Shiskine Golf and Tennis Club on Arran is the latest club to benefit from investment by clubgolf partner, sportscotland, through its Sports Facilities Fund in a drive to improve the nation’s sports facilities.
With a sustained surge of children beginning golf in one of Scotland’s most northerly clubs it was time for juniors to have their own dedicated junior practice area.
The R&A is supporting a group of Aberdeenshire school pupils taking part in a World Challenge expedition to Africa this summer - where they will teach golf to village children in Namibia - by buying them a bag of golf equipment.
The drive to encourage every school and club in Edinburgh to embrace the national junior golf programme, clubgolf intensified this week with golf festivals for primary school children at three locations across the capital.
There are still spaces available on Saturday 29th & Sunday 30th August to bring your School or Club group along to the Johnnie Walker Championships for coaching with a PGA Professional.
clubgolf is
delighted to announce the introduction of a discretionary grant
aid scheme to provide financial support for golf clubs and
facilities registered with clubgolf and delivering clubgolf
programmes.
The national junior golf development programme, clubgolf, is once again teaming up with the 2009 Scottish Golf Show to offer coaching to children at the SECC (20-22 March).
Six Scottish clubs have successfully made the cut as finalists for the prestigious Dunfermline Building Society Junior Club of the Year Award for 2009, which will be announced at the Scottish Golf Dinner later this month.
As the four
year South Lanarkshire Junior Golf Strategy, launched back
in 2004, nears completion, the area can be very proud of the
enormous numbers of children introduced to the game in that
time.