Junior golf teaches integrity
Staff writer
Hillsboro Junior Golf Camp offers kids a chance to learn enough of the basics of golf to successfully play and enjoy it, according to Scott O'Hare, director of the golf camp, Hillsboro High School golf coach and teacher, and Hillsboro golf course manager.
The camp program includes rules of the game, integrity when a person plays, and the golf basics of swinging, chipping, pitching, and putting.
"We spend pretty much the whole week on the driving range and practice green," said O'Hare, "and we try to get them on the course at least once."
Along with golf, O'Hare hopes the kids learn the basics of honesty, integrity, and character that the game of golf carries with it.
"It's probably the only game they're ever going to play that there won't be an official telling them what to do," O'Hare said. "They are responsible for themselves."
Three of the golfers that have attended the camp are currently on the Kansas Junior Golf Association Tour. Elliott Soyez and Justin Kent are first and second, respectively, in the North Central Section standings for 14 and 15 year olds, and Daniel Kunantaev is second in the 10-and-11-year-old division.
Friday is the deadline to sign up for junior golf. Participants will need their own equipment including at least three clubs, a metal wood, an iron, and a putter. O'Hare suggests Golf Links and Play it Again Sports in Wichita for anyone wanting used equipment.
