I have a buddy that coaches a HS golf team. He is decidedly old school and sticks to old statistics and thought processes like practice putting the most since it’s 50% off shots, etc. But he’s trying and asked me to come speak with the team for a more modern perspective.
We are in the mid Atlantic so not great players but one kid is off to play D1 another that could prob do the same in 2 years and a few that can play D3 if they want to.
I totally buy into what Scott is teaching and generally take a more analytical, data driven approach to the game than my Buddy.
He has given me 45 mins or an hour to talk. My thought is to try and get them to think appropriately about expectations and about shot distributions (all on a very high level just given time constraints).
What would you consider most important to dive into? Starters are like +2 to maybe 4/5 indexes.
FWIW i was a pretty good player in the day and some of these kids dads at least no who I am so I’m not just some rando swooping in
I think the biggest improvement for young kids with talent (if they're legit scratch in HS they're really good players) is the mental and strategic approach to the game.
Put together a presentation using strokes gained data to explain the value of hitting the green more often and accepting fewer shots that are super close to the hole.
