"I understand you've been giving my wife golf lessons," he said, his back still to Lowell.

Naturally gifted as he was, the Japanese boy had never taken a golf lesson.

I did give him golf lessons for two months.

Hell, no one seriously expected you to actually show up and give golf lessons.

He bought her golf lessons, although she later gave up the sport.

Both should volunteer, get involved on a committee, take a golf lesson.

He did not take his first golf lesson until 1992.

"Yeah, she came in at the start of the summer and signed up for golf lessons," he said.

His wife gave him golf lessons as a retirement gift three years ago.

"When I was 16, my mom signed me up for golf lessons," she said.