Summer Golf

There's a lot of time to fill when school lets out and if your kid is like mine, they'll want to spend most of it on the golf course. Unfortunately, good junior golfers under the age of 14 or 15 don't have a lot of friends that can play at their level. They can hook up with older kids for a round of golf here and there, or play with regular members, smoking cigars and talking about women (I'm kidding... mostly), but it's not the optimum atmosphere you're probably looking for for your kid. So what to do? There are a lot of golf camps out there, day and sleepover, and they run the gammit from reasonable to pretty pricey. On the reasonable side, our county offers the Pioneer Tour, which is a great way for kids of all golfing ability to learn and compete against their peers in a relatively low pressure golf environment. On the pricey side, there's a camp like the Mitchell Spearman Junior Golf. This summer we're looking at the Nike Junior Golf Camp at the Shawnee Inn and Golf Resort, a four day sleep away golf camp experience, which includes a lot of golf and golf instruction on a great course, and even some regular camp activities. We'll see how that goes. Of course there are a lot of different choices in different areas of the country, most of them in the south and southwest, but you can find some good ones up north as well. Check them out and make sure they suit your kid's level of play, their temperment, and your wallet.