If you were Huck Spin and Injun Joe had a game..where would you take your Dad?

[Mark Bourgeois]

Is Irish spelling Spanish custom?

[Tom Huckaby]

Where do you take an elderly parent who hates golf and only plays with you to make you happy. 

Why would you subject him to golf if he hates it?

"Hates" is too strong of a word, at least as pertains to my Dad and my statements in another thread, fron which Kavanaugh drew inspiration for this topic.  Of course he doesn't hate the game... he just enjoys it less than he used to and tends not to play much on his own any more.  "Elderly" is also stretching things as the Dad in question is a spry 71 and still walks most rounds he does play.

So of course, the proper answer to Kavanaugh's question is you wouldn't make him play golf any more.  Perhaps that was the intent of this thread, I don't know.

But again, the Dad in question does enjoy rounds with his sons, more so on some courses than others.  I think a somewhat interesting question is indeed where would you take him so that he enjoys the round the most.

And I gave my answers.. but I also really like Tom Doak's... and Melvyn's.... and Rich's.....

TH

[Peter Pallotta]

My dad never played golf. Last summer we were in cottage country together and I was heading off to play 18 at a modest local course. He seemed interested in coming, so I asked him.  So, at 75 years old my construction worker dad played his first round of golf -- in fact, held a golf club in his hands for the first time. And you know what? He didn't whiff the ball once. Played with nothing but a 7 iron, made contact every time, and usually picthed it out there about 75 yards. We walked 18 holes, carried our bags. He was good on the geens, once he got the speed down. And he really liked that after your round you could get a couple of beers and sit on the patio.

Peter

By the way, the only tip I knew to give him was to imagine he was using a sledge hammer to knock down an old retaining wall (something he did for most of his life and I did for the summers working with him). You sure can't "cast" a 20lbs sledgehammer, and if your left wrist "breaks down" at impact with a retaining wall, you feel it for a month. It was a good tip - I'm gonna use it myself.