The Rock Port Future Golfers Program started Tuesday, June 11, with 38 golfers from second grade to fifth grade. Thirteen mentors were on hand to teach the basics and help guide the future golfers as they learned about the game of golf. Pictured above, from left to right, are: front row – Kolcyn Barnes, Josiah Shimmel, Wynne Griffin, Ryne Shrader, Cole Alexander, Isaiah Newbanks, and Graham Kohout; second row – Markie Gaines, Baylin Lewis, Gabriel Gronniger, Dawson Irvine, Zoe Riley, Piper VanSickle, Gentry Welch, Ella Sperber, Braylon Thomas, Beau Waigand,  Ryker Driskell, Paislee Sollars, and Layla Hughes; third row – Mason Meyerkorth, Portia Ingram, Izzy Carpenter,  Aislyn Barnes, Jaylee Wood, Kinsley Perry, Judah Allen, and Lincoln Leichliter; fourth row – Lucy Ottmann, Kinsley Nuckolls, Frank Kroeger, Abilene Moore, Greyson Sperber, Collin Frix, Grant Unruh, Nash Schomburg, Austin Alexander, and Hudson Adams; fifth row – Debbie True, Amy Moore, Carolyn LeFever, Jamie Lansdown, Kylie Nuckolls, and Brock Nuckolls; and back row – Mark Bennington, Stan Griffin, Ryland Garst, Tayden Cook, Tad Gebhards, Rick Hughes, and Michelle Garst.

The Rock Port Future Golfers Program continued Tuesday, June 18, with 17 youth golfers in sixth through ninth grades working with 10 mentors to learn the basics of the game of golf. Pictured above, from left to right, are: front row – Carsyn Hall, Taylor Cook, Ali Ellis, Olivia Roup, Harper Wood, Maeve Roup, Ellie Garst, Karlie Gebhards, and Jessa Geib; second row – Josh Frix, Michelle Garst, Katelynn Rouse, Henley Mace, Brandon Athen, Jaysen Hudson, Wyatt Huntley, Grady Cook, and Aiden Pritt; and back row – Lee Roy Sickman, Reid Ellis, Amy Moore, Rick Hughes, Tayden Cook, Ryland Garst, Tad Gebhards, Brock Nuckolls, and Mark Bennington. The older golfers will participate in a tournament at Mozingo Lake Golf Course.