Golf Highlights

Golf is not much of a spectator sport, so my highlights of Brett's golf season are limited. Last year, he competed in the Special Olympics "skills" level, so we could go to the different stations with him and watch him.  This year, he advanced to "3-hole unified", which means he completes 3 holes with a Unified Partner.  Bryan was happy to have an excuse to golf with his son every week for basically free!  In 3-hole, the athlete and the unified partner alternate turns hitting the ball, and if they don't get it in the hole after 9 swings, they pick up their ball.  And that's pretty much all I know about it. 😉

 At the area tournament, they placed third in their division with a score of 24.  At the state tournament, Brett golfed his best ever, and Bryan did his typical golfing with a score of 16. They got 1st in their division!

Reggie and Lydia and I were only able to watch Bryan and Brett tee off on the first hole.  Then, in Reggie's word, we went to "hang out at the bar".  Haha!

No!  Not the "Bar", Reggie, the "Clubhouse"!

In case you haven't noticed, Bryan is getting a pretty nice collection of gold medals between baseball and golf!  He's a gold medal dad.

Brett's golf highlights

Bryan was excited Brett decided to try golf through the Special Olympics.  Bryan loves to golf, so he hopes his kids will learn to golf so they will golf with him!

Everyone starts at the "skills" level.  There are six skills that they work on: short putt, long putt, chip shot, pitch shot, wood driving range, and iron driving range.  Once they get a high enough combined score on these skills at an area or state competition, they can move up to 3-hole.  Brett scored above 40 at both area and state, so he will do 3-hole next year!  Brett also got a hole-in-one on a long putt at the state competition (but of course I didn't get it on camera)!

We are proud of Brett for trying something new and working hard at it.  It paid off!