Individual personal use: Personal growth through a daily routine focused on faith. This application focuses on individual reflection and applying the journal’s principles to daily life.
- Mentoring: A tool for mentors and apprentices to engage in consistent discussions, devotional readings, and prayer. Perfect for discussing progress with Mulligans and good shots. Building a prayer list together.
- Small Groups: Members focus on the same devotionals/truths for discussion, prayer, and encouragement. One devotional could be read by the group for one week or two weeks and then provides great discussion questions as well as talking about good shots and answered prayers, prayers for each other.
- Speaking Material: Provides material for speakers to share devotionals, golf/faith metaphors, and breaking smaller tables to discuss devotional questions.
- Golfing Retreats: Source material for discussions on golf, life, and faith, and building relationships.
- Smaller groups of devotionals can be linked together: if there is a specific time for a church Sunday school class or men’s retreat like six weeks – one chapter per week? Then you have good discussions with questions that people can write out their journaling from that devotional.
- Chapters 34-44: Focuses on Jesus designing the course and providing the “clubs” (resources) to play it, particularly for overcoming challenges, hazards, tight lies. This set could be grouped together for a series on spiritual warfare or overcoming obstacles.
- Chapters 17-23: Presents graphics and pictures illustrating the ingredients for a centered, balanced life and golf swing, drawing analogies between the two. These chapters could form a series on balance, focus, and the fundamentals of both faith and golf.
- Grip/prayer
- Stance/word of God
- Backswing/fellowship
- Forward swing finish/loving others
- Center/hub of the swing/Jesus
- Design of the club to swing in a circle/life of faith encircled by God’s love and forgiveness.
- Golf Professional leading – a golf professional could lead and demonstrate inside or on the driving range the elements needed for a well rounded golf swing and draw the analogy to faith elements.
- Father-son/mother-daughter – Great tool for a family member to their son or daughter or a grandfather and grandchild. Easy way to disciple and stay on track.