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The Meaning of Golf — 228 episodes

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

2

Imagining The Apocalypse To Help Build A Set Of Clubs

3

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

4

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

5

Reality Rules. Have You Noticed?

6

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

7

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

8

"What should I do when golf actually counts?"

9

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

10

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

11

Swing Thoughts Paradox

12

Paradox, Score, and How to Play Golf Without Why

13

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

14

A History of The Meaning of Golf Podcast

15

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

16

10 Questions That Change How You See Your Game

17

Golf Advice! with Daniel Warren Johnson

18

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

19

Life Changing Golf - with Daniel Warren Johnson

20

From a Swing Fault to a Superpower

21

Christmas Reflections for Your Holiday Season and Golfing Life

22

A Common Misconception in Learning Golf

23

Searching for Meaning in Golf and Life

24

Blurry Videos and Golf Social Media

25

When Fixing Something Doesn't Lead to Lower Scores

26

Recapping 2025 Golf with Peter Donahue

27

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

28

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

29

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

30

Working It Out #3: Golf Without Why

31

Working It Out #2: The Hum and The Lack

32

Working It Out #1: Golf's Mental Game

33

Advice for Scottie: A conversation on fulfillment and golf

34

Tuning Into the Hum of Golf

35

Eight 3-Putts and a New Philosophy

36

Never Be Too Confident In Your Ideas

37

Sweetens Cove with New Club Golf Society

38

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

39

The Masters Course Preview

40

The Low Hum of Golf

41

Is Golf More Like Building Furniture or Surfing?

42

2025 Golf Goals!

43

Your Golf Game Is Not Your Golf Game

44

Artificial Intelligence Golf Coaching

45

Help People Just Swing!

46

Finding Magic: Pine Valley in the Dark

47

A Coaching Catch-Up, Speed Training

48

Evolving Coaching Techniques

49

How Simplicity Leads to Better Outcomes

50

What if You Never Reach Your Goals?

51

Peter Donahue's Return to Coaching

52

What's In and Out for Golf in 2025

53

Happiness, Traffic, and the Minnesota Vikings

54

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

55

Two Days with Michael Hebron

56

Shot Making Golf

57

2024 Half Baked Golf Ideas!

58

Awareness and Nerves in Golf with help from Rupert Spira

59

Golf Mastery

60

How Your Beliefs About Yourself Are Holding You Back

61

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

62

A Golden Statue and Finding the Best Place to Play From

63

Mistakes in Learning Golf and Coaching the JV Squad

64

The Perfect Balance of Competition and Enjoyment

65

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

66

Finding the Magic of Golf

67

Danny Fisher on Playing in a Korn Ferry Tour Event

68

Bonus Episode - 2024 The Golf Practice Staff Trip Draft

69

Swing Change Check-In, Sedge Valley, Eagle Springs

70

Rory McIlroy and The Art of Not Trying Too Hard

71

Hickory Revival! With Special Guest Clark Willard

72

Philosophy, Chaos, and True Gravity

73

The Spiritual Practice of "One Shot at a Time"

74

A Definitive Conclusion on the Usefulness of Par

75

Two Days at Sweetens Cove

76

Swing Change Best Practices

77

The Difficulties of Change

78

February Golf at Spring Valley

79

A Golf Lesson With Hank Haney

80

A Holiday Episode About Hope

81

A Big Picture Theory of the Golf Swing

82

Golf Swing Forgery

83

Fixing Things In Golf Lessons Doesn’t Work

84

2023 Golf Recap: Hickory Edition

85

Brain Compatible Golf Lessons

86

Finding Your Authentic Swing

87

Golf Gives You Energy, Or Takes It Away

88

Tiger Woods, Golf Coach

89

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

90

TGP’s Major Season. Mindsets, Perspectives and Decisions

91

The Mind and The Swing

92

Bonus Episode - 2023 TGP Staff Trip Announcement and Draft

93

The Future of Golf, etc.

94

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

95

Golf Conversations at a Wedding

96

Vardon, Effortlessness, and the Sounds of Golf

97

The Surest Way To Ruin Your Game

98

Golf Lessons from Bluey

99

Hickory Golf at Spring Valley Round Recap

100

Masters Thoughts, Golf Anticipation, and Golf Philosophy

101

The Four Stages of Golf Enlightenment

102

Lines and Levels of Development

103

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

104

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

105

Synchronicity and Accepting Reality

106

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

107

How to Enjoy Golf

108

How To See More Miracles On The Golf Course

109

2023 Golf Resolutions

110

New Year’s Resolutions Primer

111

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

112

Finding Your Ethic of Golf

113

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

114

Themes and Learning from the 2022 Season

115

2022 Season Recap

116

Staff Trip Recap, Stories of Success and Failure in Preparation

117

Golf Is Not A Journey

118

Staff Trip 2022 Format Announcement & Draft!

