The Golfer's Journal Podcast Episode 208: Quiet, Please
Apr 27, 2026
A reflective escape into golf’s quiet moments and creative process. Short readings celebrate stillness, sound, and the game's small eternities. Vignettes recall childhood lessons, clubhouse characters, and the humility golf teaches. Find calm scenes of sunset mischief, first-tee nerves, and the sonic textures that make a round unforgettable.
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Practice Returning To Quiet
- Turn down noise and practice returning to quiet to wear your life like a loose-fitting shirt.
- Tom Coyne recommends seeking pause—coffee or whiskey, a big hardcover book, or a golf course—to retrain your mind toward stillness.
Three Week Writing Retreat In The Catskills
- Tom Coyne retreated alone to the Catskills for three weeks to write Quiet Please and let memories and sensations surface.
- He wrote intensively—wake, coffee, write, sleep—then worked with designer Tom Brown to shape images and pages.
How Turn And Return Fixed A Young Swing
- A head pro at Pinehurst told 14-year-old Coyne to focus on one cue: turn and return.
- That single instruction transformed afternoons on the range into focused repetition and relief from contradictory tips.
