{"id":9007,"date":"2025-07-19T21:43:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T21:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/9007\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T21:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T21:43:08","slug":"mcdougall-family-a-fixture-on-the-fairways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/9007\/","title":{"rendered":"McDougall family a fixture on the fairways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI wouldn\u2019t say there\u2019s a standout best golfer,\u201d said Hudson. \u201cWe definitely all have our strengths and our weaknesses and stuff, but I wouldn\u2019t say there is a clear cut best overall.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/indicator-big.gif\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>During the summers, the families are always together, travelling to various tournaments and sometimes they become each other\u2019s direct competition, which Hudson said can make for some tense moments around the supper table.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s friendly, but definitely a little awkward,\u201d he laughed. \u201cLunches and suppers are a little more quiet when it gets hardcore, especially between brothers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hudson\u2019s mom, Raigan McDougall, said going head-to-head is tough, especially at the lobstick where they can knock each other out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s a tough one, but you know they all kind of take their turns winning and doing their best and that\u2019s the best thing. They all want to win\u2026don\u2019t get me wrong\u2026they\u2019re all competitive, they all want to win, but they really are happy for each other when somebody does great.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Raigan said all of the kids started golfing at a young age.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey would always go out on the golf course and I\u2019d walk behind one swinging a little plastic golf club up the fairway and there would be their Dad coaching another. Hudson was tiny when he started golfing 18 holes at Cooke because he just wanted to keep up with his brother Ronan,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cGolfing is something that you can do your whole life, so, it is definitely good to start young and just go out and try it. You\u2019ll never regret it,\u201d Hudson said. <\/p>\n<p>Emmett McDougall said some of his best memories have been on the golf course with his family. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy cousin was at the Junior Lobstick and needed to chip in to go to the next round and all of our family was watching him\u2026just circling him around the green. The guy against him hit a pretty good shot that was close. If my cousin missed the chip and the other guy made the putt, he would have lost\u2026but my cousin made the chip and went on to play the next day and we were all pretty happy with everyone cheering on the sidelines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s the best part about golf, is seeing the love they have for it,\u201d said Raigan. \u201cThe love they have for the game and especially the love they have for playing the game together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Emmett added golf is something all of the McDougall\u2019s would like to take as far as they can. In the meantime, they\u2019ll keep hitting balls, making memories and the occasional bet against each other. In fact, Emmett has one for his cousin Hudson.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh yeah. I bet I can beat him in a long drive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI wouldn\u2019t say there\u2019s a standout best golfer,\u201d said Hudson. \u201cWe definitely all have our strengths and our&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-9007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}