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**xanaxnewtrader** · 08-30-2012, 11:55 PM

I understood what you meant in your earlier post. It must have been a very good team to have everybody on it think that they could go on in the sport after high school.

They thought they were better then they actually were

. All joking aside we had a solid team, 2 of 6 went to states that year and we had a couple younger guys who were going to get better. I thought 1 or 2 could play in college but there were kids that I thought could of used more instruction (I just couldn't and it wasn't a fight worth taking on).

Now that I pay attention to professional golf and how to become a pro, I look back at my high school career with a bit of regret. Our coach never once talked about preparing for college golf or going pro. It was like just taking a golf class as part of the curriculum. I finished my senior year and that was that. Golf was all I wanted to do during the warmer months, and I feel like if I had someone there telling me I had the potential to go on and do something with my game, or even someone to just let me know what kind of opportunities were out there, I think I would have tried to find some open doors out there and try to make something of my game. I have 15 years between then and now and I'd love to be able to fine tune my game and see what's possible now, but the opportunities are much fewer and much farther between.

While I didn't do any instructional teaching I was always supportive and trying to boost them up. Telling them how they had the talent to go to states, play in college, etc. And obviously, the most important part in my mind was making sure that they kept up their academics because if they wanted to play golf someday, they would need to keep their grades up. This was about all I could do as any college interested in the kid would talk to the pro at one of the amateur tournaments the kid would enroll in.

08-30-2012, 11:55 PM	#28
xanaxnewtrader Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 408 Senior Member	I understood what you meant in your earlier post. It must have been a very good team to have everybody on it think that they could go on in the sport after high school. They thought they were better then they actually were . All joking aside we had a solid team, 2 of 6 went to states that year and we had a couple younger guys who were going to get better. I thought 1 or 2 could play in college but there were kids that I thought could of used more instruction (I just couldn't and it wasn't a fight worth taking on). Now that I pay attention to professional golf and how to become a pro, I look back at my high school career with a bit of regret. Our coach never once talked about preparing for college golf or going pro. It was like just taking a golf class as part of the curriculum. I finished my senior year and that was that. Golf was all I wanted to do during the warmer months, and I feel like if I had someone there telling me I had the potential to go on and do something with my game, or even someone to just let me know what kind of opportunities were out there, I think I would have tried to find some open doors out there and try to make something of my game. I have 15 years between then and now and I'd love to be able to fine tune my game and see what's possible now, but the opportunities are much fewer and much farther between. While I didn't do any instructional teaching I was always supportive and trying to boost them up. Telling them how they had the talent to go to states, play in college, etc. And obviously, the most important part in my mind was making sure that they kept up their academics because if they wanted to play golf someday, they would need to keep their grades up. This was about all I could do as any college interested in the kid would talk to the pro at one of the amateur tournaments the kid would enroll in.
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