AJGA Haul!

For a $250 tournament entry fee, the AJGA has got to be one of the best deals on the planet. Here is what Sean and all his fellow competitors have in store for this weekend, as he plays his first AJGA event of the season:

• One practice round
• Two guaranteed tournament rounds
• A third tournament round if your player make the cut (top 48 players + ties)
  
• Great competition against a deep, international field of fellow juniors
  
• Great pace of play for the rounds at only a bit more than 4 hrs
• A warm and friendly AJGA staff, plenty of them, along with great volunteers
• A dozen Titleist ProV1x golf balls ($45 retail value)
• A dozen Taylor-Made Penta golf balls ($45 retail value)
• A Winn brand putter grip
  
• A smart looking Adidas/AJGA logo golf shirt ($60 retail value)
• Three hats, including the all-important "Dustin Johnson" flat bill style Taylor-Made hat. ($20 each)
• A pair of Adidas adiPure nuovo golf shoes ($200 retail value)
• A bag towel ($20 retail value)

The shoes are definitely, absolutely over the top and not something he'll see in most AJGA events. They are also brilliant marketing. He loves them already. And he's been a Foot-Joy kid all his life.

But everything else, except maybe the second dozen balls, is pretty typical.

If AJGA were to ask my opinion, I'd tell them, "You had me at well-run events."

And if they were to ask Sean his opinion of the one tee gift he could not do without, he'd definitely only "need" the bag towel. Junior golfers meeting on the tee for the first time size each other up through their bag towels. It is to the junior golfer what the mane is to the lion.