Direct Hit: A Golf Pro's Remarkable Journey back from Traumatic Brain Injury

by Kathleen Klawitter

Kathleen Klawitter knows the real meaning of resilience. It's evident in her courageous, yet captivating, journey from being a pioneering golf pro teaching the holistic approach in the early 90's, to sustaining a traumatic brain injury from a speeding golf ball, to discovering remarkable tools to awaken, deepen, and transform her life on every level. With refreshing candor, Kathleen regales readers how she reprogrammed her brain using some very innovative methods. Even when faced with relearning how to read, write, and drive, she looked at life with optimism and found constant comfort in nature and Spirit. Her empowering tale illustrates the immense capacity of the human spirit and is for people who want to optimize the quality of their own lives.

330 pages, Paperback

Published January 9, 2020

About the author

Kathleen started her Corporate career at the Stock Exchange as a Marketing Manager, although after eight years she hit the glass ceiling and found a more passionate profession in the 90’s as an LPGA Golf Instructor. As a pioneering entrepreneur, she introduced the holistic approach to golf performance, and the ground-breaking High Five System, until one tragic day she was struck in the head by an errant speeding golf ball. Kathleen suffered a traumatic brain injury, which ended her career and put her on the path of recovery and completely reinventing herself. She had to re-learn how to read, write, and speak again.

After over twenty years, she utilized her own body-mind-spirit modalities to live a good quality of life, and to become a professional speaker and author of her survivor’s memoir, Direct Hit.

As a resilience expert, Kathleen inspires and uplifts audiences with how she reprogrammed her brain using some of the most innovative methods and strategies, and she shares how to maximize your own personal performance, whether at home or in the workplace. As a visionary, Kathleen’s evidence-based message guides us back to nature and the feminine touch, with simple truths and spiritual lessons, and empowers us to trust and have faith in our inner wisdom and guidance.

Reviews

[Mary Nader · Rating 5 out of 5]

An amazing, true story by an amazing woman. Not only do I respect her tenacity and endurance, her writing makes me understand, as much as humanly possible, what she went through. It shouldn't be so hard to just survive. Yet she handles it with grace. She researches her injury, and confronts it head on (pun intended). Klawitter gives me the courage to handle my much lesser trials in life. Definitely a "must read."