LawGenius305

Forgot this was about girls. 100% accurate.

There was no personal attack. What is that saying "First to complain are always offended"?

More important than making more birdies.

The field at TF on Day 2 was stronger or performed better. It is an easy explanation that JGS will never own up to.

You are easily persuaded, you would be a good juror for someone. Goes back to my original statement "Say you don't understand this thread without saying it." These are legitimate reasons to discuss. There seems to be a serious discussion somewhere every year about the same topic from high level golf instructors like Jim McClean. However, someone posts it here and it is parents making excuses. Not one poster in this thread brought up anything about their kid not getting in. You did, however, come to that conclusion based on nothing. This is exactly what this thread is about, you just don't like it. Maybe just dip out instead of sounding like the Archie Bunker of the internet.

Say you don't understand without saying it. I have not bee a big contributor to this thread, but I understand what everyone's argument is. No one has mentioned fair, has not blamed fault, and have not pointed fingers. They are talking about making it a better event.

My oldest playing in the USGA Junior was the best golf experience I have ever been associated with.

Not in women's. Women's D3 golf is pretty bad after the top 4-6 schools. Only schools I would consider over a D1 would be Emory, Carnegie, Pomona Pitzer, George Fox, Wash U and Williams. After that there is a huge drop off in talent. D3 women's generally plays 5700 max. Bottom line, you would choose D3 for the Academic route. Those schools I listed are top women's golf schools and top academic schools. The other part of this, if you are asking the question, they probably don't have a chance to play professionally. Pick the better academic school.

https://championships.usga.org/usjunioramateur/viewing-schedule.html

agree

No doubt. He is an IMG Kid. Has been playing FSGA stuff since 2021. https://www.fsga.org/Membership/Results/?year=2022&id=6cacab7a-3ef2-4062-919e-4645e7040483&isQual=False

36 hole qualifier it is highly unlikely a player catches lightning in a botte and advances. Kid qualified from Florida a couple of years ago that never shot under par in any round in his life. Couldn't even catch on to a bottom end NAIA. He wins medalist and ends up bottom 5 of stroke play.

Nope. It used to be 36 hole qualifier, which it still should be. The biggest Junior golf tournament in the world and they play a 1 day qualifier. SMH!

Mingbo has been in Florida for years. This isn't a direct recruitment from China. While Mingbo is an upper level player, I don't see him being elite by any means.

Cheating is found at all levels.

100% Know plenty of players playing D1 golf that couldn't make the playing rosters of D2 or D2 teams. But, "They played D1 golf". My response is always the same. Did they play? They play in a mid to lower tier conference, play against other mid to lower level players, the conference has 1 tourney bid. They will never play against the top players nor have a chance to play in the National Championship. Go where the player can compete at the highest level of that division. Example If your choice is D1 Elon or D2 West Florida, go to West Florida. If your choice is D2 University of Montavello or D3 Huntingdon, go to Huntingdon.

This is what people (parents) don't understand. In general D3 golf is bad. At the top level there are kids that can play and compete at every level. Honestly, D2 golf isn't much better, just deeper. After the top 25ish teams D2 golf starts to get get pretty average. Then you get to D1 where there are at least 100 teams that can't beat the top teams in D2 or D3.

She is a really good putter.

Agree 100% It is mind boggling. It is the dad's not being able to swallow that pill. Local kid was at a school that made it to D1 national championship. He is a sophomore and hasn't played one event in 2 years. He was cut and transferred out of state and my guess is he will struggle to play there as well. Makes absolutely no sense. At that point I am transferring to where I can play and make an impact immediately. The top D3 schools he will be playing the 3 Bag at best, yet he is going to another D1 where he will struggle for playing time. I say this knowingly because my son wears him out when they play.

What state? The best D3 teams all play in the south or travel south to play the majority of their tournaments. There are D3 tournaments that hit 7000. If any D3 tournament is being played outside of Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina, they probably are mid to bad teams (other than Illinois Wesleyan or Aurora). Many of the courses they do play, are stretched out as far as they go. There are plenty of D1 tournaments playing less than 7000 yds. I also used the term, handful. There are some D3 kids that play summer tournaments and beat up D2 and D1 players.

Any upsets so far?

The top D3 kids are doing that. Jonathon McEwen and a handful of the top 20 kids would play at the top D1 schools. I am not saying sit the bench, they would play. Several others would make impacts at other D1 schools. There are several -4.0's on JGS going D3 route this year because of education and golf has gotten that much better at the D3 level. There are about 5 teams that would compete at the mid to low level D1 schools because these teams have some D1 talent on them. Some under recruited, some who have prospered, some that chose not to go to a big school.

One of my son's junior friends is interested in a middle tier D3 school. The coach told him that he is looking for kids that can shoot in the 60's and bad rounds in the low 70's. Dang, sounds like he is recruiting the same kid as Auburn. Talk about delusional. 🤪

Grace Carter?

Catch 22. I always have been one to get them ranked as early as possible, but never talk to them about rankings. Just allow them to play. Don't even mention JGS unless they already know about it.