with that much success, that much fame, and that much money to be as grounded in family and reality as he appears to be … imo that might be the most impressive thing about him.
