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Golf's Sacred Journey: Seven Days at the Links of Utopia

Join David Cook--world-renowned sports and performance psychologist, speaker, and bestselling author--as he teaches you that in golf and in life, it's time to get out of your own way and let your true self shine.

Based on thousands of athletes Cook has counseled and great mentors and teachers from whom he has learned,  Golf's Sacred Journey  is told through the lives of two characters--a rancher with a passion for teaching truth and a young golf professional at the end of his rope.

In  Golf's Sacred Journey , Cook has compressed his decades of peak performance coaching into a story that will give you the tools you need to:

• Create a meaningful life, both on and off the golf course
• Be yourself amid the competition
• Find what you do well and perfect it

Come alongside Cook as he shows you that in life and on the golf course, we must be willing to coach and be coached--because doing only one will leave us feeling empty.

Praise for  Golf's Sacred Journey :

"Dave teaches what I have learned from experience--that trophies do fade and tarnish, but that relationships with God and other people are where we find true meaning and significance in our lives. I know you'll love this book as much as I did. It will give you more enjoyment, confidence, and hope on your journey around the links, and for your journey to eternity."

--Scott Simpson, US Open Champion 1987

"If you read this book, I can assure you that you will finish it a different person than when you started. Find what you do well and perfect it. And most of all, do it with character. Dr. David Cook is a man of character. I have learned from him. You will too."

--Tom Lehman, British Open Champion 1996, US Ryder Cup Captain 2006

Product Details

• Title : Golf's Sacred Journey: Seven Days at the Links of Utopia
• Cook, David L.
• Lehman, Foreword by Tom
• Publisher: Zondervan
• Publication Date: 2009
• ISBN: 9780310868118

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Join David Cook--world-renowned sports and performance psychologist, speaker, and bestselling author--as he teaches you that in golf and in life, it's time to get out of your own way and let your true self shine.

Based on thousands of athletes Cook has counseled and great mentors and teachers from whom he has learned, Golf's Sacred Journey is told through the lives of two characters--a rancher with a passion for teaching truth and a young golf professional at the end of his rope.

In Golf's Sacred Journey , Cook has compressed his decades of peak performance coaching into a story that will give you the tools you need to:

• Create a meaningful life, both on and off the golf course
• Be yourself amid the competition
• Find what you do well and perfect it

Come alongside Cook as he shows you that in life and on the golf course, we must be willing to coach and be coached--because doing only one will leave us feeling empty.

Praise for Golf's Sacred Journey :

"Dave teaches what I have learned from experience--that trophies do fade and tarnish, but that relationships with God and other people are where we find true meaning and significance in our lives. I know you'll love this book as much as I did. It will give you more enjoyment, confidence, and hope on your journey around the links, and for your journey to eternity."

--Scott Simpson, US Open Champion 1987

"If you read this book, I can assure you that you will finish it a different person than when you started. Find what you do well and perfect it. And most of all, do it with character. Dr. David Cook is a man of character. I have learned from him. You will too."

--Tom Lehman, British Open Champion 1996, US Ryder Cup Captain 2006

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Description

Join David Cook--world-renowned sports and performance psychologist, speaker, and bestselling author--as he teaches you that in golf and in life, it's time to get out of your own way and let your true self shine.

Based on thousands of athletes Cook has counseled and great mentors and teachers from whom he has learned, Golf's Sacred Journey is told through the lives of two characters--a rancher with a passion for teaching truth and a young golf professional at the end of his rope.

In Golf's Sacred Journey , Cook has compressed his decades of peak performance coaching into a story that will give you the tools you need to:

• Create a meaningful life, both on and off the golf course
• Be yourself amid the competition
• Find what you do well and perfect it

Come alongside Cook as he shows you that in life and on the golf course, we must be willing to coach and be coached--because doing only one will leave us feeling empty.

Praise for Golf's Sacred Journey :

Dave teaches what I have learned from experience--that trophies do fade and tarnish, but that relationships with God and other people are where we find true meaning and significance in our lives. I know you'll love this book as much as I did. It will give you more enjoyment, confidence, and hope on your journey around the links, and for your journey to eternity.

--Scott Simpson, US Open Champion 1987

If you read this book, I can assure you that you will finish it a different person than when you started. Find what you do well and perfect it. And most of all, do it with character. Dr. David Cook is a man of character. I have learned from him. You will too.

