Golf is Great
I love golf, and I hadn’t done it for more than 10 years- before I was pregnant with my oldest son. My husband and I often played together and took several golf trips. I wasn’t great, but I played enough to have fun. I always hoped to have a family foursome someday, and that became a reality this summer. My kids attended two weeks of golf camp at the Chicago School of Golf (shout out to instructors Jamie and Henry at Robert Black Golf Course!), and they loved it. The boys and I did a three-person scramble together, and my husband and I went out for 9 holes on a recent Sunday afternoon while the kids were at a birthday party.
It’s a pleasure to teach them the subtle etiquette points like putting your clubs on the way to the next hole, being polite and quiet when people are hitting, and enjoying a round of drinks – in our case, Gatorade – while adding your scores up and recapping the round at the clubhouse. Camaraderie that they can use for a lifetime. My dad and mom golfed together with their own friend groups for years, and Mom still goes out for a weekly scramble. It’s delightful to talk putting and club selection with my boys, and I look forward to many more years with them on the links.
Stupid/Funny Humor is the Best Kind
My husband and I have tag-teamed this one. After we golfed one day, I guessed the boys might enjoy the timeless sports classic Happy Gilmore. There were a few scantily-clad ladies and some beer drinking, but overall it was mild-mannered and as silly as I remembered. GO TO YOUR HOME, Happy yells at the golf ball. We all laughed; we could relate. Adam Sandler’s Happy is a sweet, goofy guy who just wants to collect literal big checks and save his grandma’s house while putting with a hockey stick-shaped club, besting the obnoxious PGA pro protagonist Shooter McGavin, and getting the girl in the bargain. A golf film classic, and it’s worth a watch just for the 80s clothing alone: Pleated khakis and feather hair, anyone?
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