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It sounds like you went through a challenging recruitment process, especially with the changes in the recruitment rules during your sophomore year. It's impressive that you were able to stand out by showing the full picture of your performance, including the bad tournaments, and by focusing on the mental aspect of golf. It's also great that you were proactive in reaching out to coaches and had a lot of contact with them. Your experience highlights the importance of considering the mental aspect of sports and finding the right coaching style during the recruitment process.

Garrett Engle | Tennessee Chattanooga Golf

I mean , that's , that was what I was looking for both times . Um Both in my first recruitment stage then after the dead period , the second recruitment stage and then was I was in the transfer portal too . Like that's , that's pretty much my main focus the entire time , which is finding a coach that kinda um related with me in the way I practice and the way I play , I think that's the most important thing .

Garrett Engle | Tennessee Chattanooga Golf

Um , so that kind of threw me for a loop and I wasn't really sure where I was at with any of the colleges . That was , that was the biggest difficulty and then I had to basically restart my whole recruitment as a junior . Um , so I got a lot of things thrown at me really fast .

Garrett Engle | Tennessee Chattanooga Golf

Uh , I play men's golf at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga . So I was lucky enough to , um , they changed the recruitment rules actually my sophomore year , which made things really hard . Um , because I had this stretch before , um , before I was a sophomore where I could talk to coaches .

Garrett Engle | Tennessee Chattanooga Golf

And I think that that's very important . I think that's something that , that helped me kinda stand apart from any other recruits or , or anybody like that is they were able to see the full picture without having to go digging for it . Yeah , most of it isn't really on a golf .

Garrett Engle | Tennessee Chattanooga Golf

But it's important to just focus on your actual golf or your , or your sport , whatever that is and then end up , you know , if they'll come to you , uh , it's , you know , they'll , they'll end up , you'll get exposure if you're doing , doing the right things on your athletics . But like a lot of people when they're emailing coaches or like giving a resume to a coach , they only put their good things on their resume . And one thing that I did to stand out is I put all my bad tournaments on my resume .