They didn’t have much, but they could create. Money was tight for the family, so they built their own board games growing up in Saskatchewan, Canada. One year, Matthew Fehr’s father created his own little golf board game out of huge bristle boards with holes drawn in and different clubs tapered off. They rolled dice to see where the ball went, with sand traps and water hazards and trees along the way.
Advertisement
It lit a spark in Matthew. Sure, he liked golf as a game, but there was more pulling him in — he could create new worlds this way. Soon he was 7 years old drawing up golf courses
→ Continue reading at The New York Times Sports