--Tom Lehman, British Open Champion 1996, US Ryder Cup Captain 2006

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The memory keeper of kyiv.

In the 1930s, Stalin’s activists marched through the Soviet Union, espousing the greatness of collective farming. It was the first step in creating a man-made famine that, in Ukraine, stole almost 4 million lives. Inspired by the history the world forgot, and the Russian government denies, Erin Litteken reimagines their story.

In 1929, Katya is 16 years old, surrounded by family and in love with the boy next door. When Stalin’s activists arrive in her village, it’s just a few, a little pressure to join the collective. But soon neighbors disappear, those who speak out are never seen again and every new day is uncertain.

Resistance has a price, and as desperate hunger grips the countryside, survival seems more a dream than a possibility. But, even in the darkest times, love beckons.

Seventy years later, a young widow discovers her grandmother’s journal, one that will reveal the long-buried secrets of her family’s haunted past.

This is a story of the resilience of the human spirit, the love that sees us through our darkest hours, and the true horror of what happened during the Holodomor.

May we never forget, lest history repeat itself.

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Women's Fiction Writers Star Award Winner of the SheReads Best Historical Fiction 2022

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"A stunning portrait of Ukraine and its people, of strength, of endurance, of the fight for survival during the forced famine, the Holodomor, but also a tender story of Katya, a grandmother whose hidden history holds the power to guide her granddaughter through the darkness of loss and grief, toward life and a limitless future. A remarkable read not to be missed." —Lisa Wingate, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of Before We Were Yours

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" The Memory Keeper of Kyiv  is a meticulously researched novel brilliantly depicting the horrific events of Stalin’s systematic destruction of a country... Reading this story felt all the more poignant in the current climate knowing that the proud people of Ukraine are once again suffering appalling atrocities as they fight to survive at the hands of others determined to ruin them. A captivating, heartfelt debut which was at times achingly painful to read." –Deborah Carr,  USA Today  bestselling author of  An Island at War

"This beautifully written snapshot of Ukraine’s history is both timely and heart-rending, sensitively bringing to life the culture of a nation devastated by an enemy invader. How shocking it is that it’s a history that’s being repeated today. And how important a reminder that where there’s life, there’s hope." –Fiona Valpy, author of  The Dressmaker's Gift

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" The Memory Keeper of Kyiv is a truly enlightening read - I learned so much about the history of Ukraine, as well as the many time-honored traditions that are still in use today. Katya's heartbreaking story - paralleled with Cassie and Anna in the present day - kept me turning the pages. I recommend this to anyone looking for a personal way to connect with Ukraine's history, and how it ties into current tragic events." –M.B. Henry, author of All the Lights Above Us

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Reaching for that Next Win in Professional Golf

Alison lee claims first-round lead at meijer lpga classic, reaching for that next win in professional golf: leona maguire and lucas glover.

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For elite athletes in any sport, winning is the goal. Yet, some wins are not enough to solidify a remarkable career in the history books. As young emerging athletes, two-time LPGA Tour winner Leona Maguire and PGA Tour veteran Lucas Glover both won on their tours in the state of Florida.

At age 27, Maguire secured her first LPGA Tour win at the 2022 LPGA Drive On Championship at Crown Colony Golf & Country Club, while Glover at age 25 won his first PGA Tour event at the 2005 Funai Classic at the Walt Disney World Resort. After capturing a win, the challenge then becomes to win again on a difficult golf course of a major championship or to win back-to-back at the same event.

Maguire, a solid amateur winner and Duke collegiate athlete, on a path to the LPGA Tour finished seventh on the Epson Tour in 2019. She gained her LPGA Tour Card for the 2020 season. Her second Tour win came last year in the Meijer LPGA Classic for Simple Give in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Maguire was paired with Glover in the Grant Thornton Invitational last December, where they tied for sixth at the Ritz Carlton Golf Resort, Tiburon Golf Club. In her fifth season on the LPGA Tour, Maguire has recorded a total of 21 career top 10s and is currently ranked No. 32 in the Rolex Women’s World Golf Rankings. As defending champion of the Meijer LPGA Classic for Simply Give, Maguire is ready to celebrate the tournament’s 10th anniversary this week with another win at Blythefield Country Club.

