This past weekend was one of my favorite pro golf events of the year: The Players Championship, from the TPC Course at Sawgrass, Florida. The distinctive course design, featuring the…
Category “Golf”
Life’s Training Grounds
Each sport has a different name for it. In football, it is the practice field. In soccer, it is the training ground. In baseball, it might be the batting cage.…
Tearful Celebration
No one who has followed Bubba Watson’s career as a professional golfer was surprised this past Sunday. First, they were not surprised that the left-hander had the talent to win…
The Calm Before the Storm
Today is one of those rarest of days for professional golfers. It’s a day of fun and relaxation before the battle begins tomorrow at The Masters. Today is the Par…
Leadership in Action
Few things in sports are more encouraging than when older players take younger players under their wing and mentor them. It is one of the best ways of showing leadership—by…
The Value of Time
I love playing golf, but there was a time when I almost quit. Why? Well, first of all, it isn’t cheap, and these days every penny counts. But beyond the…
Battle of the Titans
At the Pebble Beach Pro-Am golf tournament on Sunday, golf fans got what they have been craving for many months—Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods playing in the same group on…
Helping Others Succeed
One of the most profoundly satisfying ways of helping others succeed is through mentoring. Mentoring is the intentional act of inserting yourself into another person’s life for good purpose and…
Go Time
It seems like only yesterday that the PGA Tour Championship and FedEx Cup were being won by Bill Haas, the USA squad was running away with the Presidents Cup in…
A Team Effort
While much of America’s sporting community were watching college football this weekend, golf fans were fixated on the goings-on “down under” in Australia where the United States won the Presidents…






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