What i need to shoot for a golf scholarship for a div. 1 school?

Question

I am a male entering the 10th grade, and my handicap is a 4. And my gpa is a 3.8.

Answer 1

Need to shoot par or better.  But more importantly than what your average score is - scholarships are awarded to players that have won tournaments, so get out there and play junior events and try to be medalist in your conference, regional, sectional etc.

Answer 2

1. Play in a lot of junior tournaments, like in the AJGA, that will get you noticed if you do well in an event, or even win one.

2. Have good grades (3.8 gpa is good).  You could be a very good golfer but if you don't have the grades then you won't be able to get the scholarship.

3. Finally, you need to send out a lot of college applications, there are thousands of golfers just like you across the country, and not every school will want to give you their scholarship money.  Therefore, the more options you have the easier it will be to get that scholarship you're looking for.

Good Luck

Answer 3

on the right track.  Low single digit handicapper minimum.  Depends on how high your standards are, there's a lot of Div 1 schools out there with golf programs.  You could probably get in to a smaller school with low single digits, but get that handicap on the plus side if you really want a scholarship to a big D1 school.

Answer 4

Keep up the good golf and good grades!  Play in junior tournaments, so coaches and recruiters will notice you.  Send your own letters to the golf coaches and/or athletic directors of schools in which you might be particularly interested.  

My alma mater -- Rice University in Houston, Tex., -- is an excellent academic school with a Division 1A (Conference USA) golf team.  They play in tournaments all over the country, too, and recruit nationally.  But good grades are necessary to get into Rice, even as an athlete.  So you might have an advantage trying for good academic schools like Rice.  (This could be a double bonus for you, since you could for sure get a very good education, which after all is the purpose of going to college, since few of even the best college golfers can make a living playing golf.)

Note, however, that many schools do not give full scholarships for the minor (non-football/basketball) sports.

I hope answer is helpful to you.

Answer 5

Try to play some tough courses (if you aren't already), and play a lot of tournaments.  Play qualifying tournaments and any tournament you can get into.  I got a scholarship to a D1 school with a 2 handicap, but was not able to walk on at Northwestern University since the competition is so much better.

To play at a good school, you need a plus handicap.  And anybody that plays golf knows that cutting 5-7 strokes when you're already breaking 80 is extremely tough.

But playing in qualifiers and then going on to state tournaments (USGA junior, Maxfli junior, Ping junior) and performaing well on my high school team is how I got noticed.  To get noticed by a top notch D1 school, however, you need to qualify and then go on to win some tournaments.

Play hard and good luck.