No one playing: the essence of mindfulness in golf and in life

This is a story about a strange encounter on the golf course with someone who, on the face of it, knows nothing about golf but who ends up teaching the author about the inner game and questioning his approach to golf and to life itself.

It's not just about golf or sport, nor about improvement or progress or how to do something.

If anything, it points to a way of living effortlessly that is free and harmonious, that is, to the essence of mindfulness and non-duality.

Each of the nineteen chapters contains a lesson which the author palpably resists for the first few holes.

But, gradually he comes to realise the profound truth in the teachings of the stranger and begins to understand the radical perspective of no one playing.