As a one of the top junior golf tours we understand the time and effort that college coaches put into their recruiting of elite junior players. We see it firsthand each year as our members take the next step in their golf careers. We also have come to know the many uncertainties and questions regarding collegiate golf. That is why we have developed our IJGT College Coach Program. The program is a complimentary service provided by the IJGT to bring together college coaches and our tour members. As a member of the program, college coaches will benefit from the following:

IJGT Website

• Assistance in identifying the next generation of junior golfers
• Search 2,000 IJGT members by name, gender, graduation year and state
• Retrieve mailing addresses, e-mail addresses and phone numbers
• Access player results from IJGT and non-IJGT events (listed by members)
• Access detailed academic information (GPA, ACT/SAT scores, honors), detailed golf profile (ranking, USGA handicap, best tournament round, stroke average, top finishes
• Receive up-to-date IJGT results and hole-by-hole scores for all nationally ranked IJGT tournaments (GolfWeek and JGSB).
• Obtain tournament fields and host course information in advance

E-mail Services

• All IJGT results and press releases will be transmitted electronically immediately following events
• Notification and invitation to all IJGT events near your program
• Tournament pairings for all IJGT events
• Onsite Tournament Benefits:
• Onsite, receive college coaches information packet
• Names of all college coaches in attendance at tournaments posted on the scoreboard
• All IJGT members have been supplied with bag tags to identify member name and graduation year

Please contact IJGT Member Services Department at (800) 792-9143 from 8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.

We will provide access to all player profiles and IJGT results. This is a free service to all coaches and programs. Also, if you would like to receive the press release for each IJGT tournament or if you would like to attend an IJGT event, please let us know and we will be happy to assist you.

Thank you for your support of junior golf and the IJGT. Our staff members are looking forward to assisting you in identifying the future generation of collegiate golfers!

Rules of College Recruiting

The following tips about the Division I recruiting process can be found on the NCAA's Web site, ncaa.org.

When you start ninth-grade classes, you become a "prospective student-athlete."

You become a "recruited prospective student-athlete" at a particular college if any coach or representative of the college's athletics interests (booster or representative) contacts you (or any member of your family) about enrolling and participating in athletics at that college. Activities by coaches or boosters that cause you to become a recruited prospective student-athlete are:

• Providing you with an official visit;
• Placing more than one telephone call to you or any other member of your family; or
• Visiting you or any other member of your family anywhere other than the college campus.

No alumni, boosters, or representatives of a college's athletics interests can be involved in your recruiting.

You (or your family) may not receive any benefit, inducement or arrangement such as cash, clothing, cars, improper expenses, transportation, gifts or loans to encourage you to sign a National Letter of Intent or attend an NCAA college.

Letters from coaches, faculty members and students are not allowed until September 1 at the beginning of your junior year of high school.

Telephone Calls

Phone calls from faculty members and coaches are not permitted until July 1 after the completion of your junior year. After this, a college coach or faculty member may call you (or your parents/legal guardians) once a week.

You (or your parents) may call a coach at your expense as often as you wish after your junior year. Coaches may also accept collect calls from you and may use a toll-free number to receive telephone calls from you on or after July 1 after completion of your junior year.

Contacts

A college coach may contact you in person off the college campus no more than three times on or after July 1 of your junior year. Any face-to-face meeting between a college coach and you or your parents, during which any of you say more than "hello" is a contact. Also, any face-to-face meeting that is prearranged or that occurs at your high school, competition or practice site is a contact, regardless of the conversation.

Coaches may not contact you off the college campus more than three times. A college coach may visit your high school (with the approval of your high school principal) only once a week during a contact period.

Evaluations

An evaluation is any off-campus activity used to assess your academic qualifications or athletics ability, including a visit to your high school (during which no contact occurs) or watching you practice or compete at any site. Institutions have seven permissible recruiting opportunities (contacts and evaluations) during the academic year, and not more than three of the seven opportunities may be in-person, off-campus contacts.

Once you sign a National Letter of Intent, you may be evaluated an unlimited number of times by the college with which you have signed.

Official Visits

During your senior year, you can have one expense-paid (official) visit per college. You may receive no more than five such visits. You cannot have an official visit unless you have provided the college your high school academic transcript and a score from a PSAT, an SAT, a PACT or an ACT taken on a national test date under national testing conditions.

NCAA Initial-Eligibility Clearinghouse

At the beginning of your junior year, you should sign up for the NCAA Initial-Eligibility Clearinghouse, which are minimum requirements to participate in Division I and II athletics. For registration materials, contact your high school guidance counselor or call the NCAA at (319) 337-1492.

For questions or more information on NCAA Rules and Recruiting Information, please call (317) 917-6222.

National Letter of Intent

A National Letter of Intent is an agreement signed by the prospective student-athlete, parent or legal guardian and the athletic director. The agreement states that the institution agrees to provide the prospective student-athlete, who is admitted to the institution and is eligible for financial aid under NCAA rules, athletic aid for one academic year in exchange for the prospect's agreement to attend the institution for one academic year.

Also, other institutions agree not to recruit a prospective student-athlete once he/she signs a NLI. The prospective student-athlete will no longer receive recruiting calls and is ensured an athletic scholarship for one academic year once the NLI is signed.