Week 0 - The Intro

For most of my career, I worked in an office backstage. In dark venues and recording studio control rooms. In the glow of show files, settlement sheets, production calls, and marketing campaigns that needed to be bigger, louder, faster. I was always moving in one form or another, show to show, crisis to crisis building culture, building audiences, building momentum.

Somewhere along the way, I stopped building myself.

That’s not a dramatic confession. It’s just the truth. Eddie Murphy once said the most dangerous comedians are skinny. They’re hungry. I had ate well over the years.
When you spend years putting out fires, chasing deadlines, and leading a team through high-pressure moments, your own health, creativity, and clarity become the quiet sacrifices that pile up in the corner.

By 2020, I wanted something different:
slower mornings, fewer emergencies, more nature, better food, more time for real connection, and a version of myself that wasn’t running on adrenaline and convenience meals.

Golf became the doorway for something new.

Not because I suddenly discovered that I’m a natural athlete (spoiler: I’m not), but because something about the pace of the game, the walking, the thinking, the air, the quiet felt like the exact opposite of how I’d been living.

I didn’t just want to play more golf. I wanted to reset life.

Over the next 67 weeks, leading to the first tee shot of the Masters on April 9, 2026, I’m giving myself permission to rebuild:
my habits, my health, my strength, my routines, my identity, and my sense of presence.

I want to eat better. Move more. Lose weight. Get stronger.
Train my body in a way that feels sustainable, not punishing. And eventually, I want to run again.

In 2024 I ran a runDisney race. My first half-ish marathon
I remember how it felt to cross the finish line: exhausted, proud, a little emotional, but convinced I could do better. I was hooked.

In April 2027, I’m going back not just to run the race, but to beat my old time and prove something to myself about discipline, longevity, and showing up consistently.

This project — Willy Wedges — isn’t just about rounds of golf.
It’s about the life between them. The meals cooked at home. The new friends made. The old connections rekindled. The early mornings. The walks in winter.
The gym sessions where I want to quit.
The days where I feel like myself again, and the days where I don’t.
The travel, the courses, the conversations, and the writing that helps make sense of it all.

Some posts will be about golf.
Some will be about getting healthier.
Some about travel.
Some about the internal work of becoming someone you actually recognize again.

This is my reset year: physical, mental, creative, and personal. A slow, deliberate rebuild from the inside out.

The Masters is 67 weeks away. runDisney is two years after that. A lot can happen in that time.

Let’s find out what does.