The Rock Port Future Golfers Program started Tuesday, June 16, with 39 golfers from second grade to fifth grade. Eleven 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 – Braeley Cook, Sarai Allen, Arya Thomas, Brodie Pierpoint, Dash Chamberlain, Nolan Waigand, Case Larson, Brewer Shallenberger, Grayson Wood, Kyler Perry, Maxon Graves, Finn Riley, Haizley Pierpoint, Elliot Thomas, Taeyln Sloop, Addaline Larson, Ryne Shrader, Kolcyn Barnes, Myla Rogers, Kylie Perry, Zoe Riley, Ella Sperber and Layla Hughes; second row – Mark Bennington, Charlie Carpenter, Drey Parsons, Paislee Sollars, Elsie Gubser, Cyrus Herrington, Kamden Schulte, Cole Alexander and Josiah Shimmel; third row – Mason Meyerkorth, Knox Schulte, Braylon Thomas, Piper VanSickle, Gabriel Gronniger, Rhett Murphy, Beau Waigand and Xander Goolsby; and back row – Curt Graham, Ellie Garst, Michelle Garst, Jacob Erdman, Reed Beasing, Stan Griffin, Tad Gebhards, Karlie Gebhards and Brock Nuckolls.

The Rock Port Future Golfers Program continued Tuesday, June 23, with 24 youth golfers in sixth through ninth grades working with nine mentors to learn the basics of the game of golf. Pictured above, from left to right, are: front row – Zephyr Sipes, Caisyn Hall, Greyson Sperber, Mason Gubser, Frank Kroeger, Kaden Perry, Hudson Adams, Zepplin Roup, Jaylee Wood, Chloe Cantu, Markie Gaines and Portia Ingram; second row – Kipton Waigand, Nash Schomburg, Ali Ellis, Zeke Gebhards, Collin Frix, Harper Wood, Maeve Roup, Kinsley Nuckolls, Lucy Ottmann, Kinsley Perry, Izzy Carpenter and Aislyn Barnes; and back row – Mark Bennington, Ellie Garst, Michelle Garst, Curt Graham, Reed Beasing, Jacob Erdman, Tad Gebhards, Lee Roy Sickman and Brock Nuckolls. The older golfers will participate in a tournament later this week at the Watson 9 on Mozingo Lake Golf Course.

Stan Griffin, Reed Beasing and Brock Nuckolls get a group of young golfers started on a putting exercise.

Jacob Erdman watches as Dawson Irvine practices his chipping.