Outlier

I’m deeply interested in people and the human element of our experience. I just think that golfers, the golf community and the golf experience, there’s a void there. There are so many stories, and so many interesting people, that need to be seen.

I fell out of golf a few times. I had this love-hate relationship with it, where I loved the sport of golf but I didn’t love the culture. Golf was very rigid and I didn’t feel that I could express myself around it. I would get back into it because I loved the challenge of golf; I loved being by myself playing a game and not being reliant on anything or anyone else. When I really started to get back into it, I just said, “I don’t really care what’s normal; I’m just going to do what’s comfortable.” And that was when, from a photography standpoint but also a personal standpoint as a golfer, I really started to flourish.

The great thing about golf is how interpretive it can be. There’s a million different ways to play it, there’s a million different ways to present it and there’s a million different ways to tell a story. And I don’t think that people ever gave golf photography that type of flexibility before.