Did you put on your pants today?

It's every golfers dream. A well deserved opportunity, yet everpresently unexpected and honoring moment! Who would have thought that as a child, a fun activity, sport, and passion that passed the time or better yet made time non existant to my adolescent mind, would begin to blossom into a career? Last Monday, I officially joined PING staff! The honor and ability to not only play PING product but represent what Mr. Karsten himself has created is a dream come true! Years, endless evenings, dawning mornings, thousands of buckets, millions of balls, dozens of thoughts and philosophies, acres of sawd, gallons of seed, boxing matching within the soul and mind, critics, supporters and copious rollercoasters of emotions are merely a few of the characteristics that I attribute to this accomplishment! I spent two hours yesterday with a great pro named Nicholas at RedTail getting 'dialed in'. Me, really? I get be a representation of a company!? As amazed and honored as I am, I am also going to say I knew this day would come! I knew that I would work hard enough, and represent appropriately a product of PING's stature! No, not because of pride, but because of belief. Because of passion. Because of Love and Trust! Because when I lay a grip in the fingers of my hands and roll that palm over to form a human lever around a tool of titanium and steel, I forget about everything else and just want to rip my Titleist farther than ever before! All the doubts, all the voices, all the duties, all the fears, all the hopes, all the stuff that goes on in the 6 inches of powerful ocean waves we call the brain suddenly ceases! Everything slows down and art begins. Visualization of painting a shot starts. Feeling from the fingers, to the toes, to the back arch, to the takeaway begins. It takes about 2-4seconds to swing, yet it seems like an eternity begins and is created within every swing path taken. And as I pull that club back and turn my core, I feel the energy and power create, just waiting to get set at the top, begging to be dropped into the slot and released. Let it go, trust that what was envisioned, what I started, what I created, will be painted and shaped perfectly toward the target pursued! This is a must, within golf, but more importantly within life. You must trust it, you must believe in it, you must let it go so that it can transpire and happen! We see it, we feel it, and then we trust it into existence! That is what golf is. A beautiful game that mirrors so much more for those willing to play! We approach a solitary and still ball. We create a position for ourselves within that ball's world, the course. We imagine and or envision what we want that ball to do. We transpire thoughts to figure how we can get that ball to act accordingly and create the motion needed to propel the ball forward. We work towards creating that action and then release the energy and let it unfold! What then? We watch, we evaluate, we learn, and we do it again, and again, and again! There are many parallels between golf and life. Sport and life. Cooking and life. Shit, just living life and life:) I once asked a wise man, named Stan, this;"from your life and successes within it, what would you say is the upmost important advice you have for me?" He replied; "Seth, success comes by getting up every morning and putting on your pants." Ingenious! It's the same with golf. There will be hard times. There will be doubts within, and doubters around. But the beauty of golf is no matter how good, or bad one round is. The next day you get to play another and do it again! Here's to putting on your pants, whatever they may be, everyday. And for what it's worth, my preference of pant is Seersucker :)