Lightning Bug Golf Course

Carter and Rylan did a week long golf camp earlier in the month with PGA instructor Jim Kite.  It was 2 hours each day and at the Crockett Indoor Arena.  They did it with Carson who is on Rylan's baseball team and goes to the boys' school.

Carter and Rylan both really enjoyed the camp and learned a lot of basics about golfing.  They also learned a lot of lingo and love to show it off.

Ever since the camp, the boys have been begging to go golfing.  So last week we went to Play It Again Sports and I got both Carter and Rylan a set of used clubs (I had to get them each a set since one is right-handed and other is left-handed).

And then on Monday we met Carson and his mom (Stephanie) and little brother (Conner) at a local par 3. 

It's an amazing little course and the best part ... it's free!  And I don't believe many people know about it.  They don't have a website and only a rarely used Facebook page.  We only saw one group ahead of us and that was it the entire time we were there (about 3 hours).

Monday ended up being a perfect day - it started off a little sunny and then soon was overcast the rest of the morning.  All of us golfed except for Gray.  I brought along the jogging stroller and he hung in it some.

Carter and Rylan both did great!  We didn't keep score and we allowed some mulligans since it was their first time golfing.  And I had so much fun golfing again (it's been years).  And I wasn't horrible!

Carter even had what may be the most amazing shot he has for the rest of his life.  In the picture below, Carter is in the blue shirt on the left.  The yellow flag for this hole is on the right edge of the picture in the middle.  Probably 80 yards away.  Carter hit it in ... we were all in shock!

Here is one of the only videos I took of Carter teeing off ...

The morning was a perfect first round of golf for the boys, and we are already planning on going again in the next few days.