Michigan Golf Journal February 2021

Game of Your Life one attribute. And when you see these kids over the course of a summer, you know the quality of kid they are by the end of the summer, and their behavior. Then we add community service and GPA as the main three things we look at for the scholarships. “Our staff see these kids often. Obviously, the kids who are out there throwing clubs or shaving a stroke here and there off their score, those kids we don’t give any consideration to.” Home Base: Since 1997, the Foundation has been permanently located in a building he developed on Jonesville Road just north of Coldwater along I-69. It has 30 acres with a driving range and several green complexes with traps for short game practice, multiple heated hitting bays, an indoor hitting bay for club fitting and private lessons, and a retail golf shop. Its generally draws golfers from an 80- mile radius, even deep into Indiana. The location offers summer camps, group lessons (no more than 1:6 teacher to student ratio), private lessons for kids and adults, the PGA Jr. League and a new growing nationwide initiative called Operation 36. “The PGA Jr. League has been huge here,” Frisinger said. “It’s the best thing the PGA (of America) has done to grow the game, I think. We’ve always had our own self-contained league with three or four teams.” He explainedOperation 36 as away to teach and play golf, and the former Coldwater CC (nowGolf Course) will host the step-by-step process, learning golf from the green backward to the tee boxes. The concept has 10 levels with golfers starting at 50 yards away from the green on 9 holes. When the kid breaks a score of 36 or better in 9 holes, they canmove back to 100 yards, and so on for different starting yardages with a goal of eventually beating 36 or better. It includes weekly lessons and testing. The national website shows 11 such locations in Michigan. For any additional information on tournaments, scholarships or camps, visit: www.foundationgolfcenter. com MGJ HONEY, OUR BILLS ARE REALLY ADDING UP THIS MONTH. YOU MAY HAVE TO CUT BACK ON YOUR GOLF. AHH HA HA HEE HEE!! HEE HEE... OH, THAT'S RICH... CUT BACK HEE HEE. HOW WAS I SUPPOSE TO KNOW YOU WERE SERIOUS?