Free Veterans Day golf in Edina

Another way veterans in active duty military can be honored today, free golf. PGA Hope is even providing free lessons today. Shane Wells has more from Edina. Good morning. We got some veterans in early to get some swings in this morning, including Jeff Brown. Jeff, thanks for being here. Tell us a little bit about your service. Well, I was in the Army and got drafted in the Vietnam crisis back in the late 60s. So, you know, I'm an old guy that survived and out here playing golf now. I'm just thankful for all the help that people like this are doing for the military. Yeah, tell me about what it's like having a hobby, something that gets you out and keeps you active. Well, I keep active, at least try to get out at least twice a week, and usually in an old guys league on Wednesday, and then a bunch of guys that I've been friends with for years on Saturday mornings, so just keeping limber helps, you know? I like, is that the word, the stretch? Yeah, well, I think I learned that from one of the pro golfers on the senior tour. That was his warm-up exercise. I think we can all do that and benefit from that. Thank you for your time. Thank you for your service, too. We appreciate it. Thank you for being here and helping promote this. We want to bring in Matt Olson with us, assistant golf pro. Jeff was just talking about all the help he's received and what he's learned from the pros. This is part of what you're offering today for this event. Yeah, absolutely. We just like to shine on the PGA HOPE in general, right? So we have a program, there's programs all over the country. We really want to just get vets out there and help support their golf game and just the camaraderie, right? So when they're there. This is our second time doing this. We did this last year, had about the same, about 65, 70 people out for the day. If you don't have clubs, if you don't have experience, what do you need? to get here and to be a part of this? You just need to bring yourself. We have clubs on site. We have ones that they can use. If they have those, bring them. Any experience is great. If not, we'll just help teach you the game of golf. And plenty of instructors, too. Yeah, we'll have three or four instructors from this section. All of us are PGA HOPE certified, so you're required to go through a certification to help teach vets. So, yeah, we'll be here ready to go. And I know if you can sign up ahead of time online, encouraged, I'm encouraged but if you can't Just show up. Yeah, we'd like to have kind of a general number, but we're at that point where if you're, you know, you can't sign up ahead of time, just show up. We'd love to have you all.