 Having just returned from a junior
tournament
at which I was attending both as the Junior
Golf Scoreboard and to follow a junior player
I am working with this summer, I was reminded
of the need for accurate information in this
sport.
It is amazing from the people I talked to and
from the scores of e-mails and phone calls we
receive, the amount of rumors, old wives tales
and just plain wrong information there is out
there. Most of this is passed by word of mouth
from player to player and especially from
parent to parent. Now, before I get e-mails
and phone calls, please don't climb all over
me but think about how important it is to have
the right information. Here are a few of my
favorites.
"Don't go swimming after playing. It's bad for
your golf."
"The AJGA tournament acceptances are all
political."
"So and so got a full scholarship."
"You have to be top ranked to get a
scholarship."
Real quickly, swimming will not hurt your golf
game, the new AJGA PBE system is anything but
political, don't believe any story about a
male junior player getting a full ride, and
there are scores of schools that have golf
teams that pay no attention to the top ranked
players.
As a parent, or a player, when someone sounds
like they know what they are talking about,
take it all with a grain of salt. If that
person has had an older child that played
junior golf and went to a program on
scholarship, their information might be
reliable. There is no substitute for reading
up, especially with John Brooks' column
here "Going to College" or calling people who
have the right answers...NCAA, John Brooks, or
us here at the Scoreboard.
As anywhere else, just don't believe
everything you hear.
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