To: twib71

Thank you for your inspiring testimonial!  Indeed a rare input on the subject.

I just joined the fan club as I am looking to spend some money on getting my grandson interested in the game. The reason I think he is interested is that every time he and his younger sister come over, we end up out in the back yard hitting plastic practice golf balls with the old garden watering wands.  You know they are about 3 feet long and curve at the end with a hard sprinkler head on the end--it is just big enough for his short stature for an 8 year old.  And man, do we have fun hitting balls back and forth across the yard.  I am not a teacher, able to teach him how to play the game. But I do have a book of rules (2004) when I joined the USGA since I had illegally inherited my step father in law's club set. ( I played 9 holes and lost 5 of the old balls).

But I see something in this son of a computer engineer married to a pharmisist. His sister is active in girl scout cookie sales, and what is he to do other than be a scout himself which he resists doing?  I plan to take him to ***'s Sporting Goods store and introduce him to the pro there who might help us get properly sized--even to buy one club.  He needs to swing a real club and hit balls away with some guided efforts. But I have searched the DSG website for the Tigerwood's clubs by Nike and cannot find them.  So I would ask you having learned from a wonderfully loving family member, should we do this or just go to the putt-putt course, just to get out of the plastic balls and into the hard ball experience/

 Thanks again.

Hackersr