Women of Golf · Ted J. Odorico and Cindy Miller

Women of Golf - Season 12 Episode 4 | March 25th, 2025

March 25, 2025·29 min·2 clips

Josie Doyon explains how stopping the pressure and having fun helped her win a tournament after a bad slump.

Josie Doyon is introduced as an LPGA Epson Tour player, and Ted and Cindy give her an easy runway to talk about how golf came into her life. It was not love at first swing. She says she started around age 13, when her dad and brother were playing and she was still more interested in other sports. Golf felt slow. Nobody was coming to tackle her, so it did not have the same charge as the games she already liked. But the game kept finding ways in. She liked that golf was social, and being strong gave her a real entry point. Her size mattered too. At five two, she saw limits in other sports, while golf looked like a place where doors might stay open. The bigger shift came later, around 20 or 21, maybe during her sophomore year at Kent State, when golf became something she wanted for herself. That is where the interview gets good. Josie separates saying she wanted the LPGA from actually waking up ready to practice, work out, and believe in the goal. Ted does not rush her into a neat career timeline. He asks how the game got under her skin before college and what made it feel possible. The earlier talk about players being on pins and needles gives the episode a mental game thread. The conversation keeps coming back to the gap between playing tight, playing to please someone else, and finally owning the work. It feels like a golf club conversation in the best way: tour talk, family background, college growth, faith tinged encouragement near the end, and a warm sendoff for Josie's next stretch of competition. Josie does not sell a perfect athlete origin story. She sounds like someone who had to grow into wanting the grind.

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A grounded golf conversation that gives the journey into the game as much weight as the result.

Women of Golf traces Josie Doyon from a sports-heavy childhood into a game that first seemed slow, then gradually earned her attention through its social side and the opportunities it could open.

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