This podcast and community is dedicated to junior golf helping golf parents, players and coaches through the fun yet complex journey you and your junior golfer will experience. We dive deep into the real stories golfers go through and as a community answering the long list of questions we all have! We learn from the most experienced golf parents, top coaches, players and child development experts on how to help groom your junior golfer to their best potential!
Episodes
Monday Aug 02, 2021
Monday Aug 02, 2021
How to build confidence in your junior golfer? This is an art in its self and feel that it takes a whole team to make this happen! In this episode, Dave Malone, PGA Master Professional, and I discuss this topic in depth where we cover a variety of areas we feel are needed to help your junior golfer. We will discuss the role of the parent, coach and player and what things we all need to do to help build their confidence as high as possible.
Discussion:
- (3:59) Parents Role to boost the confidence in golfers 11 and under
- (9:42) Questions to ask children after playing a round of golf
- (11:19) How to help the child benefit from failure
- (15:26) A coaches role
- (21:16) What to praise children for in golf
- (28:46) How junior golfers can build up their own confidence
- (34:41) Dave’s experience raising his son with confidence to be a D1 Golfer
- (41:52) How to follow Dave and find his book “Coaching Parents For The New Generation of Junior Golfers.”
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Monday Jul 26, 2021
Monday Jul 26, 2021
Not all children are so motivated to get out and practice. Although we wish they would all be so excited about getting out and practicing, we as adults have to help them to best motivate them to love the idea of getting out to practice. In this episode I will go over a variety of different ideas to try with your junior golfer to help, motivate them to get out and enjoy practicing.
Discussion:
- (3:41) How to Motivate Children to Practice Golf
- (4:57) What’s stopping them from wanting to practice
- (6:08) Make practice easier
- (7:08) Creating a reward system
- (8:10) Limit the stress factor
- (9:06) Focus on the process not the results
- (9:50) setting small goals
- (10:30) Be creative
- (11:16) Practice with friends
- (12:33) Practice with games
- (13:21) Practice on the course
- (14:30) Play along side them
Monday Jul 19, 2021
Monday Jul 19, 2021
So you want your child to play golf. How do you introduce them to the game? Should they take lessons? What clubs should you get them? Should you sign them up for tournaments? All of these questions are racing through your head which I will answer and discuss in this episode.
Discussion:
- (1:29) How to introduce children to the game
- (2:09) Colin Morikawa growing up in the game
- (4:06) My experiences, with “Experiences First”
- (11:55) Should your children take golf lessons right away?
- (13:19) When do I get golf clubs for my child?
- (14:40) Should you get your children into golf tournaments?
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Monday Jul 12, 2021
Monday Jul 12, 2021
After having an aha moment while with my family on a play date, it really hit me hard how there are just some things that we can't teach children. I have found time and time again that the power of having children in a positive environment will allow them to thrive. Child see us adults as role models but also learn so much from their peers. In this episode I am going to share my story and thoughts on how children learn and how they can learn not only just from our direct teaching.
Discussion:
- (2:02) Some things we just can’t teach
- (8:03) How primary school children learn
- (10:32) Learning by doing
- (13:29) Competition
- (15:56) Final action to take
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Monday Jul 05, 2021
Monday Jul 05, 2021
In this episode I share some of my experiences over the last few weeks conducting summer camps on how to help children better understand and control their emotions in golf. Golf is such a complex sport and it certainly has its ups and downs. I've experimented a few different things over the last few weeks and feel I have found something that works well with many children. Tune in to hear what I have to say about this topic!
Discussion:
- (5:16) Word of the Day
- (7:29) The superpower of courage
- (9:56) Leaving it up to chance
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Monday Jun 28, 2021
Monday Jun 28, 2021
As a coach or parent do you constantly feel anxious about, if and when golf will click for them and they will start being able to "play" they game and continue to improve their games? I for one, know what this is something that I have struggled with for a long time as a coach and even now as a young parent. In this episode I will be talking on why we have to be patient and share experiences of how that moment has come o fruition.
Discussion Timeline:
- (2:04) Intro to the topic
- (3:16) Preschool young age clicking moment
- (5:40) 6-8 Year old children
- (11:03) The importance of play
- (12:04) Best and Worse case scenarios
- (16:40) Mistakes Ritual
- (17:32) What do children what from you when adults are on the course watching?
