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<blockquote data-quote="gohornedfrogs" data-source="post: 3275337" data-attributes="member: 3599"><p>I get the idea here, but this troubles me:</p><p></p><p><em>With a $3 million budget for its first year, the USNDP's stated mission is to "identify, train, develop, fund and support the nation's most promising junior players."</em></p><p></p><p>National programs like this often become fraught with politics, and marginalize late-bloomers. They will also be prohibitive to young multi-sport athletes. Who identifies these players? And how is support doled out? Lots of room for human error, and, quite frankly, for corruption by people with personal agendas. Any time you give people the power to "select" the chosen ones, corruption and politics inevitably follow (and I'm talking about general politics we've all encountered in youth sports, not Dems vs. Reps). This seems paradoxical in a purely merit-based sport like golf.</p><p></p><p>For now, I'm classifying this as one of those things that sounds great and feels great, but may actually create the opposite of what it intends to do.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gohornedfrogs, post: 3275337, member: 3599"] I get the idea here, but this troubles me: [I]With a $3 million budget for its first year, the USNDP's stated mission is to "identify, train, develop, fund and support the nation's most promising junior players."[/I] National programs like this often become fraught with politics, and marginalize late-bloomers. They will also be prohibitive to young multi-sport athletes. Who identifies these players? And how is support doled out? Lots of room for human error, and, quite frankly, for corruption by people with personal agendas. Any time you give people the power to "select" the chosen ones, corruption and politics inevitably follow (and I'm talking about general politics we've all encountered in youth sports, not Dems vs. Reps). This seems paradoxical in a purely merit-based sport like golf. For now, I'm classifying this as one of those things that sounds great and feels great, but may actually create the opposite of what it intends to do. [/QUOTE]
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