Category: 2018

Rob has not played many tournaments this season – he made a travel basketball team which will take up weekends for the next couple of months – but also I did not sign up for the season as quickly as previous seasons, and we were waitlisted for some tournaments he could have been available for.…

Rob is playing a GA PGA Junior Tour tournament next week and I can’t caddy (at his age he is starting to move out of parent-caddy scenarios) and I can’t wait just to spectate – and I’m sure he can’t wait for me to get off his back, I mean bag, either. Two holes in and…

One of the wonderful things about playing Regional tournaments is that the players make friends with fellow golfers from across the country. Year after year they play with many of the same boys and will no doubt continue to see them at tournaments through College – or at least as long as the game provides…

It was a long, hot and relatively drama-free day. I had to remind him of the basics of the golf swing from time to time, especially the fairway irons:  Follow through, you’re not following through. You’ve got to finish ‘up’. Pretend I’m going to take a photo of the follow through – I want you to…

Back at Pinehurst for the Red, White and Blue Invitational. Rob playing in the 12s now, same course as Bear (13-14s) and only marginally shorter. The boys played a practice round together. Bear has played the course before and all I remember from that experience: the greens and how they roll. Fast and hilly and…

To be, or not to be? That is the question— Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and, by opposing, end them? Am I almost done? Can I continue to put up with the complaints and negativity that…

  Ugly shots can still yield tremendous results. Playing out of turn is usually the result of a ‘rushing’ mindset and almost never turns out well. Overcoaching is killing youth golf – or at the very least my patience. I don’t think discussing how you did on a science test is tournament golf round conversation.…

  Max was on Rob’s bag today which was very helpful given that we played at one of the longest and toughest courses of the season – and by that I mean miles of mountain climbing between holes. What did you enjoy about your round? Having daddy push my cart up the mountains. I also really…

Ask for her and she will come …… but she will not necessarily bring the miraculous with her. Rob set off on his own, his decision, but texted on hole 7: can you come caddy for me? I rushed off and met him. It was slow going and he was struggling. Could not putt to save…