Quick Recap

I've got a lot of blog ground to make up and I'll elaborate further in future blogs, but I think a quick recap of my initial journey (oh yeah, and my son's too!) might be helpful... Following his "graduation" from the local junior golf clinic, we took our son to play his first 18 holes, at the age of 8, at the Pines Course at the Seaview Marriott in Galloway, New Jersey. Site of the US Open in Galloway, New Jersey. Unbeknownst to us, Seaview was hosting the LPGA Shoprite Classic that weekend, and the coming out party for Michelle Wie, who at the age of 13 was the center of attention. So the indoctrination was complete: wonderful, storied golf course, the Bay Course designed by Donald Ross in 1915 or so, the Pines Course coming later in 1929; the LPGA; the media; and the sensation of 13 year old Michelle Wie hitting 285 yard drives while we watched on the range. That afternoon, he shot about 140 for his first 18, but that was okay, he was on his way to PGA fame. Fast forward to the Pioneer Tour run by the Bergen County Parks Department; the NJJGC, now Junior Golf America , run by Chuck DiLeo and his wife, Ginny; then US Kids; then the IJGT (International Junior Golf Tour). And there's more to come. Lot's more...