<p>Can someone tell me where I can find a complete list of women's golf team in D1, D2 and D3? I tried to Google it, but can not seem to find it. The NCAA website does not give me a complete list nor the wikipedia. Thanks.</p>
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<p>If you scroll to the bottom of the page in the box where it says NCAA teams, click on women it will list all teams and their ranking in D1-D3… another great resource is called the Ping guide for college golf.</p>
<p>Wow, so many schools are on D1. How hard is it to be recruited by Ivies for women’s golf? How long does it take from a non-golfer to become Ivies recruits?</p>
<p>I really don’t know about women’s golf, my son plays D1. I can tell you that it is very competitive and if you are a non golfer odds are not likely you would be able to play college golf at any level. Did I misunderstand what you meant?</p>
<p>No, you did not misunderstand me, but my daughter just past her 11th birthday, so I am wondering giving 6.5 years will that be enough? What kind talent or physical shape are needed to be a good golfer?</p>
<p>It doesn’t take any time, just tremendous talent (golf and classroom). For example, if she is a top 10 player in a competitive state and very strong academically, she’ll be on their radar in one season (soph/junior year of hs). It is way, way too early to be thinking about this stuff, IMO.</p>
<p>What kind talents are needed to be a good golfer? I am thinking ahead because my son (8th grader) plays fencing and we were told it is too late. Therefore, I don’t want to make the same mistake on my D.</p>
<p>sydclu- the best advise I can give you is if SHE wants to play golf then introduce her to the game by getting her some lessons and letting her have fun, you will see rather quickly if she seems to enjoy it or it is too frustrating for her. It is not for everyone. I would never suggest you push it on her, that never works, and after watching lots of kids pushed by their parents to excel they burn out and hate it.<br>
That being said if she herself loves it then it is not too late, you would have plenty of time for her to learn the game and become proficient at it. It takes god given athletic ability, desire to stick to it and patience to become great at golf.<br>
There are lots of opportunities to play college golf at all sorts of levels, if you are going about this for scholarship $ then it is a bad idea. If it happens for her, it happens… Don’t do something hoping to get money for it.<br>
My son was “okay” at junior golf around age 11/12, he got serious about it at that point and because he loved it we helped him by providing opportunities to get better and compete, etc… For him it was a blessing as he is on a full ride (Yes I know VERY uncommon in mens golf) at a mid major D1 university and is extremely happy. He is following HIS dream. That is the MOST important part… It has to come from her. Best of luck.</p>
<p>When your son applied were you in contact with a golf coach or recruiter already or did someone approach you? Just wondering if putting on your application that you are interested in golf is enough? My daughter golfs…while she is not the #1 she is good…I would think there is something for all levels…</p>
<p>adugan34, for my son he was recruited pretty heavily as he has some top ajga finishes and qualified for the us junior amateur summer after soph. year. He was offered scholarship a year before he could sign his NLI so he was very lucky.
If you private message me with specific questions I would be glad to help you out.</p>
<p>No, i am not aiming at getting scholarship through golf, but do want to pick a sport that will help her admission chances to a good college. Did your son have to travel out of state a lot for tournament?</p>
<p>sydclu–recruiting in girls golf is not as competitive as it is in boys golf simply because there are not as many girls golfers and there are more golf scholarships for girls than boys. One thing with golf, it’s pretty easy to know if you can make the cut or not for a school by looking at the current stats for that team. Keep in mind that in college they play from about 6000 yards, give or take. A lot of high school teams play at around 4500, maybe. In order to be given admissions help for an Ivy and golf, she will need to be posting scores close to par, 72-78 in most tournaments, and again, tournaments where the course is long enough to offer some comparison.</p>
<p>If she enjoys golf and wants to play in college, there is no reason why she can’t get a scholarship somewhere. There are many girls getting scholarships that shoot in the 100’s because they don’t have anyone else to give those scholarships to. If you are only focused on Ivy League schools, keep in mind you will be paying 60,000/year for her to attend one of those school, at least, by the time she is in college. Other schools, depending on how good she ends up being, she could possibly get a 1/2 golf scholarship, 1/2 merit scholarship and pay nothing for undergrad.</p>
<p>@sydclu
I’m not quite sure ho how phrase this, but I have a feeling that you are not an athlete. While it is certainly the case that there are parents who have succeeded in “making” their children into successful athletes, please consider that it takes years and many, many hours of practice and a lot of commitment and hardship to be good enough to be recruited as a college-athlete. Also, it takes about 25-30 hours a week plus weekends and parts of winter, spring, summer breaks to compete in college, often sacrificing not only a social life but also compromising to a certain extent one’s academics. I honestly don’t see how this can be successfully accomplished without the athlete being truly passionate about his/her sport. What I’m trying to say is that I don’t think you can “pick” a sport for an 11-year old with the goal of admission to an ivy league school in mind. You can expose her to a sport, or rather, several sports (including sports that may be more ‘easy’ to be recruited in, which, of course, is relative) and see what she likes, but in the end, athletes can’t perform unless they have the desire to do so. Many athletes burn out because they don’t do anything else but their sport, they develop other interests, or they simply don’t want to do their sport anymore. Of course, recruited athletes succeed because their parents have supported them, but I have yet to see a successful athletic career where it wasn’t the kid who drove the whole process. The sport is not a means to an end (ivy admission) but rather the purpose in itself. The ivy admission is merely a by-product.
