The Junior Golf Podcast

We Believe In The Power Of Sports Injuries in young athletes have soared. Costs to compete have skyrocketed. Kids are quitting in record numbers. But we believe strongly in youth sports, and the many ways it improves our childrens’ lives. We are here to help parents regain balance and sanity, and to help restore the joy, accomplishment, and core values derived from sports. We started this website because we had and still have so many questions and concerns along this journey. We hope that that our experiences, along with advice from the top experts, help you to become the best possible parent for your athlete. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Special guest Harold Varner, II, father of PGA tour player, Harold Varner, III. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The BCGCA is a 501(c)3 that provides student athletes from around the world with unique opportunities to compete in college golf while developing academic and interpersonal skills to compete in the “real world” on a global scale. The core of our efforts is to bring our team’s fresh ideas and passion to the range of activities we’re involved in. Through all of our endeavors we hope to display the conviction behind our beliefs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Players NIL is an online educational program that equips you with the financial and brand building skills to navigate NIL opportunities. We are not a brand representative or a deal maker. We educate and develop your intellectual property and give you the tools to make the best decisions about your NIL opportunities. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Perfect Swing Foundation A Perfect Swing Foundation (501c3) introduce golf for youth development and as a low impact alternative for sports and exercise, by teaching the technique of the sport and providing workshops to enhance their leadership, communication, and networking skills. Playing golf will help boost their morale and get them moving. This will impact their overall health and wellness, as well as their outlook on life. Additionally, this will allow them to compete in school competitions and potentially earn a college scholarship, as well as potentially play professionally one day. If you know someone that can benefit from our services, please contact us. Individual and business partnerships, sponsorships, and donations are needed and appreciated. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Also known as Op 36, we are a team of golf professionals and golf enthusiasts that are aiming to change the way the golf industry introduces and progresses beginners in playing the game of golf. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fitness & Nutrition Experts. Swing, Putting & Mental Coaches. Family Golf Resorts. National Junior Tours. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tami Matheny is Owner and Director of Refuse2LoseCoaching, LLC and Co-Owner of Success for Teams, LLC. As a Mental Game Coach, she works with coaches, athletes and teams to improve areas such as confidence, focus, motivation, mental toughness, leadership, teamwork, etc. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The parent/athlete relationship is complex, rewarding, terrifying and satisfying - all at the same time. Watching our kids compete can create amazing bonds, or it can risk damaging family relationships altogether. That line can be thin and a slippery slope if the journey is approached with mismatched goals, unrealistic expectations, and a mom or dad who ‘wants it’ more than the player does. This book is a look at that dynamic in great detail through the lens of junior golf and our journey as a family. This is not a resource to teach you how to raise the most successful golfer - more so, it is about taking our advice as you start your journey so that you can avoid many of the mistakes that we made as parents and as a family. Golf is an amazing game that will teach us so much about life, adversity, overcoming, failing and succeeding, hurting and healing, winning and losing with grace – and we are all better off if we let it happen organically and enjoy the moments along the way. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Zoe Slaughter is a college golfer at Texas A & M. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vivian Lott is a junior golf phenom from the state of GA Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mia Hammond is an outstanding junior golfer from Columbus, OH. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bella Flores. AGE: 16. RESIDENCE: Kingwood, TX JUNIOR GOLFER HIGH SCHOOL GRAD YEAR: 2024. CLUB: The Clubs of Kingwood Follow Me:. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Junior Golf Podcast Vol 31 Presents Rodney Lathern, Developer of the Prince George Youth Golf Training Center Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Green’s Ladies Club, Inc. was organized May 1, 1954 in Philadelphia, PA by Lorraine Sawyer. Mrs. Sawyer envisioned that Black women could partake of the experiences on the golf links. On May 1, 1954, she convened with seven other women at 160 N. Sandford Street Philadelphia, PA, where they laid the foundation of the Green’s Ladies Golf Club. The first tournament hosted by the Green’s Ladies was held in 1955. Following that successful tournament, GLGC became members of the Eastern Golf Association and the United Golf Association. This is the premier golf organization for women who are seeking to develop their golf game, connect with other women who are interested in the game of golf, and wish to participate competitively in local, state, and national tournaments. *Club donation to junior golfers in Zambia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Justin Fleming, Senior Director of the South Carolina Junior Golf Association Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ellen Dunn is the chapter director for the Columbia U.S. Kids Golf Tour!