Children from St Mary's Primary School, Dunblane focus on the task at Gleneagles last week

Aspiring golf champions enjoy Gleneagles experience

Gleneagles and Scotland’s national junior golf strategy, clubgolf, joined forces to promote junior golf in Scotland last week.

Launched at Gleneagles in 2003 the strategy has been developed as a direct result of the Scottish Executive's commitment to introduce every nine-year-old child in Scotland to the game by 2009.

 

Gleneagles played host to more than 200 school children last week.  Each child had the opportunity to take part in various golfing activities at the clubgolf stand in the tented village, and have their technique sharpened by clubgolf staff.

 

These children have been introduced to golf at school through clubgolf’s introductory game, firstclubgolf.  Most of them will have already used real golf equipment and experienced clubgolf’s Stage 1 course taught by trained volunteer coaches within their local clubs. 

 

Patrick Elsmie, Gleneagles’ Operations Director, said, “Gleneagles has always been committed to golf and we are thrilled to be a part of the clubgolf initiative.  We hope to be able to help them in achieving their goal of allowing every child in Scotland to experience the game by the age of nine.

 

“As the venue to the Ryder Cup in 2014 it is important that Gleneagles continues to work closely with organizations like clubgolf to ensure that the game of golf in Scotland and our young people reap the benefits of playing host to such a prestigious tournament”.

To view pictures from Gleneagles go to EVENTS GALLERY