Golf Parent For The Future

This booklet provides important insights and invaluable guidance for parents of junior golfers. The importance of the parent s role in the healthy development of today s junior golfer, both as a player and as a young person, is the focus of the booklet, Golf Parent For The Future. Co-authored by Lynn Marriott and Pia Nilsson, this groundbreaking publication is a must-read for anyone whose child is either beginning golf, or who already plays the game and perhaps aspires to progress into new competitive arenas. The content even applies to anyone supporting someone playing golf. No matter what age, gender or playing ability.
Golf Parent For The Future was the first publication for VISION54 , a company that provides comprehensive and integrated golf and coaching education, and of which authors Marriott and Nilsson are co-founders. Their inspiration for the booklet came from: Our belief that the parent role will have a great impact on the junior golfer s future, even though your child might have other golf teachers or coaches. Ultimately, it is the parents who the child looks to for unconditional support and guidance. You are their closest role model. Parents of young golfers are given excellent advice such as: You can create an environment where they will learn how to win and keep their motivation high. They ll learn life skills that can contribute more than you ll ever know to their physical and emotional well being. Marriott and Nilsson offer their readers clarity and focus by highlighting four areas that enhance the relationship and communication between the junior golfer and their parents. These four insights , the authors believe, are among the most important for being a great golf parent for the future. The four areas: being clear about the boundary between you and your child; recognizing who they are versus what they do; the state you are in as a spectating or coaching parent; and how to give feedback in the best way possible. Each insight is brought to life by real-life personal observations and experiences, and each chapter provides the parents with exercises to help them to remember, adapt to, reinforce and focus on what they are learning.
While the authors acknowledge that golf has not yet experienced some of the negative behaviors of parents and young athletes witnessed in other sports, they also believe that: Nonetheless, it may be time to be proactive and look more closely at some of the warning signs we are starting to see today in junior golf. Such has been the enthusiastic response to the publication of Golf Parent For The Future that the American Junior Golf Association (AJGA) already has purchased a copy for each of its members. The Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA), United States Golf Association (USGA) and The First Tee also have purchased copies for their respective youth initiatives, and other golf organizations in the U.S. and abroad have expressed a strong interest in using the booklet as an educational tool for their junior programs.