Golfingdawg19

The way things are working now, kids going to big schools will get 1-2 to produce. If they aren’t making the travel team on a regular basis then they will process them out. Those kids will end up at smaller schools and do well. On the flip side, if a kid plays well we D2-D3 or a mid major, they will get paid to go to a bigger school. Just how things work these days

I can only speak for the women’s side but some of the top D2 teams would definitely beat some lower level D1 teams. The problem is going to be that the D2 teams don’t have the facilities or budgets that the D1 teams have. That matters to a lot of kids.

The data that TUGR gives is a lot more in depth than what you get with JGS. TUGR keeps the tournaments on your record for a longer period of time which I think is good. I also like the fact that they include the AM events, and one day qualifiers. It just gives you a better overall picture of what the kid is doing IMO. The negative is they are slow to get tournaments put in like people have pointed out. There is more good than bad IMO but they have to get better at putting in tournaments more efficiently.

My daughter is getting ready to be a senior and is committed a D1 college. On June 1st of last year she was ranked 170 in her class and had an index of .7 in JGS. She only had mi major offers because of this. On June 1st of this year she was 32nd in her class and had an index of -4.44. So she made quite a jump in one year. We got her with a mental coach and she learned to get out of her own way. The ball striking was always there it was the mental part of the game that held her back. If she would have been ranked 32 going into her junior year, her offers would have looked totally different. Under the current system, coaches set their boards based on where the kids are on June 15th before their junior year. That leaves two years of HS left to mature and get better. I think it’s crazy to judge them that soon. Some of these kids get worse after they commit and others take off and do like my daughter. They coaches are gambling that the kids will continue to get better but they don’t know that. With the portal, they can always process them out if they don’t produce like they want and also go get players they missed on from the smaller schools. So the new rules actually help these coaches who may have messed up on evaluations.

My daughter committed to a D1 school so this is my take on things based on her experience. She went on 3 visits and all three schools offered a full ride scholarship. One was a small school (5k students) and two were mid sized schools (20k students). She didn’t like the feel of the small school even though it was the nicest campus of the 3. The one mid sized school was better at golf and had better facilities but didn’t have an assistant coach. They also had a small recruiting budget, didn’t travel much as a team, and the campus was “dated.” The third school had the best combination of coach and assistant coach. They had the best academics and money as a program to be able to travel. So my daughter put a focus on the “whole package.” She wanted the best blend of golf, academics, social life, and business connections for later in life. So each kid has to figure out what is important to them.