I Just Found Out I'm the #2 Women's Golf Blog on the Internet (And I Know Exactly Why)

I was in my office a couple Wednesdays ago, preparing for my Wednesday night women’s golf league, with my coffee in one hand, MacBook open, scanning through emails and WhatsApp texts before diving into the day’s work, when a subject line caught my eye…

An email from a company called FeedSpot landed in my inbox. They run one of the internet's biggest directories of blogs, ranked by category -everything from cooking to cars to, apparently, women's golf. And they'd just named Queen City Links Ladies the #2 Women's Golf Blog in the world, out of their Top 30 list.

I read it twice to make sure I wasn't misunderstanding.

Okay, but what does that actually mean?

Soooo… just to set the stage here, and to be sure I’m not overstating it: FeedSpot isn't a golf publication and they're not a panel of LPGA pros voting on their favorite writers. They're a company that builds "Top [Whatever] Blogs" lists across basically every topic that exists, as a way to spotlight creators and help people find good content in a niche. It's not the equivalent of a major championship in the blogger world.. It's more like getting a really nice shoutout from someone whose whole job is finding good shoutouts to give.

I'm not saying that to talk myself out of being proud of it because I am VERY proud of it. I'm saying it because I think you deserve the real story, not the highlight-reel version. That's the whole point of this blog.

So here's the real story: this ranking isn't about me. It's about you.

Here's why I mean that literally

A blog doesn't get ranked #2 anywhere because one woman sits on her living room couch typing into the void. It gets there because people show up. Because they read. Because they hit reply.

And you have shown up for this blog in a way that still catches me off guard, in the best way:

• You reply to my emails… actual, real replies, not just opens

• You comment on posts telling me what confused you, what helped you, what you tried on the course afterward

• You DM me questions I didn't think to answer yet, which usually becomes the next blog post

• You tell me when something in a post made you feel less alone on the golf course, which, if I'm honest, is the whole reason I started this thing

Every one of those moments is a woman helping me understand what "total beginner” to “OK I finally kind of get this golf thing” actually feels like from the inside- not from my memory of it, but from yours, happening right now. That feedback loop is the actual engine behind this blog. FeedSpot just noticed the result of it.

So if you've ever replied to one of my emails, left a comment, sent a DM, or told a friend to check out a post: you did this. THANK YOU!

You can find the full Top 30 list here.

Thanks Anuj ! I am truly honored to be featured in this piece.

Your quick win for today

Before you scroll past this … here's one small thing you can do right now that takes less than a minute and genuinely helps:

Think of the one moment on a golf course, or thinking about golf, where you felt the most "I have no idea what I'm doing here." Not the technique stuff, the human stuff. The moment you didn't know where to stand, what to say, whether to laugh it off or apologize, or whether everyone was watching you.

Hold onto that moment. You're about to need it.

Now I need something back from you

Since you're the reason this blog keeps growing, I want to keep building it around what you actually need and not what I assume you need. So I put together a short survey, and I'd love for you to take three minutes and tell me:

• What's the moment (like the one you just thought of) that still makes you hesitate before saying yes to golf

• What would make the biggest difference in helping you go from nervous beginner to become a more confident golfer

• What you wish someone had just told you plainly, instead of you having to figure it out the hard way

There are no wrong answers and no silly thoughts. I read every single response, and I often turn them directly into future blog posts, emails, and workshop content… so what you share here shapes what shows up in your inbox next.

[TAKE THE 3-MINUTE SURVEY HERE]

Golf is hard. And it didn’t just magically get easier for me over time. I kept at it. But truly It got easier because I kept asking people who were a few steps ahead of me the questions I often felt too embarrassed to ask out loud … and because eventually people started asking me the same. This blog is just that same conversation, held in public, one honest question at a time.

So thank you for being part of the reason it's working. Now tell me what you need next.