Founded in 2012, RecruitPKB is a partnership between the Peggy Kirk Bell Girls’ Golf Tour (PKBGT) and Brandi Jackson Golf, created to educate young female golfers on the college recruiting process. At the core of the platform is Brandi Jackson, a national leader in girls’ golf recruiting, whose own playing experience spans all levels of the game — from junior golf and collegiate success to LPGA competition.
With her unique background, Brandi provides PKBGT members with insight into the recruiting journey. She provides webinars and attends PKBGT events, she offers a free “Intro to the Process” 30-minute consultation to all National members, and provides customized recruiting packages for families seeking hands-on support. The RecruitPKB platform delivers valuable content, tools, and education to help families confidently navigate the path to college golf.
About Brandi Jackson
Brandi Jackson was a standout player at Furman University, earning titles such as All-American, Southern Conference Champion, SoCon Player of the Year, and NCAA East Regional Champion. She was inducted into both the Furman Athletic Hall of Fame and the Palmetto High School Athletic Hall of Fame.
As an amateur, Brandi captured back-to-back wins at the South Carolina Women’s Match Play Championship (1999, 2000), was named Carolinas Golf Association Player of the Year, and finished runner-up at the 2002 U.S. Women’s Amateur — a career highlight.
After graduating from Furman with a degree in Health and Exercise Science in 2003, Brandi qualified for the U.S. Women’s Open and went on to earn full status on the LPGA Tour through Q-School that fall. She competed professionally for seven years on both the LPGA and Symetra Tours, including appearances in the U.S. Women’s Open in 2006 and 2007.
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From Tour Player to Trusted Consultant
In 2009, while still competing, Brandi began working with a national recruiting organization as a college recruiting speaker. After stepping away from full-time tour play in 2010, she transitioned into a direct mentorship role with junior golfers. Recognizing the need for a more personal, experience-based approach, she launched Brandi Jackson Golf in 2011.
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ndi has spent over 14 years working one-on-one with families, consulting on every stage of the college recruiting journey, along with aspects that extend beyond the process, such as professional development, life skills, mental toughness, player development, and more.
As the PKBGT’s official College Consultant for the past 12 years, Brandi continues to be a trusted voice in junior golf. Her contributions have earned her recognition as one of Greenville Business Magazine’s Best and Brightest Under 35 and the Anderson Independent’s Top 20 Under 40. She has also appeared on Golf Channel’s Morning Drive, is TPI Level 1 certified, and served for 12 years on the board of The Blade Junior Golf Classic.
This greatly varies based on a player’s resume and expectations but generally for a female golfer once you are consistently shooting under 80 from 5800yds and longer you can begin the recruting process. If this doesn’t happen before spring of junior year then it is imperative that you begin the process no matter what and stay as realistic as possible. It is never too early to begin the process but this is a general reference point for the resume that a coach would consider prior to a player’s junior year.
An course assessment of a player’s current level of play with respect to college recruiting potential and their ability and willingness to improve and play at the collegiate level. The consultation portion of the evaluation will help a family better understand where the player currently stands in the recruiting process, discuss their expectations for the future and provide directions on how they should begin to tackle the process most successfully.
No, I am not a recruiting service. I serve to consult, coach and mentor a junior golfer on how they can tackle the process within the realm of what the college coaches expect from the players.
A recruiting resume can be created in several different formats, a PDF/Word document, paid online golf resume service, free online website creator or paid domain registered website. Any of these options are equally acceptable as long as they are easily accessed, organized and minimized to the necessary info.
No, I do provide direction and options on how a player can best create a resume that is easily accessible to the college coaches and do a follow up review once it is completed. Through the evaluation process, I film 15-20 video clips to edit and create a quality recruiting video for each player to use with their resume.
No, I do not teach any swing instruction. My role is to ensure a junior golfer is in good hands with an instructor who understands the competitive junior golf world and has an awareness of the college recruiting process. For some players I do provide coaching and suggestions on short game fundamentals, course management skills, and practice drills based on my experience of playing collegiate and professional golf.
