Junior golfers improve about 1.2 strokes per year on average, according to the Junior Golf Scoreboard. A coach sharing his results says his players improve 4 strokes yearly, with disciplined athletes gaining even more. The gap comes down to training approach and how much work goes in.
That's thing number 1. That's going to give you where your child is at right now. Then once you have that, you want to say, okay, how many years do we have? Where are we at right now? Where do we want to get to, right? For context, the average junior golfer on Junior Golf Scoreboard improves by about 1.2 shots per year. That's average. And so some do better, some do worse. I would not, unless you can document otherwise with data, assume that your child is going to improve faster than That's just, again, if you're doing what most people are doing— most people are spending about $10,000 per year on just golf instruction alone. Just, that's based on golf.com. So people are spending a good chunk of change, and that's about how much they're improving right now. For context, when I work with a player, the average player I work with improves by about 4 shots per year. Those who are very disciplined about what I'm doing, they improve by more. Um, but you can kind of see here where once we've established where we're at, where we're trying to get to, how much time we have, The only leftover variable is how fast are we going to improve? So again, you can do whatever you're doing, improve however fast you improve.
