ON PAR

Story by LISA SAVAGE

Brett Roberts and Ethan Barnes have been friends since they were 5 years old. They played football and baseball alongside each other at Fort Payne High School. They loved golf and often played together, and they always laughed a lot and had fun.

Now, years after their lives took them down different paths, the men have returned to Fort Payne and turned their love for golf into a thriving online business, Golf Tees.

The Driving Force

When Brett went to college at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Ethan began at Auburn University, the lifelong friends lost touch. There was