A child averaging 85 should focus on lowering that average, while one at 73 needs to pick harder tournaments. Players targeting elite programs like Stanford have sub-72 averages and compete on long, difficult courses to build strong differentials.
You can have the same exact scoring average and have completely different scoring differentials just based on the difficulty of the golf courses you're playing. So if your child has a scoring average of 85, you don't need to be doing crazy stuff about tournament selection, right? They need to be playing in, you know, good tournaments, but the main concern needs to be lowering the scoring average, right? So look at them ranked on Junior Golf Scoreboard. On the flip side, if your child has a scoring average of 73, you got to take the tournament selection stuff seriously. Got to really buckle down, make sure they're playing in the right events, and then also continue to improve their scoring average as well, because To be clear as well, at the top end of this, you know, the best players in the country, you know, they're beating out all this, right? They've got an under 72 scoring average and they're playing long, hard golf courses, right? And they've got crazy little scoring differentials. So if that's your child's goal, they want to play a program like Stanford, they want to play at an elite level, then, you know, you might have to do a little bit more of this. If your child's already ranked, I'm going to literally look them up and do math in front of you to show you what they need to do in order to play Division 1 golf. And then we can both sit there and say, hey, yeah, this makes sense, or no, this is going to be a stretch. Or you might say, hey, you know, this can be a stretch, but we still want to, you know, we want to do this anyway, um, just because I want to be able to support my child and, you know, give them the best shot possible because we just really care about the development process. Whatever that is,
