vrtr MSU Hillel Jewish Student Center, The Jewish Studies DeNttment and The All UniversityExcellence in Diversity Conference and Lecture Series, and The Greater Lapsing Jewish Welfare Federation present A Round Of Golf, Little-Kid Style ERICA MEYER RAUZIN SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS M y parents have two grandsons, my little boy, who just turned 7, and my nephew, who is al- most 6. Neither of them have hit the links yet, but they are coming close. During the nephew's last visit he got us all involved in his latest passion: miniature golf. This kid is a whiz. He addresses the ball; he holds the club properly; he lines up his putts, and he sinks `em. Amazing. A basically earnest little guy, he is particularly seri- ous about golf As he should be, no doubt. My son hadn't played miniature golf more than two or three times until this visit from Arnold Palmer Jr. But, for the moment, it seized his attention. When his birthday came along two weeks later, he decided that for his party he want- ed to take his friends to play miniature golf. That's how it happened that last Friday my husband and I took eight 6-and-7-year-old boys, all sporting yarmulkes and overly confident attitudes, to play minia- ture golf We loaded them up with pizza before we left home, promised them birthday cake upon our return, and set out, two cars full of eager confidence. I don't know what my hus- band's passengers talked about on the way to the course, but my car- full of little guys discussed their personal favorites in the category of things that are disgusting. In- cluded on their list (which I will spare you, by and large) was their total bewilderment that men and women in movies, such as Speed and Aladdin (wherein they did not differentiate at all between people who are people and people who are drawings), seem to kiss with their mouths open. "I think they lick each other's tongues," one little boy opined to a chorus of ap- preciative gagging noises. I figured the day could only im- prove after that. I should have been so lucky. By the time each boy selected his personal golf ball color (leaving me and my husband with bright pink and pale pink— yuck, girl colors), and his person- al golf club, we were already worn out. Then, we played 36 holes on the fortunately deserted course. Our party tended to string out over three holes at a time, so my husband and I took turns leading and following. Our primary ob- jective was to make sure they didn't brain each other with their clubs. We had not realized that in equipping each child to play golf- we had armed them individually with blunt instruments. We must have repeated the mantra, "Stand back while he swings," 10 dozen times. 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