"I grew up on @GolfChannel. As a kid completely obsessed with the game in the 1990s and 2000s, I was the resident golf dork at school. With few exceptions, other kids didn't get it. I felt outcast, part of the wrong generation.

"Golf Channel talking heads and their rapport with the greatest players helped reassure me that I was far from alone. They helped me fall deeper in love with the game, completely un-self-consciously."

Read more from @TimGavrich in this month's Cool Golf Thing column.