Room to Play: What Golf’s Stars Can Teach Us About Bringing Kids Into the Game

Keith Mitchell grew up playing a course most golfers would feel fortunate to visit once.

At The Honors Course in Ooltewah, Tennessee, the future PGA Tour winner became familiar with a place that could make a visiting golfer nervous before the first swing. Recalling a high-school competition there, Mitchell said he had already played the course “hundreds of times.” His father had introduced him to golf, and The Honors was among the Chattanooga-area courses where he learned. PGA Tour’s account of Mitchell and teammate Stephan Jaeger; Mitchell’s early golf background.