Coach Beatty says:
"I have been brutally honest with this information. I doubt in the dozens of resumes and responses you sent and received, you will get anything like this. Please read it carefully.
Unless you're talking to a premier Division I school, be a little skeptical of coaches that tell you how 'good' everything is with their program. It is my nightmare as a coach to have an athlete come here expecting one thing and getting another because I have misled them in some way.
Honestly, I know this approach has cost me players in the past, but I also know that most of those players who went elsewhere wish they had something like this to read about the school they selected.
If being a college golfer is your dream, it's much better to PLAY at a smaller school than to try to walk-on at a big school. In most cases, you won't be given a fair shot. Coaches don't like to be proved wrong, and having a walk-on beating their scholarship players makes them look a dweezle.
Finally, be careful what you wish for. College athletics is unbelievably difficult. So you need to ask yourself these questions: Do I really want to do this? Who am I doing this for?
Most students watch MTV's Mega-Spring Break Blowout or movies and say, 'hey, college is cool, I want that!' Sadly, those kids running around the beach playing Frisbee and looking for the kegger aren't collegiate athletes. The athletes are back at practice or playing in games.
Strangely enough, some players are quite content just bringing their pretty bag home for Christmas break and the summer and never competing. Of course, no one would admit that, but I swear...it's true. If sleeping until noon because you stayed out until 3am with your friends 'experiencing' college is your idea of having fun, athletics will not be the ticket for you. If golf and/or improving yourself is not your absolute undying passion, you won't make it.
However, if competition and self-improvement is more important than the 'college experience,' you have a real chance of having an athletic career that 99 percent of all college students wish they have/had ... getting paid to do something you love.
You've got to LOVE golf and pushing yourself to play at the college level because of the time it takes to improve."
