And I think course management has been the biggest way that I have gained an edge on the competition . Everybody in college golf is a really good ball striker , really good putter . They have incredible short games , they hit the ball miles .
But that's another piece of advice in college I've understood is taking time every night to plan my next day today and plan exactly how I'm going to allocate every hour of my day so that I can prepare better than everybody else in the country . Because in junior golf there's a lot of high school golfers or other players that maybe aren't being as meticulous with their schedule . And I think a way you can gain an edge in a way you can prepare better than them is to just be that much more efficient and precise with how you're practicing .
I played division one golf for Marquette University as a high schooler . When preparing to play college golf , I think the biggest focus that I knew would be important for me to separate myself from the other players would be mainly ball striking and iron game . I think that that's one of the biggest ways to bridge the gap between being a good player and a great player coming to college is really taking time on the range to work through swing thoughts and really just hone in ball striking because if you're able to place the golf ball in very precise spots coming into the green , you , you have an , you have an advantage on the competition and there's a lot of other areas like short game and putting that maybe everyone is mostly similar at , at that stage .
Uh my name is Max Lyons . I played division one golf for Marquette University as a high schooler . When preparing to play college golf , I think the biggest focus that I knew would be important for me to separate myself from the other players would be mainly ball striking and iron game .
There's not much separation between everyone but inside 8 ft , if you can really hone in those short putts and make a very high percentage of them , that's where you're gonna gain strokes on the field . So that's been kind of an area of focus for me is course management and then putting inside 8 ft , balancing academics with a very busy , uh , golf schedule is one of the hardest things I've noticed in , in college so far , one of my biggest challenges and I think it really takes saying no to a lot of things we're traveling 456 days in a row and getting back to campus and having only 1 to 2 days of class before leaving on another trip . So it really requires a lot of time management and speaking with professors ahead of time on what lectures are gonna be missed , what content will be missed , potentially , exams , quizzes , presentations that need to be structured around our tournament schedules .
