Former PGA Tour pro Morgan Hoffmann's nontraditional restorative journey

NOSARA, COSTA RICA -- Standing on the edge of a remote mountaintop crest, overlooking a tree-soaked valley in a rolling panorama of dense green foliage, Morgan Hoffmann stares off toward an uncertain but inspired future, while quietly contemplating the climb it took to get here.

"What if this didn't happen? I'd still be on the PGA Tour, complaining about making millions of dollars and not being in a nice courtesy car," Hoffmann says with a laugh. "The path I've chosen has been different. It's weird. It can be made fun of. But it takes courage."

Here in the Costa Rican jungle, high atop the 275-acre plot of land he purchased and named Nekawa (the word "awaken" spelled backwards) Hoffmann…