I hope I’m not too harsh. You know your kid best, and it’s certainly prudent to think about what might be a good sport for her, but in the end, getting into a top college isn’t going to be what keeps an athlete motivated and performing at a high level.</p>
<p>sydclu- we did some out of state travel toward the later years of high school, but only because he was playing at a national level at that time. We live in a state that is top for junior golf anyway so there is a lot of opportunity to get noticed here for juniors as well. You can spend a lot of money or you can be economical, golf is not a cheap sport to pursue, between swing lesson, fitness training and tournament travel expenses. But again I want to stress as beenthere2 did above, it must be your daughters desire. I did NOT plan on being a golf mom. Soccer was my sport, I hated golf until I learned to love it because my son did. Expose her to different things so she can find her passion.</p>
<p>beenthere2: I know what you are saying and 100% agree with you. My son started fencing at 4th grade and loved it. I signed him up for weekly private lesson and never sent him to tournament and never thought of using that for college . Now that he is going to enter high school and I start doing homework about college. I found out it is too late for him to use fencing since he did not have tournament experiences. I still let him keep his fencing lesson, although the most we can get out of it maybe an EC. That experience alerted me to look ahead for my daughter. She had fencing too, but did not like it. It is the right time for her in fencing and will be much easier for me to take them to the same activity, I did not force her. Instead, I am trying to find a sport that will be good for her admission and also loved by her. I am exploring my options here. I guess it is an eliminating process. I will give suggestions and have her try, if she likes it, we stay at that sport, if not, we move on. That is why I asked what talents need to be a good golfer to see if it is a good fit for D. Right now, I am trying to do all my homework to find out which sports to have her try. That is all I am doing.</p>
<p>momof 2010: What kind of golf course are people at cc referring to when they say they are low 80s or hgih 70s? High school course or country club course?</p>
<p>sydclu–for college golf they play courses between 5700-6300 yards for women. Most of the college matches are played on nicer, more challenging courses in various states. Our DD is being recruited for golf (junior) so we are right in the middle of all of this.</p>
<p>sydclu- sorry I am not clear on your last question. People at cc? Pending where you live as well, some high schools have access to country clubs and some do not. But a general rule to follow is the courses the girls will play in college will be longer and harder than anything they see in high school or junior golf.</p>
<p>SteveMa wrote: " in college they play from about 6000 yards, give or take. A lot of high school teams play at around 4500, maybe. In order to be given admissions help for an Ivy and golf, she will need to be posting scores close to par, 72-78 in most tournaments, and again, tournaments where the course is long enough to offer some comparison."</p>
<p>I guess the 72-78 is on a 6000 yards court, not 4500 yards court? Then that is not an easy thing to accomplish.</p>
<p>SteveMa: Can I ask you when your DD started golfing, how much time she spends on golf each week and which schools she is targeting?</p>
<p>Our dd started “golfing” around age 4. By that I mean she came to the course with us and mostly rode in the golf cart but we would have her (and our other children) tee up a ball from about 100 yards out and play into the green and putt. They would do that on 3, 4, 5 holes a round, sometimes more, sometimes they just wanted to drive the cart (on our lap of course). She started taking “lessons” around age 6 or 7. Those lessons were with our club pro and had about 20 kids taking lessons at the same time and they really didn’t mean much. She started golfing more seriously around 5th/6th grade. The high school coach had his eye on her and she attended his summer camps, which were helpful, once a week lesson, one round of golf with other campers each week. We played pretty much every day in the summer and the kids would join us for about 1/2 of those days. In 6th grade she started practicing with the high school team. and in 7th grade was playing on the varsity team. She has a lot of natural ability for golf and doesn’t spend a lot of time golfing in the off season. She works some in the summer with her high school coach but that is limited by our state high school league rules. During the season they practice for 2 to 2 1/2 hours each day and have 1 or 2 tournaments each week.</p>
<p>She is one of the top players in our state. I have to say she likes golf, she doesn’t live and die golf. She is being recruited by coaches from all levels, D1, 2, 3 and NAIA. She wants a program that isn’t hyper competitive, flying all over the country missing classes each week because she is going to college to get a degree, not to become a professional golfer. The DI programs she is considering have ok teams, they compete locally for the most part with maybe a spring break trip somewhere fun. I really am not comfortable discussing specific schools since that is just way too personal. </p>
<p>She is also trying to decide what is more important to her, the “prestige” of being a “scholarshiped athlete” or having about 100% chance of going to Nationals at the D3 or NAIA level. In the end, it’s going to come down to who wants to give her the best package to attend. She has about 5 or 6 schools she is comfortable attending and we will see what they have to offer. She is looking at getting merit scholarships as well so there is a good chance she won’t have to pay anything for UG, which is her goal. She wants to go to medical school and doesn’t want any undergrad debt.</p>
<p>Also, for our high school conference, it’s a pretty competitive conference for girls golf and the coaches are aware that most of the kids that go on to college play golf at some level so they try to get most of their tournaments around 5500-5700 yards. She is an upper 70’s/low 80’s player at that distance and actually plays better on longer courses because she is a long ball hitter. She is averaging about 260 off the tee this year, about 10 yards father than last year. They have GPS rangefinders so it tracks all of that for them so that is handy.</p>