The College Golf Recruiting Process; Don’t Let Anchors Sink Your Chances

This paper is a typology of two prospective student athletes and their families’ college search processes. Although the story is fictional, the two students and their families are based upon data collected through numerous observations and interviews with families in search of college golf scholarships over my twenty years in college golf as a player, coach and now advisor. These narrative and ideas are meant to invoke thought and reflection among not only professional coaches and parents but also prospective student athletes, some of whom may be in their early teens.