A golf trip used to mean that you were traveling to a golf course and playing 18 holes of golf. Now, with elite golfers sharing their experiences with psychedelics, it’s taken on a whole new meaning.

Psilocybin allows me to get a deep breath on the course that I haven’t been able to get in years,” one top PGA Tour player told Golf Digest after a streak of top finishes. “Being able to authentically assess each and every shot without judgment or fear has created a freedom like no other.” During the last golf season, he had improved certain metrics to his highest standards years after beginning to microdose.

Other golfers, however, are taking full trips. DJ Trahan, two-time PGA Tour winner, says he has never been more at peace. He drank ayahuasca in 2019 upon the recommendation of his friend Taylor Massey, a four-time club amateur champion, who says that he now works as a “psychedelic advisor” to dozens of golfers. “My golf had been struggling, and I felt completely lost. I never understood that the answers were within me,” Trahan told the magazine. “Plant medicine gets an unfortunate reputation because people look at it as drugs. They’re not honoring it for what it is.”

“It’s a way to manage stress and the grind of golf without taking Zoloft or Wellbutrin or any pharmaceutical drugs,” Massey added. “This is just a natural remedy in tiny doses.”

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Neither psilocybin nor DMT, the psychoactive compound within ayahuasca, are explicitly prohibited by world golfing anti-doping rules. Still, both microdosing and the ceremonial use of psychedelics remain niche in the golf world, but the movement is alive – and gathering steam.

So much so that the operators of Juniper Reserve in Oregon — home to two world-class golf courses — has started working with psychedelics researcher Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris on a study investigating the efficacy of psilocybin use for golf performance. Once they’ve taken their microdose for the first time, the golfers have to wait an hour before teeing off. 

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“This is as cutting-edge as health and wellness can be,” Melissa Sanchez, the resort’s wellness projector, told Men’s Health. “In golf, there’s this idea that once you’ve been playing for long enough, you develop specific habits that are hard to break out of.” Psychedelics could help with that. “They are able to make these small modifications within their own practices that benefit them, big time.”

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