Brandon's Golf Set

Since Joshua got his golf set for his 6th Birthday Brandon has been very jealous. Every time we go to the driving range he kicks off about how its not fair that I have a golf set, Joshua has a golf set but he doesn't. Well finally we have no more of Brandon's little strops as Santa brought him his own little golf set for 3-5 year olds which includes a bag, a 7/8 iron and pitch wedge and a driver. So we recently all headed off down the driving range so that Brandon could test out his new clubs.

 

Joshua and Brandon looking all serious with their golf bags before we head into the driving range.

En route to the driving range Joshua was asking me why it is called a"driving range" when you don't drive there. So we had the discussion explaining that you drive the ball off the tee for each hole and that your wood clubs are often called drivers. e to practise driving the balls.e you go down there to practise driving the balls. Anyway once there we got a bucket of 100 balls and divided them up between the 3 of us. The power tee's were down due to recent flooding so we were forced to hit the balls off of the mat and the old rubber tee's. Brandon was hitting some great little shots with his new clubs and was starting to get some good loft on the ball. To be honest he really isn't that far behind Joshua in ability and I think they are both getting very close to being able to go onto a pitch and putt.

 

Good form shown by Brandon with an excellent back swing ready to drive a ball.

And equally as good on the follow through as he watches his ball launch.

Nice after shot pose!

Joshua was happy tonking balls towards the tire with his driver.

The end of a hard session and Brandon neatly puts his clubs back in his bag and zips his cover up.

 

I've often said my long term fitness goal is to now try and hold off the boys for as long as possible. Ideally I still want to be able to hang with them in the gym, the bike or running until I turn 50. However the golf could be a completely different story. At the rate they are progressing it really wont be that long before they can both out play me. I am so looking forward to those lazy summer Sundays when me and the two boys can head of out for 18 holes on a main course.