WISCONSIN GOLF ACADEMY 
PATHWAY TO EXCELLENCE JUNIOR NEWSLETTER

Juniors, WELCOME to your first JUNIOR GOLFER NEWSLETTER.  The purpose of this newsletter is to be informative, motivational, and FUN.  If you find something worthwhile and would like me to post please feel free to forward it to me.  Please feel free to send me the e-mail address of anyone you think might find this newsletter worthwhile.

I very proud of each of you for all of your effort during the 2016 season.  Please remember, no one will WIN every time they play.  What matters most, are you putting in the effort to get better every day.
 
            "There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. It takes work."  Beverly Sills
 
 TABLE OF CONTENTS
  1.   Holiday Junior Golf Academy December
  2.   Athlete First, Golfer Second
  3.   Heater Update At Swing Time
  4.   Thoughts, Ideas and suggestions for parents Golf.
  5.   Fitness Training Jumping Rope
  6.   Jordan Spieth Age 14 
  7.   Jason Day "Never Say Die" video.  GREAT! 
  8.    Brad Stevens Coach of NBA Boston Celtics 
  9.   Excellence Golf Quiz
Holiday Junior Golf Academy

I am very excited to be partnering with Froedtert Sports Medicine to offer the first Holiday 2016 junior golf camp.  Follow the link below for information that will describe this year's camp.  Please call me with any questions you may have or to sign up.  Holiday Junior Golf Academy
Feature Article - Athlete First, Golfer Second

Often the people who find golf to come the easiest were athletes first and then golfers.
These individuals grew up playing various sports and either found golf as another sport to play or take it up when they could no longer play contact sports.  
Jordan Spieth
played basketball, football and baseball growing up where he excelled at baseball before becoming a golf superstar.  
Brooks Keopka
started playing golf after a car accident left him unable to play hockey and baseball.  These are only 2 examples but both became better golfers because they were athletes first.
 
Many research articles have shown that late-specialization in a sport increases the chance for a child to succeed.  Along with success, kids participating in multiple sports were shown to have a lower rate of injury in a recent study from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  The reason this holds true is playing multiple sports allows for increased movement patterns, motor development and a decreased risk of burn out.  Movement patterns and motor development carry over between all sports in one way or another. 
 
Having our youth specialize in a sport early on is really hurting them from developing to their full potential.  Many times parents will have them focus on one sport thinking they are helping them out.  In all reality, and science has shown, they are decreasing their chances to succeed. 
 
Jeff Walter
Titleist Performance Institute - Fitness Level 2 Certified
Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin Golf Performance Clinic

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