u/LargeAmphibian

I've seen a lot of Bob Vs Joey stroke play requests, or Joey Breaking 80, so here's my suggestion: a series of them racing to get to the end of Operation 36.

For those who dont know Op36 is a way to introduce brand new golfers to the sport. The goal is very simple; shoot 36 or better over 9 holes, and the way it works is you start 25 yards out from every hole until you succeed, then you move out to 50, 100, 150, 200 until youre at the front tee boxes. So the challenge would be who could break 36 from the front tees first.

Each video they'd be going from whatever level they're respectively at. I imagine they'd make short work of 25 and 50 yards, I'm genuinely curious to see if they could hammer through 100 and 150, and it woukd certainlytake several tries to get through 200 and the front tees. I think it could be an interesting different format to explore, and could be cool to show fans of the show who aren't really golfers a way to get into the sport.

So for context, my older brother (early 30s) is child free by choice and likely to remain that way. Last year he told me that him and his fiance wanted to have a child free wedding and what my thoughts were on that. I told him right away that if that was the case I probably wouldn't be able to attend. It's just the two of us, and his fiancee is an only child so there aren't any other direct nieces or nephew who would be affected but there are some younger cousins on both sides.

We didn't really get into it in person because we were golfing with our dad (for father's day ironically enough) but later we spoke over the phone and he told me how upset he was with me for not even considering it, which really pissed me off, because I was really upset with him for wanting to exclude his only niece and nephew (one at the time but we've since had our 3rd) from his wedding.

Beyond the hurt feelings, logistically it would be a nightmare to try and make this happen. We live about 4 hours away from the wedding venue, and my parents are 1 hour from the venue.

My wife's family lives in a different country and unable to fly in to babysit (we asked and we're going to pay the hefty airplane fare to make it happen but it cant). My family will be at the wedding. The venue is in a very small town so the possibility of finding a trustworthy sitter to take care of an 18 mo and 4mo seems low and we'd need to meet this person first and our city is so far away we would need to pay fir travel, accommodations and meals for someone even if they would agree to this sort of thing.

The obvious answer then would be wife stays at my parents house with the kids and I go alone, but that's messed up in my opinion that she should have to watch all 3 solo and I have to attend his wedding without my wife just so he can exclude his only niece and nephews. Whats really got me shook is that my parents are on his side in this! They want me to leave my kids with my cousins, husbands mother who will also be watching their 2 children and im sorry but there's no way a woman in her 60s or 70s is gonna be able to handle all that.

One compromise my brother has made is reluctantly allowing my oldest (5) to come, and he is planning to host a family brunch the next day that kids can attend. Am I justified in just saying that's the only portion of the wedding I'll be attending? What do I do with the nuclear sized fallout that would cause? Im also considering just taking the 5yo for the ceremony only and leaving right after, but then my wife will be pissed at me.

All advice appreciated!

Joey Vs Bob: Operation 36

Brother is having a child-free wedding. How do I navigate this?