, the power of influence that God gives us. I think that the ending is about grace, which is the Gospel. He explained that the book sequel has several messages. "A woman from the prison said that this little golf book started a revival in the prison," Cook said. A woman's prison has used the book as study material and "went out into the prison yard to bury their lies."
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He adds, "We have had thousands and thousands of people come to Utopia, probably more people than have come to the 'Field of Dreams' baseball field, on a trek and search to bury the lies, to look where the movie was filmed, to play around the golf course and just to think and go to that cemetery."Ĭooks said the experience of seeing what has come out of the book and the movie has been both humbling and overwhelming. I'm going to remove the lies that I sort of live my life by and I'm going to accept the truth that God says I am instead of the lies that the enemy or the world says I am.'" It's a symbolic representation of 'I'm going to get rid of these. "They send them to me (by email) and I bury them. "I give people the chance to take the lies that have really held them back in their life and remove them and bury them," he told CP. Thousands have sent their buried lies for us to bury in Utopia."Ĭook holds retreats one or two times a year in Utopia that include the burying of lies. "Over one million people have gone to the website after the reading of the book or watching the movie. "I could not have imagined what would happen next," Cook writes. He posted the reading of the chapter on the website as an open invitation to anyone who wanted to continue their journey and "bury their lies" in the Buried Lies Cemetary in Utopia, Texas. The cemetery is located in the center of the "Links of Utopia" golf course and was the location of the defining Easter morning cemetery scene in the book and movie, Cook writes in the introduction of Johnny's U.S. He filmed a reading of this bridge chapter in the Waresville Cemetery in Utopia, Texas. Eventually, he decided that the chapter would serve as a "bridge" between the two books. Most people got it, but I went ahead and wrote the ending and put it on the website (three years ago) and a million people have viewed that."Ĭook said that once the movie came out, thousands of more people came onto the website to read the "stand-alone chapter" and discover whether the putt was made or not. "I wanted to leave it up to the imagination, but I wanted the story to go much deeper. "I left people hanging in the first book, this guy's putting for victory, the ball goes towards the hole and at that point I end it creatively without telling if it went in or not because at that point I'm really hoping that people get the message, because at that point it really doesn't matter whether the ball goes in or not," he said. "All along I knew at some point there needs to be a sequel."Ĭook said he knew that he would eventually have to address a question posed in the first book. "A director came along and read it and said this should be a movie and then all of a sudden Robert Duvall became involved, and interestingly this evolved into something huge," he explained. "I wanted to make that real clear in the book and so that was the real purpose of this book sequel."Ĭook, who has coached scores of top athletes for game day including PGA Tour winners, NBA World Champions and MVPs, Olympians, National Collegiate Champions, and many top executives at Fortune 500 companies, said the first book, Golf's Sacred Journey: Seven Days at the Links of Utopia, was really a look at what it takes to be great in one of the games of life – golf. "These performance journeys that we are on and these success callings that we are on, that include winning and losing, are really part of a bigger story," Cook told The Christian Post in a recent interview.
Cook wants to make one thing perfectly clear – the movie "Seven Days in Utopia," based on his first book in the series, is quite different and not as spiritually deep as either book. Open: Golf's Sacred Journey 2, sports psychologist and author Dr. At the outset of his newest book, Johnny's U.S.
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