For the 80th year, The Masters teed off today at the Augusta National Golf Club today in Augusta, Georgia. The first of golf’s four major championships for the year runs today through Sunday, April 10th, with millions of golf fans tuning in on TV or watching in person. When he’s not singing his new song “American Country Love Song,” one of those golf fans, who might be watching a few holes is Jake Owen. Jake is a golf fan from an early age after being introduced to it by his dad. Jake jokes that there’s pictures of him in diapers swinging a club, but as he grew up playing, Jake believes there are lessons to be learned from not only the sport, but also the people you play with when on the golf course.

  Jake Owen remembers playing golf at a really early age. (:16)
“Well just growing my dad and I played golf from the time I could…I mean we have photos of myself and my little brother, I say my little brother… my twin brother, in diapers man and my dad cut down golf clubs for us as a kid and we were out there just whacking balls around the backyard.”

  Jake Owen says that playing golf with his dad is always a special time. (:47)
“My dad was always a great player and I always wanted, as any son probably does want to follow in his dad’s footsteps. So, I always grew up wanting to play and I remember the…getting…being able to play with my dad and his friends when I got old enough where I could hit the ball out there long enough to play with them and I wasn’t a nuisance in the group, you know? But uh we, my dad and I, have been able to do some pretty awesome things like throughout our life playing, playing golf together. It’s been…golf’s a pretty interesting sport that uh really is great for just, you know, conversing with one another and it’s just the camaraderie in golf is a great thing. The honesty of it and it’s a, it’s a, you know… they call it a gentlemen’s sport. So I think it truly taught me a lot growing up.”