"Hitting a golf ball out of mid-air is easy compared to clinching your first tour card and fulfilling a childhood dream."

The story of Wesley and George Bryan has always looked a little different than the prototypical struggling golf pro tale, but I had no idea their trajectories to this point, which include Wesley earning his card with three wins in just thirteen starts this year on the Web.com Tour.

Sean Martin files a long form look at their rise in golf (with videos and pictures), a rise mostly attributable to the good fortune of dad George III's golf academy. Anyone who is aspiring to play the game professionally or who is an instructor/mentor to young players will be inspired reading this story.

Martin writes:

The Bryans didn’t stumble across a golf club one day and wonder how they could use this foreign implement to achieve Internet fame. They’ve been on a golf course since they started following their father to work as toddlers.

Their upbringing contributed to their success on the course and on social media.

Their father, George III, is a golf instructor who turned the family’s backyard into a golf academy. Growing up with uninhibited access to a practice facility allowed them to exercise their creativity. They had daily competitions, challenging each other with any shot their minds could conjure. The brothers’ energetic, extroverted nature, which they inherited from George III, made them natural-born entertainers.

“I would never be shocked if you said the Bryan brothers wouldn’t take the road most traveled,” says Bill McDonald, their coach at the University of South Carolina. “They’ve always sort of done it their own way.”

I've always been partial to their indoor trick shot work, filed almost a year ago.