How Division 1 College Golfers Prepare During the Offseason?

How do Division 1 College Golfers prepare during their offseason? In this 2nd Swing Thoughts podcast segment, University of Minnesota Golfers Bella and Reese McCauley join the show to discuss their offseason schedules. Bella and Reese each share which events they’re playing in this summer, which includes U.S. Amateur Qualifying. Both also share how they approach the offseason when it comes to the amount of times they play and practice.

00:00 Introduction
00:30 Offseason Approach
01:35 U.S. Amateur Qualifying Prep
02:40 Summer Tournaments
03:55 Preparing for College Season

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[Music] it’s summer now and you’re not the junior tournaments are no longer on on the schedule So that probably opened I know you’ve you’ve talked about this before where there are times of the year where you just kind of don’t even pick up a club Yeah You know you set aside some time to do to not do that Are you going to be the same way now that you have kind of the summer a lot more open than you know it used to be for you Yeah for sure I took a little bit of time off right after the season like maybe like a week week and a half and then and then got back into it And so now um yeah I don’t know I don’t like to take like a ton of time off You’re less of a time off kind of person Yeah I like to have like consistent like like a day off a week and like keep that consistency I see Um where Bella can be like oh like whatever like like I don’t need a day off or whatever And then take more of a longer period off Yeah Um if I’m like an I’m like an all or nothing person where if like if I like need a break like I’m like I’m not touching the clubs it’s going in the closet I’m needing like I’m going to take like a good two weeks off So like right now I just finished Palmer Cup and like now I’m taking some time off and then I’ll get but when I get back into it for prep like for another tournament like I’ll be like I’ll be like at it’ll be like at a 10 like it’s it’s like all or nothing for me So you’re not like during these times you know we’ve talked a little bit in the past about the time that you guys that you both put into the game of golf So when it’s time to prep for you know an event this summer what kind of time is is that going to be for for me We have really similar but I would say I will like leading up to so one of my next things is like the USA qualifying which is about a month out from now And yeah you’re in that too And so I think like Normally like four to eight hours a day six days a week Yeah Will be like the normal schedule And if it’s like the seven eight hour days like 40 hours a weekish Yeah Like Yeah Like normally um if we’re doing like the seven eight hours days that that includes like a round of golf So like that’s like four hours of that But um definitely try to get some like practice out there too Like if we’re going to be out there play a golf round we’ll try to do like another threeh hour like like just practice session afterwards or before So it it definitely is like long days out there but we love it and like we we’re able to like play with friends too or we play together So that makes it super fun But they’re definitely long days like leading up to Palmer Cup like I was I was in grind mode like was at the course for a long long periods of time So what is on this on the schedule for event You said US AM qualifying Is there anything else over the summer months that you guys are planning on competing in before you know the fall season I just have like actually next week I have the uh the Minnesota women’s match play It’s at Spring Hill So I really love that course It’s probably like one of my favorites in Minnesota So I’m really excited to play in that And then and I love playing in match play too I think it’s superatch format So yeah I’m playing in that And then yeah we’re both doing the USM qualifier And then depending on on how that goes might do the state open Okay So gotcha Um yeah those are I mean the state open miss no match play obviously USM those are those are big deals So that would be fun Yeah hopefully hopefully USM works out but obviously state open’s a really good one as well And so um and it’s actually at the Royal It’s actually at the Royal this year which for anyone who follows college golf our second our college like one of our first college events of the year in the fall is at is at the Royal for the Anukica So that’s that we were like “Oh that would be a good way to kind of prep leading up to it.” So um but yeah either way like a good summer schedule Definitely not too busy which is kind of like the way we like it just because fall and spring are so packed on either end right Your your fall and spring you’re you’re basically non-stop You know you don’t really get time to yourselves Yeah Yeah So with when does the fall season then kind of you know do you guys have a prep time individually for yourselves before the season or do you kind of you know all right season starts on this date and then we kind of go full full it or what Yeah like we prep a for like a few weeks ourselves coming like leading up to the season and then it starts in like September Yeah So so because of like the way like our school is and like because our championship season’s in the spring like we the earliest we can report back is literally like August 31st or like September 1st like one or the like it’s like literally like September 1st So and they can’t really mandate us to be there earlier a lot of people come filtering back like those intern like our internationals and whoever like maybe like a week prior just to kind of get like time zone adjusted But um but yeah like it’s like for us you know we’re we’re trying to like mentally prep for like fall season because once we get back we actually might have like a week of qualifying maybe like the past couple years we’ve had like a day of qualifying and then we go to our tournament So for us it’s like mentally like we’re preparing for it you know weeks in advance before even the team comes because then once it once they come like it’s go time We don’t really have a lot of time really hit the ground running it sounds like where it’s like season starts you know officially on this date and then you might have a you know a big event you know a few days later Exactly That’s exactly so we’re prepping for a while before like Yeah like two months Like last year I think we maybe had like one like practice day or like one round of qualifying before we left for our tournament Like it’s it’s there’s like almost no and that’s like that was like not how it was my freshman year I don’t know how it will be this year depending on schedule But the fall season’s shorter so it’ll just last like five weeks or so Yeah it’s a lot and then Yeah And then we have a little bit of time off and then just like some practice season It’s definitely a different schedule though like you just have to be like kind of ready to go once the fall starts cuz then you’re just hitting the wrong ground running but it’ll be really quick and then spring is just kind of a lot more of like marathon golf like kind of spread apart right 100% Interesting Okay so [Music]