October 30, 2008 -- First off, you need to understand that poor Dax Campbell has no chance. No chance of being anything other than the most spoiled newborn in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. Not so long as the little tyke is (for the moment) the sole reason that Patsy Campbell, normally of sound mind and body, is a grandmother.

"He's our first," she beamed.

You don't say.

Ryder Cup hero Chad Campbell proudly shows off his son Dax. (Photo: Grant Boone)

Perhaps that explains why Grandma Patsy nearly sprained her index finger flashing rapid-fire photos from her digital camera Monday afternoon in the clubhouse at Timarron Golf Club in Southlake, Texas.

Dax is the first of Patsy and Phillip Campbell's second, Chad, and his wife, Amy. You know Chad as the four-time PGA Tour winner, who only struck the most important shot of last month's Ryder Cup: a 5-iron bullet to 12 feet on the par 5 18th in a Friday morning foursomes match to win the hole and a full point for the U.S. On this day, Campbell wasn't cradling the Cup but the kid. According to family members, Dax looks like Chad (presumably if Chad was a couple hundred pounds lighter and wearing a football onesie with rolled up blue jeans).

You may soon know Amy Campbell, if you don't already. An aspiring vocalist with one record already released, the former Amy Lepard is changing her spots. After years of blurring the line between pop and soul, she's gearing up for an assault on Nashville and the country music scene.

You likely don't know the elder Campbells' eldest unless you're a student of Division II golf history. Like I said. Mike Campbell coaches the golf team at his alma mater, Abilene Christian University, where he twice earned All-America honors as a player. Campbell graduated in 1991, just before European Tour winner Jeev Singh arrived on campus and won an individual and team national championship a couple of years later.

The entire Campbell clan gathered at Timarron Monday with about a hundred others partial to the Purple and White of ACU to add to an endowment created a quarter century ago by someone you've definitely heard of: Byron Nelson. If rewriting record books during a decade of dominance, running a ranch, calling golf on ABC, mentoring countless players in golf and life, and raising millions for kids in the Dallas-Fort Worth area weren't enough, Nelson managed to squeeze in a little course design, too, including Timarron, not 10 minutes east of that ranch where his wife, Peggy, still lives.

Peggy was there Monday, too, along with Byron's longtime business manager and friend Jon Bradley. They're unabashedly Nelson's biggest fans. I hadn't yet removed myself from Peggy's hug before she asked, "I'm glad you're here because I need some help answering a question. I know Sam Snead won Greensboro eight times, but I'm trying to find out how many times he played in that tournament. Byron won it twice in the five years he played, but Sam didn't win any of those other three." (I frankly have no idea why she wants to know. What I do know is that she's Peggy Nelson, and that reality is the trump card in this particular hand.) Here you go, Mrs. Nelson, courtesy of Rob Goodman with the Wyndham Championship:

Snead played the old GGO a whopping 33 times, the last in 1976 as a 63-year-old. And you were right, Mrs. Nelson: Snead didn't win in any of your husband's five appearances, finishing 8th, 7th, and 6th in the three they played together. The last of those was in 1945 when Nelson made Greensboro the third of what would be a record 11 straight wins.

Bradley, meanwhile, knows everything else there is to know about Nelson. Facts and figures, for sure, but the stories are way better. Like the one about the time Nelson was kicked off the course at the same Preston Trail Golf Club in Dallas where he was not only a member but also where his titular PGA Tour tournament was held for 15 years. Seems Nelson was playing with a guest who wasn't 21, a college kid wanting a playing lesson from a legend: three-time Texas Amateur champion and Oklahoma State stud Scott Verplank -- age 20.

The two Tour winners represented at Monday's Abilene Christian fundraiser have a lot in common. Both would've just as soon let their clubs do the talking. In that way, few had more to say in the history of the game than Nelson. The soft-spoken Campbell played at Nevada-Las Vegas, making the juxtaposition of his college town to his personality a Michael Jackson/Lisa Marie Presley-level mismatch.

There's the fact that neither men played for or even attended the university they were raising money for Monday, yet both have had brothers on the school's payroll. You now know about Mike Campbell. Nelson's younger brother, Charles, an internationally-renowned bass baritone, spent the better part of two decades in ACU's music department.

Both men were born and bred in Texas. Campbell hails from Andrews, a little town 30 miles west of the even littler town of Tarzan and 20 miles east of the New Mexico state line. Though its population isn't even 10,000, Andrews has managed to pump out both best-selling author Max Lucado and about a gazillion barrels of oil. (The oil in Andrews is West Texas crude; the Campbell family is anything but.) Nelson grew up in Fort Worth where he caddied as a teenager with Ben Hogan at Glen Garden Country Club before settling a few miles to the northeast at his ranch in Roanoke.

The two towns are separated by 368 miles, mostly along Interstate 20. Right in the middle, literally on the map and figuratively on this day, is Abilene. Except for Grandma Patsy. The center of her universe is the kid in the onesie.

Grant Boone is a husband, father, broadcaster, and journalist born in Tennessee and living in Texas. During his nearly 20 years in sports journalism, he's been heard on tape delay in pizza joints half-filled with fully-drunk beer league softball teams and around the world covering major sporting events for ESPN, Turner Sports, Golf Channel, and CBS Radio. To read past installments of Grant Me This, click here. You can contact Grant at pgagrant@hotmail.com.