3 Holers

Novice/Beginner

3 Holers
**Must be Accompanied Everywhere by a Parent or Guardian**

The Novice levels will focus on establishing the basics of the game; Swing, Skill and Playing. Gradings are made up largely of outcome based demonstrations of swing fundamentals by the junior. Any skill tests included require a 25% success rate for that particular test to pass at these early levels.

Golf Swing Criteria:
Demonstrate an interlocking, Vardon or overlapping grip.
With the assistance of a teaching aid, demonstrate correct alignment of
feet, pelvis, shoulders and clubface.
Demonstrate basic golf posture bending from the hip and knee joints.
Demonstrate good weight shift from trail leg to front foot with complete follow through.

Shot Making Skills:
Be able to successfully identify combinations of uphill and side hill
breaks and demonstrate this by rolling a ball into a defined area.
Demonstrate the ability to hole one 2’ putt out of 4 attempts.

Course Management, Playing and performance Statistics:
Introduce putting component to some hole- keep track of total putts.

Object Control and Locomotion(FMS) Proficiency
Demonstrate intermediate hopping, skipping and sliding traits.
Demonstrate intermediate throwing, striking and bowling traits.

Physical Fitness Proficiency
Push-ups & Horizontal Pull-ups: 4 with good form
Front Plank & Bridge: 48 seconds in perfect form
Vertical Jump: 6 inches
Chest Pass & Sit-up and Throw: 6 feet
505 Agility: less than 5 seconds

History, Rules, Etiquette
History- Name 4 legends and one fact about each.
Rules- 14 Club Rule, Honors and play it as it lies.
Etiquette- Speed of play and ready golf.

6 Holers

Intermediate

6 Holers
**Must be Accompanied Everywhere by a Parent or Guardian**

The Intermediate levels continue to build on the foundation created in the Novice Levels. More skills are taught and each grading progressively introduces more skills tests that have to be successfully completed in order to pass the grading. Most of the skills tests require a 50% success rate to pass that particular test.

Golf Swing Criteria:
Demonstrate awareness of proper ball position based on the shot being played.
Demonstrate rotation of the spine and pelvis without lateral movement.

Shot Making Skills:
Demonstrate the ability to hole two 2’ putts out of 4 attempts.
Demonstrate the ability to hole one 7’ putts out of 4 attempts.
Demonstrate the ability to hit one 10-12 yard chip out of four into a 16 sq. yds.
Must land one 10-12 yd. pitch out of 4 attempts into a 16 sq. yd. area.
Must land one 30 yd. pitch out of 4 attempts into a 36 sq. yd. area.
Demonstrate the ability to hit 1 greenside sand shot (10yds.) out of 5 attempts to a 5 square yard area.
Demonstrate the ability to hit six 6 irons and six drives and hit them through a target 3 times (25%). Determine target width from maximum drive length.
Demonstrate ideas on how to move the ball – trajectory and flight control.
Explain the concept of breaking the putt into two halves to get a better read.

Course Management, Playing and performance Statistics:
No data tested, but should start to score 36 or less over par per round No data tested, but should start to hit 20% or more greens
Average 54 putts or less for 18 holes.
No data tested, but should start to make 20% of scrambling to within 10 yds.
Note: Halve all of the above averages.

Physical Fitness Proficiency:
Push-ups & Horizontal Pull-ups 10 with good form
Vertical Pull-ups: 1 with chin to barf
Front Plank & Bridge: 96 seconds in perfect form
Vertical Jump: 10 inches
Chest Pass & Sit-up and Throw: 10 feet
505 Agility: less than 4.8 sec

History, Rules, Etiquette:
History- Name 8 legends and one fact about each
Rules- Provisional ball and Sand trap rules.
Etiquette- Speed of play and ready golf

9 Holers

Moderate

6 Holers
**Must be Accompanied Everywhere by a Parent or Guardian**

9 Holers The Moderate levels continue to build on the foundation created in the Intermediate Levels. More skills are taught and each grading progressively introduces more skills tests that have to be successfully completed in order to pass the grading. Most of the skills tests require a 60% success rate to pass that particular test.

Golf Swing Criteria:
Demonstrate a complete stable dynamic posture.
Demonstrate good release and impact position.

