Seriously, get a used set of clubs from a yard sale. Practice short game for like a month intensively and then just hang around a cheap golf course looking for 3s needing a fourth. Boom friends. I mean your friends might all be in there 40s with drug, back or wife issues... but they will all have some interesting stories and they will pretty much all be down for whatever if it gets them out of the house and away from adult responsibility.
Also start playing a team sport an amateur, suburban team. You don’t have to be any good at it, you just need to try your best and importantly talk to the other people on your team.
Whoever you are and however weird you are, there is already a weirder regular at your local card/tabletop gaming store. Just don’t show up smelly and you’ll make friends easy.
It takes so much effort from anon to imitate that they could easily find friends, woman, man, whatever. Nevertheless, it's touching how he answers their dad's care about them with that. They're not lost, they're just lacking directions.
Hot take, Dad should ask if his kid is even interested in going out and if they are, actually facilitate by helping them find activities they'd be interested in instead of just fucking crying on the couch over whatever imaginary life he imagined for his kid