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ellen Dunn runs the Columbia Chapter of the U.S. Kids Tour Teaching kids of the Midlands tournament style golf! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We started the Junior Golf Scoreboard in May of 1998 right after my son finished his junior career and was headed off to college. It literally began in a storage room that we sublet from a company. With our one phone we called every tournament we could find and began building a database of events for people to find on our website. As a former junior golf Dad I knew that parents were struggling to learn more about the sport and how to enter tournaments. College coaches had no way to follow the sport nationally and there was very little information about playing the sport or how college recruiting worked. So we began building the Scoreboard with content that we hope would be useful. My passions include family time with Porter, Christopher and Alison, working as an adult volunteer in youth Ministry, playing golf, and working on issues surrounding conservation and the challenges of climate change. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

From the time he was 13, Kris Stiles is one of the top young golfers in the country and has been drawing comparisons to Tiger Woods from an early age. Most kids would only dream of being referred to as the next Tiger, but Kris doesn't see it that way. He wants to blaze his own path. Kris' story goes much deeper than just golf, as financial troubles have hindered his ability to compete at the highest level. Watch the feature above, as Bleacher Report takes you inside a father and son's relationship, the pursuit of being elite and the power of kindness. https://youtu.be/1ka6qktWSjU Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The DECADE Course Management System, created by Scott Fawcett, has solved golf strategy by combining shot distribution patterns and PGA Tour scoring statistics. When Scott combined those two data sets he created a simple way to optimize target selection. Good players know if a pin is closely guarded by a lake to favor the center of the green – but how much? DECADE quickly generates the optimal target that will produce the lowest score based on distance, hazards, and hole location. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What Is Play College Golf The world of college recruitment is complex and can be confusing or intimidating. PlayCollegeColf.net is here to help student-athletes and their families when it comes to college golf scholarships. PlayCollegeGolf.net gives each golfer an active role in their own recruiting process by providing them with tools, professional advice, and information to help them choose the school that’s right for them and put their best foot forward throughout the recruiting process. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Haven Ward from Atlanta, GA is climbing the charts on the girl's junior golf rankings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kendall Jackson is a junior golfer from Pearland, TX. Kendall is currently playing at Howard University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Jean Jackson is the mother of junior golf phenom McKenzie Mack who attended Indiana State University. Dr. Jean is a blogger, influencer and the parent of McKenzie and Sydnee Mack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Special guest Patrick Plank & Caila Roberts with the American Junior Golf Association(AJGA). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Special guest Scott DeLoatch, legendary teaching pro from Norristown, PA. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Special guest Mackenzie Mack, LPGA Pro from Las Vegas, NV. Graduate of Indiana State University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Special guest Michael Blade AKA Doc Blade, an amazing golf instructor based out of Atlanta, GA. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Special guest Bailey Davis, junior golf phenom and James Palmer of Combine Academy!!1 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Special guest Xeve Perez, junior golfer, Jamie Taylor, Black Golf Directory and Robert Thompson, an expert on the golf index!!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Special guest Tim O'neal, PGA tour player!