Zokology

“This book is for anyone wanting to learn how success really happens.” ―Mike Weir, 2003 Masters champion

With a foreword by Lorne Rubinstein

This honest, funny, and unforgettable PGA memoir follows Richard “Disco Dick” Zokol’s 22-year golf career through talent, self-sabotage, classic rock, and the long process of learning how to survive at the highest level of professional golf

From a walk-on at Brigham Young University to NCAA champion, Canadian Amateur winner, and PGA Tour player, Zokol’s journey moved quickly from promise to pressure, and from success to the far more complicated reality of life on Tour.

But Zokology isn’t just about golf. It’s about what most golfers never see: what happens inside the mind when pressure takes over, confidence disappears, and the way you’ve always thought stops working. For Zokol, it meant learning to quiet the noise in his head and find a way to stay steady on the PGA Tour.

Like it or not, playing golf will pull you inside out and expose you. There is nowhere to hide—not from the scorecard, and not from yourself.

The early part of his career looked like a fairy tale. He captained BYU to an NCAA championship, won the Canadian Amateur, and survived Q-School to earn his place among the best golfers in the world. But the fairy tale ended, and Zokol struggled as a rookie on the PGA Tour. Dealing with intense anxiety, expectations, and feeling he didn’t belong, he battled the loneliness of life on the road. He was soon desperately searching for something that would help him find solid ground.

What followed was a long search for stability in a game that rarely offers it. Over more than 450 PGA Tour events and two Tour wins, Zokol began to understand that success wasn’t about the golf swing—success and failure are about your mind.

Zokology is raw, real, and sometimes uncomfortable, and is for anyone trying to stay steady when the game stops going the way it’s supposed to.