Welcome to the Show

I’d like to pause after the early sprint to launch BTG and properly introduce myself.

Golf is in my blood. I grew up in a golf-obsessed family and have photos of six-month-old me gripping a club in a cart, desperate to stand and swing. I learned the game at several country clubs under true teaching professionals who drilled into me both sound swing fundamentals and a reverence for the sport itself.

My aim with BTG, and this newsletter, is simple: grow the game, but in the right direction. The COVID boom brought welcome attention, yet it also ushered in T-shirts on the tee, booming speakers, visible tattoos, and vapes. No, thank you.

Golf has traded some of its austerity to accommodate newcomers, and there’s no putting that genie back in the bottle. Equipment output is at peak “industrial” levels, and golf has seeped into streetwear culture—see the FootJoy × Aimé Leon Dore collab. Golf is mainstream now.

Here, though, we celebrate the other side of the game. We crave 7 a.m. solo loops at a private New England club on a crisp July morning. We revere course architecture and shake the hands of our superintendents. We leave phones in the car or buried in the bag. We dress properly and honor everything that makes this game the greatest.

Welcome to the show.

I am not a religious man, but I feel closest to God on the golf course.

Good morning.

Let’s talk about patience, not the kind where you sit around and hope, but the kind that keeps you steady when nothing seems to be working. The kind golf teaches without saying a word.

This game doesn’t reward speed. It rewards calm hands, quiet minds, and the discipline to take one shot at a time. You can't rush a round, and you can't force a score. You breathe, you swing, and you walk after it, wherever it went.

Progress is slow out here. Some days feel like setbacks. But if you keep showing up, if you stay with it, the small things start to build. You don’t always see it in the moment. But it’s happening.

So this week, don’t mistake stillness for nothing. Sometimes patience is the best move you can make. And that’s true on the course, and off it too.

Amen.

Freddy brought the heat back in the day. Aspirational stuff.

My intention with BowtiedGolf is to grow it as the elite clubs do — through referrals.

If you’ve improved your look, laughed a little bit, or learned something because of this newsletter… why keep it to yourself?

Share your invite link below, 5 referrals gets you access to our exclusive Saturday column. 1000 referrals gets you a round with me on my t20 private course? Hmmmm.

Taking any and all submissions for logos, drills, and fits of the week. Hit us up [email protected]

Talk soon,

BTG