General Information
Your best tool available for researching college golf opportunities is www.collegegolf.com. This website combines all the information of the PING College Golf Guide
and a scoring convertor for you to compare your scores to those of college players.
The Ping Guide and Golfstat.com have launched this exciting new site to better inform junior golfers and their parents. Golfstat is the website used by the NCAA to
track all college golf tournaments. Junior golfers can enter their current average score and yardage information and see how they would have finished in their choice
of college events. This information is an invaluable tool for juniors to honestly evaluate their ability level to fit a program.
Information on all the schools in the country with college prgrams can also be found. For each school, junior can view the coaches name, address, e-mail, phone
number, scholarships available, average entrance test scores, enrollment, tuition, and room and board. In the future, each school will also have a list of all majors
offered. Juniors can sort colleges by division, size, conference, etc.
Topics of Interest
Click on the name of the topic for more information.
COLLEGE DAY 2007 - The Tennessee Golf Foundation is proud to present an afternoon of college golf info for you and your family. This day is designed to give you
the information necessary to take your game to the next level. Learning how to secure a college scholarship is a very important step. We are going to give you the tools
and make sure you are prepared to tackle the complicated world of college sports.
HOW TO PREPARE A RESUME - Every Junior Golfer should have a current resume of his/her golfing/academic accomplishments. This page will provide you with a sample resume along with tips on making your golf resume stand out from others.
COLLEGE PREPARATION - This topic contains a sample timeline which helps you plan out exactly what you need to do from the time you start high school through
your Senior Year. This topic even breaks the academic year down into Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall.
COLLEGE GOLF PROGRAMS IN TENNESSEE - Want to stay close to home, but not sure what colleges in Tennessee offer golf programs. This page lists all of the
colleges in Tennessee that offer college golf programs for men and/or women.
TENNESSEANS PLAYING GOLF IN COLLEGE - Ever wondered who from Tennessee is playing golf in college? This page lists everyone from Tennessee and where
they are playing.
PROFESSIONAL GOLF MANAGEMENT - Have you ever thought of becoming a PGA Golf Professional? If so, you may want to look at the PGA of America's
Professional Golf Management Program. This program is offered at almost 20 college universities across the country.
PING COLLEGE GOLF GUIDE - This links directly to the PING College Golf Guide which lists information on all college golf programs.
GOLFSTAT - The official source for college golf scores and statistics.
Helpful Links
www.ncaa.org - National Collegiate Athletic Association - you will especially be interested in the Guide for the College-Bound Student-Athlete.
www.ncaaclearinghouse.net - this will be your most reliable source of current NCAA procedures and rules, related information and answers to your questions as a potential student-athlete.
www.naia.com - National Association Intercollegiate Athletics
www.njcaa.org - National Junior College Athletic Association
www.collegeboard.org - SAT testing site
www.ACT.org - ACT testing site
www.national-letter.org - National Letter of Intent official site
Financial Aid Sites:
www.collegeispossible.org
www.scholarships-education.com
www.fafsa.ed.gov
www.finaid.org