The Coach's Guide to The Junior Golfer's Workbook
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This guide will help you use The Junior Golfer’s Workbook with your team or individual players. We’re guided by three objectives: Raising lifelong golfers that…
1. enjoy their game whatever their skill level;
2. welcome the challenge of learning for continuous improvement; and
3. understand that their mental and emotional performance controls their technical performance, is the most direct route to improvement, and is within their control.
Coaches and Parents Matter… Your work as a coach and mentor to young golfers is tremendously important because golf is a sport they can play their whole life long. Research has established the value of adults, coaches and especially parents, on juniors trying and sticking with golf. Unlike team sports like soccer or basketball which most kids play at recess or after school, 75% of juniors first experience and usually play golf with a parent.*
As most of us have experienced, golf is challenging and often frustrating. It requires a determined, positive attitude that focuses on process rather than results and always puts fun first. That kind of perseverance only flourishes with support from a mentor like you. Moreover, perseverance is just one of the many lifetime skills that golf naturally teaches, as we hope young golfers will learn with your help.
Three Keys to Coaching with The Junior Golfer’s Workbook…
1. Be sure your players feel they are writing for themselves about their own game. Let them own it.
2. Write as a golfer and a coach, and share your writing with players. Your golfers will only believe in the importance of writing if they see writing.
3. Above all, remember: Fun always comes first. We all want to raise lifelong golfers who will enjoy the game no matter what goes on the scorecard.
* National Golf Foundation, “The Odds of Becoming a Junior Golfer and the Influence of a Parent Who Plays” (2017).
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1. enjoy their game whatever their skill level;
2. welcome the challenge of learning for continuous improvement; and
3. understand that their mental and emotional performance controls their technical performance, is the most direct route to improvement, and is within their control.
Coaches and Parents Matter… Your work as a coach and mentor to young golfers is tremendously important because golf is a sport they can play their whole life long. Research has established the value of adults, coaches and especially parents, on juniors trying and sticking with golf. Unlike team sports like soccer or basketball which most kids play at recess or after school, 75% of juniors first experience and usually play golf with a parent.*
As most of us have experienced, golf is challenging and often frustrating. It requires a determined, positive attitude that focuses on process rather than results and always puts fun first. That kind of perseverance only flourishes with support from a mentor like you. Moreover, perseverance is just one of the many lifetime skills that golf naturally teaches, as we hope young golfers will learn with your help.
Three Keys to Coaching with The Junior Golfer’s Workbook…
1. Be sure your players feel they are writing for themselves about their own game. Let them own it.
2. Write as a golfer and a coach, and share your writing with players. Your golfers will only believe in the importance of writing if they see writing.
3. Above all, remember: Fun always comes first. We all want to raise lifelong golfers who will enjoy the game no matter what goes on the scorecard.
* National Golf Foundation, “The Odds of Becoming a Junior Golfer and the Influence of a Parent Who Plays” (2017).
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