I coach kids cricket and the ideas are the opposite everything is about the kids have fun, we teach very little technical stuff, just the basics and try and get the kids hitting the ball and bowling straight. A lot of the parents have commented on how different it is to football and how much the kids enjoy it.
My 5 year old wants to play football and I played to a good level, so took him to watch a mates kid, who is a year older. thinking of him joining and it was way too serious. Sport has to be fun first and everyone should have a chance to play. The parents were generally a bit angry and too intense.
So he had his first golf lesson. On Saturday just gone and loved it, so might try that for a bit.
I feel sorry for you having to explain this to your kid, it really is not right. It must be fun and must be inclusive. There is great life lessons in looking after weaker team members and getting a strategy to win over stronger teams.