TopTee
TopTee is a dedicated platform designed to streamline college golf recruiting. It lets junior golfers create polished, up-to-date profiles showcasing their stats, tournament results, academics, and videos, while giving coaches easy tools to discover, compare, and connect with talent—making the entire recruiting process simpler, more transparent, and accessible for everyone.
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Preparation
Know the Rules
To design a truly helpful platform, I needed to understand the rules that shape college golf recruiting. I focused on the key NCAA guidelines that influence every player’s resume. Timeline, rules, and common violations, ensuring our design would meet real-world expectations and simplify the process for junior golfers.
Preparation
Recruiting Is Fragmented and Frustrating
Recognizing the importance of clear communication between players and coaches, we focused on building a dedicated social platform to connect them seamlessly.
Secondary Research
Understanding the Golf Landscape
Popular platforms like Junior Golf Hub, Junior Golf Scoreboards, and AJGA offer great features for junior golfers to track scores and build resumes. However, having these tools scattered across different sites is inefficient for users.
Junior golfers will navigate back and forth between numbers of websites, using different account IDs and passwords to get their needed information.
Primary Research
What coaches value in recruits
I focused on identifying the specific statistical metrics that coaches prioritize in their evaluations. This approach allows us to tailor our platform to provide the most relevant and valuable information to coaching staff.
Site Map
Designing for Connection and Clarity
Final Design
Cutting through the grass
Created a logo for TopTee that blends a passion and professionalism, symbolizing our commitment to junior golfers. Through revisions, we refined to capture golf's precision and players' aspirations.
Final Design
Design for consistency and legibility
We developed a design system to maintain a consistency throughout different devices, such as desktop, mobile and a tablet. The design system blends professionalism with ease of use, featuring a readable layout and vibrant colors for a youthful and warm feel, ensuring the platform is engaging and easy to navigate.
Final Design - Junior Golf Player
Feed + About
Share your journey and showcase a complete profile, making it easy for coaches to follow your progress, understand your strengths, and get to know you better as both a golfer and a student. Highlight your achievements and dedication to stand out in the recruiting process.
Final Design - Junior Golf Player
Tournament
Share detailed insights from each tournament to give coaches a clear understanding of your skills, performance, and potential. Highlight your scores, key moments, and growth over time.
Final Design - Junior Golf Player
Automated Resume
This will alleviate the stress of junior golf players of spending hours of structuring the resume with the tools that they are not familiar with. With an automated resume, connect with coaches through an automated resume featuring a clear, intuitive structure that updates your scores and golfing journey in real time.
Final Design - Junior Golf Player
Statistic
Showcase the precise statistics coaches want to see in a clear, visually intuitive format. Easily compare your performance with other players to highlight your strengths and stand out as a top prospect.
Final Design - Junior Golf Player
Academic
As a junior golfer, you’re more than just your game. Demonstrate your dedication by sharing your academic achievements, showing coaches you’re prepared to succeed not only at top golf programs but also as a good student.
Final Design - Junior Golf Player
Swing Video
Showcase your best swing positions, giving coaches the ability to view and analyze your technique in detail.
Final Design - Junior Golf Player
Connection
It's all about the community. Connect, follow, and communicate with the golf community to stay informed and up to date with all the essential information you need.
Final Design - Coaches
Coach Profile
From a coach’s perspective, the platform simplifies tracking talented golfers’ scores worldwide and centralizes all inquiries, making it easy to compare prospects and select the best players.
Final Design - University Research
University Information
Access detailed university profiles that go beyond general information, offering specific insights into golf programs and team rosters to help junior golfers research and target their dream schools with confidence.
Final Design
Share Your Journey Anywhere, Anytime
TopTee also offers a mobile version, allowing junior golfers to share and update their information even during training and tournaments.
At the same time, coaches can easily track and follow the players they’re interested in, anytime and anywhere.