clubgolf

The introductory game firstclubgolf is now well established across the country, and provides children with an opportunity to experience golf in Primary School.

clubgolf offers children a structured programme which supports their early development as golfers. clubgolf is aligned to Scottish Golf’s Player Pathway, ensuring opportunities for talented players to progress further based on their potential, commitment and achievement.

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The Golf Foundation - Golf Roots

Golf Roots is an initiative of The Golf Foundation which has been helping to develop golf for juniors since 1952.

Its success and effectiveness is demonstrated by the number of past and present members of the PGA and LPGA Tour who all benefitted from The Golf Foundations programmes when they were young.

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English Golf Union

The English Golf Union provides a wealth of information for golfers whatever their age or experience.

You can search their club directory for new courses to play or check out those clubs who are holding open competitions or events. If you are thinking of joining a club you can find those with membership vacancies on Golf Central.

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English Womens Golf Association

The work of the Association is very varied but its overall objective is to further the interest of women's golf in England.

This involves the Association dealing with all the areas detailed above and in particular trying to raise the profile of EWGA thereby keeping to the fore of women’s golf. This means ensuring representation at meetings with other bodies, marketing our organisation in a more professional way and by working with Government departments to tap into the funding streams that are available to National Governing Bodies.

The challenge for the future is to bring more people into the game and retain those who are already participating. This has involved EWGA in developing a whole sport plan for golf in England and working in partnership with the English Golf Union, the Professional Golfers’ Association and the Golf Foundation.

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Golf Development Wales

Golf Development Wales was established as a result of Wales’ successful Ryder Cup Bid and focuses on encouraging more people especially women and children to take up the sport.

GDW is a strategic partnership between the Golf Union of Wales, the Golf Foundation and the Sports Council for Wales. It is also supported by Ryder Cup Wales 2010 Ltd and The Professional Golfers Association.  Golf Development Wales, facilitates the growth and health of the sport via a number of initiatives.

Golf has inherent values & characteristics which help to develop personal life-skills in young people as they progress in the game (values, such as, honesty, self motivation, determination, sportsmanship, respect and concentration) and reflects the fact that in developing someone as a golfer, you are also helping to develop them as a person as well as developing the sport in general.

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Scottish Golf

The Scottish Golf Union (SGU) is the governing body for amateur golf in Scotland incorporating more than 630 golf clubs across the country representing a total membership of approximately 260,000 golfers.

Based at the Home of Golf in St Andrews, the SGU’s responsibilities span across most aspects of the game in Scotland, from its original core business of staging national amateur championships and managing Scotland’s national teams, expanding to encouraging more youngsters to play golf, providing support services to member clubs and lobbying government to protect the interests of the game.

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Golf Union of Ireland

The Golfing Union of Ireland (GUI) is the governing body for men's and boy's amateur golf in Ireland.

It represents over 420 golf clubs with over 250,000 members and is affiliated to The R&A, which is the global governing body of golf outside the United States and Mexico.

The GUI was established in 1891 and was the first national golfing union to be established anywhere in the world.

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