Find another aspiring pro or somebody else who is also working hard to improve their game, and meet up with them two – four times a week. Discuss your goals together, agree what to work on together, watch each other for mistakes and keep each other honest when practicing. Yes have coaching sessions, but in between use your practice partner to make sure you’re following through on the coaches recommendations.

“How important I think it is for people to find their willingness to run. Any subject or framework or matter of love will do. No more half-measures — just run. Run through the explanations and control and analyses. Run though others cheer or weep. Run through pain and fear and right and wrong and elevated and debased. Run through family and friends, enemies and detractors. Run through failure and success. No more cotton balls of excuse or wisdom. No more coitus-interruptus living. No more birth and death. Just find one thing and go the distance … just once…run.
It doesn’t matter what the framework or topic is.”

good to hear about how the project is going big picture wise. And it seems as if Bruce is right: having consistent, regular feedback can make a huge difference in the amount and speed of progress.

I’ve never even looked at golf lessons with someone of Bruce’s caliber, but I can imagine that they involve the sort of money that for an ordinary person represent a serious investment, and for someone rich is just walking around money. So I’m just wondering if you’ve thought about reaching out to people who are interested not so much in sports, but in the proposition about talent that you’re trying to prove, who might contribute to your project. That might include grants from foundations, but also reaching out to someone like Gladwell, who might know some rich folks who’ll fund lessons for a year on a lark. (I know, it’s weird to think of amounts of money that are require serious decisions for us as money to be spent on a lark for others. But I do think that’s a reality.) The simple fact that you’ve stuck with the project for as long as you have shows that you’re serious and that you’re not just going to fritter away whatever money you might get.

I’m basically suggesting that, as you think about income streams, you not just think about your project specifically as a golf project, looking for golf sponsors, but as a “talent myth” project that might be funded by “talent myth” sponsors.

Good luck in any case. I keep on coming back to the site because it’s a real inspiration that you’re pursuing this project even though, or perhaps better: because, it’s hard, and you face real obstacles.