Conner Blackwelder and Jared Beard were a couple very young children who took golf at home to optimal levels.

Both had courses in their yards as elementary school children.

Blackwelder and Beard also installed soup cans in the ground to act as holes. Both played for hours every day as young children.

Where am I going with this?

The first golf lesson, of course. Build your own ‘Home Course’. Kindergarten and elementary age kids did it and you can, too.

Just be sure to turn your cans upside down now (can’t reach into the cup) and no groups larger than 3. When you stay at least 6 feet away from each other, safety levels rise.

Use foam or whiffle balls as well.

With covid-19 a new intimidating invisible threat to society, home fitness, golf and family can fit together. If you think I’m going into physical fitness, you are partially right.

When you act as the “walking scorer” for your new “home soup can course”, you may be surprised at the number of steps you take so don’t forget to track.

My intent today is to focus a bit on mental fitness. My starting suggestion is watching ‘Happy Gilmore’, ‘Caddyshack’, or ‘Tin Cup’, the television versions, together as a family.

Laughing together is fun and golf is a medium which sustains such fun.

‘Bryan Bros’ is an entity that my two sons, George IV and Wesley, created when everyone was shut down, due due to snow.

Today, we have different circumstances.

Young people have young hearts and young hearts tend to search for fun things to do.

My children, through golf, have played a big role in keeping my heart young as I grow older. My tendency is to get to serious about things.

My wife is whom my children take after in terms of personality.

She was a 1st grade teacher for 25 years before she moved to pre-school special education the last 11 years.

So it’s hard for me to stay too serious for too long.

If you want to study a young heart, it’s easy with technology today.

The next chance you get, attempt to engage a 3, 4 or 5-year old in a conversation on his or her favorite topic. Observe them while they are playing and get close enough to listen to conversations.

It’s fascinating, simple, uplifting, and to me entertaining.

My son Wesley posted a recent Instagram story with this comment.

“I watched the news for an entire hour and felt like I needed a shower afterwards,” he said. “It wasn’t at all uplifting.”

Trade some news time for golf time. Study, fitness, games or movies at home. Also, think about building your own HomeGolf course. Only this time, just place the soup can on top of the ground because germs are spread through reaching in to extract the ball.