Your time is valuable, but I’m confident you have 15 minutes left today, and conveniently for you, I know exactly how to spend it:
I’m watching this GOLF.com Features video, expertly created by writer Nick Piastowski and producer Darren Riehl.
Why, you ask? I will explain it briefly.
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Because like any good feature, it takes you somewhere you’ve never been before. In fact, it takes you somewhere you’ll probably never go: inside the walls of a prison where golf is part of the rehabilitation process.
On Wednesday evenings, the softball diamond inside the barbed-wire fences of the minimum-security prison — which happens to be tucked into the high evergreen hills of western Washington — turns into a golf course, with one green, a turf field and used clubs.
What it lacks in aesthetics doesn’t matter. What it means is far greater than anything else. Just ask an inmate named Tejuan who knew there would be some kind of sports opportunity in prison. He just thought it would look very different.
“It’s never something that can actually move you forward in life, like golf can actually move you forward in life,” Tejuan says. “Just the principles that you apply when you play golf. And then when you apply that to your life – and also just the socialization that you actually get when you go to golf courses.”
“There’s a different element to golf courses. There’s a different lifestyle that comes with golf. It’s an expensive sport, so you really have to have a job. You have to pay for everything. So it keeps you working. It’s not like anything else, and it gives you, I’ll say, an edge as well.”
Piastowski and Riehl worked on this story for months. My favorite part was hearing a soon-to-be-released inmate talk about his golf plans outside.
Check it out below.
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