Please don’t nag at your child

The best age to start a child in golf is the time he or she becomes interested in the game.

I feel that parents should not force the game on their children if they would prefer to be doing something else.

Don’t worry too much about their grip etc, just give them a club with some loft and then leave it to their natural ability.

Make sure you give them a club that is light enough, as a small child will learn a bad grip by trying to swing a club that is too heavy.

When you take a youngster to his or her first lesson, don’t say that it is a lesson.

Instead, you should say that we are going for some help as the word “lesson” sounds too much like school.

Golf should be fun, so never say “teach” or…