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To reach D1 golf, break your long-term goal into yearly targets. If you're at +4 in 8th grade and aiming for –1.5 by sophomore year, that's 5.5 shots of improvement over three years, or roughly 1.8 shots per year.
To reach D1 golf, break your long-term goal into yearly targets. If you're at +4 in 8th grade and aiming for –1.5 by sophomore year, that's 5.5 shots of improvement over three years, or roughly 1.8 shots per year.
I'm going to kind of do some hypothetical numbers just so you guys can kind of, you know, sort of grasp this a little bit. But let's say you're in 8th grade, right? And you've got a scoring differential of 4, right? You know that you need to get to a -1.5 scoring differential to have the programs you want to reach out to. Obviously there's a sliding scale. If you want to go to Stanford, it's a little bit different than if you want to go to Oregon State or, you know, so on and so forth. But anyway, just for the sake of this example here, let's say we got a scoring differential of 4, right? And now we're in 8th grade, and we want to get to -1.5 by sophomore year. So we got 8th grade, 9th grade, 10th grade, got 3 years ahead of us, and we need to improve by 5.5 shots, right? 4 plus -1.5, total 5.5 shots, right? So we can just break out our handy-dandy calculator and we can say, all right, I've got 5.5 shots I need to improve by. I'm gonna divide that by 3. So I need to improve by 1.8 shots per year. That, that's the simple math of saying, hey, I need to improve by this much.
