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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMay May McGee and Ella Kelley
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Like my friend Angie, my father was a golfer. He played at the renowned Sweeten\u2019s Cove Golf Club course when it was not so renowned. A little swimming pool, a questionable snack bar, and a suspect bathroom\/changing area were the draw for me, certainly not the golf course. My mother wasn\u2019t much better. Actually, when my dad returned from an afternoon of golf, she would ask how things went on the \u201cgolf court.\u201d It goes without saying she certainly didn\u2019t encourage us to play.<\/p>\n
But my mother and I both loved the golf course, especially when we wouldn\u2019t be bothered by golfers. We walked all over the rolling green manicured dips and rounded hills and greens of the Chattanooga Golf and Country Club\u2019s links, traversing some of the most picturesque land ever. The river was a high point, of course, but the almost fairytale staircases crossing fields that abutted the golf course are what I remember vividly.<\/p>\n
Unlike Angie, I didn\u2019t watch the Ryder Cup, although I heard my husband comment on how out of control the crowd was.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s always tried to lure me to the game of golf, inviting me to tune into the Masters with him by telling me how much I\u2019d love the grounds, overflowing with a riotous mix of rose, scarlet and deep magenta azaleas, all mature and coddled to perfection.<\/p>\n
My son has the golf bug, and my nephew plays every chance he gets, as do most of the males in my family. And a couple of the females. I actually have two great-nieces who were out on the greens as I typed this column on a fall Friday afternoon. They go to Signal Mountain High School but were skipping class that day to play in the 2025 TSSAA Class A Girls Golf State Championship in Sevierville, Tn. May May McGee is on my husband\u2019s side of my family, the granddaughter of Beth and Charlie Stout. Her mother, Katie Taylor, is my niece. And Ella Kelley is my sister\u2019s granddaughter. The daughter of Candace and Newell Kelley, her grandparents are Woo and Scott Kelley.<\/p>\n
I loved it when I learned they played a few sports together, including flag football and golf. But there\u2019s something about knowing the two of them qualified for the State Tournament and play for the same team that turns that up a notch.<\/p>\n
When my husband thought the tournament was going to be in Nashville, he announced we would be driving over for the day to watch.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou want the lowest score, right?\u201d I asked him, illustrating my limited knowledge of golf.<\/p>\n
“Correct,\u201d he said. \u201cBut it\u2019s different on the tennis \u201ccourse,\u201d you know.\u201d<\/p>\n
Really, the idea of these two beautiful young girls whacking the heck out of the tiny dimpled white balls and calculating exactly where and how to land the club on them is all I need. Let\u2019s just say I\u2019m a big fan.<\/p>\n
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Ferris Robinson is the author of three children\u2019s books, \u201cThe Queen Who Banished Bugs<\/a>,\u201d \u201cThe Queen Who Accidentally Banished Birds,\u201d and \u201cCall Me Arthropod\u201d in her pollinator series \u201cIf Bugs Are Banished.\u201d \u201cMaking Arrangements<\/a>\u201d is her first novel and is available in paperback and on Kindle. \u201cDogs and Love – Stories of Fidelity\u201d is a collection of true tales about man\u2019s best friend. She is the editor of The Lookout Mountain Mirror and The Signal Mountain Mirror.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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