Before Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen ever played golf with a real club, his parents gave him a plastic one. He couldn’t even walk yet. He was simply a child crawling over the floor and “smacking the ball!”

Helle and Jens Neergaard-Petersen both of their parents played golf, and they didn’t simply play on the weekends. They enjoyed the game so much that it affected their lives at home in the north of Copenhagen. They didn’t make their son play golf. It was just there, part of everyday life like meals and bedtime stories.

Rasmus tried different activities as he grew up, such as badminton, football, and golf. His parents wanted him to explore various sports instead of focusing on just one too soon. When he was 13 and joined Denmark’s national development squad , the family had to make a dec

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