![]() 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. ![]()
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