Simon Sinek wrote a fantastic book that is often overshadowed by his earlier work called “The Infinite Game”, and I cannot think of a better sport to describe as an infinite game than golf. It’s a game that strives for perfection but is designed so perfection can never be reached. There is a relentless pursuit of improvement that golfers fall in love with, and it's why so many people turn to this sport in adulthood. If you attempt to play golf with a finite outlook of achievement, you will only be disappointed. If you take on practice with a finite mentality, it will only slow your growth; using an infinite mindset towards practice is the only way to improve.
Finite practice is what we see most golfers doing when at the driving range, measuring the success of their practice in the number of balls hit or time spent. Once they reach their quota, the practice is over. An infinite mindset changes what a successful practice session is viewed as. An infinite practice is a practice session that is one step on a million-step journey to better. This means that an infinite practice session has a goal of skill achievement, and once that skill is achieved, you can move to the next level. Creating goals for your practice based on results and not quantity is the only way to play the infinite game. The beauty of infinite practice is that it can take 5 minutes or 5 hours; it all depends on your goals. With Legends of the Links trading cards, we aim to break practice into a series of skill challenges. Each challenge is meant to be its own game to get lost in. As you play more and more games, your golf game will improve. It's an infinite loop of improvement in an infinite game.