George McGlinn ’26 is a four-year Senior from Seattle, Washington, and a member of Boys Varsity Golf. He will play golf at the D1 level next year at Georgetown. McGlinn received the Founders All-League golf award in 2025. He was co-captain of Boys Varsity soccer in 2024 and 2025.
Head Coach Mike Eckert said, “George is an incredibly focused and hard-working golfer who is constantly working to improve his game. George is a key part of a group of upperclass students who represent the strongest boys’ golf team the school has ever had.” The Boys Varsity Golf team has broken the home course team scoring record already twice this year.
How did you get involved with golf?
The first day of lockdown during Covid was my first round of golf ever. My dad and my brother took me to Chambers Bay, a famous course in Washington that held the 2015 U.S. Open. It’s a very long, very hard course, and it was the first time I had ever played golf, so it was a brutal awakening to the sport. That was when I was 12 or 13 years old.
Then, I didn’t play golf for a whole year. The next summer, on vacation, I picked the sport back up again, and I really started to like it.
I went to Eaglebrook for seventh and eighth grade, which is a junior boarding school in Deerfield, Massachusetts, right across from Deerfield Academy. In my seventh-grade year, I played lacrosse, and then in my eighth-grade year, I played golf for the first time on a team. I really fell in love with it there.
What have you learned from playing golf?
One of the biggest lessons golf has taught me is to compartmentalize my emotions in a better way. It has taught me how to deal with struggles and disappointment, because golf is frustrating. You can play really well one day and wake up the next day and play the worst golf of your life. It’s not a game of consistency. And because of all the frustration that I’ve seen in golf, it has helped me every day to get over things that might not go my way.
What was your recruitment process for college like?
I wanted to get recruited during my Prep summer, but I was not able to talk to coaches until June 15 of my Lower Mid year. In the summer after my Lower Mid year, I played in 14 tournaments. Then, during my Upper Mid summer, I was able to get in touch with coaches. I started my summer shooting 65; that was my best round of the summer. That was an inflection point in my recruiting process, when I was talking to a lot of schools and had gotten my SAT score to where it needed to be. Ultimately, I committed to Georgetown in June of my Upper Mid year.
What are your future plans for golf?
Golf is a sport that I think will stick with me. I’m absolutely going to continue playing it after college. I’d love to compete at the highest level after college. Different tournaments keep amateurs trying to qualify for the U.S. Open or the U.S. Amateur. I’m going to try to qualify for them, without necessarily competing professionally.
