The Golf Mystic

By: Gary Battersby

Narrated by: Gary Battersby

Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins

Publisher's summary

The Golf Mystic is an allegorical presentation of everyday life through golf perspectives. It is a story, an instruction audiobook, and an inspirational philosophy for golf and life. Written in conversational style, it is the story of a wayward golf pro (Geoff) who realizes he is failing in the most important parts of his life. His golf career is in disarray, and his fiancée, Claire, has recently left him. Geoff is about ready to give up on the game when he encounters an obscure iconoclastic golfer and teacher in the person of Joe Burlington.

While mainstream golf teaching pros have rejected this master, a desperate Geoff is inspired and seeks Joe out for help. After an inauspicious start, Geoff comes to understand that Joe is a rare and special teacher, solidly grounded and uncorrupted by the technical trends and material culture in modern golf and the world at large. His simple sage advice and methods of teaching transcend anything Geoff has experienced before. Joe demonstrates how learning to play the game of golf mirrors life. It is all about relationships and being in the moment. To be successful one must embody universal principles of freedom and trust. In golf, these qualities must be combined with sound swing strategies.

As Joe’s holistic yet eccentric approach begins to work magic, Geoff still reserves judgment. He’s been hoodwinked before by slick expert gamesmen with quick fix methods that deluded him into believing he was on the road to success but ultimately sent him crashing into walls of failure and dead ends. Yet, as Geoff begins to apply Joe’s strategies, he finds that his golf swing takes on the effortless quality absent since he was a young boy. He discovers that Joe is the real deal, imparting wisdom in elegant and simple ways. He soon comes to understand that with Joe’s principles in life, in love, or in golf, one can truly fulfill one’s promise.

Joe’s prescriptive strategies show Geoff how to view things differently. His combination of practical mental and physical exercises create positive change that bring Geoff and the listener closer to success. Throughout his visit, Geoff observes several key golf lessons and learns how incorporating Joe’s strategies can open him up to fulfillment in his golf game, his golf teaching, and his personal life.

The Golf Mystic teaches how to blend and balance each moment in life and to understand that peace and joy are based on perspective. Woven through the story is a proven program of swing development that will provide golfers with strategies to overcome any physical or psychological problem they may face in golf. The universal principle is that anyone can achieve his or her potential. Popular traditional and modern techniques that are not sound are systematically debunked as Joe’s unique mentoring technique unfolds.

This unique writing reflects a fresh perspective on life and golf through its use of solid and innovative principles of golf instruction taught with humor, insight, and a significant shift in the paradigm of teaching and learning the game. Whether in or outside the golf community, listeners will find the demonstrations and “out of the box” thinking a meaningful and useful path to transforming past self-defeating thinking and behaviors to new and more productive ways of living and playing the game.

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