How has the journey so far helped other
aspects of your life?
There are many ways in which a project like this can
improve you as person and cross bridges in to other parts
of your life. I have learned to accept failure and understand
that without it you cannot succeed. In golf if you fail to
execute a pattern in your swing you top the ball, if you
don’t adjust there will be no improvement. You have to
learn to accept that something has been underperformed,
gain an understanding, adjust and try again. This especially
translates to business or relationships, if you have a goal
which is important you have to find the right way to
succeed by trying, once you have found the formula for
the prefect sales technique you’ll make more sales, once
you have discovered what you’re looking for in partner,
or what you need to do as a partner in a relationship this
brings happiness, but you can’t do any of those without
failing at it first.
Golf or indeed learning to play golf is a great revealer of
characters, I have learned so much about myself that I
didn’t see before I took up the game.
The 4,000 (to go) hour mark has passed on
your journey, where has it taken you too?
So far my lowest handicap has been 2.6, the spring has
into the summer as you would expect has been the best
part of my year but at the tail end of this training year I
picked up a back injury which has
really slowed the progress down.
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I have decided to take the winter off, recuperate and hit it
hard again in the spring. I have recently changed my coach,
with adjusting to a slightly different swing and the injury
I’ve moved backwards a little too around 4 before I start to
move forward again.
What is the end goal, is to be play off scratch
or to actually turn Pro?
Well the end goal is too actually to be of +2/3, I really think
that’s possibility, I have been doing this for long enough to
know what has to be done to achieve that. I want to be a
point where I have a legitimate chance of competing at the
highest level.
How long can this journey last, is it the 10,000
hours or until you achieve your goal?
Well I have 4,000 hours to go, so on the current schedule
that gives me another 3 years, the goal is to see where I am
in March 2019, hopefully I will be ahead of schedule and
earning some cash by that point!
In order for you to achieve this you must
have a good support network around and
be financially sound?
I do have a great support network, my friends and family
have been great throughout the whole thing but now
everyone just sees it as my job, I get up and go to work
every day but it’s just at the golf course and not the office?
I make a small amount of revenue through the products on
the website but all the finances have come from saving or
investments, any help is welcome though!