Glover, with more than twenty years on the PGA Tour has six career wins with one major win at the 2009 U.S. Open Championship held at Bethpage Black Course in Farmingdale, New York. According to Clemson World Magazine , “Glover became the first former Tiger golfer and the first native of South Carolina to win a major professional golf championship.”

Glover has struggled this year in 15 PGA Tour events played without one top-10 finish and is currently ranked No. 37 in the Official World Golf Ranking. As he returns to the USGA’s 124th U.S. Open at Pinehurst Resort and Country Club, North Carolina this week, Glover has his eye set on winning his second major.

Leona Maguire vs. Lucas Glover

Career Comparison

Both Maguire and Glover have comparable performance statistics. According to KPMG Performance Insights, Maguire gains more than half a stroke on the greens per round this season, which is nearly one stroke better than Glover’s performance in 2024.

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As both players compete this week for the win, they must demonstrate their best performance while competing with the most elite players in golf.

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Graham Hurley Kyiv review

Leading Holocaust scholar Christine Berberich, reviews the latest in Hurley’s Spoils of War series

12 May 2022

What is sharing?

Graham Hurley, Kyiv (London: Head of Zeus, 2021), pp. 416.

A meeting of past and present

It’s rarely the case that opening a book of historical fiction has such pertinence to contemporary events but beginning Graham Hurley’s most recent novel Kyiv towards the of March 2022 provided just such a moment. As I settled down on my sofa to read the opening paragraphs of the novel, Russian troops were beginning their march on Kyiv and the slow encirclement of the city that made it seem a full-scale attack on the Ukrainian capital was imminent. Hurley’s novel, set predominantly during September 1941, covering the flight of the Soviets from and the march of Nazi troops into Kyiv, and depicting a city under attack and occupation, consequently felt very relevant and almost too close for comfort. This discomfort was only increased as I read on: fact and fiction, it seemed, were beginning to merge in real life, played out nightly on my phone screen as I doom-scrolled through the day’s horrifying news from the contemporary Ukrainian war front.

The novel’s pertinent depictions of a Ukraine torn apart by both the departing Soviets who boobytrapped much of the capital’s infrastructure before leaving, and the incoming Nazis, initially hailed as ‘liberators’ by the population but soon discovered to be even more ruthless than the Soviets, is a timely reminder to readers of Ukraine’s troubled past, a violent history in which it has repeatedly been subject to attack, to invasion, to violence, to ruthless subjection to the rules of changing occupiers. As Hurley puts is so succinctly: ‘One occupation was about to end. Another set of thieves were only days away from taking over the city’ (2021, p. 91). 

A Historical Novelist

Since the publication of Rules of Engagement , his first novel, in 1991, Graham Hurley has established himself not only as an accomplished writer of international and police thrillers but also as a writer of hard-hitting historical fiction, mostly set during the Second World War. Kyiv , the sixth in The Spoils of War novel series, follows the successful Last Flight to Stalingrad (2021) which I had the pleasure to review for this blog already. Kyiv , however, takes Hurley’s writing to an altogether different level, showing a maturity and critical attitude towards his historical subject matter that makes him deserving of considerable public and critical attention. This is a masterful novel: a war narrative, a spy thriller, and a historical fiction steeped in meticulously-researched factual detail. 

A fine novel

Kyiv starts with the invasion of Russia by Nazi Germany in June 1941. The infamous Operation Barbarossa, in breach of the Hitler-Stalin non-aggression pact of 1939, saw over three million Wehrmacht soldiers and Einsatztruppen invade the Soviet Union in an attempt to wage a Blitzkrieg similar to the one Hitler had already largely won on the Western Front by that time. Within a mere six weeks, Nazi troops had surrounded Kyiv and were shelling the city day and night in actions eerily similar to the ones we are currently witnessing by proxy via our TV screens. 

The novel focuses on a large cast of characters, headed by the British secret agent Tam Moncrieff and his love interest Isobel (Bella) Menzies, a double agent who had previously defected to Moscow but is now, seemingly, working for the British Secret Service again. In a fast-moving plot that sees Bella transport secret weapons in aid of the Soviets to Kyiv with the help of the resistance fighter and secret agent Ilya Glivenko, and that also features the regular – and sinister – appearances of MI6 agents Kim Philby and Guy Burgess of later ‘Cambridge Spy Circle’ notoriety, the action alternates between Kyiv (the last bastion protecting the oil fields of the Caucasus from the approaching Nazi forces), and London and rural Hampshire (where Moncrieff is trying to piece together clues about Bella’s disappearance and Philby’s mysterious involvement and potential treason).

