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The Meaning of Golf — 239 episodes

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The Drive Home From Sand Valley. Hickory Matches At Sedge Valley, The Commons, The Lido

2

A Drive To Sand Valley. Hickory or Modern?

3

When Your Swing Stops Working

4

A Practical Guide To Playing In True Gravity And Avoiding Frustration

5

True Gravity, The Hum, And New Ways To Experience Reality

6

What Actually Leads To Peak Performance? Linking, Spacetime, Interstellar

7

Finding The Soul Of Golf In Scotland - With Daniel Warren Johnson

8

Playing Well Under Pressure. Flossmoor, An Emergency Range Session, Spooked Putting

9

The Seven Club Tournament in 1964 at Turnberry

10

An 8 At Erin Hills, How Would You Swing This Was Your Last Swing?

11

Lessons from Seinfeld "The Opposite," Going against your own choices leads to success.

12

Half-Set Optimizing, What Can Be Gained By Playing Fewer Clubs, The 14 Club Corporate Conspiracy

13

Imagining The Apocalypse To Help Build A Set Of Clubs

14

People Actually Play Golf For The Bad Shots -- The Imaginary, The Symbolic, And The Real

15

The Elixir of Golf - Sweetens Cove with New Club Golf Society

16

Reality Rules. Have You Noticed?

17

Outdoor Golf! An Incredible Par Save, 4 Birdies in 9 Holes. Patience, Commitment, and More!

18

The Masters and Rory Taught Us About the Essence of Golf... Again

19

"What should I do when golf actually counts?"

20

Breaking 85, Scoring Goals, and More - with Daniel Warren Johnson

21

Championships, Identity, Transferring Your Game From The Range To The Course

22

Swing Thoughts Paradox

23

Paradox, Score, and How to Play Golf Without Why

24

Shane Lowry, Viktor Frankl, and Finding Meaning in the Bad Shots

25

A History of The Meaning of Golf Podcast

26

Springsteen Lyrics About Losing, Reverse Engineering Golf, and more with Peter Donahue

27

10 Questions That Change How You See Your Game

28

Golf Advice! with Daniel Warren Johnson

29

The Joy of a 200-Yard Drive; and Stop Treating Your Golf Like a Dead Body

30

Life Changing Golf - with Daniel Warren Johnson

31

From a Swing Fault to a Superpower

32

Christmas Reflections for Your Holiday Season and Golfing Life

33

A Common Misconception in Learning Golf

34

Searching for Meaning in Golf and Life

35

Blurry Videos and Golf Social Media

36

When Fixing Something Doesn't Lead to Lower Scores

37

Recapping 2025 Golf with Peter Donahue

38

"I am the sole judge of my own standards."

39

Working It Out #5: Playing Golf Without Why at the US Women's Mid Am

40

Working It Out #4: Answering Questions About Playing Golf Without Why

41

Working It Out #3: Golf Without Why

42

Working It Out #2: The Hum and The Lack

43

Working It Out #1: Golf's Mental Game

44

Advice for Scottie: A conversation on fulfillment and golf

45

Tuning Into the Hum of Golf

46

Eight 3-Putts and a New Philosophy

47

Never Be Too Confident In Your Ideas

48

Sweetens Cove with New Club Golf Society

49

Rory, Bryson, and How The Masters Showed Us The Essence of Golf

50

The Masters Course Preview

51

The Low Hum of Golf

52

Is Golf More Like Building Furniture or Surfing?

53

2025 Golf Goals!

54

Your Golf Game Is Not Your Golf Game

55

Artificial Intelligence Golf Coaching

56

Help People Just Swing!

57

Finding Magic: Pine Valley in the Dark

58

A Coaching Catch-Up, Speed Training

59

Evolving Coaching Techniques

60

How Simplicity Leads to Better Outcomes

61

What if You Never Reach Your Goals?

62

Peter Donahue's Return to Coaching

63

What's In and Out for Golf in 2025

64

Happiness, Traffic, and the Minnesota Vikings

65

The Football Episode! On Randomness, Acceptance, Human Nature, and Quick Fixes

66

Two Days with Michael Hebron

67

Shot Making Golf

68

2024 Half Baked Golf Ideas!

69

Awareness and Nerves in Golf with help from Rupert Spira

70

Golf Mastery

71

How Your Beliefs About Yourself Are Holding You Back

72

Questioning Thoughts - A Unique Way to Analyze and Understand Your Game

73

A Golden Statue and Finding the Best Place to Play From

74

Mistakes in Learning Golf and Coaching the JV Squad

75

The Perfect Balance of Competition and Enjoyment

76

"I believe that's what heaven looks like for me."

