Follow my journey, challenges, successes, and insights, as I spend 12 months on a leave of absence. This blog documents my time focusing on golf. This begins in the fall of 2018 as a 10 handicap. For the non-golfers out there, this is decent but not very good.
My ultimate goal is to play in the Web.com prequalifying tournament in the Fall of 2019. This is the first of many steps to playing on the Web.com Tour, which is the “minor leagues” of the PGA Tour. It is extremely difficult to make it to the PGA Tour. So it’s kind of like trying to be an actor after having 1 line in your middle school play.
The good stuff will be in my blog posts as I share my experience, knowledge, and thoughts throughout the next 365 days.
About Me
Smiling after outdriving my buds
My name is Max Rosenberg. I am almost 30 years old and decided to take a leave of absence from my work on October 1, 2018 to pursue other projects and interests for 1 year. One of my missions for the year is to get as good as I can at golf and participate in the Web.com prequalifying in the fall of 2019. This blog documents this journey, which started as a 10 handicap.
While I have played golf since I was young, I didn’t play in high school or college. I only played in one tournament up through July of 2018, which was when I was 10 years old and I won!
I am not, and never was, a scratch golfer. In fact, until recently, I always had a double digit handicap!
So no, I am not that good at golf. I have realistic expectations but if I don’t try this, I KNOW I will regret it later in life. So here it goes. Focusing on golf for 12 months as a 29.5 year old, so I will never say “I wish I would have tried that!” #yolo
What I want you to get out of this blog
I hope that this blog encourages you to TRY to do whatever it is you are thinking about doing. No, I’m not telling you to leave your job, but take advantage of the opportunities you have right now. It might not be the optimal time to make a change or try something new, but it might be the best opportunity you’re going to have. My goal is that you don’t have regrets for NOT doing something.
Worst case, you try, fail, and go back to your old life – and your old life must not be that bad if you’re choosing to live it right now…
Smiling after outdriving my buds
My Background
If you’re curious about my life before my leave of absence, I grew up on Long Island and went to Duke for undergrad, studying History with a concentration in Business and Economic Cultures. The next year I received my Master of Management Studies degree from Duke’s Fuqua School of Business.
After graduating, I interned in the editorial department for Business Insider for about 5 months in New York, writing over 50 articles.
I moved to DC in the fall of 2013 to do management consulting for Accenture.
Over the summer of 2018 I regularly went to the driving range after work, competed in my first Amateur tournament (I won the Net Division!), and decided to dedicate an entire year to working on my golf game.
When I started my leave of absence last fall, my goal was to improve my golf game as much as possible. Another goal was to find something I was passionate about that I could work on as a career after golf. I’m sure you’ve noticed that I haven’t posted in a few months and that’s …
We all experience it. We have a great range session and then proceed to stumble through 18 holes, lacking confidence and consistency. When I start playing poorly, it’s usually because I shorten up my backswing, or am too fast with my upper body on the downswing. These can lead to both pulls and slices depending …
I just competed in my first tournament in Florida. It’s part of Minor League Golf, which holds professional tournaments. They also have a training division for people starting to play competitive golf, which is what I played in. But these guys are really good and almost all of them have handicaps better than mine. The …