119

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

120

The Spirituality of Golf

121

Half Set Check In, a Summer of Learning

122

Scotland Travelogue Part 2: Shiskine and Prestwick

123

Scotland Travelogue Part 1: Jubilee, Lundin Links, Elie

124

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

125

The First Golfer in America with Peter Donahue

126

Playing Golf With Trust

127

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

128

Swing Feels, Learning, Metaphors with Peter Donahue

129

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

130

Stories of True Gravity with Peter Donahue

131

Tiger at the Masters, and True Gravity with Peter Donahue

132

Post Apocalyptic Golf with Peter Donahue and Chris Oehlerking

133

The Difference Between Your Goals and Your Purpose

134

No Tips Allowed

135

The Practice of Losing

136

The Seven Club Tournament in 1964 at Turnberry

137

2022 Golf Resolutions

138

A Christmas Episode with Peter Donahue

139

Half Baked Golf Ideas

140

Danny Fisher Returns Again

141

Season Recap Roundtable

142

Staff Trip Recap And A Golf Therapy Session With Peter Donahue

143

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

144

Hot Cup, Cold Cup

145

Dunes Club vs. Lost Dunes, Staff Trip Preview

146

Who Should We Root For In The Ryder Cup?

147

Trends in Golf Instruction from 1978-1989 with Peter Donahue

148

What Makes a Course Good? Tension, Confidence

149

Texting with Tiger, Dream Foursomes

150

Summer Recap with Peter Donahue

151

Lawsonia, Anxiety, Basic Goodness

152

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

153

Excuses!

154

The Story of TGP at Canal Shores - with Peter Donahue

155

The Tiger 5 and Simplifying Scoring

156

The Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real

157

Excuses, Vision 54, Transitions, Inquiry

158

SHORT SET MANIFESTO

159

A Social Media Fast, Tiger, Awareness of Awareness

160

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

161

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

162

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

163

"The Golf" - Part 2 - Allowing!

164

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

165

"The Golf" - Part 1 - Stay Awake!

166

Golf in a Pandemic, Bryson, Spieth, Social Media

167

"The Golf" - Introduction

168

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

169

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

170

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

171

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

172

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

173

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

174

Donahue's 5 Lessons: Introduction

175

Golf in the Kingdom Part 2 - Golf and Politics

176

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

177

Half Baked Golf Ideas

178

Summer of Golf

179

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

180

Masters Memories 4 - Tiger's win in 2019

181

Masters Memories 3 - El Pato and the 2009 Masters

182

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

183

Masters Memories 1 - Spieth's Collapse in 2016

184

Mindset 3: Why do you play golf?

185

Mindset 2: Ego and Expectation

186

Mindset 1: The Hero's Journey

187

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

188

The Golf Ball Is Going Too Far

189

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

190

World Long Driver Nick Kiefer

191

Cheating

192

Going For It with Jantzen, Steve, and Andrew

193

Pine Valley in the Dark

194

Learning From The President's Cup

195

Danny Fisher Returns

196

Donahue Cup 2019

197

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

198

Great Golf Experiences

199

How You Do One Thing Is How You Do Everything

200

Talking All Things College Golf with Jason Folker

201

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

202

Summer Stories with Jantzen and Andy

203

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

204

What It's Like To Play Augusta National

205

What It's Like To Attend The Masters

206

Heading Outside

207

Talking Mindfulness with Dr. Arthur Hoffman

208

Basic Goodness

209

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

210

TGP Field Trip - Cool Clubs Headquarters

211

The Beginner's Mind

212

TGP's Most Memorable Rounds of 2018

213

Inner Game 4 - Overcoming Doubt and Trying Too Hard

214

TGP Field Trip - Canal Shores in December

215

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

216

The Inner Game 2 - An Intro to Swing Thoughts

217

The Inner Game - Part 1

218

Jantzen vs. Phil

219

Donahue Cup 2018

220

TGP Field Trip - Westmorland CC

221

The Godfather of Golf - On Golf and Self Acceptance

222

The Jantzen Project - Part 3

223

Player Spotlight - Danny Fisher

224

The Jantzen Project - Part 2

225

The Journey of Tiger Woods with Peter Donahue

226

The Jantzen Project - Part 1

227

Analysis with Chris Oehlerking

228

The Practice of Fascination with Peter Donahue