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Golf Practice Plan for Ages 6-8: Building the Fundamentals

The goal at this age is not a repeatable swing. It is a golfer who wants to come back tomorrow, and a set of physical skills that make every later lesson easier to learn.

Golf Practice Plan for Ages 9-11: Skill-Building Drills

This is the age where practice starts to look like training instead of play. Here is how to structure it so skill builds fast without pushing a golfer past what they can handle.

Junior Golf Etiquette Before the First Competitive Round

Before a first competitive round a child needs a short list, not the rulebook. Be at the starting hole on time. Stand still and stay quiet while anyone plays. Shout fore if a ball heads toward someone. Be ready when it is your turn. Repair what you damage. Check every hole on the scorecard before it is handed in. Some of those are Rules of Golf with stated penalties and some are courtesy, and a committee's own code of conduct can add penalties of its own. The card below marks each item as a Rule, as The R&A's own guidance or as a courtesy, with the Rule number beside every item that has one.

Moving Up From 9-Hole to 18-Hole Junior Golf

In an organized junior event, the move from nine holes to eighteen is set by the organizer's divisions, and organizers draw the line in different places. On U.S. Kids Golf's Local Tours, the age groups 11 and up play eighteen holes and the younger groups play nine. On the Georgia State Golf Association's Junior Tour in 2026, nine-hole divisions run through age 15 and a family selects a division by age and ability. Where no organizer's rule decides it, the move is a family choice, and this page gives a worksheet of things to watch for and questions to take to your golfer and their coach.