Great – Opportunities – Lasting – Friendships
What does golf stand for? I suppose that depends on your perspective.
For those drawn to the outdoor sporting life, it is a game that can be played from eight to eighty-eight. In truth, probably well beyond both, but eight to eighty has the benefit of rhyme.
For others, golf is an easy target. A sport accused of using too much water, harming biodiversity and taking land that could serve a wider community. To them, it should be taxed so heavily that no sensible person would consider opening a golf business.
Both views exist. Both are strongly held. Yet somewhere between them sits something harder to dismiss: golf’s rare opportunity to create lasting friendships.
This page is arranged in three sections.
Golf includes some of my writing, and the occasional interview, that refer to the game of golf and the industry of golf. Be it coaching, athlete development, business, stories or simple advice that I have found useful.
G4D is where I have done much of my latest work. Golf for the disabled, or G4D, has shaped how I think about opportunity, belonging, competition and the responsibility sport has to make room for more people. G4D is about far more than making golf accessible. It asks a bigger question: what does sport become when it makes proper room for people whose routes into the game are different?
The Profiles section brings together a selection of those stories, republished here and sometimes lightly revisited. They are not simply stories about golf, but about people building, and sometimes rebuilding, their lives, finding confidence, facing challenge, chasing dreams and, in many cases, learning to see themselves differently.