Shattered Fairways: A career shaped by loyalty and hard truths

By Jason Roos

He gave the game eighteen years. The game's industry gave him nothing back.

Shattered Fairways is the unflinching true story of a golf facility professional who built a career from the ground up - teaching over 300 people to play the game, growing programs from nothing, managing events that ran for seventeen consecutive years - inside an environment that systematically extracted his skills, his time, and eventually his sense of self-worth.

This is not a book about one bad boss. It's a book about a system.

Through vivid, first-person accounts, the author takes you inside the hidden world of the golf and hospitality industry: the financial irregularities disguised as accounting practices, the family nepotism dressed up as company culture, the title changes that came without raises, the safety lapses with irreversible consequences. He stayed for eighteen seasons, long past the point when leaving would have been easy - and this book is his honest reckoning with why.

Who this book is for:
- Golf and hospitality professionals who have felt the pull of staying too long
- Anyone who has loved their work more than their employer deserved
- Aspiring golf professionals who want the honest picture before they sign
- Business owners who need to hear what their staff cannot say out loud

Part memoir, part industry expos , part survival guide - Shattered Fairways asks the question that anyone who has ever stayed too long somewhere will recognize: at what point does loyalty become self-betrayal?

The answer took eighteen years. It is written here for the first time.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GRRDJGWZ
• ISBN13: 9798251039849
• Release Date: March 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 68 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.5" x 8.5"