I just finished reading Hurdzan's Putting Greens, which he ends with a chapter of his personal experiences, starting with maintaining clay-based greens for his mentor, Jack Kidwell, when he was 14-15. We also know about Forrest R. riding his bike to Jack Snyder's house as a kid.
So my question to the GCAs and supers assembled is: Did you do something on a golf course, more involved than playing it or maybe working the pro shop or range, before you were old enough to drive? If so, what did you do, where did you do it, and what lessons did you learn that still inform your work now? Admittedly just satisfying my curiosity about how people came to what is clearly a calling to me.
Thanks,
Jeff