Dear Reader:

Yesterday Tommy had sent out an inspiring true story from Golf Digest to Mandy to show Eva Cate who started golf lessons this past year and really enjoyed the girls around her age in the group-most had played golf earlier but so sweet to help Eva Cate learn about the rules and procedures, besides learning vital position techniques. ( First Tee Program)

Tommy thought the following inspiring story of two young female golfers who had little or no experience playing the game but bravely agreeing to help out their college in tough times for gathering enough participants to meet qualifying criteria in a conference female golf division …had a great life lesson Eva Cate could learn from.

I found myself reading it and feeling inspired myself. ( If you would like to read it in all its entirety… the title of the story was The Grinders Who Saved a College Team.)

Brene Brown once wrote: ” Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of light.”

To say two young female golfers , who attended Meredith College, were in the dark when it came to playing golf …is a huge understatement and yet they agreed to help out because the college was two golfers short for division eligibility.

The story begins… ” On April 26, 2023, at the Carolina Country Club in Spartanburg South Carolina -Maycee Kay Aycock and Sarah Marshall cried together in a bathroom. It was a cold, rainy day morning-they had just made the turn and the fatigue from three days of play at the USA South Conference Championship had taken its toll. One mean girl had called them an embarrassment!” ( They were a joke to all the other teams participating. )

” It was there that a woman found them crying. Her own daughter played for another team but she sensed they needed a surrogate mother.

” Don’t listen to the mean girls, she said, ” You two are my heroes ! You’re the only ones out there having fun!”

” After the tears ran their course, they realized she was right. When they weren’t having an emotional breakdown -they had been having fun! And they had a purpose-even playing mind-boggling bad…truly terrible golf-they were doing it for their team and conference by just showing up and allowing the team to participate by sheer numbers of players.

” They dried their eyes . There were still 9 holes left to play and a season to finish-they walked out of the bathroom together and ran back into the rain.”

As the story was retold over and over at the courage of the two girls to finish those last nine holes… a golf writer was intrigued and puzzled at how two girls shot a ” Titanic ” 434 in a single round and became heroes!

If you have time to read the whole story from Golf Digest… you will admire what these two girls did even more by risking everything to help their college-Meredith.

So until tomorrow… as the writer concludes: ” When we focus on small, incremental improvements instead of perfection, the human spirit takes over!” ( Everyone at the tournament that day witnessed it upclose and personal. The human spirit revealing itself is a beautiful thing to see! )

Today is my favorite day-Winnie the Pooh

It has been cold, blustery, with torrential downpours on and off… we could use the rain but the timing is terrible. John and Mandy said this was the latest for the pool’s official opening since they got it! I woke up in the middle of the night Friday to a strange sound… it was the heat coming back on-never turned it off because it has never come on in ( at least) two months…but fifties brought it back on… down with the windows. Up with the heat! Crazy weather🤪!