by Crazy Ivan
The other day I wrote a blog titled "Why Golf?" where I recounted an awesome story of a grandmother who whooped both her grand kids (and everyone else) in a golf contest at Dollywood. It was so much fun to be a part of that I doubted any other golf tournament this year would compare to it.
And I continued to think that all the way up to about 11:08 this morning.
We do our first golf contest at 11 in the morning and usually it's the smallest contest we do all day. We've had some days where only 6 or 7 people show up and a few slower days where we actually cancel the first contest because there aren't enough contestants. We have a minimum of 5 people before we'll actually hold a contest so most mornings we find ourselves in a desperate scramble to find a few willing participants.
That was not the case this morning. Kore, Rush and I opened up and right away we could tell it was going to be a fun day. By 11 o' clock we had some 30 kids lined up and waiting. Several of them were people who'd been in the contests yesterday or the day before so we had a few real ringers, including two previous champions. It was so big that I felt sorry for the newer kids because I figured they wouldn't stand a chance against so many experienced Myachi golfers.
Normally, I host the tournament and while I'm rocking that out, all the other masters are fishing; tossing in people as they walk by and trying to get them to join in. We accept new contestants all the way through the first round. The final entrants before we moved on to the second round were two little kids (a 5 year old girl and her 3 year old brother) that Kore roped in.
For the littler guys, we always let them stand a little bit closer, but even then, they never really compete with the older and more coordinated kids. True to form, the little girl took two shots, missed the goal on both tries and got knocked out. Her brother fared a little better and made it to round two. A lucky shot got him into the second round and an opening bull's eye got him all the way to the final round.
You've probably guessed by now that this little dude actually managed to win the whole thing. A spotty performance on a few of our returning champions left things wide open for him at the end, but it wouldn't have mattered. He got a bull's eye and two yellows (7 total points) and smoked the competition by a full two points.
He was so young that he barely even knew what had happened when he won, but when the whole crowd erupted to cheer for him, he beamed as genuine a smile as I've ever seen. His mom was more excited than him (even though she knew that she would then have to buy another Myachi for his sister) but he was pretty fired up and felt like a winner.
I just felt like I had to share that. In the (less than) two weeks that we've been running these contests, our winners have ranged in age from 3 to 72. That alone should be the only sell line we ever need for Myachi.
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