He played more golf in one year than most people play in a decade.
Josh Simpson spent the last 12 months crisscrossing England, Wales, and Scotland, living in a camper van, and playing 581 different courses to set the new world record for most 18-hole rounds played in a single year.
It sounds like a wild stunt, but the story isn’t about mileage.
It’s about what happens when you center your entire life around the game, the same way we talk about in pieces like why golf feels impossible and how to enjoy it again.
A year like that forces a few things to the surface:
What the game teaches you when there’s nowhere to hide.
What repetition does to your mind.
Why some people improve under volume while others break, and why others need a softer reset, like a golf mental vacation to find joy beyond par.
And there’s one lesson from his journey that matters for every amateur reading this.
If you want to take one idea from his record and bend it into a system that actually improves your game, the key isn’t what you think, and it builds on the simple frameworks we use in our most popular golf mindset and enjoyment guide.
If you care about turning stories like this into real strokes gained, the next part is where we get specific.
🔏Paid Members Only: Building Your Own “One-Year Golf Cycle”
The world record sounds extreme, but the structure behind it is something any amateur can copy in a lighter, smarter way, the same way you might copy a routine from our simple golf tips to play better and have more fun.
Simpson didn’t just play more. He …