[M.D. Holloway]

Originally Posted by G50

Golf is a great sport for kids. My son started golf for the exact reasons your son gives.

My son is a national level golfer. He's 14 and has been playing competitively since he was 9. He has too many tournament wins to count, has shot under par in many, many tournaments (as recently as yesterday), won a World Championship when he was 12, was named All Conference First Team as a freshman in one of the most competitive high school leagues in California, etc.

Through this, I've had to become an expert on Jr. Golf.

I'm not sure what you mean by shoot "under 105 for 3 consecutive games." Do you mean score 105 or less for 18 holes? If that's the case, I can tell you by any measure of competitive junior golf, that's a very, very low standard.

So let me know if you have any questions. I don't know what your goals for him are, but I can tell you that 14 is pretty late for a kid to start golf these days, if he expects to play in college D1 or D2, or to get any kind of a college scholarship.

If he just wants to play in high school, that's pretty easy and low stress. Colleges pay pretty much zero attention to high school golf, they look at results in outside nationally ranked tournaments. So that takes all the pressure off high school, which tends to be pretty casual.

yup, 105 or under for 3 consecutive games. It may be low. No idea. And no he is not interested in getting a scholorship for it - he jsut wants to do something and choose that.