The 311 Scottish golf clubs and facilities developing their junior sections through national junior programme ClubGolf have the opportunity to gain national recognition when the RBS Junior Club and Volunteer Awards are presented at a prestigious event in March.
Machrihanish Dunes Golf Club, which joined forces with ClubGolf to build a structured junior programme, is going the extra mile to educate local school children.
clubgolf, the junior golf development programme in Scotland, was today given a ringing endorsement from Ryder Cup Europe when the dates for the 2014 match at Gleneagles were officially announced.
When Colin Montgomerie launched the national junior golf programme, ClubGolf, in 2003, its target was to give every child in Scotland the opportunity to experience golf by the age of nine.
Top Scottish amateur golfer, Fraser Moore, is teaching ClubGolf to the next generation of youngsters at Cloybank Estate at Banknock, and improving his own game as a result.
Stornoway Golf Club’s ClubGolf junior programme is thriving under its team of qualified coaches. Fifty juniors take part in weekly coaching, many have become members, and playing standards are rising.
The Minister for Commonwealth Games and Sport, Shona Robison, visited Back Driving Range as part of her trip to the Western Isles last week for a series of engagements.
Over the 2011 golf season juniors have been clocking up points in the East Lothian Fun Competitions Order or Merit, writes East Lothian Golf Development Officer, Kate Green.
Andrew Wallace is the toast of Campbeltown after winning the inaugural Argyll & Bute clubgolf Junior Order of Merit title on the beautiful Machrihanish Dunes golf course on Sunday.
Edinburgh’s Duddingston Golf Club, newly on board this year as the city’s eighteenth golf facility offering the national junior programme, clubgolf, is succeeding in bringing in more girls to the game.
clubgolf coordinator and volunteer coach Ellice Cackett is the toast of Broomieknowe Golf Club after winning the Midlothian Sports Awards Active Schools ‘Volunteer of the Year Award’ this weekend.
The Brodie clan from near-by Strathmore GC were denied a unique family double in a remarkable finish to the Highland Spring Junior Masters Grand Final at Gleneagles.
Complementing the continued investment in golf development by North Lanarkshire Leisure and North Lanarkshire Council, PGA pro Scott Clelland is helping to transform the recently upgraded Lochview Family Golf Centre into a coaching hot bed for North Lanarkshire children.
