Connor Stirling Peterson warns junior golfers against entering tournaments without official rankings. Rankings show college scouts your actual level, and the Junior Golf Scoreboard has the most comprehensive data on players being recruited.
Number 1, the biggest mistake that I see is playing in tournaments that are not ranked or not having any concept of rankings. I remember when I was a kid and I thought, and my parents thought, the rankings were just nonsense, right? They're just BS, it's a political thing, whatever. And that just couldn't be further from the truth. Rankings help you understand where your child is in a very objective way. Now that said, there's a lot of rankings that are just completely irrelevant. Right? There's some like just like random tours that like rank people, and that's not what we're talking about. Um, so what we want to be ranked on is we want to be ranked on Junior Golf Scoreboard. The reason I talk about Junior Golf Scoreboard as opposed to other stuff— I know that there are other ranking index out there that people are trying to push. The thing is, this one has the most data. It's the most consistent, right? So even though you have some new cooler thing that you think represents your kid in a better light, or, you know, represents the skills of those players based on stroke scan or whatever, I don't care if it doesn't have the data on who's actually getting recruited.
