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Plenty of kids show up for Rondeau Cup

Things are looking good for the future of TS&M Woodlawn’s golf program if Sunday afternoon was any indication.

Things are looking good for the future of TS&M Woodlawn’s golf program if Sunday afternoon was any indication.

The annual Rondeau Cup marks the beginning of the junior golf season at Woodlawn and often had competitors in the very early grades paired on teams with more experienced junior golfers.

“We have a very active junior club,” said Woodlawn general manager Amanda Minchin. “It’s something we’re very passionate about here. The kids today get the whole front nine to themselves and it’s a free day of golf. We’re just trying to do everything we can to grow the game and show the community we’re committed to kids being at the golf course.”

After Minchin does the kids junior lessons the first few weeks of May, the kids are unleashed onto the course where they’ll learn the finer points of the game with older youth members, some of which are elite in their own right.

“”We really appreciate (it),” Minchin said. “When you get 15, 16, 17 sometimes you’ve got better things to do than come out and play a scramble. But they’re going to spend a couple of hours with these kids, who look up to them and think that they’re pretty cool because they can hit the ball far. That’s what it’s all about: mentorship.”

This is the start for the interest in the sport for the youngest members of the club, plus any kids who wanted to pay to enter, but it’s not the last thing the club will be doing for the kids’ season.

“This is the kickoff tournament where we get all the ages together, older and younger,” she said. “In a couple of weeks we’ll have our junior skills competition and soon school will be out and we’ll be full force with the regular Wednesday summer league.”

The season concludes with the parent/child event.

The boys event was won by Ryan Chernoff, Cowan Ludtke, Tyler Saigeon and Hayden Lavoie with a score of 35. The girls event was won by Brielle Farr, Kaylin Wilhelm and Makenzie Onrait with a score of 45.