Yes, throughout my junior, collegiate and professional golf career, plus 8+ years of working in the college recruiting industry I have worked hard to develop relationships with college coaches all over the country. I do not take these relationships for granted and strive to maintain respect from the coaches on how I consult each player through their college recruiting journey.
While the belief that there is an abudance of unused scholarships is a bit misleading, it is still a great opportunity for a girl to earn athletic scholarship money. Not all golf programs are fully funded with the allowed NCAA scholarships so they funding is more limited than what most players and parents anticipate. And across the board it is much more competitive for the scholarship money than most girls realize beacuse they are competing against girls from not just in the US but internationally as well.
An official visit is not allowed until first day of a athlete’s senior year but expenses can be covered including food, lodging and entertainment. An athlete is only allowed 5 total official visits and only 1 per instituion. An unofficial visit is allowed anytime during the process but no expenses are allowed to be covered by the institution, only 3 complimentary tickets to an athletic event. An athlete may take as many unofficial visits as they would like.
A junior golfer can send emails and make phone calls on their own initiative prior to Sept 1st and include their swing or high school coaches contact info. While a college coach can not initiate email or phone communication with a player before Sept 1 of their junior year, they are allowed to contact a player’s swing or high school coach to schedule an unofficial visit.
Our PKB experience was extraordinary!! We met Brandi Jackson at a recruitment seminar at a Furman University tournament. Brandi came highly recommended. She was well known not only for her contacts and knowledge of the recruiting process but for her skill level of the game. Brandi knows a lot about what it takes to be successful. After just 2 sessions with Brandi my daughter said, ‘Mom, I which I had known Brandi years ago. She is so helpful, patient, and resourceful. She really knows the skills I need to improve on. Brandi has not only made a difference in our daughter’s game but in her confidence level as a person and a player.
PKB has been a true partnership with our family: Answering our questions, matching our daughter’s skill level to the correct University, and coaching us through the recruitment process. Brandi and the PKB organization were invaluable to us and we are very thankful.
As parents of a PKB player Rhea Bhatia we are proud that she Committed to Queens University Charlotte. Rhea could have not achieved this milestone without Brandi Jackson and PKBGT. ‘Thanks Brandi’.
We had our first meetings with Brandi way back in fall of 2015 and she has been an invaluable addition to the ‘team’ supporting our daughter Muskan in pursuing her dream of playing high-level collegiate golf. Having moved from India only a few years back, we were very new to the sports recruitment process in US. Brandi has helped and guided us through every step of this journey with knowledge borne out of her personal experience as a collegiate and professional golfer.
We really like how Brandi sits down with every athlete and family to understand what they are looking for specifically from a college experience and then prepare an honest list of schools that they should be looking for and lists their pros and cons. She is genuinely interested in helping the player find a place in this competitive field of collegiate golf. Muskan had her resume already ready but Brandi helped her improve it even further and created a great swing video for her too. Brandi also provided Muskan great insights into what to expect out of college visits and how to go about making them successful. We found all our sessions with Brandi extremely informative and have referred several families to Brandi, as our experience has been so fruitful.
Muskan also played a couple of practice rounds with Brandi for some big tournaments and learnt a great deal from her as regards to course management. It was very easy for us to schedule meetings with Brandi and we could turn to her anytime for any question that came to our mind while Muskan was short listing her dream schools and then finally selecting University of Richmond as her future home.
We are very thankful to Brandi for all that she has done for Muskan and what she does every day to promote junior golf.Puneet and Abhilasha Uppal, daughter Muskan Uppal ,19 who has verbally committed to University of Richmond.
Working with Brandi the last couple of years both on recruiting and individually on game improvement has been invaluable for my daughter. She has been professional, informative, and has provided just the right amount of optimism and realism for my daughter. She has truly made this stressful process less intimidating and provided great guidance in terms of the process, interacting with coaches and selecting schools to focus on. I am convinced we were able to successfully navigate this process largely due to her help and would highly recommend any family wishing for their daughter to play college golf to definitely work with her! Renaldo (Alexis) Jarrell.
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