With Spring upon us, this is the time that many junior golfers have slowed down their golf involvement after a hectic year of tournament play. In most parts of the country, high school golf has already begun.
From a mental perspective, now is a great time for the players to sit back and take some accounting of what has been going well with their game and what has been going less than well. At times, in the middle of competitive season, it seems as though players are too busy to really work on specific elements of their game. For some it feels like there is a constant “bandaging” of their game in order to get it ready for the next event.
In order to get better, it is essential that players take time to assess where their game is and create a plan of action on how they will get better over the winter. To that end, we want to make sure the player is assessing, not guessing!
Being back in school means less time to work on the game, so it is important that the time devoted to golf is spent wisely and the efforts are productive and efficient. Make sure that the assessments of the game are specific, purposeful, and honest. Get feedback from the friends who know your game, from your parents, and from your instructor, to get a comprehensive sense of where your strengths and weaknesses lie. Then put together a plan to attack those areas of weakness and continue to build the strengths!
Below is a form (Golf-Evaluation-Form.PDF attached to this post) that you could fill out and ask your “advisory team” to fill out to see where you stand on some key elements of the game. I hope this helps you continue to grow and improve as a player!
