{"id":187,"date":"2026-03-05T10:19:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T09:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/golfdecisionlab.com\/?page_id=187"},"modified":"2026-03-05T13:26:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T12:26:57","slug":"pourquoi-le-livre-penser-avant-de-swinguer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/golfdecisionlab.com\/en\/pourquoi-le-livre-penser-avant-de-swinguer\/","title":{"rendered":"Why think before you swing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Why think before you swing<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Who I am and my journey<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\"Laurent<\/figure>
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My name is Laurent Agostini.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have been playing golf since childhood. I was around ten years old when I first discovered the game in the Yvelines region of France, through school. At the time, I was mostly passionate about soccer. Golf felt strange to me\u2014almost elitist, quiet, slow. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And it was far from home. My parents couldn\u2019t take me there regularly. So golf quietly disappeared from my life, just as it had entered it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it stayed somewhere in the background. Like a vague promise: one day, I would come back to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That day came in the late 1990s. My father was friends with an architect who had taken part in building the Saint-Marc golf course. We started going there together. Every Sunday, we would take a lesson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s when golf became something more than just a sport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My father is twenty-five years older than me. We couldn\u2019t play soccer together. Or tennis. But in golf, age fades away. The handicap levels the field. The course brings people together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We shared much more than rounds: club competitions, trips, beautiful courses. Golf became a shared language, a way of being together.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The turning point: Tiger Woods<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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In the mid-1990s, a player began to emerge: Tiger Woods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m a business school student. His name is everywhere. One day, I see his photo on the cover of Le Point. At the time, seeing a golfer on the front page of a mainstream French magazine is almost unthinkable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tiger changed something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He made golf more physical, modern, and spectacular. He brought a new level of intensity to the game. On TV, I watched the majors on Canal+. I remember a WGC at Firestone that ended almost in the dark, with spectators lighting the course with their lighters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At that moment, how could you not love this game?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Golf became a passion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not yet a project.<\/p>\n<\/div>

\"Cr\u00e9dit<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The birth of an independent media<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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