Augusta, GA
Kids learn golf skills with Top Golf, First Tee of Augusta partnership
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – Top Golf and First Tee of Augusta teamed up on Thursday for Camp “Jain”, which allows kids to swing their clubs and get firsthand experience with the game of golf.
Augusta Mayor Garnett Johnson and other golf influencers are serving as counselors to teach the next generation how to play.
Top Golf was filled with patrons looking for something to do off the course. But on Thursday afternoon, kids got the chance to have their own version of a golf tournament.
“The kids from the local community want to give them a little taste of the Masters a little taste of what goes on at Augusta National. So you’ll see the pimento cheese sandwiches you’ll see the azaleas, just little touches that kind of give them a glimpse into what might happen beyond those gates a couple of miles down the road,” said Connor Smith, Topgolf Director of Entertainment Marketing.
It gave everyone the chance the play and learn about golf, regardless of whether you attended the tournament.
Chris Hvsepian, founder of Jain, said: “It’s not about the golf, it’s about all the play around the golf. And I think that’s what’s making everyone have so much fun. And the parents feel like kids again, and, and the kids just having a good time.”
It’s also another way to give back. For every golf bay reserved this week, they’ll donate $1 towards the First Tee of Augusta.
First Tee Program Director LaShunda Hall said: “We teach life skills, which is just golf as a way to teach it. We even when any from ages seven to 18, they not only get the actual fundamentals, but they learn the etiquette throughout the game, and we teach it on the golf course. So they actually walk away learning how to play golf.”
Organizations like First Tee of Augusta and Camp Jain make impacts on kids that’ll last a lifetime.
“My favorite part was the food and these fun little games we are playing,” Evans Lake, a participant.
They experienced many firsts, such as swinging a golf club, that they hope they get to do again one day.
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AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – Democratic candidate for Georgia governor Olu Brown visited Augusta on Friday evening, stopping near the Sand Hills Community Center as early voting continues.
Brown is one of six candidates in the Democratic primary.
Campaign priorities
Brown said his vision as governor would focus on three main areas.
“One, it’s affordability around health care and making sure we expand Medicaid and expand Peach Care and make sure we continue to make our rural health care systems healthy and vital,” Brown said. “Number two, we’ve got to address education in all of Georgia, making sure every kid in Georgia gets an excellent education, and we’re paying our teachers more. And number 3, we’re protecting the rights of all women. Folks in the Gold Dome shouldn’t be making decisions about their bodies or the choices that they make.”
Brown is running against Amanda Duffy, Derrick Jackson, Geoff Duncan, Jason Esteves, Keisha Lance Bottoms and Mike Thurmond.
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AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – An Augusta Prep student was arrested on a charge of terroristic threats over a picture of a LEGO gun he posted on social media.
It happened Wednesday, according to an incident report from the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office.
Eric Hedinger, the principal of Augusta Preparatory Day School, told deputies a student had uploaded a picture to Snapchat of a “pistol” with the caption “shooting up the school so I don`t have to take the stats exam tomorrow. Don`t come yall!”
The principal said he spoke to the student and his father about the photo.
The principal also provided deputies with the student’s address in Grovetown.
A deputy went there and was told by the student that the “pistol” was a LEGO set that he had built.
He also said the comment he made was supposed to be a joke because he was not looking forward to taking his Advanced Placement statistics test this week.
The student showed the deputy the box that the LEGO set came in, and how the set was already disassembled.
The deputy also looked in the boy’s room to make sure he was not in possession of any weapons.
The mother advised that there was one firearm in the residence but it was locked up.
The deputy contacted Judge Leslie Morgan and she issued a warrant for terroristic threats.
The student, age 18, was taken into custody and transported to the Columbia County Detention Center.
News 12 is not reporting his name or publishing his photo since the LEGO gun could not have actually harmed anyone.
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