D1 Golf

[jsgolfer]

It's amazing nowadays, I played D1 golf at UMaine back in the early 90's.  I was a walk on, I just showed up for the tryout and beat everyone but the top 3 or 4 starters.  How different it is these days.

[David in FL]

1 hour ago, jsgolfer said:

It's amazing nowadays, I played D1 golf at UMaine back in the early 90's.  I was a walk on, I just showed up for the tryout and beat everyone but the top 3 or 4 starters.  How different it is these days.

The Black Bears!  That sports powerhouse!  

[jsgolfer]

29 minutes ago, David in FL said:

The Black Bears!  That sports powerhouse!  

Hey, wait a minute,  we won quite a bit in the ECAC at the time. And then not long after I graduated no more team. 

[dennyjones]

7 minutes ago, jsgolfer said:

Hey, wait a minute,  we won quite a bit in the ECAC at the time. And then not long after I graduated no more team. 

What are you sayin'?   Did you ruin it for everyone or....were you so good that nobody wanted to follow?

[David in FL]

3 minutes ago, dennyjones said:

What are you sayin'?   Did you ruin it for everyone or....were you so good that nobody wanted to follow?

Hey, hey, hey, it's the ECAC.  Show a little appreciation!  

 

[jsgolfer]

9 hours ago, dennyjones said:

What are you sayin'?   Did you ruin it for everyone or....were you so good that nobody wanted to follow?

I wish I was the culprit, but alas, I believe the team went away as a result of not being able to field a women's team.  

8 hours ago, David in FL said:

Hey, hey, hey, it's the ECAC.  Show a little appreciation!  

 

  

[Lihu]

16 hours ago, iacas said:

+1 isn't getting you into many D1 schools. Not any with a top tier program.

Tournament results matter.

Also isn't NYU Division III?

Yeah, I have no idea about that. I just asked my son about him, Zach S (forgot how to spell his last name). He quit after one year of school and is just playing golf now. Obviously not professionally, but he's in Vegas playing a lot of golf.

I wrote it wrong, Stian is at NYU which is the D3. He's studying film for which NYU is famous.

In both cases, they play worse than the OP and still got a great head start into their lives.

[Buckeyebowman]

Whether it's for Tour cards or scholarships, the competition is pretty fierce! There's a local kid, who I ran into on a course 4 years ago, who already had a full ride golf scholarship to Wake Forest in his junior year of high school!

 

[WUTiger]

On 8/24/2017 at 8:52 AM, iacas said:

If a college coach knows that you're good academically, he knows that he can give you a 1/4, 1/3, or 1/2 athletic scholarship and then supplement that with an academic scholarship. The end result: he gets a player he wants, he only "spends" 1/2 or so of his allotted scholarships, and the player gets a full ride - part athletic, part academic.

So your grades are still very important.

I teach at a midsize private University in the Midwest. We are Division III, so we give no athletic scholarships. But, I have experience at Div. I and Div. II schools. Regardless of what level you play college golf, superior time management skills are necessary for survival.

"Your (HS) grades are still very important" because golf throws you some of the toughest survival challenges in all of college athletics. If you're a college wrestler, you walk a half mile to the gym after classes, practice for 90 minutes, shower out and resume being a student.

If you're a golfer, you often have a 30-minute trek to and from the golf course, and 2- to 6-hour practice or golf meet sessions to handle.

And, especially during spring semester, you may miss a week of classes at a time due to travel to tournaments. You have to coordinate with professors to get you classwork done, and work on assignments while on the road.. 

Again, one of the biggest challenges is time management. Lots of NAIA and NCAA Div. 3 golf programs have a golfer who started out in a Div. 1 program, but crashed and burned academically.

[Seals]

I have posted a few times about playing college golf. I have gotten some marginal interest from D1 schools, but mainly basic emails, nothing personal. The few schools that have showed interest are the military academies. It would be great to play Division 1 golf in college. But it is a 5 year service academy. Don't get me wrong, I have a deep respect for veterans and soldiers defending the country. But I know service isn't for everyone. What would you do? Would you play golf, knowing you will have to do 5 years of active service after graduation. 

