Episode 127: Pursuing Impossible Goals, Breaking Barriers, & Becoming an Overcomer with Jimmie James

Jimmie James is an engineer and former executive with Exxon. He is also the best-selling author of Playing from the Rough: A Personal Journey through America’s 100 Greatest Golf Courses.

Jimmie’s story is a quest to become the first person to play each of America’s 100 greatest golf courses in a single year, an odyssey that brought him face to face with the gulf between his impoverished childhood in the Jim Crow South and the successful executive he become.

LISTEN TO THIS EPISODE IF:

  • You love golf
  • You enjoy an interview about overcoming
  • You have every experienced challenges in your life and wanted to quit
  • You have a huge, audacious goal and you’ve never told anyone
  • You want a reminder that the American Dream is still alive

Follow Jimmie James:
Instagram: @top100golfnomad