I have labored over a way to get in touch with you ever since the stuff hit the fan. This is an effort to do just that. My name is Rolland Todd.

I have followed your career since you were a kid in Orange County and I was coaching basketball at Santa Ana College from 1975 to 1982. I was always struck by the joy you took in hitting a golf ball. It was a time when you were fully being yourself.

So, who am I to even write this open letter? Very quickly, I was a two sport athlete in college, baseball and basketball, and coached basketball for 25 years; I started the Runnin Rebels at UNLV and was the first coach of the Portland Trail Blazers. Check toddcoaching.com for more. For the past 25 years I have coached coaches and athletes on impacting performance.

My coaching methods are not traditional and it hurts me to see you struggle, when I know it doesnt have to be that way. You are trying hard, that is clear. The problem, as I see it, is what I would call a œfailure to be. The freedom to walk on the course and experience the joy of hitting a golf ball and nothing else.

Winning will take care of itself. You are Tiger Woods and you still have your skills. Age has nothing to do with anything. Practicing harder will not get it done. Changing your swing wont either.

I am not a psychologist, I am a coach. I just happen to have more tools that any coach you know. Most of the time, and certainly in competition, you have the most difficult task which is to coach yourself. All impediments need to be removed now so you can do that well. In short, who is coaching your coach?

Your injuries, for example, are not accidents. It is your body telling you to œwake up and smell the coffee. I suspect there are things you cant see at this point that if you could, would free you up to experience that joy newly. EVERYBODY HAS BLIND SPOTS, even Tiger Woods.

People talk about the œOld Tiger Woods. There is no such thing available to you. Your actions today are not given by the past. A friend of mine says it this way:

œOne creates from nothing

If you try to create from something
youre just changing something

So, in order to create something you
first have to be able to create nothing.
To make sure a person doesnt find out
who he is, convince him that he
cant really make anything disappear.

All thats left then is to resist,
solve, fix, help or change things.

Thats trying to make
something out of something.

I can help you remove the blind spots so you can actually create whats next for you. Just give me an hour of your time and youll either say œlets go to work or œhit the road jack.

When I die, I want the record book to fully support that you were the best player to ever tee it up, not œwhat if_______________. Anything you ever say to me is 100% confidential, in fact, that you ever said anything to me is equally confidential.

I can be reached at 661-679-7706 or rolland.todd@gmail.com

To get what you really want is going to take you risking something. Risking an hour with me I promise will be worth it. Have a great day. Mark Twain says this about joy–

œWork like you dont need the money,
love like youve never been hurt,
dance like nobodys watching.

www.toddcoaching.com