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The Meaning of Golf — 242 episodes

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What Happened At The US Mid-Am

2

Qualifying For The US Mid-Am With 11 Clubs!!

3

More Than A Score: Finding Magic In Hickory Golf

4

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

5

A Drive To Sand Valley. Hickory or Modern?

6

When Your Swing Stops Working

7

A Practical Guide To Playing In True Gravity And Avoiding Frustration

8

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

9

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

10

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

11

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

12

The Seven Club Tournament in 1964 at Turnberry

13

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

14

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

15

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

16

Imagining The Apocalypse To Help Build A Set Of Clubs

17

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

18

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

19

Reality Rules. Have You Noticed?

20

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

21

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

22

"What should I do when golf actually counts?"

23

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

24

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

25

Swing Thoughts Paradox

26

Paradox, Score, and How to Play Golf Without Why

27

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

28

A History of The Meaning of Golf Podcast

29

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

30

10 Questions That Change How You See Your Game

31

Golf Advice! with Daniel Warren Johnson

32

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

33

Life Changing Golf - with Daniel Warren Johnson

34

From a Swing Fault to a Superpower

35

Christmas Reflections for Your Holiday Season and Golfing Life

36

A Common Misconception in Learning Golf

37

Searching for Meaning in Golf and Life

38

Blurry Videos and Golf Social Media

39

When Fixing Something Doesn't Lead to Lower Scores

40

Recapping 2025 Golf with Peter Donahue

41

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

42

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

43

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

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Working It Out #3: Golf Without Why

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Working It Out #2: The Hum and The Lack

46

Working It Out #1: Golf's Mental Game

47

Advice for Scottie: A conversation on fulfillment and golf

48

Tuning Into the Hum of Golf

49

Eight 3-Putts and a New Philosophy

50

Never Be Too Confident In Your Ideas

51

Sweetens Cove with New Club Golf Society

52

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

53

The Masters Course Preview

54

The Low Hum of Golf

55

Is Golf More Like Building Furniture or Surfing?

56

2025 Golf Goals!

57

Your Golf Game Is Not Your Golf Game

58

Artificial Intelligence Golf Coaching

59

Help People Just Swing!

60

Finding Magic: Pine Valley in the Dark

61

A Coaching Catch-Up, Speed Training

62

Evolving Coaching Techniques

63

How Simplicity Leads to Better Outcomes

64

What if You Never Reach Your Goals?

65

Peter Donahue's Return to Coaching

66

What's In and Out for Golf in 2025

67

Happiness, Traffic, and the Minnesota Vikings

68

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

69

Two Days with Michael Hebron

70

Shot Making Golf

71

2024 Half Baked Golf Ideas!

72

Awareness and Nerves in Golf with help from Rupert Spira

73

Golf Mastery

74

How Your Beliefs About Yourself Are Holding You Back

75

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

76

A Golden Statue and Finding the Best Place to Play From

77

Mistakes in Learning Golf and Coaching the JV Squad

78

The Perfect Balance of Competition and Enjoyment

79

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

80

Finding the Magic of Golf

81

Danny Fisher on Playing in a Korn Ferry Tour Event

82

Bonus Episode - 2024 The Golf Practice Staff Trip Draft

83

Swing Change Check-In, Sedge Valley, Eagle Springs

84

Rory McIlroy and The Art of Not Trying Too Hard

85

Hickory Revival! With Special Guest Clark Willard

86

Philosophy, Chaos, and True Gravity

87

The Spiritual Practice of "One Shot at a Time"

88

A Definitive Conclusion on the Usefulness of Par

89

Two Days at Sweetens Cove

90

Swing Change Best Practices

91

The Difficulties of Change

92

February Golf at Spring Valley

93

A Golf Lesson With Hank Haney

94

A Holiday Episode About Hope

95

A Big Picture Theory of the Golf Swing

96

Golf Swing Forgery

97

Fixing Things In Golf Lessons Doesn’t Work

98

2023 Golf Recap: Hickory Edition

99

Brain Compatible Golf Lessons

100

Finding Your Authentic Swing

101

Golf Gives You Energy, Or Takes It Away

102

Tiger Woods, Golf Coach

103

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

104

TGP’s Major Season. Mindsets, Perspectives and Decisions

105

The Mind and The Swing

106

Bonus Episode - 2023 TGP Staff Trip Announcement and Draft

107

The Future of Golf, etc.

