Question Connor.... In your videos I see you reference the Player Performance Dashboard on the Junior Golf Scoreboard site. I have searched for this on the site and have never found this page. Do I need to have a special subscription like as a coach or such in order to get access to these pages? I mean I can see the rankings and such for my junior golfer, etc. but not the dashboard that you show, and it has great info.
Yes it's in a coaches subscription. That said you can back out a lot of what you need for your child if you know their scoring average, their scoring differential, and the tournaments they've played in. In general, you want to get the scoring average between 72-74, if they're shooting in that range but they don't have scoring differential around -3 or -4 then the tournaments need to get harder. Otherwise you need to put 99% of the effort into lowering the scoring average. Hope that all makes sense!
@@connorspeterson Thank you, that illuminates things and it does make sense. Want to add that I look forward to your videos here. By "tournaments need to get harder" I understand you to mean that, (1) the courses (tees) need to be longer (length is the main factor in course ratings, it's my understanding that JGS doesn't use slope in determining differential, unlike your GHIN) ; and/or, (2) you need to play in stronger strength of field tournaments since that constitutes 25% of the ranking. Did I get that right?
You're pretty close. Course rating is the metric you'd look at for "difficulty of tournament", slope is only applicable for bogey/higher handicap golfers - it reflects things like forced carry's that aren't relevant for better players. Like you said though, course rating is highly correlated with longer golf courses. An example would be the par 3s are all 200+ yards and there's water around the green - that's just hard for everyone so it'll be reflected in both course rating AND slope. JGS is using course rating when it creates the scoring differential (technically it's the top 75% of scores rather than 100% but it's also not 20% like GHIN - which is why I don't like handicap as an evaluation of performance for elite golf). All that said, you don't really want to start doing calculus on which tournaments to play in around that, priority one is get the scores down, once the scores are around 72-74 then you shouldn't have any problem getting into AJGA events and other elite stuff like the Junior PGA, US Junior, Junior Worlds, etc. and at that point you don't really need to worry about course rating anyway since they're all hard courses. Glad you're enjoying the videos!
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Question Connor.... In your videos I see you reference the Player Performance Dashboard on the Junior Golf Scoreboard site. I have searched for this on the site and have never found this page. Do I need to have a special subscription like as a coach or such in order to get access to these pages?
I mean I can see the rankings and such for my junior golfer, etc. but not the dashboard that you show, and it has great info.
Yes it's in a coaches subscription. That said you can back out a lot of what you need for your child if you know their scoring average, their scoring differential, and the tournaments they've played in.
In general, you want to get the scoring average between 72-74, if they're shooting in that range but they don't have scoring differential around -3 or -4 then the tournaments need to get harder.
Otherwise you need to put 99% of the effort into lowering the scoring average.
Hope that all makes sense!
@@connorspeterson Thank you, that illuminates things and it does make sense. Want to add that I look forward to your videos here.
By "tournaments need to get harder" I understand you to mean that, (1) the courses (tees) need to be longer (length is the main factor in course ratings, it's my understanding that JGS doesn't use slope in determining differential, unlike your GHIN) ; and/or, (2) you need to play in stronger strength of field tournaments since that constitutes 25% of the ranking. Did I get that right?
You're pretty close. Course rating is the metric you'd look at for "difficulty of tournament", slope is only applicable for bogey/higher handicap golfers - it reflects things like forced carry's that aren't relevant for better players. Like you said though, course rating is highly correlated with longer golf courses. An example would be the par 3s are all 200+ yards and there's water around the green - that's just hard for everyone so it'll be reflected in both course rating AND slope.
JGS is using course rating when it creates the scoring differential (technically it's the top 75% of scores rather than 100% but it's also not 20% like GHIN - which is why I don't like handicap as an evaluation of performance for elite golf).
All that said, you don't really want to start doing calculus on which tournaments to play in around that, priority one is get the scores down, once the scores are around 72-74 then you shouldn't have any problem getting into AJGA events and other elite stuff like the Junior PGA, US Junior, Junior Worlds, etc. and at that point you don't really need to worry about course rating anyway since they're all hard courses.
Glad you're enjoying the videos!