A Surge in Young Golfers Is Turning the Sport Into a Family Affair
How to get your kids into your favorite game without turning them off? A trip to Kiawah Island Golf Resort can help.
The Tommy Cuthbert Golf Learning Center at Kiawah Island Golf Resort.
Source: Kiawah Island Golf Resort
“Golf’s not my thing, Dad,” my 7-year-old daughter, Olive, often tells me. She says it a lot—almost every week, in fact, when I ask if she wants to join her brother and me at our country club in Columbus, Ohio. But here we are on a sweltering July morning at the Kiawah Island Golf Resort in South Carolina, where she and my wife, Mary, are about to have their first official lesson.
Famous for its jaw-dropping Ocean Course, the resort has hosted multiple PGA Championships. If this was a normal trip, we’d have already split up, with me hitting the links while the rest of the family splashed in the kids’ pool at nearby Night Heron Park or ordered up giant ice cream sundaes at the resort’s own Beaches & Cream. But today we’re all at the resort’s learning center, set on its Jack Nicklaus-designed Turtle Point golf course.