Minnesota Golfer - Spring 2021 - 20

Sean McCauley teaches
his daughters to play
and love golf, and enjoys
watching them pass it on.
The
* BY JOSEPH OBERLE *
E
veryone has a different
golf tale. How
we fi rst encountered
the game, the way we
LOVE
SEAN
McCAULEY
play and where this leads us
are as unique as our own
swings. For many of us, this
tale lasts a lifetime. Golf
teacher and golf father Sean
McCauley knows that well.
McCauley, a pharmaceutical
salesman and former
part-time golf instructor,
spends his " golf hours "
teaching his two daughters,
Isabella and Reese, to play
golf-and quite successfully so. For example,
the pair fi nished fi rst and second place in the
Minnesota State Junior Girls' Championship last
summer. Each day his girls display a growing love
for the game that matches his own-with talent
that blooms like Augusta azaleas in April.
" My number one reason for getting them into
the game was a selfi sh one for me, " Sean says. " I
knew golf was something we could play together
for the rest of my life. "
But Sean also knew his girls would benefi t
from learning and experiencing the game.
" I'm a fi rm believer that no matter how much
they put into it, how hard they work at it and
how good they get at it,
the game gives back tenfold, "
he says. " The people
they meet, the places they
go, the smiles they can put
on other people's faces.
I've just always believed in
the magic of this game. "
Overcoming Challenges
The McCauley golf story
starts with Sean, who was
born into an athletic family.
Unfortunately, congenital
heart defects and severe
scoliosis prevented him from
playing many sports early on. But when he was
13, his doctor from Gillette Children's Specialty
Healthcare handed him a book called " How to
Perfect Your Golf Swing, " by Jimmy Ballard.
" He said, 'there's no reason why you can't start
playing golf. Do it this way, so you don't put any
pressure on your back,' " Sean recalls. " That day
at Gillette Hospital set me off on a lifetime love
of golf. "
Despite wearing a back brace then that limited
his fl exibility, Sean became very good at the
game (reaching a 3 handicap). He worked part
time at a hospital and did " have a cup of coffee "
as an instructor with a company that Ballard
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