Michigan Golf Journal December 2019

Michigan Golf Journal Reminder : get more information Michigan Golf Journal is a fully digital publication that’s loaded with safe links to help you expand your information options. We have links in stories; links on photos, advertisements and videos, for you to use to their fullest. When you open a new page, or move your curser over selected areas, the embedded links will briefly flash as a blue box. If you want more information on that topic, click that area. It’s that simple. ichigan Golf Journal This edition has stories about successful young golfers from the State of Michigan – two MSU alums making it full- time on the LPGA Tour, and a feature story on college golfer Hunter Eichhorn. In talking to Eichhorn it stood out to me there is a lesson to be leaned for parents of youth golfers who read his story… and that is: young golfers either have the natural talent to make it to the big leagues, or they don’t. And if they don’t, they should still play this wonderful game of honor and integrity for FUN, for enjoyment of their own level of accomplishment and to spend time with their friends (or making new ones). Hunter Eichhorn never played in a single AJGA tournament; he really didn’t know about them. He taught himself how to swing a club and score, never taking a lesson to this day. Yet he had the natural talent and hard work ethic to shock the college golfing world by winning the Big East Conference championship as a talented college freshman fresh out of the deep woods of the U.P. Golf for youth should NOT be about fulfilling their parent’s dreams. The latter is killing youths’ interest in sports of all kinds. Everyone benefits more for a lifetime if we keep a proper perspective and keep it fun. Hit ‘em straight. Tom Lang Publisher/Editor A Lesson for All What’s Inside: Cover Story: Indoor Golf MSU Alums heading to LPGA Tour Michiganders at PGA Tour HQ 20 Years of Michigan Golf Live 08 12 19 Blues, BBQ and Golf in Mississippi Videos of 18Michigan Signature Holes 24 34 22