Category: Life & Business
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Teaching Golf… and the Business of Golf
Before the season began, Kevin and I sat down to talk about his year ahead as a teaching professional. I laid out my plan for the season: I told him, “Treat these clinics as a way to introduce yourself to our golfers. Earn their trust, show your skills, and your reputation will grow. The money…
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Creating Custom GPTs to Make Work (and Life) Easier
In golf, the right tool at the right time can change everything.A putter in the fairway? Not much help.A wedge from the rough? Could be exactly what’s needed. The same principle applies in my work: managing projects, communicating with staff, engaging members, and keeping a dozen moving parts on track. That’s where my custom GPTs…
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From Golf Swings to Custom GPTs: A New Kind of Assistant
It’s been 30 years since I last touched coding. Back then, the world moved slower. We wrote HTML like it was calligraphy, carefully lining up tags and hoping we didn’t forget a semicolon. I remember struggling with syntax, praying my pages would load, and feeling a mix of pride and relief when they finally did.…
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Follow Your Dream. Enjoy Your Journey. One Step at a Time.
For years, I’ve carried this simple mantra: Follow your dream. Enjoy your journey. I first read those words in a book Davis Love III wrote about his father. They stuck with me—quiet but powerful—through career changes, long drives, family decisions, and golf swings that either flew straight… or vanished into the trees. But over the…
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Don’t Risk Your Good Name
After one moment on the golf course, a father shares a quiet but firm lesson about responsibility, reputation, and the strength of protecting your name.
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Find Your Birdie Formula: Stop Copying, Start Scoring
As a coach, one of the first things I always do with a player — whether amateur or professional — is a scorecard analysis. Numbers don’t lie, but our perceptions about our game often do. Many golfers think their strengths are the things they like to do, and their weaknesses are the things they avoid.…