2010 College Golf Combines

Coaches Attending Combines

More than 200 college golf coaches have now experienced at least one college golf combine.  As the combines begin their third year of providing an unique opportunity for college golf coaches to evaluate recruits, there will be additional coaches that attend one or more combines.  Coaches are now notifying recruits that they will be attending a combine and asking that they participate to give the coach an opportunity to evaluate their game.

Coaches will be registering for the combines beginning in March and each combine participant will receive a list of all registered coaches, with email addresses, thirty days prior to the combine.  We encourage the combine participants to contact the coaches at the universities that they are interested in attending to introduce themselves.

At each of the three major 2010 combines, coaches will receive a Coach's Book with the resumes of every participant in the same format and separated by graduation year.  The books have become very popular with the coaches.  The resumes are created with the information recruits use to build their interactive resume at College Golf Resumes  A new feature, that will be available in March, allows coaches to add recruits to a Watch List and then everytime the recruit updates their tournament results the coach will receive an email with a link to the recruit's interactive resume.

Coaches' recruiting budgets are being cut because of the economic downturn and they appreciate the many conveniences and efficiencies with the combine format.

The combine website is now bookmarked on college golf coaches computers.  The results from the skills challenges and tournament rounds will be available, during and after the combine, to all 1129 Men's Head Coaches and 799 Women's Head Coaches, plus their Assistant Coaches. 

Recruits and coaches both have the opportunity in 2010 to notify each other months in advance that they are going to be attending a combine(s).  No other junior tournament allows coaches to request certain recruits be paired together or in consecutive groups.  The skills challenge results and tournament scores will be available on live scoring during the combines.

The 2008 & 2009 College Golf Combines started an entirely new approach to the college golf recruiting process.  Much was learned from those first nine combines that will make the three major combines in 2010 even better for both the recruits and coaches.