PERMANENTLY CURIOUS – LEARNING AS I GO
I am a son, husband, father and now grandfather. These have been the most important roles in my life over the past six decades.
If experience were simply a product of time, then I would be by far the most experienced at being a son. But experience is much more than the passing of years. It is built through observation, participation and the life we actually live. I am still learning how to be a better husband and father, and just as my grandson is learning to walk, talk and make sense of the world opening up before him, I find myself on the fast track of learning how to be a grandfather.
Alongside all of that, I have spent much of my working life in golf. It has taken me to places I did not expect, introduced me to people far more capable than me, and given me the chance to keep learning, to teach where I can, and to give something back.
I have been fortunate to play a part in sport development, coach education and golf for the disabled, or G4D. I would be the first to say that anything worthwhile has always been a shared effort rather than an individual one.
If there is a thread that runs through my career in golf, it is curiosity. A curiosity to understand how the game can be made better for more people, and a willingness to keep working at that, even while I am still figuring parts of it out as I go.
Above all, I have loved and learned from my sweetheart of over forty years. My wife Sue. She is my source of inspiration. She challenges me every day. She is the person who makes my life whole.
WHAT I DID WHILE I WAS LEARNING
I have never been entirely convinced by the idea that we must learn everything before we begin.