Swing Like You Don’t Care
Swing Like You Don't Care is for any golfer who would like to have better concentration on the course and play in the present moment. If you get frustrated while playing, the wisdom in each of these 54 chapters will give you the skills to succeed in golf--scoring your best and enjoying your time playing this great game. Mindfulness is a form of mind fitness and can help you to be in the present while golfing. That much is obvious. What may be less obvious is how the game of golf itself can help you to develop your spiritual qualities of patience, virtue, and wisdom. Swing Like You Don't Care is irreverant and thoughtful and can be the digital companion to your golf game.
“I can faithfully say that I have read every golf instruction book in the universe, so much so that my friends used to make a joke of what my new swing thought would be for the round. Since abandoning the quick fix swing strategy and instead working with Arnie’s lessons, I’m having more fun, scoring lower, and I’m a better companion on the course.”—Carl Long
Letters to a Young Golfer
Across 1903 and 1904 and then jumping ahead to 1908, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a series of letters to an aspiring poet, later published as his most famous and oft quoted book Letters to a Young Poet. Rilke was only twenty-seven when he first responded to Mr. Kappas, barely more his senior and still a young poet himself.
I helped the UNC Asheville Bulldogs with their mental game and often wrote missives to these young women. These letters to young golfers—edited, expanded, and elaborated—are presented here. Throughout, I quote Rilke’s Letters and also his Letters on Cézanne. The parallel between the artist and the golfer is remarkable. The advice, guidance, lessons in these pages can also be helpful for golfers of any age and at any stage of their game—for anyone who wants to improve their game, to be the best version of themselves, to delight in golf so that it spills over into the rest of life and, perhaps, to let the enjoyment of life spill over into one’s golf game. These letters are philosophical and practical. They are an ode to golf and a celebration of the life that features it—a life that gives golf the opportunity to speak to us as no other game can.
“Arnie's captivating messages will open up new ways of approaching golf and life, which truly are "liberating."—Carl Long
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