77

Finding the Magic of Golf

78

Danny Fisher on Playing in a Korn Ferry Tour Event

79

Bonus Episode - 2024 The Golf Practice Staff Trip Draft

80

Swing Change Check-In, Sedge Valley, Eagle Springs

81

Rory McIlroy and The Art of Not Trying Too Hard

82

Hickory Revival! With Special Guest Clark Willard

83

Philosophy, Chaos, and True Gravity

84

The Spiritual Practice of "One Shot at a Time"

85

A Definitive Conclusion on the Usefulness of Par

86

Two Days at Sweetens Cove

87

Swing Change Best Practices

88

The Difficulties of Change

89

February Golf at Spring Valley

90

A Golf Lesson With Hank Haney

91

A Holiday Episode About Hope

92

A Big Picture Theory of the Golf Swing

93

Golf Swing Forgery

94

Fixing Things In Golf Lessons Doesn’t Work

95

2023 Golf Recap: Hickory Edition

96

Brain Compatible Golf Lessons

97

Finding Your Authentic Swing

98

Golf Gives You Energy, Or Takes It Away

99

Tiger Woods, Golf Coach

100

9 Holes at The Lido, ”Golf gives you energy”

101

TGP’s Major Season. Mindsets, Perspectives and Decisions

102

The Mind and The Swing

103

Bonus Episode - 2023 TGP Staff Trip Announcement and Draft

104

The Future of Golf, etc.

105

Rory, Rickie, Wyndham at the US Open and a Hickory Golf Check In

106

Golf Conversations at a Wedding

107

Vardon, Effortlessness, and the Sounds of Golf

108

The Surest Way To Ruin Your Game

109

Golf Lessons from Bluey

110

Hickory Golf at Spring Valley Round Recap

111

Masters Thoughts, Golf Anticipation, and Golf Philosophy

112

The Four Stages of Golf Enlightenment

113

Lines and Levels of Development

114

”Full Swing” = Cotton Candy, Lines and Levels of Development

115

No Tips Allowed #2: Learning the Fundamentals and Changing Mechanics

116

Synchronicity and Accepting Reality

117

No Tips Allowed: A Coaching Deep Dive. The problems with Instagram Coaching, the Culture of Golfers, Awareness and Intention

118

How to Enjoy Golf

119

How To See More Miracles On The Golf Course

120

2023 Golf Resolutions

121

New Year’s Resolutions Primer

122

Special Guest Todd Demsey! On Persimmon Golf, Professional Golf, and The Way Golf Was Meant To Be Played

123

Finding Your Ethic of Golf

124

TGP Free Swim: World Cup, Offseason Reflections, Persimmon Golf

125

Themes and Learning from the 2022 Season

126

2022 Season Recap

127

Staff Trip Recap, Stories of Success and Failure in Preparation

128

Golf Is Not A Journey

129

Staff Trip 2022 Format Announcement & Draft!

130

The First Open, LIV, Tiger - the Spiritual Side of Competition

131

The Spirituality of Golf

132

Half Set Check In, a Summer of Learning

133

Scotland Travelogue Part 2: Shiskine and Prestwick

134

Scotland Travelogue Part 1: Jubilee, Lundin Links, Elie

135

Shooting 62, Shooting 80, Alan Watts, and More with Danny Fisher

136

The First Golfer in America with Peter Donahue

137

Playing Golf With Trust

138

Tiger at The Open, Melee, Personal Golf Updates, with Peter Donahue

139

Swing Feels, Learning, Metaphors with Peter Donahue

140

Never Make The Same Swing Twice, Fascination, etc. with Peter Donahue

141

Stories of True Gravity with Peter Donahue

142

Tiger at the Masters, and True Gravity with Peter Donahue

143

Post Apocalyptic Golf with Peter Donahue and Chris Oehlerking

144

The Difference Between Your Goals and Your Purpose

145

No Tips Allowed

146

The Practice of Losing

147

The Seven Club Tournament in 1964 at Turnberry

148

2022 Golf Resolutions

149

A Christmas Episode with Peter Donahue

150

Half Baked Golf Ideas

151

Danny Fisher Returns Again

152

Season Recap Roundtable

153

Staff Trip Recap And A Golf Therapy Session With Peter Donahue

154

Ice Crystals, The Vikings, and Playing Golf Without a Story

155

Hot Cup, Cold Cup

156

Dunes Club vs. Lost Dunes, Staff Trip Preview

157

Who Should We Root For In The Ryder Cup?

