I saw him once when he was a teenager in Rochester, NY. Whenever he plays in Rochester now his family is usually in the audience.
My Dad used to play golf when I was a kid, and there was this old set of hickory shafted clubs in our garage when we moved in there.
My Dad was off playing with his friends on weekends and my 11 year old self would hit old golf balls around the yard with those old clubs. A lot.
He saw me doing it and took me to the local golf course after work one day, "for a quick nine" he said. I was still using the old hickory set with the leather grips worn right off of them.
I beat him. In my first time in a golf course, using 40 year old technology, I beat him. I thought he'd be mad, but he was excited about it. Two days later he came home with my first set of golf clubs.
Long story short, I got to be very good. Very good. But this was the 60s and..... well, golf courses didn't fit in with what was going on.
So I can kind of see where Joe's commitment came from, but I just happened to be good at a lot of things, and those things all got in the way of a career in golf. Joe was (is) smart, but I can't help but feel he missed a lot growing up too.
He seems pretty happy though, even if he does play the Blues like nobody's business. 
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