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 Mar 15, 2021
Monday Mar 15, 2021
Dave Malone is a PGA Master Golf Professional and has been in the golf industry for more that 30 years. He is the owner and operator of the Pine Lake Junior Golf Academy and has recently released a book to help junior golf parents better understand this long, yet fun journey of junior golf from all perspectives to better assist their children along the way.
Discussion Timeline:
- Where did the idea of writing the book come from? (2:46)
- Junior golf is a different world now (4:55)
- Encouragement (7:22)
- What is it that we as adults misunderstand about what children want out of golf? (9:45)
- The power of playing multiple sports (11:17)
- Early achievers and late bloomers (17:02)
- Lacking confidence (26:24)
- Where to purchase Dave’s Book (33:17)
- Final words of inspiration for raising golfers (34:50)
Show Links:
- www.pinelakejuniorgolfacademy.com
- Call or Text (402) 560-3371
- dmalonepga1@gmail.com
Monday Mar 08, 2021
Monday Mar 08, 2021
Are you ready for the golf season? If you are gearing up for it, I've added in some of my thoughts and ideas to help spring forward and get you all ready this year! This is the first episode without a guest being interviewed, it is just going to be me covering a variety of topics!
I will cover:
- How to best be prepared for the season
- Talk about how to help you junior if they aren't ready or need a break
- Review and analyze Tiger Woods media interview at the PNC Championship on raising his son Charlie in golf
- Cover some basic bios of the PGA Tour's most recent winners
Discussion Timeline:
- Prep for the up coming golf season (4:06)
- Re assessing your long term values (6:07)
- What if your junior isn’t ready to play (8:50)
- Reviewing Tiger Woods Media Interview at the PNC Parent Junior about his son Charlie (10:41)
- Question #1 for Tiger (11:56)
- Question #2 for Tiger (13:27)
- Question #3 for Tiger (15:37)
- Question #4 for Tiger (16:24)
- Question #5 for Tiger (17:24)
- Recent winners on tour, youth bios (18:25)
Show Links:
Monday Mar 01, 2021
Monday Mar 01, 2021
Have you ever wondered how to get your whole family involved in the game of golf? Well this story from Cabdirashid Xuseen, father of six children, has been able to get all of his children, involved in the game! Cabdirashid Xuseen grew up in Somalia where golf doesn't exist. After moving to the United States at the age of 25, he watch a young Tiger Woods playing a sport he had never heard of in his hometown, Los Angeles. Since that moment his whole life and family dynamic has changed and golf is what they all play, together!
Discussion Timeline:
- Cabdirashid’s upbringing and introduction to golf (2:52)
- How to keep the six children excited about golf (9:00)
- How to get all six children to the course (11:39)
- Talking about golf at home (20:10)
- What are you hoping your children get out of golf? (23:44)
- How to get bigger families all involved in golf? (25:47)
- Understanding that children progress at difference paces (26:58)
- Final words of inspiration (37:00)
Show Links:
Monday Feb 22, 2021
Monday Feb 22, 2021
Michelle Holmes is the Director of Instruction at Michelle Holmes School of Golf. She is well known around the world for her coaching programs and junior golf initiative. Their slogan is "Creating experiences that encourage kids to play the game forever" and that is exactly what we cover in this episode. The experiences children have are what shape them into who they are as adults. It is easy to over look the experiences and jump straight into the tasks or goals we have for each session. Michelle shares her take on this, as well as tournament play, encouragement and so much more, all about junior golf!
Discussion Timeline:
- Do you educate or involve children in the learning process? (4:48)
- What can parents do to better understand early child development? (8:01)
- When is the right time to get your children involved in tournament play? (11:40)
- The encouragement fire round (18:45)
- How to make the game fun for different ages along the way (31:15)
- What should parents be looking for in a junior golf program? (40:13)
- Where can people find out more about what you are doing (43:35)
- Final words of inspiration for raising golfers (44:33)
Show Links:
Michelle Holmes School of Golf
Monday Feb 15, 2021
Monday Feb 15, 2021
Kimberly Liu shares her story of how she went from a junior golfer, to Division 1 College golfer and now in the US Air Force. We discuss her journey, the relationships she had with you coaches and parents along the way, and how that helped her succeed in everything she has done. As adults it is important to understand that professional golf is not the only route or end result to playing the game. Kimberly shares all of the things she got out of the game and how that has helped her to where she is today!
There is so much to take away from this conversation whether you are a parent, coach or player looking to play college golf. I know you will enjoy this just as much as I did!
Discussion Timeline:
- Cherishing her junior golf days (3:36)
- How her junior golf program helped her into college (8:05)
- Motivation and relationship with parents (8:48)
- Conversations with her parents after tournaments (12:12)
- What surprised you the most in your first year of D1 College Golf? (15:34)
- Recommendations for aspiring college golfers (21:12)
- Keeping the process in mind (25:43)
- How golf shaped you into who you are today (27:39)
- Is it ok that you aren’t playing professional golf right now? (31:45)
- Find out more about Kimberly’s Journey (36:06)
- Final words (37:38)
Show Links:
Monday Feb 08, 2021
Monday Feb 08, 2021
We are going to talk all about learning and play in this episode with Michael Hebron who has received over twenty - five awards , including National PGA TEACHER of the Year. In 2013 Michael was inducted into the PGA of America Hall of Fame. In 2019 elected to the World Golf Teachers Hall of Fame.