158

Trends in Golf Instruction from 1978-1989 with Peter Donahue

159

What Makes a Course Good? Tension, Confidence

160

Texting with Tiger, Dream Foursomes

161

Summer Recap with Peter Donahue

162

Lawsonia, Anxiety, Basic Goodness

163

Golf Camp, Ram Dass, “**** oor e’er gettin’ bitter!”

164

Excuses!

165

The Story of TGP at Canal Shores - with Peter Donahue

166

The Tiger 5 and Simplifying Scoring

167

The Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real

168

Excuses, Vision 54, Transitions, Inquiry

169

SHORT SET MANIFESTO

170

A Social Media Fast, Tiger, Awareness of Awareness

171

Presence, The Art of Learning, Fate, Logical Determinism and the Multiverse

172

The Masters, Golf Philosophies, and the 1/2 Set Origin Story

173

Golf Philosophy from Alan Watts and the Twilight Zone, Patty, Spieth, and the Mighty Ducks

174

"The Golf" - Part 2 - Allowing!

175

Paul Casey's Persimmon, Curiosity vs Judgment, Playing Valuable Golf

176

"The Golf" - Part 1 - Stay Awake!

177

Golf in a Pandemic, Bryson, Spieth, Social Media

178

"The Golf" - Introduction

179

Tiger's Crash, Speed Gains, Space, Homa, and Breaking Par

180

Donahue's 5 Lessons - Lesson 5: Move Towards Ease

181

Donahue's 5 Lessons - Lesson 4: Find the Sweet Spot

182

Donahue's 5 Lessons - Lesson 3: Take Dead Aim

183

Donahue's 5 Lessons - Part 2: What do you make of this?

184

Donahue's 5 Lessons - Lesson 1: You Are The Athlete

185

Donahue's 5 Lessons: Introduction

186

Golf in the Kingdom Part 2 - Golf and Politics

187

Golf in the Kingdom Part 1 - Golf as an X-Ray of the Soul

188

Half Baked Golf Ideas

189

Summer of Golf

190

Masters Memories 5 - Tiger's 2005 Chip In - with the Godfather of Golf

191

Masters Memories 4 - Tiger's win in 2019

192

Masters Memories 3 - El Pato and the 2009 Masters

193

Masters Memories 2 - Phil's Jump in 2004 - with the Godfather of Golf

194

Masters Memories 1 - Spieth's Collapse in 2016

195

Mindset 3: Why do you play golf?

196

Mindset 2: Ego and Expectation

197

Mindset 1: The Hero's Journey

198

What You Think About The Club Impacts How You Swing The Club - with The Godfather of Golf

199

The Golf Ball Is Going Too Far

200

TGP's Rewatchables - Talking Erik Anders Lang's Old Course Video and Dad Golfing Memories

201

World Long Driver Nick Kiefer

202

Cheating

203

Going For It with Jantzen, Steve, and Andrew

204

Pine Valley in the Dark

205

Learning From The President's Cup

206

Danny Fisher Returns

207

Donahue Cup 2019

208

Past Parallel - A deep dive into the invention of par.

209

Great Golf Experiences

210

How You Do One Thing Is How You Do Everything

211

Talking All Things College Golf with Jason Folker

212

Talking Wisconsin, Royal Portrush, and Elves with the Godfather of Golf

213

Summer Stories with Jantzen and Andy

214

What It Was Like To Be There For Tiger's 15th Major

215

What It's Like To Play Augusta National

216

What It's Like To Attend The Masters

217

Heading Outside

218

Talking Mindfulness with Dr. Arthur Hoffman

219

Basic Goodness

220

Making Changes - On Stan Utley, George Gankas, and Ariana Grande

221

TGP Field Trip - Cool Clubs Headquarters

222

The Beginner's Mind

223

TGP's Most Memorable Rounds of 2018

224

Inner Game 4 - Overcoming Doubt and Trying Too Hard

225

TGP Field Trip - Canal Shores in December

226

The Inner Game 3 - What's Your Swing Thought?

227

The Inner Game 2 - An Intro to Swing Thoughts

228

The Inner Game - Part 1

229

Jantzen vs. Phil

230

Donahue Cup 2018

231

TGP Field Trip - Westmorland CC

232

The Godfather of Golf - On Golf and Self Acceptance

233

The Jantzen Project - Part 3

234

Player Spotlight - Danny Fisher

235

The Jantzen Project - Part 2

236

The Journey of Tiger Woods with Peter Donahue

237

The Jantzen Project - Part 1

238

Analysis with Chris Oehlerking

239

The Practice of Fascination with Peter Donahue