KIDS

Q&A

with Kristen, Kayla & Christopher Krantz

THE KRANTZ FAMILY joined Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, North Carolina, eight years ago. Parents Daniel and Shawnett love golf, whether competing in club tournaments or playing a round of couples golf, which they say is a great way to meet and enjoy conversations with other members. Their kids — Kristen, 12; Kayla, 6; and Christopher, 4 — participate in a variety of activities including Kids Club, Operation 36, tennis lessons and more; they love summers best because they’re at the pool every day. The family spends lots of quality time at the club’s Greenside Café, where the younger Krantzes enjoy grabbing snacks or drinks before jumping into the pool. We checked in with the kids on Memorial Day weekend to chat about all things Sedgefield, and they gave special shout-outs to Pierce Hoover, Sedgefield’s Tennis Director, and Craig Adolff, PGA, Assistant Golf Pro at the club.

TELL US MORE ABOUT KIDS CLUB.

KAYLA: I like Kids Club because we do arts and crafts, and color. We make snowflakes and watch movies.

KRISTEN: I love the arts and crafts theme at Kids Club. At Easter we did some Easter Egg crafts that were very cool. CHRISTOPHER: We do eggs at Kids Club, but that isn’t until Easter.

WHAT DO YOU LIKE BEST ABOUT KIDS CLUB?

CHRISTOPHER: I like Kids Club because we get to watch movies.

KRISTEN: I like drawing, coloring. I like to do scratch art. We do arts and crafts, sometimes we do crafts, and then sometimes we get to draw — we get to draw anything — and sometimes we get coloring sheets, depending on the theme.

YOU MENTIONED TENNIS AND PIERCE HOOVER.

KAYLA: We do tennis with him, and we play “Copycat” — what’s it called again? KRISTEN: “Alley Cat.” Pierce will hit some balls, and we have to move so we don’t get tagged. Pierce is good. He teaches us to play tennis, and sometimes he just does fun games with us. SHAWNETT: He’s really great with kids. He got Christopher into a little bit of tennis for a little while …

KRISTEN: … but then [Christopher] just decided not to play because he was retired from tennis.

WHAT ABOUT THE SWIMMING POOL AT SEDGEFIELD COUNTRY CLUB?

KAYLA: We have so much fun jumping off the diving board and going down the water slide. KRISTEN: I like swimming in the shallow end — not the kiddie pool, the 3-feet. I’ll sometimes jump off the diving board and swim in the deep end.

WHAT CAN YOU TELL US ABOUT CRAIG ADOLFF AND GOLF?

KRISTEN: He works the pro shop. He does the golf camp every summer. We play Operation 36, which is golf lessons with some other people. Each week, we will do something different: one week we will do putting, another week we will go to the chipping green or go to the driving range. And then we have, like, these shotguns, where we get to play golf with some people, and we play nine holes. Craig is nice; he helps us with golf and anything we’re having trouble doing.

HOW OFTEN DO YOU GO TO KIDS CLUB OR OUT TO PLAY TENNIS OR GOLF?

KRISTIN: Almost every Friday to Kids Club. We do tennis twice a week. And lots of golf. Last Saturday, Kayla putted a 15-footer! I putted a 25-footer!

MAKING SUCH A LONG PUTT MUST HAVE BEEN AMAZING!

KRISTEN: It felt good to finally, well, not make history but at least do good in golf. It felt good to kind of make history — my mom broke the record.

WHAT ELSE WOULD YOU LIKE TO TELL US ABOUT THE COUNTRY CLUB?

CHRISTOPHER: We love going to Sedgefield!