If you’re a junior golfer, you MUST read this!
If you want to play college golf.View quoted post on X
I coached at Duke and Ohio State. Here's what nobody tells you about the day a college coach shows up to watch you play.
By the time I got there, I already knew your scores. That's why I was there. The scores got you on the list.
So I wasn't watching your scorecard. I was watching what happened between shots.
Your routine. Did you have one, and did it hold up on 15 the way it did on 1?
Your body language after a bad hole. Double bogey, then what. Shoulders, pace, eyes.
Did the next tee shot look like a new hole or a continuation of the last one? How you treated the volunteers and the rules officials. The scorer at the turn. The kid carrying the standard.
Nobody thinks a coach notices that. They notice all of it. Coaches cross players off their list for how they treat a rules official.
And yes, I was watching your parents.
Where they stood. What they said at the turn. What the walk to the parking lot looked like after a 78. Coaches cross families off for that, too.
Here's what players get backwards. They think the score is the evaluation. The score is the invitation. Everything else is the evaluation.
So build a routine you can run when you're mad. Decide right now what you do after a bad hole, before you have one. Say thank you to every volunteer, every round, whether anybody's watching or not.
The score got you noticed. Everything else got you recruited.
Next tournament, pick one of those and make it the thing you're best at during that tournament.
