Excerpts from the Book

• Introduction
• Chapter One - Embracing Bogey
• Chapter Two - Mindfulness and the Doctrine of Less is More
• Chapter Three - Clubs Are Trump

The third hole on The Lakes Nine at Duluth's Lester Park Golf Course is a 350-yard hole with a virtual 90-degree dogleg to the right at the top of a steep uphill slope. There are four bunkers at the top right of the slope. They lurk like sandy versions of Charybdis, the watery vortex Odysseus has to sail past on his way home from the Trojan War detailed in Book 12 of The Odyssey. Their entire purpose is to wait, ever-ready and ever-eager to suck down our drives. Year after year, they dare us to try for the languid fairway and gentle approach to the green just over the rise behind them by shaving the wooded boundary or even by flying over the treetops, tantalized by the prospect neither of bogey nor par, but of birdie.

• Chapter Four - Humility
• Chapter Five - Commitment
• Chapter Six - When Play Is Suspended: Build Your Own Golf Library
• Chapter Seven - The Head Thing
• Chapter Eight - Am I Really Just a Hack?
• Chapter Nine - Got Slice?
• Chapter Ten - The Most Important Split Second in Golf
• Chapter Eleven - Putting: The Way of the Green
• Chapter Twelve - Jekyll and Hyde Golf
• Chapter Thirteen - Intention and Execution
• Chapter Fourteen - A Recipe for Catching Up to Bogey
• Chapter Fifteen - Expectations
• Epilogue