Michael believes there are many good reasons to study and research the brains connection to the nature of learning and they arrive every day in every learning environment. Michael says "Play" stands for Powerful Learning About Yourself. We are going to discuss this and some other topics such as paradoxes around learning golf.
Michael has been researching the brain’s connection to learning with lots of help from award-winning educators and scientists for over two decades. What happens after a lesson is his concern. He has written six books and over one hundred instruction articles .
Michael has been invited to speak all over the world and I feel fortunate that he was so kind to come and join us on the raising golfers podcast.
Discussion Timeline:
- Paradoxes around learning golf (3:44)
- Where to start (19:15)
- What each sports skill matches up with (23:03)
- The value of a youth golf program (23:27)
- How to speak in a healthy way to your children (27:45)
- Final Words of Inspiration (41:30)
Show Links:
Monday Feb 01, 2021
Monday Feb 01, 2021
Parent Stories: This is an interview with the parents of Alex Chin, Division 1 golfer at The University of San Francisco. Alex has built up quite the resume already with recent tournament wins, a number of top 10's and most recently named the 2020 NCGA Player of the Year! Emily and Alan Chin have been the support system needed for Alex since he began playing golf at a young age. In this episode they talk about what they have learned as parents along the way, how much they have enjoyed the whole process and advice for us adults on how to make this the best experience for everyone!
A few things that Emily and Alan repeat over and over was how important the environment Alex was in during his junior golf years, shaped him into the person and golfer he is today. They also talked about the process and understanding that there are going to be ups and downs, but to not over analyze ever score or situation, but just to see it as part of the process.
Emily and Alan really spoke on a lot of values this podcast holds and offer a lot of experience and advice for all of us to take away.
Discussion Timeline:
- How did you get Alex into golf? (3:11)
- Who decided he would play in his first golf competition (6:37)
- The importance of the junior golf environment he was in (9:03)
- How much pressure was put on Alex from his parents (13:37)
- How they grew as parents raising Alex in the game of golf (21:50)
- When did Alex say he wanted to play college golf? (24:02)
- How to help Alex during the college recruitment process (25:06)
- Where is Alex going with his golf? (35:12)
- Final words of inspiration (40:20)
Show Links:
Monday Jan 25, 2021
Monday Jan 25, 2021
I constantly have this inching feeling as a parent to see my children progress, or hit the next developmental stage, and then regularly have to put myself in check and tell myself to chill out. Why do we constantly have this feeling? What do we need to understand as adults about child development to better embrace this process? These are questions Neil Plimmer and myself are going to discuss on this episode!
In addition we will discuss why there is time, how progression looks, and how long your junior golfer might stay in a particular developmental stage so that we as adults can have a piece of mind and be able to relax and enjoy the journey even more!
Discussion Timeline:
- Why do we as adults have this inching feeling for our children to progress? (2:40)
- Should there be an end goal for children in golf? (7:22)
- The break down of categories of junior golfers (13:51)
- How long should we expect a junior golfer to be in each category or stage of development for? (16:50)
- What positive things happen during the process that we as adults don’t always see? (24:39)
- “Is it ok to…fire round! (30:50)
- Final thoughts (32:59)
- Neils new podcast (35:34)
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Monday Jan 18, 2021
Monday Jan 18, 2021
In today's world, technology is very prevalent and using it in golf is no exception. In this episode Roy Ellis, golf coach from Sussex, England, is going to talk about how to use it effectively in teaching juniors. Roy's journey in golf is very unique and not your classic way to be introduced to the game nor how he became a golf coach.
Roy brings up a great point and that is that if you are going to use technology in lessons, it has to somehow relate to playing the game on course. There are a variety of ways to do this, and Roy discusses how he does it in this episode.
Discussion Timeline:
- Where are you based and who do you coach? (2:26)
- What technology do you primarily use? (7:16)
- Should parents get technology for children to practice at home? (9:04)
- When would the use of technology be potentially harmful for juniors (11:30)
- What is it you wish all parents knew about technology in relation to their junior golfers (13:21)
- How to relate the use of technology with playing on the golf course? (15:27)
- Roys Golf Story (23:27)
- Advice for raising golfers (31:43)
Monday Jan 11, 2021
Monday Jan 11, 2021
Failure comes at a cost, it isn’t free and it isn’t going to be easy. This week Gavin Grenville-Wood from Leadbetter Kids and I will discuss failure in junior golf. We touch on a number of questions such as, do you run from it or take it head on? What are your values around failure? What are your values for your children growing up in the game of golf? We believe once you have that clear, you will be setting up yourself, your children and those around for success whatever it may be.
In this episode we will leave you with some quotes from famous athletes and give you some actionable tips to help you and your junior golfers. Failure is a feature, take it head on and enjoy the ride!
Discussion Timeline:
- What is your perception of failure? (2:27)
- Preparing children and parents for failure (12:05)
- Responsibility (17:07)
- How players and adults should start to see failure as a feature (22:13)
- Gavin’s turning point into failure as a feature (24:00)
- Michael Jordan’s quote on failure (31:14)
- Why golf is setup for failure (33:42)
- When should adults help children with mistakes (39:50)
- How can adults help children see that failure isn’t such a scary thing? (43:27)
- What would you conclude about failure for junior golfers? (45:45)
Show Links:
Francesco Molinari's Mental Coach from Rugby