Process Overview

• PING encourages juniors to understand and become active in the college golf recruitment process. The PING guide is available to all juniors and is considered a comprehensive - and the authoritative - guide on the college golf scholarship subject. The book contains contact information for every college golf program in American, as well as a sampling of conference championship scores so junior golfers can see how they stack up. PING also encourages strong planning while in high school to ensure that grades and test scores are in order.
  
  

Money Available

• The PING guide emphasizes the amount of scholarship money available if golfers engage themselves in the process early. PING lists all the available universities and encourages juniors to make contact with the head golf coaches as early as possible. PING also underscores the importance of grades and test scores. With schools looking to hand out academic money first, a junior golfer's potential award increases drastically with a high grade point average and SAT/ACT score.
  
  

Finding a Fit

• The worst impediment toward earning a college scholarship, according to PING, is marketing yourself as a junior golfer to schools that are out of your league. The top options in NCAA Division I, like Arizona State, Oklahoma State and Florida State, selectively recruit from the top 50 junior golfers in the world. These players average sub-par scores in national and international tournament competition. PING encourages juniors to be realistic in their search. There are plenty of golf scholarship options available in Division II along with NAIA and junior colleges.
  
  

Expanded Programs

• PING is annually trying to improve the recruiting process for junior golfers and college coaches alike. PING reasons that informed parties on both sides will lead to a greater percentage of retained golf scholarships. The company has partnered with GolfStat, which tracks and records scoring from all of college golf to provide juniors with interactive scoring conversion and an expanded statistics program. Juniors subscribing to this service from PING will be able to see complete college rosters and figure out their potential fit in a program's future.