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Special guest on the show: Richard Degree & Mark Hrobowski-Burnett Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Special guest on the show: Andre Pillow & Awesome Burnett Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Special guests on the show: Andy Walker & Christian Heavans Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Meet Alan Johnson, African American Amateur Champion Golfer and Inventor of NeuraPutt Aim and Pace Trainer. Alan’s journey from 8-year-old junior golfer to having Golf Digest proclaim his invention, NeuraPutt, as “the epitome of target practice” has been an uphill battle. The passion and talent for the game of golf runs in Alan’s family, his Grandfather, PGA Teaching Pro Sie Willis Jr., taught and mentored Alan on the public golf courses of Detroit, Michigan. Inevitably, Alan hit all the checkmarks of a golfing prodigy from junior golf all through high school which led to being offered multiple golf scholarships to university's local and abroad. After graduating with a degree in Mechanical Engineering, Alan was able to intern with Golfweek Magazine and the PGA Tour. It was when his grandfather tragically passed away from a heart attack while pulling into his home course parking lot, Alan lost all motivation for the game of golf. After some time away from the game, Alan completed an apprenticeship to become a Millwright Engineer for the nation’s leading car manufacturer. But golf had never really left Alan’s blood, mind or heart. In 2005, the Big 3 Auto Companies were going bankrupt and resorted to offering early retirement packages. Alan jumped on this opportunity to go back to school and quite naturally, join a golf team. Over the next 4 years he sharpened his teeth on collegiate golf and then upon graduation earned a Single Season Pro-Level Sponsorship to play on Florida's mini-tour scene. But victory was elusive for Alan, and he returned home to his career. He reinstated his Amateur Status and remained competitive. In no time, he began stacking wins, both locally and nationally. Most notably the Detroit Amateur Open (2016 and 2018) and capturing the First Flight spot on the 2021 US Amateur Golf Team. He's slated to play in the 0.0-4.9Hcp Division of the World Amateur Golf Championship in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It's every golfer's eternal quest to improve the weakest link in their game and for Alan, that was putting. The necessity to become consistent from short range drove Alan to embark on a trial-and-error journey that would lead to the creation of the first aim and pace training aid. He managed to balance his new career, develop his golf game and not only patent the Neuraputt, but also bring it to the marketplace. It was then at the 2020 PGA Merchandise Show where NeuraPutt really created a buzz and captured the attention of many industry leaders - including Golf Digest. Golf Digest, the industry titan, awarded NeuraPutt 3rd on the List of THE BEST NEW GOLF TRAINING AIDS OF 2020. It didn’t stop there, immediately following the success from the PGA Show Alan Johnson took Neuraputt to the Las Vegas casting call of ABC’s Shark Tank. Almost immediately he was called back by producers and invited to advance to the next round towards appearance on the show. COVID19 derailed the momentum but positive consumer feedback for Neuraputt continues to pile up. Golfers around the world rave about the training aid and word is organically spreading to not just casual golfers but students, junior golfers and golf coaches. With hopes of eventually creating jobs, Alan has completed the long journey of being able to proudly move all production and manufacturing of NeuraPutt to the U.S. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Randy has competed in the state and regional level for quite a few years. He has won the Mid Atlantic Sr Am in 2020, runner up in the VSGA Sr Match play in 2018, and have competed in numerous State and Mid Atlantic Opens and Amateurs over the years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gad Espinosa is a former professional athlete, certified Mental Performance Coach, author, speaker and founder of the Mental Toughness Academy. Clients include athletes and teams at all levels, from those just starting their athletic careers to full-time professional athletes and others who have gone on to represent their country and succeed at World Championships and Olympic Games. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The DECADE Course Management System, created by Scott Fawcett, has solved golf strategy by combining shot distribution patterns and PGA Tour scoring statistics. When Scott combined those two data sets he created a simple way to optimize target selection. Good players know if a pin is closely guarded by a lake to favor the center of the green – but how much? DECADE quickly generates the optimal target that will produce the lowest score based on distance, hazards, and hole location. DECADE in action is a simple process that does all the work for you. Millions of shots were analyzed to determine the optimal target for any shot. The result is an easy addition to your routine that actually takes less time than the typical process of selecting a target…if one is even selected! One of the main reasons golfers tend to peak later than athletes in other sports is due to the fact it takes a long time to learn proper strategy. Not any more! Don’t take a decade to learn proper strategy, learn the DECADE System in a day! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Athletic Golf Fitness is dedicated to helping golfers get control over their body; so that they can get out of their head and get into their game. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Golf Strategy School is a place where you can get great actionable tips, strategies, and information from the best and brightest golf instructors from around the world. We feature guests like: Tom Stickney - Golf Magazine Top 100 instructor, Golf Digest Top 20 Under 40 alumni. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Black Junior Talk Show Vol. 13 featuring Matthew Vital, the 2019 Masters Drive, Chip & Putt winner!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices