Nobody coaches the most important performance coach in junior golf. The parent.
This isn't parenting advice. It's performance coaching for the person who shapes every round, every practice, and how much your kid loves the game.
Played Division I Golf
Ohio State
Coaching Career
Championship Teams
in College Golf
“Every parent of a junior golfer should read it, not just once, but many times.”
“Mandatory reading for any parent of a junior golfer who wants to play college golf.”
“A clear, powerful, and much-needed framework for parents.”
Keep your swing coach. I coach everything they don't.
They build the swing. I coach you for everything around it that decides how far your junior golfer goes, and how much they love getting there.
A new program for the most important coach in the game. You.
Lighthouse Golf Parent is the parent-coaching program from Play Golf In College. For 16 years, PGIC has guided families through junior development and college recruiting. Lighthouse Golf Parent turns the focus to the person who shapes all of it. You pick how much support you want. Do it yourself with the Plan, add an advisor in your corner, or bring in a full-time guide for you, your player, and your family. Three levels, one goal: making you your junior golfer's best performance coach.
I'm not a parenting expert. I'm a performance coach for the parent.
For 25 years I have coached golfers, with Division I stops at Duke and Ohio State and more than 165 junior players placed into college programs. But the lesson that changed everything came at home. I watched my own three kids go on to play Division I golf, and I learned that the parent shapes the player more than any swing coach ever will.
Most parents are flying blind. Good intentions, wrong moves, and the player pays the price. So I built a system to fix that. I coach you to become the calm, informed, trusted guide behind your child's game and their love for it. That is the whole job, and almost nobody is teaching it.
Where do you stand right now?
Before you choose a level, take the free diagnostic. Twenty-five honest questions, an instant score, and the one thing to work on next.
Are you the lighthouse, or the tugboat?
Most golf parents are flying blind. Good intentions, wrong moves, and the player pays the price. This quick diagnostic shows you exactly where you stand as your junior golfer's performance coach, and the one thing to work on next.
Want your full breakdown by area, plus the first chapter of The Lighthouse Golf Parent free? I'll send it over.
Pick the level of coaching that fits your family.
Every level trains you deeper as your junior golfer's performance coach. Start with the system. Add me when you're ready.
Coach yourself up, on your own time.
- You know how to support your child's golf so they reach their potential
- You communicate well, especially in the hard moments
- The relationship feels lighter, for both of you
- You hold them to the behaviors that drive success, without the friction
- The complete 10 Pillars system
- All four books, as PDFs
- Every template and tool
- Monthly Q&A and the newsletter
Best for the parent ready to do the work themselves.
The 10 Pillars, in three parts
- The Environment: Safe Environment, The Car Ride Home, Body Language
- The Relationship: Communication, Creating Ownership, Giving Freedom, Allowing Failure
- The Perspective: Staying in Your Lane, Identity Beyond Golf, Playing the Long Game
The tools that wrap around the Pillars
- The "Where Are You Really" Diagnostic
- The Roadmap by Age
- The Reset Protocol, for parents starting over
- The Script Library, word for word for hard conversations
- The Tournament Weekend Operating System
- The Template and Case Study Libraries, real families
- Annual Lighthouse Meeting and Monthly Check-In templates
The four books, included as PDFs
- The Lighthouse Golf Parent, the flagship on coaching the parent
- Becoming Elite, the 640-page manual on every performance factor
- Start Here, the Top 50 Mistakes in Junior Golf
- Building Elite Programs, for program and high school coaches
Work it for 90 days. If you are not a calmer, more effective golf parent, you get a personal call with me to set it right. Do the work, and you will never be left with nothing.
The Plan, plus me in your corner.
- Everything the Plan gives you, plus a coach who makes sure your plan is the right one
- Clarity on where your player's game really stands and what to do next
- Confidence in your tournament schedule and where your money should go
- A steadier you, with someone to ask anything, all year long
- Everything in the Lighthouse Plan
- An intro assessment call with Coach Spar
- Your written Lighthouse Plan
- A 6-month call and full plan revision
- The Recruiting Landscape for Parents
- Ask Coach Spar Coming Soon
your AI coach in your pocket, day or night
Best for the parent who wants a guide, not just a system.
The Intro Assessment Call with Coach Spar
A complete review of where your family actually stands, from a coach who has worked with hundreds of families, placed over 165 junior golfers into college, and done this at Duke, at Ohio State, and as a dad three times over. On this call we look at three things together:
- Your player's game. An honest evaluation of where their game is, what is real and what is hype, and the gap between where they are and where they want to go.
- Your player as a competitor. How they practice, compete, handle pressure, and own their golf, and the specific performance factors we can help your player build next.
- You, as their most important coach. Together we look at how you are showing up across the ten Pillars, and I help you find the small shifts that elevate your own game as a golf parent.
Your Written Lighthouse Plan
Everything from the call, turned into a document you keep: your player's assessment, the parent strengths to build on first, a tournament schedule built for your player, a budget that spends where it matters, and the specific next moves for the season ahead.
Plus, through the year
- A 6-month call and a full revision of your plan as your player grows
- The complete Script Library, expanded, word for word for the hard conversations
- The Recruiting Landscape for Parents: how college golf recruiting really works, the numbers and the timeline
- Ongoing rules and strategy updates
- Ask Coach Spar (coming summer 2026): a private AI coach trained on every word I have written. Ask anything from your phone, day or night. Members get first access the day it ships.
No refunds, because this works when you work it. Follow every element for a year, and if you have not seen real improvement in your child's game, their happiness, and your relationship, I keep working with you another year, free.
I coach you. I coach your player. We build the whole path together.
- Everything in Advisory, plus your player coached directly, not just you
- A college recruiting process run for your family, end to end
- One year-long plan tying your parenting, your player's performance, and recruiting together
- Me reachable year round, so you are never guessing in the moments that matter most
- Everything in Lighthouse Advisory
- Direct performance coaching for your player
- Full college recruiting, managed end to end
- A year-long partnership in your own game as a parent
- Year-round direct access to Coach Spar
- Limited to 20 families
Best for the family going all-in on a college golf future.
Everything in Lighthouse Advisory
- The full system, your intro assessment call, and your written Lighthouse Plan
The Elite tool kits, built for your player
- The Elite Family Roadmap: the master year-long plan tying parent, player, and recruiting together
- The Player Performance System: strokes gained, how to practice, speed, and recovery
- The Recruiting Playbook: the full four-phase process, run for your family
- The Coach Communication and Campus Visit Kit
Direct coaching, all year
- Performance coaching for your junior golfer
- College recruiting, managed end to end for your family
- A partnership in your own game: all year, always alongside you, never over you
- Year-round direct access to me
Reserved for the few
- Limited to 20 families, by application, because access this close cannot scale
The same promise, scaled to everything Elite includes. Do the work, and if the improvement is not there, I keep going at no cost. I will never promise a specific college. No honest coach can.
Moving up is easy, and you never lose what you've invested.
Start with the Plan, and if within your first 90 days you decide you want a coach in your corner, your full Plan payment is credited toward your first year of Advisory. If you are accepted into Elite, your Plan or Advisory investment is credited toward your first year there too. You are never penalized for starting where you started. Your investment moves up with you.
Read The Lighthouse Golf Parent.
Before any tier, there is the book. It lays out the whole philosophy: be the lighthouse, not the tugboat. The calm, steady, informed presence your junior golfer needs you to be. At $24.99, it is the best money you will spend on your child's golf.
$24.99 βThe ultimate guide for any family raising a junior golfer.β Ed Ibarguen PGA Master Professional- Duke University. PGA Hall of Fame.
640 pages. 49 chapters. The manual for every performance factor in junior golf. In-depth coverage of college recruiting, how and what to practice, course management, the mental game, goal setting, fitness, nutrition, sleep, hydration, and more.
Coached right, golf becomes the best thing that ever happened to your family.
The trophies are nice. The memories around them are the point. That is what the right guide makes possible.
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