George Bryan may be busier than he ever was.

The Chapin teaching pro and our golf columnist runs his Golf Academy and other golf businesses plus goes with his son Wesley on the pro golf tour.

Where he finds time to write his weekly golf columns for our Chronicle and Lake Murray Fish Wrapper readers is a mystery.

As many of us do in life, we make time for those we love and what we love.

We contacted George several weeks ago about his life, work and Wesley’s pro tournament career.

“I have been traveling quite a bit and my technology has challenged me,” George explained.

Finding internet connections can be a problem for all of us who travel a lot.

He and Wesley were in West Virginia at the Greenbriar last week, Bettendorf, Iowa, for the John Deere tournament this week and go next week to Hilton Head.

“I am trying to learn how to work and watch on the road,” he said.

We asked George to share a few high points in his life including where he grew up and became involved in golf.

George started at age 6 and played all sports through recreation centers and settled on baseball in high school. He graduated from Irmo High in 1979.

“I fell in love with golf the summer after I graduated high school,” he said.

“I knew teaching would be my focus in July 1988 as an apprentice at Timberlake Gold Club. I had chased my dream for 4 years of professional golf and went broke.

“Jimmy Koosa hired me as an apprentice in late 1987 at Timberlake. I taught my first junior golf clinic in 1988 and was hooked.

“I loved escorting people into the game and seeing them enjoy a cool recreational path of sport challenges and discoveries.

George also saw golf as a business opportunity.

“In 1994 I opened my golf academy and began devoting my full attention to this business,” he said.

It was inevitable that family and fate would turn his sons into golfaholics, too.

“My mom took my oldest son George IV to the range I was running, Happy Time Golf Center in downtown Lexington, in April of 1991,” he said. “She would sit and watch and encourage G4, who was 3 years old at the time. Wesley got the golf bug soon after and both were in the game by fall at the ages of 3 and 1.”

How have the academy and his other projects worked out for George?

“God has blessed me and assigned one of His angels to me,” he said.

“My wife Valerie has supported my entrepreneurial endeavors and this, in and of itself, both amazed and humbled me. She has loved me through thick, thin, and the tough years of struggle.

“I have been able to provide for my family doing what I love. To this point, the mistakes or setbacks have served as springboards into gains. Today the golf, sports fitness and our Golf Fitness ventures are growing.”

What are his dreams for his family and businesses?

My hope is that my family uses our personal gifts to help others,” he said.

“My business dream would be for the initiatives in which I am involved, golf, Golf Fitness, and Sports Fitness to help people decades into the future, in my earthly absence.”

George Bryan’s weekly golf column appears today on Page B2.