For The Love Of Golf

Every Day Is A Parade

I think I might have the next golf pro living in my home. My youngest son loves to play golf and he is really good at it. It all started back about four years ago. My husband, our two youngest children and I were visiting friends in northern Wisconsin. The men went fishing and the women went to a flea market. It was my youngest son’s birthday and since there wasn’t much for the kids to do at our friend’s home I decided to keep my eyes open for something fun. Well I spotted a golf club and used golf balls and figured what the heck why not buy them. I gave him the used gift and he thoroughly enjoyed it. We go back home a couple days later and he’s out in the backyard playing away. His interest in the sport continues off and on for quite some time. About a year of so later my husband wins a set of golf clubs at his union meeting and our son soon becomes their new owner. He’s in his glory. My husband and I realized last Christmas that it was time to get him a set that suited his age and size. So we bought him a youth/teen set. Well thank goodness we had a mild winter with not much snow so he was able to use those clubs now and then, otherwise he might have gone stir crazy not being able to play the game. Let me tell you my son drive a golf ball. Thank goodness we have enough land because now my husband and son have planted grass for a golf hole, it will be complete with a cup and flag. My son is outside everyday checking on the growth process. His young face just lights up when he talks about golf. This spring we took a cruise and there was a golf simulator. The golf pro on the ship said we would be surprised on how good he will do at a golf course. Oh, was he right. Last month I was reading our local paper and in it was a golf ad for a junior league forming at a nearby course. I showed it to my son and there was no hesitation, “yes I want to join!” Now my son is not competitive and joining team sports is not on his agenda, so this was big!! I signed him up right away. Then on the Friday before the league started, he and I tried out the course so he was familiar with it before the league started on that Monday. The instructor on the cruise ship was right, my son was really doing great his first time on a course. That whole weekend before the league started my son washed and polished his golf clubs and golf balls. My husband took him to the sports store and bought him a pull golf cart. My son prepared for the big day all weekend long. Well Monday came and he had no problem jumping right out of bed. I took pictures of him as he drove his golf ball to the first hole. The kids on his league were impressed. He said he got a lot of “nice hit”, “great drive” “WOW”. His league instructor at the end of the game told me “you’re right, he is really good at the game”. You can imagine the talk at the dinner table that night. Right now my husband and son are at the driving range. My husband is not a golfer, but he enjoys seeing our son’s enthusiasm as much as I do. And of course on Father’s Day our son insisted we give Daddy a brand new driver so that he can wallop the golf balls in the backyard too. The only problem is the competing of sports between my son and husband. My husband loves to fish and take our son along, but my son finds it hard to break away from golfing. The cure for that today was that my husband got up at 5am to fish and came back just as our son was ready to head to the driving range. Men and their sports, what are women to do - - oh yeah, go shopping. My daughter and I love that sport.