Watch us for three or four days and then give me your opinion. “It’s not easy when it’s just the parent and child.
“The instructor is not with them seven days a week,” he said. Rick Pano advises parents with talented junior golfers to be on the same page with their child’s instructor. But they don’t see the other side, when I’m at home with my kids doing homework or taking care of them when they’re sick.” People can say yeah, that guy was mean to his kid and whatever Trophy Kids portrayed me as being. Unless you’ve been in my shoes, you don’t know. “I wish I had that platform to talk to parents now because I think I could give so much to them. “After the Trophy Kids debacle, I have definitely changed and grown a lot,” said Andre. We both changed and now we just work better together on the course.” I don’t mind having him on my bag (but not this week since a Condition of Competition forbids parents or guardians from caddieing during USGA Junior championships). He can use big words and I understand him. “Now we can kind of negotiate and talk about things. “He treats me more as an older person, which is better,” she said. Yes, I still get a little crazy, but we all do because we’re human.”Īmari believes her father has changed, too. But after seeing yourself like that, and having millions of other people seeing you like that, you tend to want to just change. “I would have stayed on that trend like other crazy golf parents. I kind of bit into it because I was looking for that media attention early on.”Īvery says that experience affected him profoundly. They pinpointed me and said we can get this guy to act the fool and give our audience what they’re looking for. They probably knew of my antics out on the course with my daughter when she was younger. “Those guys that did that, knew what they were doing. “That one caused me a lot of stress and depression,” he said. But he feels very differently about Trophy Kids, a 2013 HBO film that also featured him and Amari. So that part was good.”Īvery’s father, Andre, believes The Short Game will go down as the best golf documentary ever. In fact, there are probably 10 girls here this week who have said they are playing golf because of that documentary. “I spoke with Justin Timberlake, one of the documentary’s producers, two years ago at Augusta National (where Alexa won Drive, Chip & Putt Championships in 20) and told him I have 500 letters at home from kids all over the world who watched it. “When I said yes, I told them OK, when you’re done with this, I want every young girl that watches to want to play golf,” he said. Pano’s father, Rick, who initially said no three times to the documentary makers before agreeing to participate, believes there was ultimately a silver lining to the process. “I see a lot of differences from then and now.” “Every time I see The Short Game, I think back on things I said and just cringe, too,” said Pano, who shot 1-under 70 on Monday. It’s weird seeing my younger self on TV.” It’s not embarrassing, it’s just like, I get all cringey when I see it. “I watched The Short Game again recently, but I really can’t watch myself on TV. “Alexa and I can relate to each other,” said Avery, who shot 2-under-par 69 in the first round of stroke play on Monday. Both appeared with their fathers in “The Short Game,” a 2013 Netflix documentary that presented, at times, an unflattering view of the highly competitive world of junior golf. The pair has also been exposed to the glaring media spotlight few of their fellow competitors have experienced. Girls’ Junior Championship at Poppy Hills Golf Course.
Even though 13-year-old Alexa Pano and 14-year-old Amari Avery live in Florida and Southern California, respectively, they’re good friends who frequently see each other at competitions throughout the summer, including this week’s 70th U.S.
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