I first came across the word while travelling and working in Botswana with my husband. Over time, it has come to mean much more to us than simply the start of a day. It represents a new beginning and the unwritten promise that tomorrow is another chance to try again. And perhaps no one understands that better than a child: waking each morning ready to begin again, discover something new, and see where the day takes them.

On the tee from Cape Town, South Africa.

I’m Julie. A golfer, a designer, and a mom to two, aged six and three.

I was raised around the game by a mom who loved it more than most and spent years mentoring junior golfers. I saw first-hand what golf can teach: patience, honesty, confidence, and the habit of counting your shots when nobody is checking.

But I also know that golf isn’t the easiest game to hand to a five-year-old. It’s slow, full of unwritten rules, and can feel like a sport made for grown-ups.

So I set out to create a way in.

A round they can understand. A game they can play. A way to make the rituals, rules and language of golf feel approachable, while keeping the fun at the heart of it.

How it started

We watch sport every day. Not just because we love it, but because that’s a little bit of the South African way. We get behind our teams and our players. We celebrate the wins, feel the pride, and somehow feel every mistake, disappointment and comeback along with them.

Sport is real. It’s emotional. It’s unpredictable. And it’s authentic.

We watch a lot of golf too. If there's a tournament on, I'm following a leaderboard and during the Majors, I hardly miss a shot. My kids would patiently sit alongside me, and I found myself trying to explain what was happening: why a ball in the rough mattered, what the numbers meant, why everyone was suddenly talking about birdies and bogeys.

And then I started wondering: what if there was another way to bring them into the game?

So my mind started ticking. I made an activity book. I designed a round a child can play anywhere, in a range that grows with them. The littlest ones finish a hole of mazes, puzzles and colouring, place their scoring sticker, and that's the win. From age five they learn to score the way golf is actually scored. Solve a hole cleanly and that's a birdie. Struggle a bit and you take your bogey like the rest of us, filling in a real scorecard and doing real maths without noticing. And suddenly it all made so much more sense when viewing golf through a child's lens.

And before I knew it, I was lying in bed thinking about the next activity, the next hole, the round. All made for little golfers learning big skills.

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