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Step 6 of a College Golf Scholarship
Step 6: Write Your Cover Letter Your cover letter will be used to transmit your resume and recruiting video and will be your first formal introduction to coaches. As such, it should be written to tell your personal story. Keep it focused and limit it to one page. Make sure you check and re-check spelling…
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Step 4 to a College Golf Scholarship
GPG is very serious about each student-athlete’s vision of where you want to be at the end of the recruiting process. We also emphasize the need to develop measurable goals and specific action steps that will provide you with a road map to realize your vision. The following will assist you in developing your vision…
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Step 3 to a College Golf Scholarship
Step 3: Register with NCAA/NAIA Eligibility Centers Before contacting schools and coaches you need to register with the NCAA Eligibility Center and/or the NAIA Eligibility Center. Eligibility is based on academic performance criteria. Therefore, it is important to understand early on, that if you want to be student-athlete, you must first take care of your…
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Step 2 to a College Golf Scholarship
Based on the priorities you listed, start researching schools with the goal of identifying 25 schools to put on your radar. To start, split the schools evenly between….
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Step 1 to a College Golf Scholarship
The college recruiting process can be quite intimidating for most high school athletes and their parents. There are many reasons why certain players get recruited to play college athletics, while others do not. Every year, hundreds of high school athletes fall through the cracks of college recruiting simply because they do not fully understand the…
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How to structure your practice into 3 phases
10,000 hours of practice to become expert. 10,000 hours of deliberate practice to become expert. Practice golf smarter not harder. Is your golf practice efficient? A recent golf study showed that for the average golfer, which is a golfer that averages 100 for 18 holes, deliberate practice was 30% of the total process of becoming…
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Deliberate Golf Practice
The Value of Deliberate Golf Practice 10,000 hours of practice to become expert. 10,000 hours of deliberate practice to become expert. Practice golf smarter not harder. Is your golf practice efficient? A recent golf study showed that for the average golfer, which is a golfer that averages 100 for 18 holes, deliberate practice was 30%…
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Mental Tool 4: How should you practice?
How to practice Get excited, we are about to start the fun stuff! I like to start with some education on how you should practice and why. Most golfers overlook the basics and never get better. The basics (fundamentals) are extremely important. Golf can be unpredictable, but there are some things you can control to…
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Practice Golf Controllables
In life there are many things we can control and others we cannot. This is the same with golf. Often times we like to blame others, the golf course, and/or mother nature when things do not go the way we intended on the golf course. It is important with golf to focus primarily on the…
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Is Journaling Important for Golf
Why is Journaling Important for Golf? In step 2 of the mental toughness program for golf, we discuss journaling and the impacts it can have on your golf game. It is common that the golfer will look at me with a blank stare, like “really, I am paying for you to tell me how to…