Junior golfers typically improve by only 1.18 strokes per year, but most overestimate their gains. This false confidence leads to reckless shots and poor decisions on course, trapping players in a cycle that prevents real progress.
If you're a junior golfer, I bet you that you're making this mistake. So you're probably trying to improve over the next year. I want you to say to yourself how many shots you think you can improve by over the next year. Just go ahead, say it to yourself. All right. Now I'm guessing that number was bigger than 2. So just so you know, the average junior golfer ranked on Junior Golf Scoreboard improves by 1.18 shots per year on average. To maintain their ranking, it's about 1.63 shots on average. But I'm guessing you probably picked out a number that was closer to 2, 3, 4, 5, 10. And what that actually does is it gives you a false sense of what you can accomplish. And that causes you to make bad decisions on the golf course. And you're out of position, instead of trying to just get a little bit better, getting yourself back into position, going ahead and making your bogey, no problem. You try and cut it around the tree and still try and make birdie. Those types of mental errors will keep you stuck. And it's why the average junior golfer just doesn't