The novel’s thirty chapters are structured around historical dates, starting with the beginning of Operation Barbarossa on 22 June 1941, moving through the attack of Kyiv and the first few weeks of Nazi terror in the city, ending on 3 November 1941, and with an ‘Afterwards’ section dated 18 August 1943. Hurley meticulously aligns his chapters with real historical events: Chapter 13 for instance, focusing on Thursday, 18 September 1941, depicts the aerial bombardment of Kyiv by the Luftwaffe on the final day before the Wehrmacht marches into the defeated city, while Chapter 15 (24 September) describes the first explosion of a booby-trapped building along Khreshchatyk, Kyiv’s main boulevard. 

It took me until about half-way through the novel, and the information that one of the key characters in the novel, the Ukrainian journalist Larissa Krulak, is Jewish, that the significance of the dates suddenly dawned on me – and, indeed, the narrative then hurtled unstoppably towards 29 and 30 September 1941, and to the massacre at Babi Yar that saw the murder of over 33,000 Ukrainian Jews in a ravine just outside of Kyiv in one of the largest single massacres of WWII. 

Literary depictions of mass murder and genocide are always laced with risk, with a multitude of ethical considerations to take into account: preserving the memory and dignity of the victims often clashes with attempts to lure in readers, to provide descriptions that are attention-grabbing and graphic. Babi Yar , has been the subject of a variety of literary texts, from D.M. Thomas’ White Hotel (1981) to Jonathan Littell’s controversial Les Bienveillantes ( The Kindly Ones ) of 2006. Both authors depict the killings at Babi Yar in all of their horror, with visceral detail that makes for more than uncomfortable reading. Hurley, by contrast, tackles the events of those infamous days in Kyiv with historical rigour and greater sensitivity, eschewing gory details to focus on the victims as they are being rounded up and, eventually, for an aerial view of the ravine during the mass killings. This ploy, the physical distancing of the main characters – and through them ourselves as the readers – in a small plane circling over Babi Yar, ensures an account that is both historically accurate and emotive, that evokes the chaos and horror of the scenes from a distance yet does not pry into the victims’ last seconds or stoop to depictions of blood and gore. I had been worrying about what I would find in those descriptions of Babi Yar that, in the hands of a lesser writer, could have been problematic, but Hurley handles these scenes masterfully. It is, in particular, these measured depictions of one of the WWII’s most horrific events that for me elevate Kyiv over Hurley’s earlier war novels. 

Long Shadows

This is not the place for plot spoilers or summaries of further events in the novel. Suffice it to say that there is no happy ending in Hurley’s novel. The shadow of Babi Yar hovers over the remainder of the narrative, and as I was finishing the novel, news from the ongoing war in Ukraine reminded me once again that the fiction I had just been reading was not only steeped in historical fact but that it was, in fact, currently being played out again in real life. On 3 March, the memorial site at Babyn Yar was damaged in Russian missile attacks; news about massacres committed by retreating Russian soldiers in Bucha showed bodies lying in the street, civilians shot at close range, women being subjected to mass rape. Kyiv ends on the recapture of the city by Soviet troops on 6 November 1943: the ‘handful of veterans’ who enter the city first ‘stared at the grey ruins that lined the city’s biggest boulevard. They remembered shops here, hotels, theatres, trams, people, the beating heart of an enormous city’ (2021, p. 397). At the time of writing this blog, in late April 2022, Kyiv has, as yet, been relatively unscathed by the war. But as I closed the book I feared that history, indeed, was about to repeat itself and that Kyiv, once again, would soon lie in ruin. 

For another perspective on recent events in Ukraine take a look at our recent blog by Vladislav Areshka .

Dr Christine Berberich is a Reader in English Literature at the University of Portsmouth, specialising in Holocaust Literature, fictions of Englishness and national identity, and Brexit Literature. She is the author of The Image of the English Gentleman in Twentieth-Century Literature  (Ashgate 2007) and the editor of The Bloomsbury Introduction to Popular Fiction  (Bloomsbury, 2014), Trauma & Memory: The Holocaust in Contemporary Culture (Routledge, 2021), and Brexit and the Migrant Voice: EU Citizens in post-Brexit Literature and Culture (Routledge, forthcoming), as well as numerous journal articles on a range of topics. 

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