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Originally Posted by nfotiu
Pardon the dad bragging here, but my 110 lb 14 yo son shot his first even par 9 holes today (followed it up with a 45 on the back  ). Nevertheless, he's had 5 straight rounds between 78 and 82 this week, and all 6500-6700 tees. He only started playing golf 18 months ago, but I'd estimate he has played over 500 rounds in that time and averaged about 1-2 hours a day on the range and short game practice.
He's an athletic kid who was the top starting pitcher on his travel baseball team and during his 5th round of golf broke down into tears saying he was never going to be able to get good at this if he kept having to go to baseball practice. He quit a few weeks later and played 1-3 round pretty much every day since.
I'm getting curious to see how this turns out for him. He's started playing in some competitive tournaments and is quite a bit behind the really good juniors who've been playing since they were much younger, but he's progressing quickly. |
I had to search out when I posted this to see when it was, since he just shot his first even par 18 today. 7 months later, and about 2 years and a month after playing his first round.
Again, pardon the dad bragging, but I don't have many real life friends who know too much about golf these days! Even more impressive to me, is he was even par going to the 16 tee two days ago and went double/bogey/double for a 77. That would have scarred me for years
