A 15-year-old boy named Tadd Fujikawa will be among the field at the U.S. Open this year at Winged Foot. He’s about 5′1″ and hits the driver about 285. This is insane… where are all these amazing teenage golfers coming from? Sometime soon, a kid is going to break par at a PGA Tour immediately after spending a weekend at the Neverland Ranch. At 15, my golf career was in a slightly different place, as I still thought it was hilarious to jab a playing partner in the ass with the flagstick. My game has failed to evolve since then.

Anyway, I think it will be interesting to see how much teeth-gnashing goes on about this young man’s future. He’s male, Michelle Wie is female. And that will absolutely make a difference in how people look at it. And yes, I know that no one in the media is going to make a particularly big note about it, at least not on anything near a Wie-level, because he’s not Wie. He’s an unknown Hawaiian kid who no one’s ever heard of. But I’d bet that we’re not going to hear one word about how any of this is bad for him. Not a word. He’ll be just a cute kid and an amusing novelty, not someone with suspect parents that are pushing him into something for which he is not ready.

Tadd played in a sectional tournament like the one Michelle Wie played in, only Michelle had to finish in the top 18 out of 153, and this kid had to finish first among a field of 10. He did. In the qualifying round (which qualifies players for the sectionals), Wie did play with Tadd… and finished ahead of him. But she opted for the sectional in New Jersey, as opposed to this one in Hawaii, because she’s playing in the LPGA Championship in Baltimore this week.

Anyway, I want you to know that this is it for the week on teenage golfers. I imagine that this does not make you sad.