EXCHANGE: Young entrepreneur gauging distance to success

With the encouragement of his parents and some help from his siblings, Damsgard has created Golf by Numbers, which creates yardage books for courses throughout Minnesota and hole and greens drawings for courses nationwide.

If you're hitting a blind shot, it gives you a good picture of the hole and the yardage which tells you which club you should hit.

Damsgard and his father, Chris, planned an appearance at Panther Creek during the first round of the event to talk about the yardage books.

"With home education, it's on us to figure out what we're going to teach them," said Chris, who with his wife, Lacinda, homeschool their four children.

There's nothing better than the practical.

Since it's something he already loves, it makes for the best education.

It's going to be paying for my future golf clubs and lessons and tournaments.

[...] I'll have some extra leftover I can put toward a car or college.

PGA beginners and transition tours and I was only 8, and it was hard for me to hit over ponds and water, Damsgard said.

Seth employed the help of two of his sisters with the computer graphics and artwork, but the measurements were a father-son project.

Seth savors the advantages of his business.