Maryland State Golf Assocation Maryland State Junior Amateur - you should all try to play in this one each year. It's not about winning, it's about testing yourself against the local competition and it doesn't get much better than this tournament!
Middle Atlantic PGA Junior Golf Tour Select the junior golf link on the left. This usually begins around the end of the school year and goes through the summer.
Washington Metropolitan Golf Association Host of the annual High School Boys Schoolboy event, a classic event started by one of the originators of Maryland Junior Golf-Frank Emmett.
Capital Area Golf Tour - Fall and Spring weekends GREAT NEWS - a new Jr. Golf Tour is beginning this fall! This will be nationally ranked on the Junior Golf Scoreboard, several of the events are in the Frederick Area! See the Capital Area Golf Tour for more information about specific tournaments. These are only on weekends, 18 holes each day. A great opportunity for players who may be looking to play in college, the Junior Golf Scoreboard is a major way players are measured by college coaches. This is an inaugural year but could be very exciting from the beginning. Use the About page to learn more.
Extraordinary Golf - A different view of golf instruction One that makes more sense than most anything I have ever read, a little more about life than just golf, helps you realize that playing great golf is not going to solve any of life's problems! Coach Whitney.
Extraordinary Golf is an environment for learning --an environment so powerful, it awakens a hidden process that is natural to each of us. Through this process, your instincts and awareness lead the way
to the true source of your power and proficiency.
Extraordinary Golf returns you to the wonder of learning...
...and the results are nearly unimaginable.
Learn the Rules Learning the rules can be to your advantage!
It is the players responsibility to learn the rules of golf. This helps provide integrity to the game. You should play by the rules even when you play alone, for leisure etc. Getting into this habit is a great idea and the rules can often help you. The rules are not solely meant for defining penalties! Often one can take relief to where it will help your shot or situation. Of course if you attempt to apply a use a rule and do so incorrectly, even though you may be allowed a free drop etc., can cost you a penalty stroke or loss of hole in match play.
Often several rules have come up which even coaches don''t always know the answers to, this is when we may call upon the local pro shop at the course as they are sometimes related to the local course. Just about everything that can be addressed in golf is in the USGA rulebook. They are the official governing body to for the United States rule of golf.
For our high school tournaments, when in doubt and a coach cannot be reached it''s best to play out a hole with two balls through the green (into the hole) and the coaches can decide which was the correct ruling.
nice visual book from ShortCutBooks to Golf Rules - sanctional by the USGA. http://www.shortcutbooks.com/Shortcut_Books.html
Zen Golf by Dr. Joe Parent very good mental coaching material. I can't make you learn the mental game, you must discover this for yourself.
Excellent Online Lesson videos from Jimmy Ballard Jimmy is a long time professional instructor of the game, this collection of quick videos are some of the best in the industry. He has not modified his methods in over 30 yrs of teaching, many of his concepts apply to some of the very issues I have seen while working with our team swings. I will gladly help you understand how many of these will apply to your game. Please review in particular the following:
Role of the left arm in the swing
Why golfers slice and hook
Triangle in the swing
The Right position and Stance
Simplifying the swing
Left shoulder connection
they are all good!
Also, check on youtube.com for many other swings, past and present players, analysis etc.
Titleist Performance Institute MyTPI.com is the largest collection of golf-specific health and fitness information from the world's leading experts in the game. This site is brought to you by the Titleist Performance Institute (TPI) - the leaders in elite player development. Sign up is now FREE!
International Junior Golf Academy many are inquiring about a good junior golf camps, this one is probably the best if you are willing to travel and spend a few $. Tiger's coach Hank Haney runs this program.
Tom Wishon Golf Tom Wishon Golf Technology is recognized as the highest quality designer of high performance original clubheads, shafts, grips and fitting technology products used by independent professional custom clubmakers around the world.
“I completely respect the work that the large golf equipment companies pursue in their quality and R&D, but my 30 plus years in golf club research has proven that the best set of golf clubs any golfer will ever buy will be a set of true custom made clubs, fit and built by a professional clubmaker using the very best quality and performing clubhead, shaft and grip designs.” Tom Wishon
Even the pros are completely custom fitted, they simply have this done by the big companies, those companies just don't always offer this service down to the non-pros although some do (Ping, Titleist). Often you will see a headcover for a drive on tour, but it's just the head cover not the actual club!
College Golf Guide A paid for service but worth it when searching for information about college golf. This service was started by the PING company and developed into the standard for colleges searches.
Clear Key Golf - Playing in the Fourth Dimension Dr. Carey Mumford helps determine what playing style you have and allows you to interpret your best way to deal with yourself to build proper habits so golf can become automatic!
Washington Metropolitan Golf Association This folks host a number of junior events in the summer, you must have a handicap.
Tournaments include boys through Sr. Year and summer.
Frank Emmet Schoolboy
Bobby Gorin Memorial
Bubby Worsham Memorial
Bob Riley Junior Open
Dewey Ricketts Memorial
Charley Ridgway Junior
The Golf Channel - online swing videos - I subscribe to this annually, it's worth a few bucks. If you run into a video you want to see let me know and I will help you view them. Coach Whitney
AJ Bonar - The Truth About Golf - more power "I am a firm believer that AJ's ideas are true and work for many folks. It may not be for everyone and can be considered more advanced to fully understand his methods but it certainly helped my game and my sons game and I think it can help many others too." -Coach Whitney
V1 Video Swing Software it's free for the basic version and all you need is a .avi file which I am going to provide to you on CD! Perhaps we can do some comparisons after we improve some things!
Ben Hogan's Five Lessons easily one of the greatest golf books ever written for learning fundamentals - if you don't have a copy get one! This is the very book I used when I was a junior.
David Leadbetter also produced a book about his interpretation of Ben's book, this one is also an excellent read because not absolutely everything in Ben's book was something that Ben actually used for his own swing.
David's book is named "The Fundamentals of Hogan"
Breakthrough Performance Techniques Please visit the material on this site for info on improving your perforance through special techniques known as Emotional Freedom Technique EFT.
PGA / PGM - Professional Golf Management College Cirriculum What is The PGA of America's PGM Program? The PGA/Professional Golf Management™ (PGM) program, a four-and-one-half year college curriculum for aspiring PGA Professionals, is a structured educational program accredited by The PGA of America.
PGA/PGM™ programs provide students the opportunity to acquire the knowledge and skills necessary for success in the golf industry through extensive classroom studies, internship experience and player development. Since its inception in 1975, more than 2,300 students have graduated from a PGA/PGM™ program.
