High school Senior girl shoots 71

I sure hope that someone has built the young women's online profile with stats, accomplishments, bio, etc.
Sports like golf and swimming aren't recruited like football and baseball, etc.

She should also be playing in other am tournaments not just school tournaments.

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She needs to or needed to be playing in AJGA events. That is really the Junior circuit that college coaches pay attention to

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College coaches don't care what you do in high school district tournaments, they want to see what you do against tough competition on tough golf courses. The boys play from around 6300-6500 yards in high school district matches and that isn't long enough for them to see how they will play in college which is from the tips at around 6800 yards and up.

Is her coach not doing anything to help? He should have SOME contacts. If she's shooting in the low 70's regularly, smaller schools would 100% take her.

That's what I was shooting in high school and all the HBCCU's offered me scholarships On career day Southern and Grambling told me on the spot that I would easily get a scholarship there.

It's unfortunate she would have to do that but she could probably walk on most anywhere and potentially earn a scholarship.

I have a friend who's roommate in college right now was valedictorian at her high school and she didn't get a scholarship anywhere. That's hard to believe. It's like schools are cutting down on scholarships in general.

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College coaches don't care what you do in high school district tournaments, they want to see what you do against tough competition on tough golf courses. The boys play from around 6300-6500 yards in high school district matches and that isn't long enough for them to see how they will play in college which is from the tips at around 6800 yards and up.

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If you shoot 66-71 as a 17 year old girl with no weight training, dietician, or other resources big colleges have, I don’t think backing her up a few yards is gonna make her skill set less lol. This isn’t a college male playing the woman Tees. State is Next Tuesday which will be a more difficult course, I’ll give an update then.

BTW she started the round Birdie, Birdie, Bogey, Birdie.

She should have no problem getting a scholarship. The talent pool for NCAAW Golf is not deep. Break 80 and you’re getting on somewhere.

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If you shoot 66-71 as a 17 year old girl with no weight training, dietician, or other resources big colleges have, I don’t think backing her up a few yards is gonna make her skill set less lol. This isn’t a college male playing the woman Tees. State is Next Tuesday which will be a more difficult course, I’ll give an update then.

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It sounds like she's very good but backing up 300 yards or more can make a huge difference in what your score is, especially a female. It can mean the difference between an 7 or 8 iron in to a long iron or fairway wood, I bet there would be a few par 4s that she couldn't reach in 2. We had a girl play with the high school boys from the blue tees in a summer tournament league and she went from shooting low 70s to high 80s because of the distance. I'm sure she's good she just has to up the level of competition and course difficulty. If she lives in SE Arkansas, she needs to play Mystic Creek, that is a good test if golf, one if the hardest courses I've ever played.

Like the other posters said, college coaches don’t pay attention to HS Golf. My kid is 12 started playing 9 hole tournaments this year through our PGA section. Finished 3 on the points list playing against kids 12-16. Currently playing 18 hole US Kids local tour this fall. Next summer she will play our PGA section 11-15 year old, 18 hole tournaments. They have a few that are two day “college showcase” tournaments. Probably gonna put her in at least one, have to consult her instructor. Hopefully the summer before 9th grade she can get in some AJGA events.

There are so many girls golf scholarships that go unfilled each year I am sure she will get a spot somewhere. If your kids goal is to play college golf you have to come up with a road map and High School golf is not part of it, Cause most coaches are some history teacher getting an extra 3k to drive a van and sit in a cart by the first tee.

Most classes are all secured if she’s a senior - best advice would be if she believes in herself - she needs to walk on somewhere local and if she’s good at that point she has a resume that can transfer up…

Ha... How things have changed then. Friend of mine played College golf ( for a school that has won national championships)...he played in the early 90s. We were out playing a round and I broke the news that my wife and I were expecting a baby girl. He goes "83...83....I had to shoot 66 to get a scholarship... Girls got one shooting 83" since then though I imagine it's gotten a lot tougher

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It’s comical to me that people (and there are a lot out there - mostly parents) have zero idea just how good college golfers are. There’s a reason her daughter ain’t getting noticed. And it’s not because she isn’t playing in the big events. It’s because she probably is not good enough.

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It's comical to me that people (and there's at least one out there) have zero knowledge of smaller schools having woman's golf teams that offer scholarships to players that just aren't that great.

He said they are in SE Arkansas. My nephew got a football scholarship to Arkansas St. so I figured I'd look up their woman's golf team. A 10 second google search gets me to their woman's Instagram page where I see the first tournament of the year, their team finished 5th overall. Pretty solid. For a 2 day tournament their lowest score was +8. Followed by +12, +13, +18, +18, and +20.

I'm assuming they have even worse players that are on scholarship and I can imagine the 10 other teams that finished behind them also have some players that aren't setting the world on fire. A high school girl that can drop a 69 is good enough to get a scholarship, gtfo with that.