[iacas]

11 minutes ago, Seals said:

I have posted a few times about playing college golf. I have gotten some marginal interest from D1 schools, but mainly basic emails, nothing personal. The few schools that have showed interest are the military academies. It would be great to play Division 1 golf in college. But it is a 5 year service academy. Don't get me wrong, I have a deep respect for veterans and soldiers defending the country. But I know service isn't for everyone. What would you do? Would you play golf, knowing you will have to do 5 years of active service after graduation. 

Nobody can make that call but you.

Also, you posted this topic about playing D1 golf less than a week ago.

[Seals]

8 minutes ago, iacas said:

Nobody can make that call but you.

Also, you posted this topic about playing D1 golf less than a week ago.

And? Please stop changing my profile picture aswell.

[iacas]

4 minutes ago, Seals said:

And?

"And?"

What did you expect after five whole days?! Multiple competing offers?

This is a process that's going to take you several months. It's not going to happen in five days. Or even five weeks. Probably not even five months.

4 minutes ago, Seals said:

Please stop changing my profile picture aswell.

Simple: choose your own avatar.

[Piz]

As the late, great, Yogi Berra once said:  "when you come to a fork in the road...take it."

[WUTiger]

28 minutes ago, Seals said:

Would you play golf, knowing you will have to do 5 years of active service after graduation

Billy Hurley played golf for the US Naval Academy, served several years as an officer, and then went onto the pro tour. Roger Stauback quarterbacked the Navy Midshipmen, serve his active duty, and then became an all-pro with the Dallas Cowboys.

If you go to a service academy, you will get the equivalent of a $200K+ education without incurring student loans. And, you will serve five years on active duty when you graduate. The US military commits to develop you, and you commit to serve your nation. It's a two-day street.

A service academy puts lots of high-power people into your life's network, plus you'll make lifelong friends. If you decide not to go career military, this military experience still opens up numerous pathways for you in civilian life.

Please, tell us the opportunity cost you incur by attending a service academy and serving on active duty?

Like, do you have some other wonderful gig awaiting you once you graduate college? Will you miss several years of touring with your rock band while at a service academy?

I'm a retired Marine reserve officer, with quite a bit of active duty time. From your lukewarm response, I'd say you're better off without the service academies, and they likely would be better off without you.

Edited August 29, 2017 by WUTiger
Tone down rhetoric.

[Seals]

45 minutes ago, iacas said:

"And?"

What did you expect after five whole days?! Multiple competing offers?

This is a process that's going to take you several months. It's not going to happen in five days. Or even five weeks. Probably not even five months.

Simple: choose your own avatar.

I asked about whether 5 years of service was worth playing golf. I did not ask why haven't i got 10 offers yet. I didn't expect anything because that wasn't my question. 

43 minutes ago, WUTiger said:

Billy Hurley played golf for the US Naval Academy, served several years as an officer, and then went onto the pro tour. Roger Stauback quarterbacked the Navy Midshipmen, serve his active duty, and then became an all-pro with the Dallas Cowboys.

If you go to a service academy, you will get the equivalent of a $200K+ education without incurring student loans. And, you will serve five years on active duty when you graduate. The US military commits to develop you, and you commit to serve your nation. It's a two-day street.

A service academy puts lots of high-power people into your life's network, plus you'll make lifelong friends. If you decide not to go career military, this military experience still opens up numerous pathways for you in civilian life.

Please, tell us the opportunity cost you incur by attending a service academy and serving on active duty?

Like, do you have some other wonderful gig awaiting you once you graduate college? Will you miss several years of touring with your rock band while at a service academy?

I'm a retired Marine reserve officer, with quite a bit of active duty time. From your lukewarm response, I'd say you're better off without the service academies, and they likely would be better off without you.

Thank you for your service. I did not mean to offend you. I was simply asking a question. 

[WUTiger]

10 minutes ago, Seals said:

Thank you for your service. I did not mean to offend you. I was simply asking a question. 

Let's not worry about me... let's think about you.

If you're looking at West Point or Annapolis or Colorado Springs mainly as a way to play college golf, you won't last past pledge year. The commitment to your academy is all-consuming.

 If you want to attend the service academy and serve in the military... and play golf - go for it.

[Piz]

No one can say what the future may bring.  A service academy education will open many doors...and shut others.  None of my "lifer" friends are the same now as when they went in; but that was not a consideration at the time.  They weighed their options and made a choice.  Who can say it was right or wrong?  Would any of us be different if we had made different choices?  On one hand yes and on the other no.  Welcome to the food chain.