Braylen’s First golf trip

February 4th, 2008 at 02:36pm Brian

Not this past weekend, but the weekend prior on Sunday I went to take Braylen to a local park. When we arrived there it turned out to be more of a baseball type complex with a little play area in the middle between ball fields. Well this park overlooked an executive golf course that I had played many times before (I did not know this park was next door). So after about only 20 minutes at the park Braylen seemed to be getting bored as most of the kids were heading home from baseball practice. So I asked Braylen if he wanted to go hit some golf balls, which he said sure.

So we headed over only to find that the driving range was pretty full, which made me a little nervous with Braylen there. As I was paying for a small bucket of golf balls I asked the guy behind the counter if in the future I could take Braylen out onto the course with me. He said of course, and as a matter of fact you could go right now…….So I looked at Braylen and said do you want to hit golf balls or drive around with me in a golf cart? Well I’m sure you guessed Braylen jumped at the chance to go drive a golf cart.

Being that it was Sunday evening the course was not busy at all and Braylen and I headed off to play golf. I got Braylen to actually hit a few balls which he did really good at but he was more interested in pushing the pedals on the cart and racking out the sand traps. He did a wonderful job at listening to me and following the rules I set for him.

It was such a great bonding experience and I really didn’t care what I shot, as a matter of fact I didn’t even keep score. I was just so happy to be there with Braylen and to watch him. So I’m sure I will have to take him back there or to another course soon to try it again. I will just have to go at the end of the day when its not so busy so I don’t have to worry about pace of play and others out there that might hit a stray shot.

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