- (17:54) Patience is a Virtue
Show Links:
- The Positive Coaching Alliance
- Vision54 Book "Golf Parent For the Future"
- Dave Malone's Book "Coaching Parents for the New Generation of Junior Golfers"
Monday Jun 21, 2021
Monday Jun 21, 2021
Do you ever catch yourself questioning the quality of play and fun for children? How much is too much? Is there a fine line between play and fun having benefit for you child? After recent episodes, I decided to put in my two cents on why play both on and off the course is so important. This episode will be great for coaches who question their group coaching sessions and parents who are anxious about when their child's game will come together. After this episode, you will have a better understanding of the importance of play and fun!
Discussion:
- (3:34) The power of play
- (4:57) Cognitive learning of play
- (5:53) Use of senses of play
- (7:23) Physical benefits of play
- (9:15) Social benefits of play
- (11:54) Emotional benefits of play
- (16:18) Play on the golf course
- (22:11) Final Thoughts
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Monday Jun 14, 2021
Monday Jun 14, 2021
How well do you control your thoughts, emotions and beliefs while playing golf? For many of us, including junior golfers, probably not well enough. Our thoughts, emotions and beliefs affect our psychical performance on the golf course and it is something that we all should be aware of if we want to perform at a higher level.
Tim Kremer, is the founder of Peak Performance Mind Coaching. He has developed a practice in which he has trained athletes in many sports to take mental and emotional (mind) performance from average to elite. He actively coaches and mentors golf professionals on all the major professional tours.
Discussion:
- (3:10) What affects physical performance in golf?
- (5:56) How junior golfers can boost their self confidence and believes to improve performance on the course.
- (8:04) Good activities to helping juniors with their beliefs
- (15:06) Why our thoughts tend to remember negative things not positive things
- (16:17) How to help junior golfers to better understand how to control their emotions in a way they can understand and digest it
- (21:42) Good positive words to encourage the emotional side for juniors
- (24:13) What creates so much tension and resistance in the golf swing?
- (28:27) The power of breathing
- (31:57) Where to find out more about Tim and Peak Performance Mind Coaching
- (33:32) Final words of inspiration for raising golfers
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Monday Jun 07, 2021
Monday Jun 07, 2021
Sports add so many valuable life lessons. Many times we can see then, teach them or preach them to children and often times we can't. In this episode we are going to discuss what these life are in relation to golf and how to adopt sports psychology in to our education for all ages.
Dr. Beth Brown who has a PHD in sports psychology is going to help us better understand those lessons. Her youth sport participation paved the way for her collegiate success as a member of the University of Oklahoma basketball and conference champion women’s golf teams. As her love for sports continued, she realized the unique opportunity sport has to impact not only physical abilities, but life skill development as well. This led Beth to earn her Ph.D. in sports psychology at the University of Kansas. Since then, she’s gone on to influence and impact thousands through her roles as a golf coach, an educational program developer at The First Tee and LPGA-USGA Girls Golf, and founder and owner of the consulting agency, Team Aureus.
Discussion:
- (3:10) How she went into sports psychology
- (6:05) Why your sports psychology skills don’t always transfer to different sports
- (8:49) How sports psychology is applied to young children
- (19:12) Life lessons learned through golf
- (25:37) Adventures of Divot and Swish
- (33:21) Where listeners can find more about your resources
- (34:10) Divot and Swish’s next adventure
- (35:06) Final words of inspiration for raising golfers
Show Links:
- Follow Adventures with Divot and Swish on Instagram
- Follow Adventures with Divot and Swish on Facebook
- Adventures with Divot and Swish Website
- Team Aureus
- Follow Team Aureus on Instagram
- Follow Team Aureus on Facebook
- Follow Team Aureus on Linkedin
Monday May 31, 2021
Monday May 31, 2021
If you are like me, you tend to scratch you head when having to think about what clubs and balls are best for your junior golfer. In this episode, Joshua Kinchen, Sr. Director of Product Development for US Kids Golf answers a lot of important questions you might have about clubs and golf balls.
Joshua has a long history in product research and development working eight years at Bridgestone golf before joining US Kids Golf. He understands junior golf products better than anyone and shares valuable information for us, to better understand how to best help our junior golfers.
Discussion:
- (2:30) What Joshua does at US Kids Golf
- (3:26) How far in advance US Kids plans new products
- (4:31) Long shafts, big driver heads
- (7:08) Issues with using clubs that are too heavy for too long
- (12:47) Metrics used to decide between Ultra Light or Tour Series Clubs
- (19:49) The important differences in golf balls
- (24:50) Why aren’t junior club heads bigger?
- (27:40) Maintained frequency in clubs
- (31:38) How junior golfers can train for speed
- (35:24) Find out more about Joshua and US Kids Golf Clubs
- (36:12) Final words of inspiration for raising golfers
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