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CBM’s Success Speaks for Itself

“Dave & Coach,



Just wanted to touch base with you guys to see if there is anything we can do to help promote the CBM program.



We’ve been pretty busy getting things narrowed down for Brandon, and he has decided to attend Texas Lutheran University and will be playing on their golf team.



To give you guys an idea of how much help the CBM program has been, we’ll give you some history on our search for a golf program and scholastic match. Brandon is our only child, and we had no idea how to search schools and find a fit for him. Also, at the time he was a junior in high school, we had no idea we were behind the curve. Before the CBM program, we had talked with a lady that was starting a program to assist junior golfers. She actually contacted us initially and we met to discuss things. At the time, the fee (which was a few thousand dollars) seemed expensive, but we considered it. Then with the downturn of the economy, my company was hit hard and we instituted a 20% pay cut across the board plus had terminated performance bonuses. This was in excess of a 30% cut to my income! Pretty much we had to scratch the expensive help from the list. About the same time the CBM program came on line and we jumped on it! We cannot imagine how we would have navigated things without the program and the help of both of you. Luckily I was able to negotiate with the owners of my company a 1/2 day work day on Friday’s which freed up time for me to dedicate to the CBM program, in addition to any slow times during the regular work schedule and evenings at home.

After talking to Coach Monzingo and following his directions, we created a bio, results, tournament schedule, and swing videos. We sent these to Coach and made a few modifications he suggested, and we began sending things out. As a side note, we actually made the swing video ourselves with a small point & shoot digital camera with a video feature and a borrowed tripod. We quickly found out that, just as Coach Monzingo said, the coaches are much more interested in seeing information from the kids and not from a company or individual representing them. We even had a few tell us they didn’t even look at the bulk mail packages because they want the kids to know where their information is going and to be invested in their own future.

Attending the presentations, Q&A’s, and conference calls TJGT provided was very helpful in getting us on the right track and answered all the questions we were starting to have. The presentation at Barton Creek would prove to be especially helpful as Lance Ringler said “If you send me an email I will respond to it.” Two weeks later we were contacted by a national recruiting company offering us a pretty steep price cut to the normal fee if we would sign up with them. This made us second guess ourselves a bit and so I sent an email to Lance asking for his opinion. He responded with his cell number and said to call him the next day. I did and we talked for quite a while which made us realize we needed to stay the course.

Brandon contacted at least two dozen programs in his search after going down the list of important items for player and parents that the CBM program provided. He got several rejections either by email or phone, but received much positive input from the coaches. Even if they didn’t have a spot for him on their team, they were impressed with the format of his package. He received interest from several of the schools he contacted, in addition to a few schools that contacted him to ask for his information package. All of a sudden Brandon had several choices available to him, even though we had started late and with a financial handicap we had not planned on.



Brandon had narrowed his choice down to two schools within two hours of home where he really liked both the education options and golf programs available to him. Both of these schools told him there is no time line to their team & scholarship offers as they both would very much like to have him. He made his final decision this week and decided on Texas Lutheran University.

There is so much we learned in the process that we would love to share with others, it really could fill a book! If either of you have any questions, or want to do some kind of podcast / video / conference call or typed info, we’d be glad to help in any way we can. The CBM program not only saved us a lot of stress, but has provided opportunities and financial benefits that make the CBM fee the best money we have ever invested by several hundred times over.

Thanks again for everything.”

Patrick Poel

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