The link between worldly success, golfing ability, and spiritual fulfillment is found in how we use, develop, and learn from our personalities. This link has a tremendous amount to teach you.

This book identifies nine distinct personalities, or Types, based upon the Enneagram, an ancient system for understanding personalities rooted in Jungian Psychology. Each of the nine Types have strengths and weaknesses that manifest in consistent and habitual patterns of thoughts, feelings, and actions. Our Type makes us predictable, but often only to the people around us.

Each of us has a dominant Type, a particular lens that we see the world though, and each of us has traits and tendencies that cause us to identify with other “Types” of people in very specific and predictable ways. Over the course of our lives, we incorporate the positive traits of other Types, but remain, almost without exception, an expression of the dominant Type developed in our childhood.

My hope is that you will identify with each of the Types, but that you will choose one that exemplifies your own personality and idiosyncrasies as a golfer and person. It will be helpful for you to remind yourself, your friends, and your playing partners of your tendencies, to tell them who you are so that they can assist you with monitoring your growth. It is my hope that you can begin to see movement, that you can begin to alter your perception of yourself and others. Each Type can thrive in any setting and Inner Game: Breaking Golf’s Unbreakable Barriers assists golfers of all abilities to maximize their own unique assets while minimizing their liabilities.