Ten places to start, depending on where you and your junior are right now. Every article on the site lives in one of them.
Getting Started in Junior Golf
The very beginning: a child who has picked up a club and might want to keep going. Explaining the rules without draining the fun out of them, and what a toddler can realistically do with a swing. Nothing here assumes you play yourself.
2 articles
Golf Culture and Inspiration
Why the game is worth the early Saturday mornings. The habits golf builds in a young player — patience, honest scoring, playing badly without falling apart — and the stories behind players who started at the same age yours did.
2 articles
Golf Gear and Accessories for Juniors
Clubs, bags and everything a junior has to carry. Fitting by height rather than age, which pieces earn their place in a small bag, and what we would buy again. All of it measured against a child who is still growing, because the set that fits this season will not fit the next.
3 articles
Golfing as a Family
Playing together without it going wrong. Coaching your own child — where that helps and where it quietly does not — and courses that welcome a family group rather than merely tolerating one.
2 articles
Health and Fitness for Junior Golfers
Growing bodies doing a repetitive, one-sided movement. Warm-ups short enough that a child will actually do them, and strength work suited to a young player rather than a scaled-down version of an adult program.
2 articles
Junior Golf Competitions and Events
The first tournament, and the ones after it. What goes in the bag, what the day really looks like for a parent as well as a player, and which events are worth the entry fee and the travel.
2 articles
Junior Golf Training and Skill Development
Practice that holds a young player’s attention. Swing fundamentals broken into pieces a child can actually keep in their head, camps worth giving a week to, and goal setting that motivates rather than adds pressure.
3 articles
Product Reviews / Recommendations
Individual products looked at properly: what held up, what wore out, and what we would choose instead. Where a verdict rests on other people’s reviews rather than our own use, it says so.
1 article
Resources and Tips for Parents and Coaches
The organizing rather than the swinging. Keeping junior golf affordable as it gets more serious, and building a schedule with room left for school, other sports and doing nothing at all.
2 articles
Scholarships and Career Opportunities
For families looking further ahead than next season. How college recruitment actually works and what a parent’s part in it is, and where to find funding that exists but is rarely advertised.
2 articles