Lawrence Donegan’s essay titled Adventures in Junior Golf from McKellar #5 was the most important article I’ve read in 20 years. In it, Donegan examines the Youth Sports Industrial Complex through the lens of his experiences as the dad of a junior golfer, weaving tales of woe and lessons learned with the bad and the…
My eldest son is 3 years old for a few more months. He’s a little tall, a little thin, and an absolute fireball of energy. He is super active and never, ever tires of playing or learning new things. After his “Soccer” team wound down this spring, The Wife and I discovered that there is…
A few days ago, December 2, 2016, would have been my Dad’s 80th birthday (*as far as the Social Security folks knew), and it occurs to me that he never saw me hit a golf ball. The closest we ever came to sharing a moment on the links was him watching me hit the little…