Shot Making Skills:
Demonstrate advanced green reading ability
Demonstrate the ability to hole two 4’ putts out of 4 attempts.
Demonstrate the ability to hole one 7’ putt out of 4 attempts
Demonstrate the ability to hole one 11’ putt out of 4 attempts.
Demonstrate the ability to hit two 20’ putts into a 6’ radius.
Demonstrate the ability to hit two 30’ putts into a 9’ radius.
Demonstrate the ability to hit two 10-12 yard chip out of four into 9 sq. yds.
Must land one 10-12 yd. pitch out of 4 attempts into a 16 sq. yd. area.
Must land one 30 yd. pitch out of 4 attempts into a 36 sq. yd. area.
Demonstrate ability to hit 1 greenside sand shot (10yds.) out of 5 to 5 sq. yds.
Demonstrate the ability to hit six 9 irons, six 6-irons and six drives and hit them through a target 3 times (25%). Determine target width from max drive length.
Demonstrate the ability to hit 3 out of 6 shots either high or low or draw or fade.
Demonstrate the ability to predict ball flights from uneven lies such as above or below the feet or uphill and downhill lies.

Course Management, Playing and performance Statistics:
Relative to modified tees, return a scoring average below 22.5 over par.
Relative to modified tees, average 30% for Greens In Regulation(GIR).
Average 38 putts or less for 18 holes.
Average 30% or more for scrambling within 10 yards of the green.

Physical Fitness Proficiency:
Push-ups & Horizontal Pull-ups: 18 with good form
Vertical Pull-ups: 2 with chin to bar
Front Plank & Bridge: 144 seconds in perfect form
Vertical Jump: 14 inches
Chest Pass & Sit-up and Throw: 14 feet
505 Agility: less than 4.4 sec

History, Rules, Etiquette:
History- Name 12 legends and one fact about each
Rules- All rules should have been read.

18 Holers

Advanced

18 Holers
18 Holers /Advanced levels require highly developed shot making and playing standards in order to pass the gradings, which implies a well developed swing. Advanced grading requires amongst other things a low single figure handicap and most of the skills test contained within the grading require a two-thirds success rate to pass the individual test.

Shot Making Skills:
Make 9 out of 12 putts from 2-6 feet (four from each length).
Make 4 out of 12 putts from 7-15 feet (four from each length).
Hit three 20’ putts into a 6’ radius out of four random attempts.
Hit three 30’ putts into a 9’ radius out of four random attempts
Hit three 10-12 yard chips out of 4 attempts into a 9 sq. yd. area.
Hit two 16-18 yard chips out of 4 attempts into a 16 sq. yd. area.
Must land three 10-12 yd. pitches out of 4 attempts into a 9 sq. yd. area.
Must land two 16-18 yd. pitches out of 4 attempts into a 16 sq. yd. area.
Must land two 30 yd. pitches out of 4 attempts into a 25 sq. yd. area.
Must land two 45 yd. pitches out of 4 attempts into a 36 sq. yd. area.
Must land one 60 yd. pitch out of 4 attempts into a 49 sq. yard area.
Demonstrate the ability to hit 2 out of 5 from 10 yards to a 16 sq. yd. area.
Demonstrate the ability to hit 1 out of 5 from 10-15 yds. to a 25 sq. yd. area.
Demonstrate the ability to hit six 9 irons, six 6-irons and six drives and six 5wd/hybrid and hit them through a target 6 times (45%). Determine target width from maximum drive length.

Course Management, Playing and performance Statistics:
Relative to modified tees, return a scoring average below 13.5 over par.
Relative to modified tees, average 40% for Greens In Regulation(GIR).
Average less than 2.0 putts per green or 36 putts for 18 holes.
Average 40% or more for scrambling within 10 yards of the green.
Average 25% or more for scrambling inside full wedge distance.

Physical Fitness Proficiency:
Push-ups & Horizontal Pull-ups: 30 with good form
Vertical Pull-ups: 6 with chin to bar
Front Plank & Bridge: 192 seconds in perfect form
Vertical Jump: 19 inches
Chest Pass & Sit-up and Throw: 19 feet
505 Agility: less than 4.1 sec

History, Rules, Etiquette:
History- Name 10 female and 10 male legends and one fact about each.