 Hey everyone, I'm Matt and we're back at the National Disabled Veterans Golf Clinic And I'm here with Navy veteran Anita who just shot her first hole. It was a bogey. Anita, you're returning member to the golf clinic What keeps bringing you back? Well, first of all, the people here are amazing. Second of all, my husband and I are both disabled veterans and this gives us an opportunity to actually participate in sports or activities that normally at home might be a little bit more difficult. So everything is adapted for us and it's just a wonderful time. It keeps us active, keeps us happy. It's good in all areas of our life. Yeah, absolutely. I saw you out there. You were definitely hitting them with the best of them. And I noticed your ball here. It is specifically designed for visual impairment. Can you tell us a little bit about that? I saw it glimmering and shimmering in the sun. That's right. I can't see my feet so I can't usually see the ball But this one, if it glimmers, I can pick up on the Reflection from the sun on on the ball and it helps me be able to locate the ball and you know, everybody's with their visual impairment from Sees everything differently. So, you know, they offer all sorts of different colored balls and all sorts of options for the visually impaired to be able to locate that ball so you can hit it Absolutely. I'm sure it's helpful. What's your favorite color of ball to use? I like the orange glittery ones. Yeah, I think this is the orange one. Yeah. Yeah, and when you got close to the cup I noticed they were using the pole to make some noise. It kind of helps you locate the cup, right? Right, you know where other people might use visual cues I listen for it and then I try and set myself up from where I hear the flag To get close to the hole Awesome. Awesome. What are you looking forward mostly this week? um, you know Bonding with other veterans, you know, it's the social event It's wonderful getting some exercise My husband has Parkinson's so this is a wonderful opportunity for him to keep us active He's also a participant and a navy veteran and a navy veteran. Yeah So this is a wonderful opportunity for both of us just to reconnect with people Have some fun Do some golfing get some recreational activities and there's lots of Extra-curricular activities that they offer at this clinic as well. So it's very nice Yeah, lots of alternative events and you made the trip all the way from aurora, colorado We did. Yep. Awesome. Awesome. Well, thanks so much And I'm going to turn over here to Heidi who made the trip all the way from cedar rapids, Iowa And Heidi is a VA employee and also a golf buddy here and I realized that you and Anita were golf buddies last year Talk to us a little bit about that relationship between golf buddy and participant It's really nice because they do try to keep you partnered with the same veteran You can request and you get to know the veterans so you can help them better each year And it's been great because Anita and I texted each other right after last year Kind of texted each other this year and said, okay, where are you at? What are you doing? So it's been great to Get to know her and glenn batter and build that relationship. Yeah, so what is a golf buddy on the course? What's your day-to-day look like out here? So each veteran is partnered with a golf buddy and we stay together the whole week. So monday through thursday And I just assist her with whatever she needs and I help her tee the ball up Help her locate help her, you know point her to the right direction whatever she needs. I'm there to help her Awesome. Awesome. Well, we could not do this event without volunteers And we also couldn't do it without the department of veterans affairs who we graciously co-present this event with every year Make sure you're checking all social media. Make sure you're checking veterans golf clinic.org and thanks a lot