108

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

109

Golf Conversations at a Wedding

110

Vardon, Effortlessness, and the Sounds of Golf

111

The Surest Way To Ruin Your Game

112

Golf Lessons from Bluey

113

Hickory Golf at Spring Valley Round Recap

114

Masters Thoughts, Golf Anticipation, and Golf Philosophy

115

The Four Stages of Golf Enlightenment

116

Lines and Levels of Development

117

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

118

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

119

Synchronicity and Accepting Reality

120

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

121

How to Enjoy Golf

122

How To See More Miracles On The Golf Course

123

2023 Golf Resolutions

124

New Year’s Resolutions Primer

125

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

126

Finding Your Ethic of Golf

127

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

128

Themes and Learning from the 2022 Season

129

2022 Season Recap

130

Staff Trip Recap, Stories of Success and Failure in Preparation

131

Golf Is Not A Journey

132

Staff Trip 2022 Format Announcement & Draft!

133

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

134

The Spirituality of Golf

135

Half Set Check In, a Summer of Learning

136

Scotland Travelogue Part 2: Shiskine and Prestwick

137

Scotland Travelogue Part 1: Jubilee, Lundin Links, Elie

138

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

139

The First Golfer in America with Peter Donahue

140

Playing Golf With Trust

141

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

142

Swing Feels, Learning, Metaphors with Peter Donahue

143

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

144

Stories of True Gravity with Peter Donahue

145

Tiger at the Masters, and True Gravity with Peter Donahue

146

Post Apocalyptic Golf with Peter Donahue and Chris Oehlerking

147

The Difference Between Your Goals and Your Purpose

148

No Tips Allowed

149

The Practice of Losing

150

The Seven Club Tournament in 1964 at Turnberry

151

2022 Golf Resolutions

152

A Christmas Episode with Peter Donahue

153

Half Baked Golf Ideas

154

Danny Fisher Returns Again

155

Season Recap Roundtable

156

Staff Trip Recap And A Golf Therapy Session With Peter Donahue

157

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

158

Hot Cup, Cold Cup

159

Dunes Club vs. Lost Dunes, Staff Trip Preview

160

Who Should We Root For In The Ryder Cup?

161

Trends in Golf Instruction from 1978-1989 with Peter Donahue

162

What Makes a Course Good? Tension, Confidence

163

Texting with Tiger, Dream Foursomes

164

Summer Recap with Peter Donahue

165

Lawsonia, Anxiety, Basic Goodness

166

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

167

Excuses!

168

The Story of TGP at Canal Shores - with Peter Donahue

169

The Tiger 5 and Simplifying Scoring

170

The Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real

171

Excuses, Vision 54, Transitions, Inquiry

172

SHORT SET MANIFESTO

173

A Social Media Fast, Tiger, Awareness of Awareness

174

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

175

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

176

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

177

"The Golf" - Part 2 - Allowing!

178

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

179

"The Golf" - Part 1 - Stay Awake!

180

Golf in a Pandemic, Bryson, Spieth, Social Media

181

"The Golf" - Introduction

182

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

183

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

184

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

185

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

186

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

187

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

188

Donahue's 5 Lessons: Introduction

189

Golf in the Kingdom Part 2 - Golf and Politics

190

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

191

Half Baked Golf Ideas

192

Summer of Golf

193

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

194

Masters Memories 4 - Tiger's win in 2019

195

Masters Memories 3 - El Pato and the 2009 Masters

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

197

Masters Memories 1 - Spieth's Collapse in 2016

198

Mindset 3: Why do you play golf?

199

Mindset 2: Ego and Expectation

200

Mindset 1: The Hero's Journey

201

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

202

The Golf Ball Is Going Too Far

203

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

204

World Long Driver Nick Kiefer

205

Cheating

206

Going For It with Jantzen, Steve, and Andrew

207

Pine Valley in the Dark

208

Learning From The President's Cup

209

Danny Fisher Returns

210

Donahue Cup 2019

211

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

212

Great Golf Experiences

213

How You Do One Thing Is How You Do Everything

214

Talking All Things College Golf with Jason Folker

215

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

216

Summer Stories with Jantzen and Andy

217

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

218

What It's Like To Play Augusta National

219

What It's Like To Attend The Masters

220

Heading Outside

221

Talking Mindfulness with Dr. Arthur Hoffman

222

Basic Goodness

223

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

224

TGP Field Trip - Cool Clubs Headquarters

225

The Beginner's Mind

226

TGP's Most Memorable Rounds of 2018

227

Inner Game 4 - Overcoming Doubt and Trying Too Hard

228

TGP Field Trip - Canal Shores in December

229

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

230

The Inner Game 2 - An Intro to Swing Thoughts

231

The Inner Game - Part 1

232

Jantzen vs. Phil

233

Donahue Cup 2018

234

TGP Field Trip - Westmorland CC

235

The Godfather of Golf - On Golf and Self Acceptance

236

The Jantzen Project - Part 3

237

Player Spotlight - Danny Fisher

238

The Jantzen Project - Part 2

239

The Journey of Tiger Woods with Peter Donahue

240

The Jantzen Project - Part 1

241

Analysis with Chris Oehlerking

242

The Practice of Fascination with Peter Donahue