Choosing golf for a child is not common. But for David Puig’s family, it wasn’t just a sports choice. It was a way of life.
It all started with his father, who spent his weekends playing golf. David, just a little boy, approached out of curiosity… and stayed. He began taking lessons at the club’s school, accompanied by a key figure in his story: his mother, who also fell in love with the game.
Golf gave David much more than technique: it taught him honesty, respect, and good manners. Values that don’t stay on the course but are carried in life’s backpack. But it wasn’t easy. David was small, and the physical difference with his peers was huge. So he had to train harder, work twice as much. He focused on his short game and turned his approach and putting into his greatest weapons. He spent countless hours at the practice range, driven by a passion that only lasts when someone believes in you from day one.
And that person was his mother. Always there, pushing, supporting, believing.
In a sport still burdened by elitist stigma, golf can be a school of unique values: discipline, self-control, and respect. It’s also an opportunity to grow outdoors, surrounded by nature and friends, learning that competing also means coexisting.
This Mother’s Day, we celebrate those women who, quietly and behind the scenes, are behind every shot, every achievement, every step. Because thanks to them, many dreams begin to roll… like a well-struck ball toward the hole.