How Golf Can Save Your Life

A smart, funny choice for the golfer in your life, this book uses the game’s frustrations and small victories to explore mental health, habits, and second chances―on and off the course.

Golf saved Drew Millard’s life, and he wants it to save yours, too.

Drew Millard loves golf. We’re talking climbing-a-mountain, jumping-over-the-moon, standing-outside-golf’s-window-holding-a-boom-box levels of love. As a kid, he’d enjoyed the game, but after college, his clubs had been gathering dust in his parents’ basement. And then a bout with depression led him back home to haul them out of the unfinished storage area under the stairs.

It was what the doctor had ordered. In addition to medication and therapy, Drew needed to exercise. Exercise was not something he did. But golf? Sure, why not? As Drew fumbled his way through his first round in years, he discovered that sucking at golf was his new calling, one that helped him find a sense of balance and rhythm―both on the course and in his own mind.

Drew’s deep emotional connection to the game inspired him to write this book, and his passion is infectious. Combining great storytelling with fascinating historical tidbits and moving personal insights, he writes about everything from how golf taught him to be a better listener, son, and friend, to how to slow down, appreciate what he has, and keep fighting the good fight. Along the way, he demystifies the customs, history, and rules of the game.

Brimming with personality, accessibility, and a freewheeling spirit, How Golf Can Save Your Life is a celebration of the sport and an examination of all it offers. Read it and fall in love with golf―for the first time or all over again.

“Drew Millard’s How Golf Can Save Your Life is a lot of things―smart, insightful, funny, moving, in-the-know enough for serious golfers but accessible enough for newbies―but I think its most impressive quality is that it always manages to cut left when you expect it to cut right. Much like a golf shot, I suppose.”
―SHEA SERRANO, #1 New York Times bestselling author

Drew Millard is a writer from North Carolina. His work has appeared in VICE, GQ, The Nation, The Believer, and the New York Times Sunday Magazine. He lives in Philadelphia and has a handicap that hovers between ten and 14.