The best way to play college golf is to play for your school's team when you go to high school, and playing competitive tournaments. Then the best way is to go to the IJGA, the International Junior Golf Academy where Tiger's coach, Hank Haney is the head instructor with campuses in Hilton Head, SC, and one in the central coast of Calilfornia. It's a full academy with academics in Heritage Academy in the Hilton Head campus which you can finish your high school, and you live in house dorms with other students as roomates, and house parents. Students that go to the IJGA are all aspiring golfers from all around the world who want to play college golf, and hopefully go pro. They attend the IJGA for a full school year or semester, so you can try to go there next semester, or next year, or for your junior, or senior year. In the IJGA, you work and improve in your game by getting coached by Hank Haney and his instructors. Then you play in competitive tournaments for the IJGT, the International Junior Golf Tour with other students, and from there, that is where colleges see you for scholarships. Not everyone that goes to the IJGA gets schoalarships, so if you don't, you can still stay there for their post graduate program, which is the same thing, you work and improve on your game, and go to school in the same time, then you can transfer out, and still have a shot in playing college golf. For what scores you have to be shooting, in the IJGA, you should shoot at least in the low 90s, then improve it to break 80 competitvely, and then colleges want you to score 70 or lower occaisionaly competitively. There was a show on the Golf Channel called School of Golf: Hilton Head Island which show lives of students in the IJGA, starring Hank Haney, but the show is not in season right now, so you should check your TV listings when it's on. I highly recomend watching this show before considering going to the IJGA, then you need to have the will, because you will be away from home unless you live in or close to Hilton Head, SC, or the central coast of California. Then most importantly, you need to have the money, which is really expensive to go there. The tuition fees are $47,000 for a full year, and around $28,000 for a semester just for the golf, plus another $11,000 for a full year for the academics, so it's alot of money. If you can't afford their full program, they also offer holiday, summer, and weekend programs, which you get the same instruction and experience as students full time do, but not get the benefits of them helping you out for scholarships. Their programs cost about $1,200 per program, so if you have the money for that, go attend one of their programs, and it will improve in your game. But if you have the money for the full program, and the will, and especially if you live in or close Hilton Head, SC or in the central coast of California, I highly recommend going here, you should not miss out on this opportunity, if you want to play college golf, and get a scholarship, your chances of getting one is way higher if you go to the IJGA then if you don't go there. There is two campuses you can choose from, one in Hilton Head, SC, and one in Arroyo Grande, CA which is south of San Luis Obispo in the central coast of California, so if you go, choose the one closest to you, or the one you want to go to. For more information about the IJGA, and the show School of Golf: Hilton Head Island, the websites are below in the sources.
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