The mental landscape of the game is a fascination for Scotsman Gordon Mclay: seeing, feeling the next shot, thinking ahead to the different scenarios like the chess player. Gordon used this process first subconsciously when teaching himself to play as a boy, then as a competitor good enough to compete in the Scottish Amateur Championship, and later working as a professional caddie on the Legends Tour.
In life of course it is much harder to predict the bounce of the ball. A motorcycle accident in 2007 would eventually lead to Gordon needing the amputation of his lower right leg in 2022 after years of pain that nearly took golf away from him completely.
If someone had told him that just two years after the surgery he would be playing in a big championship on the Old Course at St Andrews, he would have been amazed.
But life is like golf, and you can never really tell how that ball is going to bounce.
Enjoy Gordon’s story with EDGA here.
