U.S. Army Infantry · Las Vegas · Author

ShaunColquhoun

War taught him to survive. The games taught him to live.

Poker · Golf · The Strip

The New Book His Story
The Books

Earned. Not Imagined.

Facing the Odds
Shaun Colquhoun
Facing the Odds — book cover
Where it began

Facing the Odds

After the war, the loudest place in the world was his own head. The poker table made it quiet.

The Healing Power of Poker and the Battle with PTSD. A veteran’s unflinching account of coming home, coming apart, and finding focus, discipline, and brotherhood in the last place anyone looks for healing — a card room.

Swinging to Serenity
Shaun Colquhoun
Swinging to Serenity — book cover
The way back

Swinging to Serenity

Eighteen holes at a time, he walked himself home.

How golf brought him home from a war that followed him there. What four hours of fairway can do that nothing else could — a book about routine, breath, patience, and the green places that put a person back together.

You Suck at Golf
Shaun Colquhoun
You Suck at Golf — book cover
Second Edition · The tough love

You Suck at Golf

You can hit the ball. So why are you shooting 94?

(And It Has Nothing to Do With Your Swing.) Eighteen holes, par 72 — a front nine for the game between your ears, a back nine for when the course fights back. No swing changes, no new equipment, no late-night YouTube videos. Just better decisions, starting on your very next hole.

“I’m in this book against my will.” — Erik Matthewson, PGA Professional

His Story

From the Infantry
to the Felt

Shaun Colquhoun picked up a golf club at six years old. Then came the Army, the infantry, and the kind of experiences that don’t stay overseas when the deployment ends.

Home again, he found his footing the unlikely way: at the poker tables and on the fairways of Las Vegas. The felt taught him focus. The fairway taught him patience. Both taught him that the fight after the fight can be won — one decision, one breath, one round at a time.

“The fight after the fight
can be won.”

He went on to train at the Golf Academy of America, study PGA Golf Management at UNLV, and spend a decade as one of the Strip’s most trusted VIP hosts — sober, watchful, and quietly collecting the stories that became Vegas: Redacted.

He writes about the games that test us, because they’re the ones that saved him.