Junior Golf

We are very fortunate to have the opportunity each summer to sign Tristan and Karina up for the junior golf program at Meridian Valley CC. Only children or grandchildren of members can participate, and the cost is very minimal. (There are a few teenagers on high school golf teams that they award "scholarships" to, allowing them to practice there without being a member.) Each Monday morning in the summer they tee off at 9 a.m. Tristan plays 6 holes. His best score this year was 36, and he had a birdie on one hole. Karina plays 3 holes. Her best score was also 36. :) Tristan was pretty busy with baseball and soccer this summer, but Karina was able to play in a couple of tournaments in which she won these huge trophies! In one of the tournaments she golfed with grandpa. The other was the junior club championship, and Karina had the lowest net score of the 3 hole girls (net = with handicap).

Here are a few action shots I took one morning, when I tagged along to watch. (Normally Tristan and Mitchell, my nephew, walk with Grandpa; and Karina walks with Grandma. They have to have a member keep score for them.)

Karina is lining the ball up with hole for her putt . . .

This is a girl named Sydney who Karina golfed with most weeks.

Here is Mitchell, supervised by Grandpa Houser . . .

And here is Karina at the junior club championship, with proof of her two-day totals . . . gross scores on the top and net on the bottom.

We are thrilled they get to learn this sport at such a young age, and in such an affordable way! It will be a skill they can use their whole lives if they choose.