CLUB
OF THE
FUTURE
M
y Three Sons. Nothing says 
future more vividly than young 
men coming up behind their 
dad to love golf. PD Board of Directors 
President Darren Barnes is shown here 
with his son, Tate, 13, who, his proud 
dad says, is a very good golfer — with 
a 2.8 handicap — and a fixture at the 
Club in the summer. “He wakes up,” 
Barnes says, “eats breakfast, and heads 
for Prairie Dunes. He caddies from time 
to time. He doesn’t get a lot of loops, 
but he had three or four legitimate jobs 
this past summer.” Golfing is a Barnes 
family affair. “Most of the hardware in 
the home is not mine,” Darren says. 
Mom Erika Barnes is a golfer. The 
oldest Barnes son, Lincoln, plays, as 
a sophomore, for the Hutchinson 
Community College Blue Dragons 
men’s golf team. Beckham, a 6th grader 
at Trinity Catholic, took first place last 
August in the Boys 13-and-Under 
division at the 2026 City of Hutchinson 
Junior Golf Championships at Carey 
Park Golf Course. You might remember 
he showed up in the very first Yucca 
Times magazine in a story about 
Calloway Kocher because the Barnes 
have a dog named Callaway.
The Yucca Times did not neglect, of 
course, to ask how our Dunes president 
— who is also partner-vice president for 
Bold 3PL in Hutchinson — ever finds 
time to play golf. You should know he 
skirted the question with a smiley face 
emoji. Read into that what you will.
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