Sonny and I took a nice, long walk with the dog.\u00a0 During which he updated me on the golf camp he and Sissy are taking as part of our\u00a0Spring Break Staycation.\u00a0 He has never taken an official\u00a0golf lesson before – or played any real golf.\u00a0 Below are his musings on the topic:<\/p>\n
“The people\u00a0make it look WAY easier than it really is.”<\/p>\n
[Mmm hmmm, that they do!\u00a0 This is all part of the problem with golf.]<\/em><\/p>\n “And you think you’re gonna hit\u00a0the ball\u00a0really hard…but then it just goes ‘boop’.” (here he holds up his thumb and forefinger and shows me a distance of two inches)<\/p>\n [Yes, the “boop effect” is also part of the golf problem.]\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n “But they have all these sharp sticks.\u00a0 As many as you want or can put in your pockets.”<\/p>\n [Bonus!\u00a0 I knew there was a silver lining with golf.]<\/em><\/p>\n ME:\u00a0 “The sharp sticks have a name, do you know what they’re called?”<\/p>\n Sonny:\u00a0 “Tees.”<\/p>\n ME:\u00a0 “Good.\u00a0 Do you know how that’s spelled?”\u00a0 (They’ve been working on homophones at school so I was thinking he was going to mistake the spelling for t-e-a-s-e.)<\/p>\n Sonny: “T”<\/p>\n [Another problem id’d with golf.\u00a0 Too much tricky spelling.\u00a0 Dumb it down already.]<\/em><\/p>\n Still Sonny:\u00a0 “And you know what else, Mom?\u00a0 Don’t try to sharpen a pen in the pencil sharpener.\u00a0 Ink squirts out the back.”<\/p>\n [And there you have it.\u00a0 Everything you need to know as a Golf Newbie.\u00a0 Especially that part about the ink.\u00a0 Don’t do that.\u00a0 That sounds like a bad plan.]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sonny and I took a nice, long walk with the dog.\u00a0 During which he updated me on the golf camp he and Sissy are taking as part of our\u00a0Spring Break Staycation.\u00a0 He has never taken an official\u00a0golf lesson before – or played any real golf.\u00a0 Below are his musings on the topic: “The people\u00a0make it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1115"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1117,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions\/1117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}