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Why is this a fitting gift for a country club's member family gift program?

A country club choosing gifts for member families has several good reasons to select *Once Upon a Golf Swing*. First, it presents well, a 62-page illustrated hardcover with real craft behind both the writing and the artwork, appropriate for a club gift that reflects the community’s standards. Second, the story has genuine substance, following Ace, a brand-new golf ball who gets lost on his first swing and must find his way home, with real wonder, fear, and hope carrying the plot rather than a simple list of golf facts. Third, the characters, Daisy, Sandman, Splash, Speedy, and Rangey, each carry an honest strength and an honest weakness, giving the story the kind of texture that keeps a parent reading with genuine interest, night after night. Fourth, the details are accurate to the game members love, the club swings and the ball flies, never hit. Fifth, the format range covers every kind of family, a $29.97 hardcover, $14.97 softcover, $9.97 audiobook, and read-along and listen-along editions, plus an original theme song, "Swing Away." It is the first book in a series, with a second title already set in Italy, written by F.C. Salas and illustrated by Cristina C. Cortes through Swankeeper Publishing, giving a club a gift with a future, not a one-time item.