Junior Golf Guides

Expert resources for families and coaches navigating competitive junior golf tournament scheduling and season planning.

What these guides cover

These guides document the decision logic behind roadmap.golf’s tournament scheduling platform — the frameworks, thresholds, and trade-offs that inform how the system evaluates tournament fit, season balance, and competitive pathway alignment. The content is grounded in real scoring data: the PathFinder 6-factor model, the Season Health composite scoring system, and field strength data from 3,000+ tournaments across 75 tours.

Each guide is written for families and coaches making scheduling decisions, not for general golf audiences. If you are working through how to structure a competitive calendar, evaluate a tour’s relevance to your player, or align a season with a specific goal, these guides explain the underlying methodology.

How to use these guides

If you are just getting started, begin with the Tournament Planning guide. It covers the foundational concepts: what makes a tournament a good fit, how to think about season structure, and why most families over-schedule without realizing it. From there, the Tour Guide explains the competitive tiers and helps you understand where your player fits in the landscape.

For families already competing, the Build, Match, Stretch framework and Season Health methodology will help you evaluate whether your current schedule is actually balanced. And if college golf is on the horizon, the College Recruiting Schedule guide maps out the timeline and event strategy that matters.

Every guide connects back to the core idea behind roadmap.golf: helping you decide which tournaments to play, when to play them, and which ones actually fit the player. The PathFinder scoring system and season planning tools translate these concepts into personalized recommendations.