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About JW

A life explored, one fairway at a time.

James Wachira is documenting a long game: golf in all fifty U.S. states, and as many countries as the calendar and the curiosity will allow. The site is not a handicap report. It is a travel journal that happens to carry a putter.

Golf has been a source of peace, patience, friendship, and the occasional public disagreement with a bunker. Every course is different, the same way every hard day is different. The work is to play your own game.

Birthday parties still happen. The Double Bogey Invitational is one chapter of that life — friends, optional humiliation, barbecue after. This website is the wider map.

Play your own game. Embrace the challenge. Enjoy the journey.

Life lessons & lost balls

Stay in your own lane.

Comparison ruins a good round. It does not spare a good life either.

Begin again on the next hole.

A bad hole does not have to become a bad round. A bad day does not have to become a bad life.