Building a Golf Resume
Building your golf resume is crucial to the recruiting process, because it’s the normally the first contact with a college coach. This process can sometimes seem like a job interview, but it kind of is. Back in the day (really only 6 years ago) I was sending my resume to colleges I was interested in. Be sure to make your first contact personal, don’t just send your resume. Type up something to the coach, maybe adding a note about their most recent tournament finish. Do your research, then attach your resume to the email. Parents, you should definitely be involved in this process with your child. It’s always great to have an extra set of eyes to look for formatting, spelling, and grammatical errors.
A personal golf resume should include the following:
- Contact Information
- Graduating Class
- Updated and Accurate tournament results
- Upcoming Tournament Schedule
- Rankings (if you have one)
- Golf Achievements (National, State, Local, and High-School Tournaments)
- Academic Achievements
- Extra-Curricular Activities
- References
Now, I’ve had some questions about if you should include bad tournament results in your resume. The answer is yes. Due to the fact that, coaches can easily google you to see that you’re leaving out information. If you have the opportunity to speak with the coach and they say “Hey, I saw you had a rough tournament at the TJGT Tour Championship.”‘ You can reply with “Yes, I had trouble with _____, ____, and ____. But I’ve been working hard at practice to get better in those areas!” This leaves you room to explain that you are aware of problem areas and how you can improve. Bingo, coaches love that.
Not only do coaches want to see your tournament scores, they love seeing junior golfers involved in the community with volunteering, other clubs or extra-curricular activities. It gives them a good sense of who you are and what you like to do. Finally, the last tip I may add would be to make sure your email address is professional. If not, take the time to make a new one. Sending emails out as “janedoelikesvideogames@yahoo.com'” isn’t the first step in the right direction with coaches.
Click this link to check out a great sample resume I found! https://www.juniorgolfscoreboard.com/SampleResume-WebsiteLink.pdf
As always,
Fairways & Greens
-Maty